Kiss have announced that a recording of a concert performed at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne earlier this year will receive a cinema screening in movie theatres across the US. The Kiss Symphony will be screened simultaneously in 21 cinemas and thousands of Kiss fans are expected to snap up tickets, which won’t be sold until the day of the screening, to experience this unique concert for themselves.
The concert, recorded last February, saw Kiss performing with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Original members Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss all performed – though Ace Frehley refused to participate saying to do so questions the insincerity of the band's previous “farewell tour”. He was replaced by Kiss guitar tech Tommy Thayer.
The screening is part of a growing tendency to screen concerts at cinemas. Earlier this month David Bowie allowed fans to experience an intimate London gig staged to launch his new album by screening it in cinemas around the world.