If by “farewell tour” they mean it’s not a farewell tour at all…
Judas Priest have one again decided to clarify the meaning of their farewell tour, on an online posting on their official website. Why? I can only assume some people are still confused. I don’t understand why all the confusion though. I mean, what does “farewell tour” say to you? It means the band are planning a final tour before they go into retirement, doesn’t it? Oh no wait, with Judas Priest it just means that it’s going to be their final world tour, and that they will continue to write music and tour, just not big world tours.
Seriously though, I’m beating a dead horse here, as are the band. We get it, you wanted to hype up a tour by screwing with semantics. Good for you.
“We would like to clarify a situation that seems to be confusing a few people out there.
When we issued our press release to announce the farewell tour – we stated that it was the last major world tour for Judas Priest – nothing has changed – we didn’t say it was the end of the band or that we were going to retire or the band was going to break up……….. Just that it would be the last major world tour we would be doing which is still the case.
We have plans for a new album (which we have already announced in an earlier press release) plus possible future releases and we would still consider doing the odd live show – if it is something special or for a great cause – but no more world tours.”
Source: judaspriest.com
