VR Clothing
We have some great new merchandise for this year with a new range of t-Shirts and loads of other great items please go to http://www.vampiresrockclothing.com We also have a great new merchandise road truck that will be setting up selling the clothing at many of the countries top festivals and also some top motor sporting events so check out the website for those dates.

Showline up
The show will see new members joining the cast this year with a great new addition on drums Chris Reed. Chris comes from a great rock background playing in some of the countries best touring bands and we are all really happy to be working with him this year. Some other changes will be made through the year with rotation of band and cast members to ensure we keep the show fresh and as engergetic as it has always been.

Ok thats all for now, have a great summer and we will see you all in September for the start of the new tour

Keep Rockin’

Steve

Massive thank you to all the fans who never stop supporting me and the shows. With the 2011 season only just around the corner we are busy in the Rockman office getting the new tour dates confirmed for the next Vampires Rock tour.

We are planning on doing more Cirque shows next year so keep an eye on the dates for that.

Cast Changes: The biggest news for 2011 is the introduction of a new Pandora. Emily has decided to move on and try other projects and we wish her all the best.

Emily has been a key performer and friend for the past four years and she will be surely missed.

The young lady who will take the roll of Pandora is Hayley Russell a little Rock Chick I discovered some time ago. I know you will all make her welcome and also wish Emily all the best.

Ok that’s about it for now have a great Christmas and New Year and we look forward to seeing you all soon.

Steve Steinman and the Rockman Team

The day started very early for the crew, but with 4 trucks to unload they had their work cut out getting all this done in the time we had. I also had my work cut out as we had so much new stuff in the show and no time to rehearse it other than the sound check.

For those who didn’t get to see the show, we had two very talented aerial acts who set the show off with a bang as the curtain dropped to reveal them hanging by a silk rope, only to drop like a bat out of hell just stopping inches from the floor.

Chloe my dancer has been training hard to use the fire in her act and she was equally as impressive working with the aerial acts on Hells Bells.

Probably the best thing I managed to do was a massive routine to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Tracy Quaife Dance School in Nottingham put on a superb performance and the kids really were amazing.

Also making her debut was a young dancer Sharnelle Guest who I spotted when I visited the dance school to see the guys rehearsing for the show. She stood out and I gave her the opportunity to open the show in one of the Vampires Rock famous cages. It was like going back in time when I first met Shereen when she was also just 18 years old. Also a newcomer was Bex in the other cage who also did me proud and rocked it up big time. The band and dancers, along with Em and John doing some great vocals, just seem to get better and better, and the bigger the venue the better they play and perform.

I think this is probably my best work to date, it was really special and I hope that we can do this again soon.

I would just like to thank everyone involved, from the crew to sound and lights, my office staff Jane and Nicky, plus all involved in the show, just too many to list, but they know who they are and how much we all at Rockman appreciate their hard work.

Southport theatre show on the 29^th September has been moved to Sat 19^th March 2011. All tickets will be valid or your money back. Please call the box office at Southport.

Whilst performing the lead role in the hit musical Bad Boy Johnny earlier this year Steve was spotted by top acting and theatrical agent Elizabeth Stocking of Narrow Road London and Manchester. Elizabeth is credited with placing some of our best known soap stars in programmes such as Coronation Street, Emerdale and Shameless just to name three.

Elizabeth says Steve is a natural actor you believe what he’s saying and that’s not as easy as you may think. With Steve’s look and talent I don’t think it will be long before you will be seeing Steve very soon on some of our favoute soaps and even the big screen. Having met Steve now many times I would be correct in saying what ever Steve puts his mind to he will achieve it, watch this space.

Steve says he’s really excited about the prospect of acting but says he will never stop performing on stage as this is his true love. I’ve been touring and performing now for nearly twenty years so to have a top agent like Elizabeth think I am good enough its a real thrill and compliment.

You can see Steve performing in the hit musical Vampires Rock from September to December. All dates are listed on the web site at www.vampiresrock.com

Press interviews please call Jane at Rockman Music on 0044 (0) 1949851530

Here’s a few shots of the Rock N Bike its was a great night with over five thousand rock fans giving it there all. The festival had seen a 50% increase this year so we would like to think this is down to Vampires Rock and the great fans we have.

Its time for our break now over the summer but we will be back soon with a great tour starting at the Majestic theatre Retford on the 17^th Sept. We have 60 dates from then until Feb 2010 and they should all now be on sale.

Keep Rockin and see you all soon

Steve

REVIEW BY PAUL GEATER:

OVER the last few years Steve Steinman has travelled the country entertaining fans of Meatloaf with his spectacular shows – and his latest visit to Ipswich on Saturday was another great success. For the second year running, Steve brought along an orchestra to give the whole show more of a dramatic theme.

Last year I sometimes got the feeling that he didn’t know what to do with the orchestra – but this year there were no such doubts. From the opening with Life Is A Lemon, starting behind a screen with two dancers drumming, through to the last strains of Bat Out of Hell the orchestra was an integral part of the whole show.

Looking back at my review last year, the highlights were essentially the same – a stunning version of For Crying Out Loud to finish the first half and the dramatic Paradise By The Dashboard Light. But while they are clearly huge favourites with the fans, it would be good to vary the content slightly. I’d love to hear him perform Rock ana Roll Dreams Come Through and Lost Boys and Golden Girls from Bat II, and how about including more from some of Meatloaf’s “non-Bat” albums? But they are really minor points.

Steve Steinman and his team did what they do best and brought Meatloaf’s songs out of the car stereo and on to the stage. The songs are theatrical and Steve certainly provided drama – and masses of humour. He was supported, as ever, by the amazing Emily Clark who seems to embody the very essence of a rockchick while possessing an astonishing voice. She duetted with Steve on several numbers including Deadringer and ,YouTook the Words Right Out Of My Mouth before giving us a solo version of It’s All Coming Back to Me Now from Bat III . The show has built up a strong local following and many of the fans keep coming back for more .

They might not dress up like they do for Steve Steinman’s other regular, Vampire’s Rock later this year but they are just as enthusiastic. “Wenever miss it . We’ve made friends with some of the band,” said one group from Ipswich at the bar. And the audience was a mixture of ages – from a few youngsters to more than a handful of grandparents who were presumably hooked by Meatloaf’s first album in the late 1970s. I’ve heard the latest Meatloaf live tracks, released as part of his Hang ‘ Cool Teddy Bear album and must say that, for fans of classic Meatloaf, Steve Steinman sounds more like the Texan superstar than he does himself.

It was a great show – and the fans will be looking forward to seeing him again at Halloween and and hopefully another Meatloaf show this time next year

Nottingham Royal Concert Hall Friday 4th June 2010
by Reg Enderby, Editor, The Nottingham Gig Guide

I caught up with Bat producer and lead vocal Steve Steinman for an interview and pint just before tonight’s Nottingham show at a bar frequented by theatre goers just over the road from the concert hall. Steve tells me they are almost at the end of the tour and the cast have jelled nicely. There have been a few comings and goings, but with such a large cast this is inevitable, but I am told this is not a problem with the orchestra. They are all classically trained to the highest level in their instruments of choice and it is just a case of putting the music in front of them. The backbone of the band however has been together for some time touring with Steinman’s established show Vampires Rock.

But it was as a Meatloaf tribute act that Steinman first came to notoriety with the Meatloaf Story which toured the UK theatres for many years telling the story of Meatloaf with the aid of video screens, backing music and wigs your rock chic sister would wear, with Steinman himself donned in the most horrific Meatloaf looky likey wig, the only advantage being, never being recognised in public. Sitting in the outdoor bar with Steve it soon became apparent he was being recognised by passers by as the lead and Meatloaf performer even though he was proudly sporting a shiny bald head. Steve explains the wig has gone and this is not a looky likey show, it is a celebration of Meatloaf songs performed and staged as never done before, not even by Meatloaf himself…. Tell me more I ask, but I get a rhetorical no, you’ll just have to wait and see the show….. ok pints downed it was time for some meat in the sandwich.

Fully seated and full of anticipation, the curtains opened and I must say it was an amazing spectacle that greeted my eye line. A 3 tiered stage with the band on level one, backing vocals, dancers, drums, saxophone and violin on level 2 and finally raised in the gods, the orchestra with more instruments than I could count, complete with white suited conductor, the renowned Greg Francis.

From then on it was a nonstop barrage on the senses as hit after hit was belted out by this huge cast of performers in a spectacle of sound, lighting and effects that had the hairs raised on the back of my neck. “Paradise By The Dash Board Light”, “Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth”, “Anything for Love” and the grand finale “Bat Out Of Hell” had the audience on their feet and begging for more and all done with not a wig in sight.

I saw Meatloaf at Nottingham Arena last year and it has to be said I was disappointed with his performance and the lack of showmanship. His small band, aging vocals and poor sound were a sad reflection on one of music’s greatest mega stars. I am pleased Steinman has taken his show by the scruff of the neck and brought it right back into the 21st century and for half the seat price and twice the entertainment, I know where I will be seated next time.

Steinman will be back with Vampires Rock this year with their only outdoor festival on Saturday 17th July 2010 at The Rock & Bike Festival (www.rockandbikefest.co.uk) and a special one of Circue Du Vampires Rock at The Nottingham Arena on Saturday 30th October 2010 (www.vampiresrock.com)