Wicked Is Embarking On A Touring First
- Charles I. Guarria
- Jan 23, 2024
- 3 min read
This spring, Wicked will be bursting onto the North American rock scene, supporting British rockers Raven on The All Hell’s Breaking Loose Across America tour. Joining them for the tour are Lutharo and Vicious Rumors.
“When's the last time you've seen a North American tour with bands like this? Going everywhere. I mean, this is just so cool.” Wicked bassist Danny Martin said in a recent phone interview.
The tour kicks off Mar. 22 in Cape Coral, Florida, with stops throughout the United States and into Canada.
Wicked had “a pretty light year in terms of the amount of shows we did” in 2023, Mr. Martin detailed. However, the shows they played were “pretty cool shows” and “impactful.”
Two of those shows were with Raven. “The Raven guys, lo and behold had known Gunnar (Wicked’s drummer Gunnar Coston) long ago. There's a picture of John Gallagher (Raven’s bassist) actually holding Gunnar as a baby.” Gunnar’s father is also in that photo.
Mr. Martin said the guys in Raven “were super impressed and excited about what we were doing with our music and how the shows went.”
It was a lasting impression.
When Raven was organizing their upcoming tour of North America, they asked Wicked to come along. To which Wicked had a one-word response: absolutely.
Wicked has been in the music business “the better part of a decade,” Mr. Martin explained. “But you know, as with anything, things change a bit. We had a drummer change early on and we took a little bit of a different path with how we were managing the band as a business and stuff, so we always say it's been a good solid, almost 10 years.” He said they began to hit their stride “maybe about four years ago.”
The All Hell’s Breaking Loose Across America tour will put the quartet on a path they’ve never traveled. “This is going to be the first time that we're really hitting the road like dogs and just grinding every day a different city,” Mr. Martin said. “And I think it's gonna be awesome.”