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There's also a release night planned in Melbourne on the 10th May at St.Kilda Bowlo.

PETE WELLS INTERVIEW
Check out Australian Guitar magazine volume 63 (Iron Maiden on the front cover) which featured a recorded interview with Pete.

HEAD INC
HEAD INC is Steve King's new band, keep an eye out for them on tour & check out their album 'Pariah', it's great!

ROSE TATTOO PRESS RELEASE -

Armegeddon Music has set a February 16, 2007 for the new ROSE TATTOO album entitled 'Blood Brothers'

ROSE TATTOO has posted it's video for the track "Black Eyed Bruiser" at YouTube.com. The song is the first single from 'Blood Brothers' which was produced by veteran Australian producer Mark Optiz (INXS, Cold Chisel, KISS). "Black Eyed Bruiser" was written by the band's original production team, Harry Vanda and George Young, who were AC/DC's producers.

ROSE TATTOO were due to start recording 'Blood Brothers' in Sydney on May 1, but put back the recording following the guitarist Pete Wells' passing until July. The band were very hopeful of having Pete play on this album before he got too ill.

ROSE TATTOO will embark on a European tour in early March. The band will also play select tour dates with SAXON and MASTERPLAN.

Further to the earlier news on the BON SCOTT concert, ROSE TATTOO will be appearing as wells as Pete's old BUFFALO mate, Dave Tice as part of THE PARTY BOYS. Check out the website for full details - www.bonscottconcert.com.au

Pete's last ever recording will be released in the new year. Pete recorded the album late last year and Rob Grosser is currently mixing it, so stay tuned for another great album from Pete.

Also on the recording front, check out Dave Hogan's latest album, ' Little Lies' which features Pete and is getting some great reviews.

Welcome to petewells.net Pete's site has been moved due to major hassles with the tightening policies of YaHoo! Geocities free sites which has hosted Pete's site for years. The bonus of the move is that we can add more info as there's more space to use so stay tuned for a bigger & better site.

Check out AC/DC 'Maximum Rock & Roll' a newly released book co-authored by well respected Oz rock journalist & long time Rose Tattoo mate, Murray Engleheart with Arnaud Durieux, a renound rock journalist from New York who is also a huge AC/DC fan. The book has quotes from Pete as well as talking about when Bon & Angus regularly joined Rose Tattoo on stage for a jam. Murray is also working on a book on Rose Tattoo, so stay tuned for that one!

Also on the AC/DC front, there is a Bon Scott celebration concert being held in Perth, WA, Australia, on 25 February 2007, in order to raise money for a statue to be erected in honour of Bon. For full details, check out www.bonscottconcert.com.au

Aztec Music have re-released the final two Buffalo albums, Mother's Choice & Average Rock & Roller. Both releases, including all the earlier albums are available on the net from Vicious Sloth or direct from Aztec Music.

Sadly Ian Rilen, a Rose Tattoo co-founder with Pete, died yesterday, Monday 30 October.

Report from Daniel Ziffer, Entertainment Reporter, Melbourne Age, October 30, 2006 - 4:30PM

Hard-living Australian rock band Rose Tattoo have suffered another loss, with the death today of former bassist Ian Rilen.

Founding guitarist Pete Wells died in March this year, months before the band — whose hits included We Can't Be Beaten and        Scarred for Life — were inducted.

Rilen, a father of four who also led the band X, and more recently Ian Rilen and the Love Addicts, passed away today after a battle with bladder cancer. He co-wrote one of the   band's biggest hits, Bad Boy For Love.

His former manager Ian Wedd said it was a metaphor for his life. "When Ian pumped the bass, you felt it hit your guts," he said. "Lip jutting out, low to the ground stance, grinding you into   submission."

Cold Chisel songwriter Don Walker earlier called him "a national treasure".

Just two weeks ago the cream of Australia's rock fraternity joined forces in Melbourne to help the ailing rocker. Nick Barker performed Tom Petty's Waiting is the Hardest Part and said Rilen taught him to hang his guitar strap lower; Paul Kelly played St Kilda to King's Cross; and
Rilen's X bandmate Steve Lucas performed a moving version of John Lennon's Mother.

Rilen, 58, was took sick to attend the night.

ROCK legend Angry Anderson is doing odd-jobs as a suburban handyman in-between gigs.

The Rose Tattoo front man, 57, is earning a crust in a string of day jobs including cleaner, builder, plumber and landscaper.

"I'll turn up to a job and people will ask: 'Aren't you Angry Anderson? What are you doing here?'," he says. "And I'll say: 'I'm here to clean your house' or 'I'm here to work.' "It's honest work, and I'm not above that."

Anderson, who will be inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame in a fortnight, relishes manual labour when he's not on stage. He scours newspapers for jobs and has regular contract work as a cleaner and plumber.

"It's a way of staying in touch, and I love working with other men," Anderson says. "I'm a typical boofhead Aussie bloke who enjoys the company of other boof head Aussie blokes. "I love the whole tradie labouring ethic. At the end of the day, you feel like you've done something. "You do nothing being a full-time band. You drink far too much alcohol, take too many drugs and sing on stage for a couple of hours.

Anderson has no pretence about his rock-star status and his duties as a cleaner or labourer. "Am I worried about what people think? No, f*** 'em," he says. "It's none of their business."

He devotes a few hours a day to songwriting, and performs sporadically with the Tatts and a covers band. "But once an album is in the can, I'll ring the cleaner and the tradesman and ask if they've got any work."

In an exclusive interview, Anderson revealed -

He had no hard feelings about an apparent performance snub at the ARIA Hall Of Fame ceremony.
Written a tribute song to Pete Wells, the Rose Tattoo guitarist who lost a battle with cancer in March.
Enjoyed heartfelt conversations with Wells during his last few days. "It was time, and right -fully so, to not f*** around any more about the way we felt," he says. "We'd known each other for more than 30 years. I loved Pete dearly, but I'd never told him. Blokes are reluctant to do that. It's not like telling your girlfriend: 'I love you, sweetheart.' It was a hard thing to do, but we both knew we were running out of time. So, finally, we were honest about our feelings," Anderson said. "We didn't need to procrastinate any more. That time was over. Our last conversations were honest. We said the things that needed to be said and I'm thankful that we did."

Rose Tattoo will be Hall Of Fame honourees alongside Icehouse, Daddy Cool and The Divinyls. But, unlike the others, the Tatts haven't been asked to perform at the ceremony.

"I don't see that as a negative," Anderson says. "Rose Tattoo never sought favour, and we never believed awards ceremonies were events that changed lives."

Wells was told about the induction before he died. "Pete was casual about it, but I know Pete well enough to know he was chuffed," Anderson says.

Rose Tattoo's hits include Bad Boy For Love, We Can't Be Beaten and Rock & Roll Outlaw. The band still performs to massive fan bases in Europe and the (edit Eagle not correct) United States.

PRESS RELEASE - ROSE TATTOO - THE LEGEND CONTINUES

Rose Tattoo are back in the studio recording a new album with veteran Australian producer Mark Opitz (INXS / Cold Chisel / Kiss). The first single from the album is 'Black Eyed Bruiser' a song written by the bands original production team, Harry Vanda and George Young, who also were ACDC's producers.

There are 3 additional tracks on the single. These 3 songs were recorded live in Sydney Australia at the Pete Wells Benefit Concert a few months before Pete passed away. The songs are 'Rock'n'roll Outlaw', 'Remedy' and 'Astra Wally' - they are all blistering versions recorded on a very special night when the Australian Music Industry came together out of respect to honour Pete Wells, the founding member of Rose Tattoo, who was diagnosed with prostrate cancer.

The band's royalties from this single will be donated to the Cancer Foundation that Pete also supported before his death.

The decision on what Rose Tattoo would do following the passing of Pete Wells could only be made by one person. The band visited Pete in hospital a week before he died and he told them to keep going. If it were not for Pete's instruction the band would have folded. Angry Anderson has always said "When I joined Rose Tattoo I joined Pete's band".

In recent months the band has signed a worldwide recording deal with a German label Armagedon. They were due to start recording in Sydney on May 1st but put back the recording following Pete's passing until July. The band was very hopeful of having Pete play on this album before he got too ill.
But time was not friendly for this wish to be realised.

The band's manager Steve White said "there was no way this record would be made if Pete did not tell the boys to go ahead. It was not a decision the band could or would have made without Pete's leadership. Rose Tattoo is a closed family unit and the loss of Pete Wells runs very deep within the band. They are all brothers."

Angry Anderson said "this is going to be a very personal record. This will be our tribute. It has to be special".

Rose Tattoo will be doing some special shows in Europe in August and will be releasing the single at the Wacken Festival. Plans are in work for an extensive European tour after releasing the album in early 2007.

The line-up for Rose Tattoo is:

Angry Anderson - Vocals
Mick Cocks - Guitar
Steve King - Bass
Paul DeMarco - Drums
Dai Pritchard - Slide Guitar

Rose Tattoo is undoubtedly one of the great rock'n'roll bands in the world.
Thanks to Pete Wells - the legend continues.

Viele Grüsse / best regards,

THOMAS KREIDNER

10 June 2006

New album from Pete Wells & Blues Hangover titled "Greetings From The Aloha Monkey" has been released by Shock Records. The album was recorded late last year and is full of blistering blues in the true Hangover tradition. Greetings From The Aloha Monkey is available on the net from Shock Records @ www.shock.com.au

This months editions of Rhythm and Australian Guitar magazines feature articles on Pete.

Site updated - Capitol Showband, Head & Buffalo photos now up. More being posted soon. Also another tattoo pic.

Rose Tattoo are playing 2 shows only in Russia this weekend. The band flys out on Thursday and will play shows Friday & Saturday night and then will return home. As yet I have no further details as to venues etc.

From Ian Rilen and the Love Addicts web site, they will be coming into Sydney to play at the Sandringham Hotel, King St, Newtown on Fri 23rd and Sat 24th June. Support to be announced.

Phil Jamison (Grinspoon) has been asked to put a band together for the upcoming Jack Awards on Tuesday 20th June. Phil has decided to dedicate it to the memory of Pete Wells and will be performing Ian's Bad Boy for Love classic. Ian has been invited to play bass. Chris Chaney, (The Living End) guitar, Tim Rogers (You Am I) slide and Hamish (The Vines) drums, Phil Jamison vocals.