Billy Idol performing at Mid-State Fair
Rock icon Billy Idol.
–The California Mid-State Fair announced the “Evening of Rhythm & Brews” will feature a full-length concert by rock icon Billy Idol. An opening act will be announced at a later date.
The concert will take place on Friday, July 19, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Grandstand Arena. Ticket prices for the show are $26, $41, $91 or $608 for a table of eight. If you are interested in securing a table of eight, call the Fair Box Office at (805) 239-0655 for details.
The night will feature 8-person table seating, a Golden Circle of premium seats, and the normal grandstand seating (similar to the successful Evening of Music & Wine night). In addition, concert patrons will be able to purchase special craft beers, normally not available during the Fair, from brewers such as Elysian, Golden Road, Firestone-Walker, Central Coast Brewing, Figueroa Mountain and Barrel House Brewing Company.
For Golden Circle and Grandstand seats, tickets will go on sale Friday, May 10, 2019, and will be available starting at 1 p.m. at www.MidStateFair.com or by calling 1-800-909-FAIR, or at the California Mid-State Fair box office (2198 Riverside Avenue in Paso Robles).
Billy Idol was an early architect of the sound, style, and fury of punk rock. His lip- curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into the mainstream as one of MTV’s first megastars, making him one of the most recognizable faces in pop music, while selling out arenas everywhere he played. He has sold 40 million albums while scoring numerous platinum albums worldwide, nine top forty singles in the U.S. and 10 in the U.K. including “Dancing With Myself, “White Wedding,” “Rebel Yell,” “Mony Mony,” “Eyes Without A Face,” “Flesh For Fantasy,” and “Cradle Of Love.”
Billy was responsible for some of punk rock’s most memorable, literate, and evocative moments and created a pioneering new sound by bringing the spirit of ’77 to the dance floor, going on to fashion an immediately identifiable musical blueprint that integrates club-land throb, rockabilly desperation, and rock’n’roll decadence.
Idol returned to the spotlight in the fall of 2014 with two high profile releases that marked the latest chapter in the long and remarkable story of a musician, an inventor, a survivor, a father, a son, a man who returned from the brink, and a rebel whose yells made the mainstream sit up and pay attention.
Idol’s New York Times bestselling autobiography Dancing With Myself is an electric, intelligent, brutally honest and entirely self-written account of Billy Idol’s journey to fame, from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to a long and often decadent life lived loving sex, drugs, rock’n’roll, and motorcycles.
Kings & Queens of the Underground was Billy’s first album of new material in nearly a decade. The album’s palette, which includes incredible contributions from Idol’s longtime collaborator and lead guitarist Steve Stevens, will be instantly familiar to lovers of classic Billy Idol, while announcing a firm step into the future. Produced by Trevor Horn (with two tracks co-written and produced by 2017 Grammy Producer of The Year winner Greg Kurstin), it is full of thumping, cinematic songs about sin, redemption and the love of rock’n’roll.
Billy Idol, together with his band featuring Steve Stevens, have been touring heavily during the past five years, headlining theaters and arenas and performing at major festivals all over the world.
The 2019 California Mid-State Fair runs July 17-28 and this year’s theme is “Let’s Have S’More Fun!”
