The Aristocrats

4/01Aristocamp Schedule!

Dear Aristocrats Fans

Here it is, the schedule for our very own music camp ‘The Aristocamp’! Check out all the cool stuff we have planned:

ARISTOCAMP SCHEDULE

Tuesday, June 18th
3:00-5:00pm Check In & Registration
5:00-6:00pm Meet & Greet
6:00-7:30pm Dinner
8:00-9:00pm The Aristocrats Live Performance
9:30pm—> Participant jams with Artists In Residence

Wednesday, June 19th
8:30-10:00am Breakfast
10:00-10:45am The Aristocrats Q & A: Ask Us Anything
11:00am-12:15pm Guthrie Govan clinic: Improvisation on material from the new Aristocrats album
12:30-1:30pm Francis Dunnery clinic
1:30-2:30pm Lunch
2:30-3:45pm Bryan Beller/Marco Minnemann: Rhythm Section Concepts on material from the new Aristocrats album
4:00-5:00pm Chad Wackerman clinic
5:15-6:15pm Aristocrats clinic: “The Aristocratic Concept”: Songwriting For The New Aristocrats Album… (and for each other)
6:30-8:00pm Dinner
8:00-8:45pm Michael Manring solo performance
8:45-9.00pm Francis Dunnery joins Michael Manring
9:00-9:45pm Francis Dunnery solo performance
9.45-10.00pm Chad Wackerman and Michael Manring join Francis Dunnery
10:00-10:45pm Chad Wackerman performance
10:45-11:00pm Chad Wackerman joins The Aristocrats
11:00pm—> Participant jams with Artists In Residence

Thursday, June 20th
8:30-10:00am Breakfast
10:00-11:00am Michael Manring clinic/lecture
11:00am-12:15pm Guthrie Govan/Bryan Beller clinic: Harmonic Concepts on material from the new Aristocrats album
12:30-1:30pm Aristocrats + Guest Artists Q & A: Ask Us Anything
1:30-2:30pm Lunch
2:30-3:45pm Marco Minnemann/Chad Wackerman Drum Clinic + Duo Performance
4:00-5:00pm Aristocrats clinic: Band Improvisation (starting a jam from nothing)
5:15-6:00pm Jam With The Aristocrats
6:30-8:00pm Dinner
8:00-9:00pm The Aristocrats Live Performance
9:00-9:30pm Grand finale performance with The Aristocrats, Francis Dunnery, Michael Manring, and Chad Wackerman
9:30pm—> Participant jams with Artists In Residence

For more information and ticket details please click HERE

Cheers,

The Aristocrats

2/25The Aristocamp!

Hello Aristocrats Fans

We are pleased to announce The Aristocamp! A three-day music camp for guitarists, bassists, drummers and fans which will take place from June 18th to 21st 2019 in upstate New York. The Aristocamp will also feature the world premiere of our new material currently being recorded.

This is our very first music camp and we can assure you it will be packed full of activities to educate, inspire and entertain. Musicians and music fans of all ages, abilities and musical tastes are welcome at The Aristocamp. Attendees will be able to fully immerse themselves in the world of music, learning from us, special guests and each other at a wide variety of workshops, jams, Q&As and instrument specific breakout sessions. Of course there will also be opportunities to see us playing as a band on stage, debuting some brand new material alongside old favourites.

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The event will be organized by Music Masters Camps, who are well known for facilitating a highly interactive experience between artists and audience. The camp will be held at Full Moon Resort, located a half hour west of Woodstock, NY. It’s a year-round mountain resort in the heart of the idyllic Catskill Forest Preserve and includes comfortable country inn accommodations plus camping and commuter options.

As you might imagine, we’re very excited to provide this unique experience. We’ve each been involved in music camps in the past and the highlight has always been interacting with the passionate musicians and music fans in attendance. Between us we have a lifetime of performing, touring and recording experience to pass on and this is the perfect environment to do that. Also, this time we’ll have the additional luxury of being able to zoom in on how we create our own music, and what happens when we interact as a band and play it live. We might even say it’s ok to break the rules now and then.

We will be joined at The Aristocamp by some special guest musicians, to be announced soon.

Full details are available at www.aristocamp.com and tickets will go on sale at 12pm EST on February 28th. Register before March 12th for an early bird discount. See you there!

Cheers to all,

The Aristocrats

12/07Europe Tour Shirt – Now In Europe! Plus 30% Off JTC, And…

Happy holidays everyone! We’ve got some good news for our very patient friends in the U.K. and Europe: We FINALLY have the Europe tour shirts for sale on your side of the pond! Our friends at JamTrackCentral (based in the U.K.) have come through, and have the shirt available for sale right here – with very reasonable shipping rates.

CLICK HERE to order the limited edition Europe tour t-shirt, shipped from the U.K.

We’re quite proud of our years-long association with JamTrackCentral. Some of you know this, but for those who don’t, JTC provides essential materials – like guitar-less, bass/drums-only backing tracks, and transcriptions of GG’s Aristocratic performances – to guitarists who are up for the challenge of learning Guthrie’s parts off of our three studio albums. (They even have no-bass and no-drums packages, with transcriptions, for the bass and drum parts on “Culture Clash”.)

So JamTrackCentral and the Aristocrats are celebrating the holidays with a special 30% off of all Aristocrats products – album backing tracks, transcriptions, and the digital audio albums as well, all at your option – until December 18!

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HOW JTC WORKS: Click the link you want, then select MORE INFO, and then click COMPARE next to where it says “Standard And Deluxe Options Available”, and you’ll be able to customize your package: Digital album only (you probably already have that…right? right?!), backing tracks for play-along and transcriptions, or the Deluxe package which is “the lot” and some bonus video performance along with it.

Deluxe Album Boxset (packages for all three albums!)

Tres Caballeros

Culture Clash (for guitar)

Culture Clash (for bass or drums)

The Aristocrats (1st Album)

And we’ve got two more important news items to share:

1) We are close to re-launching our U.S. webstore! We know it’s been down for a while and we apologize for that. Stay tuned for news very soon.

2) WE ARE GOING BACK IN THE STUDIO TO MAKE OUR FOURTH ALBUM, IN MARCH OF 2019.

Sorry for yelling but we’re pretty excited about it.

Happy holidays again everyone!

Cheers to all,
The Aristocrats

10/08Aristocrats Europe Tour 2018 Shirt – Now Available Online Due To Blowout Demand!

Hello everyone! We want to thank everyone who came out to see us on our all-too-brief Europe 2018 Tour. We had a blast and it was great to see you all again. More news about the future below, but for now…it turns out we didn’t print nearly enough tour shirts with the exclusive “Aristo-Saints” design (by Brigitte Roka).

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We sold out halfway through the tour! We apologize to those who wanted one and didn’t get one. So, to make it right, we printed another run and now you can get it online. Just click here – it’s our temporary online store and it ships worldwide. PayPal is the payment machine but you do NOT need a PayPal account to pay with a credit card. Thanks to Hostile City Distro for stepping up during our webstore transition to help make this happen.

Some news items:

* The Aristocrats will return to the studio in 2019 to record our fourth studio album

* You can see lots of great tour photos by checking out our social media on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

* For those outside Europe, worry not: We’ll come play for you on the next world tour.

Thanks again to all for making our return to the stage a most enjoyable one. ;-)

Cheers to all,
The Aristocrats

8/28The Aristocrats’ Europe Tour Starts In 10 Days!

Hello Aristocrats Fans,

We’re less than 10 days away from kicking off our tour of Europe! We’ve got a new t-shirt to mark the occasion, and we have some additional news (like, why does this e-mail look different?) to share with you.

First of all, if you’re in Europe and anywhere near any of these locations, and you haven’t bought tickets yet, now’s the time:

THE ARISTOCRATS
EUROPE TOUR 2018

September 9th – Sliema (Malta) – Teatru Salesjan
September 11th – Nicosia (Cyprus) – Downtown Live
September 13th – Munich (Germany) – Strom
September 14th – Zurich (Switzerland) – Kaufleuten
September 15th – Esch Sur Alzette (Luxembourg) – Rockhal
September 16th – Zoetermeer (Netherlands) – De Boerderij
September 18th – London (UK) – Islington Assembly
September 19th – Paris (France) – Trabendo
September 21st – Madrid (Spain) – Sala Mon
September 22nd – Barcelona (Spain) – Salamandra 1
September 24th – Helsinki (Finland) – The Circus
September 26th – Eskilstuna (Sweden) – Lokomotivet
September 28th – Isola del Liri/Frosinone (Italy) – Teatro Mangoni
September 29th – Ancona (Italy) – Cinema Teatro Italia
September 30th – Milano (Italy) – Magazzini Generali

Click here for ticket links and full details on each show.

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Meanwhile, we have a special limited edition t-shirt to commemorate the occasion, available exclusively at our upcoming shows. Check it out!

Perhaps you’ve seen this amazing drawing before – we actually posted it on our socials when it was first done by the extremely talented Brigitte Roka. We thought, this would make a pretty cool shirt…and now: Boing, here it is. :-)

But wait, there’s more. We want to show our genuine appreciation for Brigitte’s artistic generosity by shining an Aristocratic spotlight on her bluesy stoner metal band from Southern California, Aboleth. Signed and produced by multi-platinum/Grammy-nominated producer Ulrich Wild (Dethklok, Pantera, Deftones, Static-X), Aboleth just dropped their debut album, “Benthos” – and it features none other than Marco Minnemann on drums from start to finish. This material is heavy AF, and Brigitte’s lead vocals are like pouring whiskey on a fire. You can check Aboleth (and Brigitte herself) out at these links below. And our European tour dates are below that. \m/

Band Website: https://www.abolethband.com
Band Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abolethband
Band Instagram: @abolethband
Band Bandcamp: https://abolethband.bandcamp.com/
Brigitte Roka Art Website: https://www.brigitteroka.com/
Brigitte Roka Instagram: @brigitteroka

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Now for the other news. Many of you have contacted us wanting to buy the “exclusive tour shirt” at our online store, and one could hardly blame you. However, many of those same people discovered that our online store is down for maintenance at the moment. Sad but true, and out of our control. We are in the process of rebuilding it with a different host. We hope to have it back up and running by the time the tour is over, so that any leftover tour shirts can be snapped up by the folks around the world who couldn’t get to the shows. We’ll keep you posted.

As you can probably see, we also needed to move our e-mail list host due to the unexpected change, and we appreciate you staying with us!

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That’s all for now. Europe: We’ll see you soon!

Cheers to all,
The Aristocrats

7/08Last New Date (Italy!) Added For September Europe Tour – Final Dates Below

We’ve finally added the last new date for our September tour of Europe – in Ancona, Italy! All of the confirmed dates are listed below on the snazzy official poster:

As always, the most recent info on each show, including links for ticket sales, can be found on our Tours page.

We’re really looking forward to this and hope to see you in a fine European concert venue soon!

Cheers to all,
The Aristocrats

5/10The Aristocrats Europe Tour 2018: Latest Dates

A friendly reminder for our friends in EUROPE: We’ll be there in September! The official tour dates are below, and even though it’s still just under four months away, some of these venues are selling tickets more quickly than we anticipated. Thank you to everyone out there who’s making that happen – we’re grateful! You’re setting a fine example for others to follow.

And for the “tour-curious”: May this humble social media post inspire similar deeds. ;-)