Nikki Sixx Confirms Motley Crue Will Split After One More Album And Farewell Tour
Friday, 08 March 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
A backstage interview, prior to their second Etihad Stadium Show down-under with KISS last night, has revealed that Motley Crue will split following one more album and tour.
Speaking to Bryget Chrisfield about Mötley Crüe’s future plans, Crue bassist Nikki Sixx revealed: “I wanna finish our movie (adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s New York Times bestselling collaborative autobiography The Dirt: Confessions Of The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band) and put out a new album.” Nikki went on to reveal details of the release of soundtrack to accompany the movie and a final "farewell tour”. “We’ll be back in Australia and, ah, that’ll be it,” he confirmed. “I can honourably say, ‘We did it our way and we’re never coming back’.”
Sixx confirmed 100% that the split would mean the band would cease to exist, stating he had no interest in reforming the band in the future.
“It’s important that when you do a farewell tour that people understand that when you put a bullet in the back of the horse’s head, and it goes down, it’s not a plastic bullet it’s a fucking shotgun blast. You know, blow its fucking brains out, it’s never coming back. It has to (be that way),” he explained. “It’s the only way I can look at myself in the mirror and do a farewell tour. That’s it. So when we take our final bow, it’s IT. I will cry. I cry thinking about it.”
Mötley Crüe have been recording, touring and basically kicking ass for over three decades now. Sixx confesses: “I love this band. I fucking spent my life doing this band. I’ve been doing this band longer than I’ve been doing anything else. And I’ve been in this band longer than I’ve known any woman, longer than I’ve known my children – only my family, and I have a closer relationship with my band than I have with my family, and a rockier relationship with my band than I’ve had with anybody in my family as well.
"So it’s very emotional and I just think it’s important that we finish what we started and then, you know, it will be whatever it will be. It could be beautiful. It could be a beautiful ending! When you go and see a great movie – I’ll leave you with this: when you go and see a great fucking movie and it ends and you go, ‘Fuck!’ like, you walk out and you go, ‘That was amazing! That blew my mind!’ It’s not like, ‘That blew my mind and, um, maybe there’ll be a sequel to it’.”
Following a number of line-up changes, years of raising hell, Motley Crue notched up their ninth studio album 'Saints Of Los Angeles' back in 2008. Their relentless touring, including appearances at their own Crüe Fest music festivals, has earned them millions of fans across the globe. They are currently on the road with Glam-rock giants KISS for the Monster co-headline tour.
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