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Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026?
Reply #527 - Apr 7^th, 2026 at 2:48pm

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Apr 7^th, 2026 at 1:29pm:

Is this realiable info?

The Rolling Stones Expected To Reveal New Song Mr Charm And Final Album Foreign Tongues on 11 April 2026

https://www.noise11.com/news/rolling-stones-mr-charm-foreign-tongues-announcemen...

Looks legit enough...the previous announcements were all real...just dont know who this source is.

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Reply #528 - Apr 7^th, 2026 at 3:26pm

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/38750488/rolling-stones-secret-comeback-qu...

This new Sun article is mostly repetition of old and inaccurate
info except it gets this one new fact right imo

"the Stones are releasing their new record under the name The Cockroaches"

Also, here's a convenient recap of some key facts and speculations...

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https://shop.thecockroaches.com/
t-shirt now on sale £30.00 €36,00 $39.00

WHOOPS! SOLD OUT! total of only 200 worldwide

can you imagine how fast the tickets are gonna sell?!

I've updated my thinking about likely venues...

still think the Rivoli Ballroom is probably where they filmed the video...

but too posh, too large for their first gig

so: 100 Club, Jazz Cafe, and Moth Club are now my candidates.
if you're a gambler, pick one and be standing there at 1:41pmBST saturday.
or pick some other venue to plant yourself at. Good Luck!
(i'm guessing it will be one tik per customer)

regarding the t-shirt: ideal for bootlegging, unless its got some special tag.
Justin, if you're reading this, does it have some special tag?

Then again, if you're a true Cockroaches fan, a bootleg t-shirt is just as good

Also:

I still do not believe the first release will be an original called
"Mr Charm". In fact I do not believe it will be original at all.
It will be a cover. Something like...

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Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026?
Reply #529 - Apr 8^th, 2026 at 5:56am

I'm going to file a minority report: this marketing campaign is a miss.

It's a miss because it's setting up as an anticlimax.

"How can you complain when we're getting a new Stones record?!" I'm as excited as anyone for new Stones music. That's not going to change because of the marketing whiff. But I have to call it as I see it.

The Cockroaches push, the tee shirts, the "period" bedroom: to what purpose? It's clever and it gets the attention of the most dedicated fans, but the wrong kind of attention.

The Cockroaches theme is intertwined with their live entity; it has no connection to their studio work.

I, for one, haven't taken any of this as an indication they'll be playing live now or any time soon. But some draw the admittedly fair inference that it has to be setting up for a secret gig of some kind. Why else invoke the Cockroaches? Indeed.

Dude over at iorr probably has it right. If so, this was a true misfire. Too often with the Stones, when things look clever and we get excited, setting expectations low is the way to go. Looks like we'll get the single, the record, and some interviews. Same as usual, minus the tour.

His hunch:

"Original plan was 20 date tour start in early May, like May 10/11, rehearsal start around this week right now (yesterday), and a secret gig Fri 17th April, that's two weeks of rehearsals already underway and enough for a 12 song gig with a few new songs. Everyone with a T-Shirt was supposed to get a ticket. Show was planned to be billed as a Cockroaches show. This may have been the plan before December 2025. And now that the tour got called off they are doing a mini version with maybe a few interviews or something. Would have been an amazing way to do a warm up show for a european tour and to generate a lot of hype."

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Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026?
Reply #531 - Apr 8^th, 2026 at 6:21am

We have two hype trains running:

The Cockroaches are coming! (No they're not)

This is the final full studio album! (Maybe)

Strike 1, strike 2.

If the rerecord is good, this fluff might be forgotten, but without a tour the record might be the tree that falls in the forest. I will be very surprised if Mick confirms it's their "final" album. No one is saying it's their final studio work, but I don't expect him to confirm it's their last full record either.

UMG just looking for some angle to promote the record without a tour.

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ThomasOliver Rocks Off Regular Online Posts: 347 Gender:	Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026? Reply #533 - Apr 8^th, 2026 at 6:54am Actually just seen on IORR that this is Njinski. I wonder if that is a red herring and the clue may be just about the ballet. FWIW there is actually a ballet school in Natchez.
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Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026?
Reply #535 - Apr 8^th, 2026 at 7:16am

ThomasOliver wrote on Apr 8^th, 2026 at 6:42am:

Any ideas on the ballet dancer?

the new addition to our second-hand-store- and Cockroach-loving gen-Z-er's
bedroom is a postcard of the Ballets Russes' most famed and infamous star
Vaslav Nijinsky. This photo of him performing Gisele is from 1910 Paris and
was sold around the world, including in London in connection with Nijinsky's
1911 performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

In 1969, while writing love letters to Marsha Hunt, Mick Jagger mentioned
that he was reading the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, suggesting an interest in
the dancer's troubled, sensitive life.

This postcard is a very nice junk-shop find. Melanie would love it...

(our gen-Z-er is a man of poverty and taste)

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Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026?
Reply #537 - Apr 8^th, 2026 at 10:42am

Guys- does this lead us anywhere?

see below-

"Foreign Tongues" refers to speaking in a language unknown to the speaker, often interpreted in Christianity as a spiritual gift allowing for the communication of divine messages. It is frequently linked to the Pentecost events (Acts 2:4-11), where believers spoke in real, foreign languages to spread the Gospel to different nations.

Tingly- tingles

let's do it!

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Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026?
Reply #538 - Apr 8^th, 2026 at 4:22pm

updated forecasts... (forecasts, educated guesses, not predictions)

100% chance -- Friday's clue:

100% chance -- Saturday's event, Cockroaches' gig, Moth Club or some
similar tiny place
100% chance -- at 1:42pmBST saturday, the poster on gen-Z's wall
changes to "Cockroaches LIVE at _______ SOLD OUT"

100% chance -- digital/video single released also fri/sat, physical single
goes on sale, no other announcement
65% chance -- this is the single (yes i know the Stones have performed it
live, but the single is The Cockroaches' studio version)

100% chance, Matt Lee is right...
"it is a single release... probably their best marketing in years but sadly
I fear most will be disappointed."
100% chance, revvy@rocksoff will be thrilled with the single and with
the event and with the video and with the "no other announcement"
strategy plus laughing his ass off at the sufferation on the iorr forum Grin

ADDENDUM: Matt Lee has just issued a splendidly disingenuous
(pretending to be naive) statement at iorr, which changes exactly nothing
about my stated forecasts, now adding my additional 100% forecast of
more Cockroaches thrills and spills coming as soon as next week...

Matt Lee's statement in full:
"This thread amused me! I actually really like this marketing campaign
(I am a professional marketeer, who built a £500m annual turnover agency
starting with a mate and £1,000). My only worry is it's a bit too clever,
only really reaching people who hang out here or on Shidoobee, Marketing
is about achieving the incremental sale, the one you wouldn't otherwise
have got. My concern is the audience this campaign is reaching want and
probably unfairly expect more. A new album should be great news, I
suspect all we are getting on the 11th is the first single and I fear the hard
core who this campaign has whipped into a frenzy will feel a sense of
disappointment."

In other words (my reading of Matt's statement), this mind-fuck has
been intentionally aimed at the fan-forums because the offhand cynicism/
arrogance/entitlement/obstinacy/insularity that predominates amongst
hardcore online fans is THE biggest obstacle the Stones face as they motor
into a brand-new era for themselves and their music.

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ThomasOliver Rocks Off Regular Online Posts: 347 Gender:	Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026? Reply #539 - Apr 9^th, 2026 at 7:50am So when the record appears tomorrow, you click on it and it will take you to a ticketing site for the mystery cockroaches gig. Wherever it may be.
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Elliott_Is_Crazy Rocks Off Regular Offline Creator of E-Dude Talks Music. Posts: 20 Colorado Gender:	Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026? Reply #540 - Apr 9^th, 2026 at 12:15pm I really hope that the rumors are true. A new Rolling Stones album would be so exciting lol! If they play Colorado again soon, I will definitely have to go!
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Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026?
Reply #542 - Apr 9^th, 2026 at 12:41pm

Some Guy wrote on Apr 9^th, 2026 at 12:20pm:

Shouldn't we have some reviews/feedback from those who have heard the album by now?

I recall an article about Hackney Diamonds saying listeners will be stunned by the New Stones' music, reviewing some songs.

That was fun.

and don't forget when I shared 60-sec samples of many songs of A Bigger Bang, 26 days before it was released!!

Here the original thread with samples: https://www.rocksoff.org/Archives/08-24-2005/214276-1.html

Here the reaction of our friends on IORR: https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,225846,225891

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I recorded the tracks with a mirocassette tape recorder during a private audience for the press, with very special thanks to photographer-extraorindaire Fernando Aceves

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Reply #543 - Apr 9^th, 2026 at 4:02pm

Can't believe it has been over 20 years Voo. I remember what a treat it was to hear your snippets. Tinged with sadness in seeing Gazza's posts, but also enjoying his always irreverent humour.

It's funny too to read peoples thoughts on ABB. Like with all albums, the initial excitement dies pretty quickly. Let's hope the new one doesn't do that!

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Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026?
Reply #544 - Apr 9^th, 2026 at 4:05pm

Some Guy wrote on Apr 9^th, 2026 at 12:20pm:

Shouldn't we have some reviews/feedback from those who have heard the album by now?

I recall an article about Hackney Diamonds saying listeners will be stunned by the New Stones' music, reviewing some songs.

That was fun.

If it's a surprise release then I seriously doubt any critics would review it until after it comes out. That's how GNX by Kendrick Lamar was (A huge mainstream album btw!)

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Reply #545 - Apr 9^th, 2026 at 7:36pm

In a plot twist both hilarious and frightening, the vaunted Times of
London just got sucked in by an AI track...

imo

Not the Cockroaches. Not the Stones.

A secret song, a new album — why it’s going to be a Rolling Stones summer

If a new track from ‘the Cockroaches’ sounds awfully like Mick Jagger, that’s because it is. Will Hodgkinson reports on the Stones’ latest comeback — and asks whether they will play live again

Will Hodgkinson
Thursday April 09 2026

On Thursday morning someone — let’s call him a crazy fan — played me a song by a mysterious band called the Cockroaches. This came after posters for the group, named after a legendarily hardy insect, appeared around Camden Town, north London. Getting going with an electric blues riff not a million miles from the one that starts up Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones, Rough and Twisted builds with a bit of soloing from a second guitar, a primeval thud from the drums and the unmistakable yowl of one of the most famous singers in the world. He’s asking for someone to drive him down a rough and twisted road all the way to Puerto Rico, where the tide ebbs and flows and you do feel that something sexual may be happening along the way. Yes, if you haven’t guessed already, ol’ Rubber Lips and the gang are back.

Rough and Twisted, available as a vinyl-only “white label” release from April 11, is classic Stones: a killer riff, a rambunctious harmonica solo from Mick Jagger, a devil-may-care spirit and the feeling that, six decades on from first crawling out of a notoriously squalid flat in Edith Grove, southwest London, to play the blues in smoke-clogged pubs and clubs along the Surrey Delta, the Rolling Stones are still a chaotic bar band forever on the verge of collapse, happiest in the most low-down dives. As Jagger sings, “You just took me to a flyblown town in the middle of nowhere. The smell was acrid and toxic. Couldn’t breathe the air.”

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/rolling-stones-new-song-album-202...

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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,833 Wonderland Gender:	Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026? Reply #546 - Apr 9^th, 2026 at 9:19pm Rough and Twisted Hey honey... do you like it rough and twisted?
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ThomasOliver Rocks Off Regular Online Posts: 347 Gender:	Re: Stones 2025 no new album or tour, but what about 2026? Reply #549 - Apr 10^th, 2026 at 8:06am The record is now in "Joe's Apartment " bedroom. Says to flip it and when you do you get some coordinates on a map.
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