PAUL OAKENFOLD Presents the FACELIFT TOUR: Changing the Face of Electronic Music

FR:      ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/MSO

PAUL OAKENFOLD PRESENTS
THE FACELIFT TOUR

ELECTRONIC MUSIC PIONEER TEAMS WITH THE GENRE’S FRESHEST FACES
FOR MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC TOUR THIS FALL
INCLUDING CHUCKIE, CALVIN HARRIS, NERVO AND KENNETH THOMAS

ROGER SANCHEZ AND SIDNEY SAMSON ALSO CONFIRMED FOR SELECT DATES

TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT
WWW.WANTTICKETS.COM/FACELIFT

Starting October 8 in Vancouver, Canada, OAKENFOLD will embark on a massive 50+ date club tour where he’ll team with some of the fastest rising stars of the genre.  He’ll also appear at the Voodoo Experience in New Orleans on Halloween and prior to the tour launch he’ll appear at the Austin Music Hall in Austin, TX during Austin City Limits.

Joining him on various show dates are an array of special guests: Dirty Dutch figurehead CHUCKIE, whose mixing skills in his native Netherlands are unparalleled; electro stalwart CALVIN HARRIS, the Scotsman who has been dazzling audiences with his recent free remix album L.E.D. Festival; Australian twin sisters Liv and Mim Nervo a.k.a. NERVO, hot emerging DJs and artists in their own right; as well as songwriters penning hit singles for the likes of David Guetta, Kylie Minogue, Armin Van Burren and Ke$ha, just to name a few; and Detroit’s KENNETH THOMAS, signed to Oakenfold’s Perfecto label.  World-renowned superstar DJ and party icon ROGER SANCHEZ and SIDNEY SAMSON, an Ibiza club staple also from The Netherlands making waves with his club hit “Shut Up And Let It Go” featuring Lady B, will also appear on select dates.

PAUL OAKENFOLD’s stature as a DJ and entertainer has taken him beyond the normal club and festival circuit, playing landmark gigs that have altered the perception of electronic music.  Highlights include three worldwide tours with Madonna and U2 (with both artists insisting on a DJ set from Oakenfold instead of a support band); performing on the Great Wall of China and two sold-out dates playing to 30,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl in California.  As the purveyor of the most successful weekly nightclubs in the States with Planet Perfecto at the Rain Nightclub in The Palms in Las Vegas–a fully produced show with 75 circus performers, cutting edge visuals and special effect for 3,000–Oakenfold knows how to create an unforgettable experience.  For the FACELIFT TOUR, fans can expect nothing less as he and his tour mates will travel from city to city with their own high-end production featuring a customized giant headset stage set, lighting and sound. In addition, fans will get a first listen to brand new songs from Oakenfold, as he will be ‘road-testing’ potential material for the follow-up to his 2007 studio album A Lively Mind (Maverick), due in 2011.

FACELIFT ONLINE

PAUL OAKENFOLD
www.pauloakenfold.com
www.myspace.com/pauloakenfold
www.facebook.com/Oakenfold
www.twitter.com/pauloakenfold

CHUCKIE
www.djchuckie.com
www.myspace.com/djchuckie
www.twitter.com/djchuckie
www.dirty-dutch.com

ROGER SANCHEZ
www.rogersanchez.com
www.myspace.com/rogersanchez
www.twitter.com/djrogersanchez

CALVIN HARRIS
www.calvinharris.co.uk
www.myspace.com/calvinharristv
www.twitter.com/calvinharris

NERVO
www.nervomusic.com
www.myspace.com/nervo
www.facebook.com/nervomusic

 
KENNETH THOMAS
www.djkenneththomas.com
www.myspace.com/djkenneththomas
www.facebook.com/djkenneththomas
www.twitter.com/djkenneththomas

SIDNEY SAMSON
www.sidneysamson.com
www.myspace.com/sidneysamson

Three-time Grammy-Award nominee and Perfecto Records label-head Paul Oakenfold has been touted as one of the world’s leading DJ/remixers by various outlets, including CNN and Rolling Stone. In total, his releases—which include Greatest Hits & Remixes (Perfecto/Ultra Records, 2007), A Lively Mind (Maverick, 2006), Another World (Perfecto, 2004) and Bunnka (Maverick, 2002)—have reached almost two million in sales in the States alone. From his massive singles “Starry Eyed Surprise,” which gained notoriety from it’s placement in a Diet Coke ad, and “Faster Kill Pussycat” featuring the late Brittany Murphy to remixes of artists like Justin Timberlake, U2, Madonna, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead and Underworld, Oakenfold has been dazzling dance floors the world over.  As a touring musician, Oakenfold has DJ’d in hundreds of places around the world including the Great Wall in China, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (sold out) and Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Prior to becoming a world-famous DJ and producer, Oakenfold honed his eye for talent as an A&R consultant for Profile Records and Def Jam, signing artists such as Salt-N-Pepa, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith.

Oakenfold’s groundbreaking Perfecto record label—which played an integral role in the birth of trance music, producing massive international bombs such as “Not Over Yet”, “Bullet In The Gun” and “Southern Sun”–remains as cutting edge and popular as ever with the recent double album Perfecto Las Vegas recently holding the #1 spot on the U.S. iTunes dance chart for several weeks.  In summer 2010, the dance music titan launched a brand new weekly radio show with Planet Perfecto, a show unlike anything heard before, taking in every aspect of Paul Oakenfold’s sound–from respected club DJ to Hollywood megastar.

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For more information on PAUL OAKENFOLD and the FACELIFT TOUR, contact:
MSO 818-380-0400
National, Los Angeles and New York City regional inquiries:
Alexandra Greenberg x223, agreenberg@msopr.com
Regional press inquiries:
Bari Lieberman x222, blieberman@msopr.com