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Cooper is currently working on a sequel to his 1975 album "Welcome To My Nightmare" with producer Bob Ezrin. "Welcome 2 My Nightmare", which will feature three songs with the original ALICE COOPER band, is expected out in the fall.

ALICE COOPER, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, GRAVEYARD Confirmed For Sweden's GETAWAY ROCK

ALICE COOPER, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY and GRAVEYARD have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Getaway Rock festival, set to take place July 7-9, 2011 in Gävle, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ALICE COOPER AURA NOIR BLOWSIGHT CORROSION OF CONFORMITY DEATH ANGEL DESULTORY ENTOMBED F.K.Ü. GHOST GRAVEYARD HEAVEN SHALL BURN IMMORTAL MARDUK VOMITORY YOUTH OF TODAY For more information, visit link text.

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Alice Cooper's Halloween Night of Fear shows

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ONLYMUSIK.AliceCooper.com crashed earlier this week as it has been doing intermittently since fans were invited to submit their personal videos of "sideshow and freak" acts to hopefully take part in Alice Cooper's Halloween Night of Fear shows at the Roundhouse in London, England later this year. The unprecedented response caused the web site to crash, and every time they get the it up and running again, the volume of traffic keeps causing it to crash again. Alice's IT team is working overtime to keep the web site live so that the freaks can submit their videos to get a timeslot for the auditions, which will take place at The London Dungeon on Monday, August 9.


On Monday, August 2, AliceCooper.com began accepting video submissions of "sideshow and freak acts." The best will be invited to a live audition on August 9 at The London Dungeon, 28-34 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2SZ at 7:30 p.m. where they will ‘perform' in front of a panel of judges in what will surely be the most bizarre talent show this country has ever seen! The panel will consist of Alice himself, along with Planet Rock's Nicky Horne and Time Out's Tim Arthur. The freakiest and most outrageous freaks will then become part of the show at Alice Cooper's Halloween Night of Fear at the Roundhouse London on October 31 and November 1.

Alice will perform his "Theatre of Death" concert in two very special and unique Halloween shows at The Roundhouse, and be joined by special guests THE JIM ROSE CIRCUS and ZODIAC MINDWARP & THE LOVE REACTION.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, August 13 at LiveNation.co.uk.

THE JIM ROSE CIRCUS is a modern-day freak show, founded by Jim Rose in the early 1990s and which found fame during Lollapalooza in 1993. His show features a mixture of the bizarre, the comic and the repulsive… and has since achieved worldwide cult status.

ZODIAC MINDWARP & THE LOVE REACTION is renewing its association with Alice Cooper, having toured with Alice in 1988, a year after they achieved a top 20 with "Prime Mover". Zodiac Mindwarp also co-wrote "Feed My Frankenstein" for Alice, as featured in the "Wayne's World" movie.

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Alice Cooper is a US-born rock performer renowned for his schlock-horror stage shows and the summer anthem “Schools Out”.

The father of shock-rock Alice Cooper was born Vincent Furnier, and became frontman for the band Alice Cooper in 1964. Formed while most members were still in high school, it wasn’t until 1968 that the band adopted the name Alice Cooper and settled on the line-up of Vincent Furnier (lead vocals), Glen Buxton (guitar), Michael Bruce (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass), and Neal Smith (drums). The band became known for their bizarre and often violent stage performances early on.

First signed to Frank Zappa-owned record label Straight Records, it wasn’t until the label was taken over by Warner Bros. that the band really saw the kind of promotion they needed to break the big time. Their third album, produced with Bob Ezrin ,proved to be their breakthrough: Love it to Death was released in 1971 to wide critical acclaim and managed to score Alice Cooper's first big hit single, “Eighteen”. Later that same year they released Killer followed by School’s Out (1972), which spawned the memorable major hit “School’s Out (For Summer)”, and then their seminal album Billion Dollar Babies (1973).

During this time the band became renowned for the on-stage theatrics that would later influence many other bands' stage-shows, most notably David Bowie, Blue Öyster Cult, KISS and Marilyn Manson. It was after their seventh album Muscle of Love (1973) that the band decided to take a hiatus from which they would never return. In 1974 Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and became a solo act, releasing his first album Welcome to my Nightmare (1975) which included the hit single “Only Women Bleed”. Cooper cemented his fame and legendary status in 1978 when he guest-starred on The Muppet Show singing “Welcome to my Nightmare”, “You and Me” and “School's Out” with the Muppet performers.

Cooper has released 16 more albums since going solo, and over the years has also become famous for his sense of humour, appearing in numerous tongue-in-cheek commercials that make fun of his shock-rock image or supposedly decadent lifestyle. Although at one time Cooper did suffer from alcoholism, he is now a born-again Christian and has been married to the same woman, Sheryl (Goddard) Cooper, since 1976. Sheryl, a trained ballerina, toured with him and performed in Cooper's stage shows until the birth of their first child, a daughter, Calico Cooper, who has toured and performed with her father since 2000. The couple have two other children, Dashiel and Sonora. Cooper's latest album was released in 2008, Along Came a Spider.