Paul Stanley says KISS’ avatar show will be “Cirque Du Soleil meets ‘Star Wars’ and a KISS concert”

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KISS’ upcoming avatar show will be like “Cirque Du Soleil meets Star Wars and a KISS concert”.The future production will be overseen by Pophouse Entertainment, the company behind ABBA’s ‘Voyage’ show, in which the Swedish pop group were represented by holographic virtual avatars on stage.Pophouse acquired KISS’ catalogue, brand name and IP in April, while the band first unveiled their ‘new era’ at the final show of ftheir farewell tour last December in Madison Square Garden.

After leaving the stage, the band members’ avatars were revealed, and they went on to perform ‘God Gave Rock And Roll To You’.Shortly afterwards, the band’s co-founder Gene Simmons confirmed that the band’s virtual avatars will “get better”, and revealed that “about 200 million” dollars was being invested in the technology.Around the same time, KISS also shared a teaser clip revealing when fans will be able to see their avatars perform. “50 years is a long time, and what the future holds is in the making,” reads the caption, while the video includes the wording: “2027 a show is coming.”Now, Stanley has opened up about the show’s development so far.

Appearing on Steve-O’s Wild Ride! podcast, he said: “What we’ll be doing with these amazing avatars will take us to another place, another level.

Now, those [preview images] images at the Garden were really — I had mixed feelings about showing those because they’re so early on, they look nothing like that.”“I mean, the avatars are identical.