Venom Tour Shirts

 

Extremely rare shirt from Venoms first visit to USA for two gigs at Paramount Theatre in New York 22 and 24 April 1983. Support act on both gigs were Metallica.

Venom were supposed to headline the Dutch festival, Aardshockdag the 25 June 1983 but the gig were cancelled after their gear failed to make it's way back from the New York concerts two months before. The shirts sold as hot beer in hell anyway and here it is. Beautiful, rare and much sought after.

 

A sleeveless shirt from the 7 Dates Of Hell Tour. Very very rare. I have only seen it once on e-bay. Next time you see it - bid on it, you never know when it turns up again...

The holy grails of metal shirts! This beauty is the official shirt from the legendary 7 Dates Of Hell Tour in 1984. Constantly in great demand. The inclusion of the print of special guest on the tour, Metallica, has increased the inquiry.

From the 7 Date Of Hell Tour in 1984. This shirt was not official and was sold outside the arenaterritory. Very, very rare. I have only seen this shirt two times the last five years on e-bay.

The first six concerts on the 7 Date Of Hell Tour went of in February 1984. The last, seventh and most prestigous gig was held four months later at Hammersmith Odeon in London. The concert was as we all know filmed and released on video. This shirt was printed and sold exclusively at the venue for the lucky bastards who was there. Cool and rare as hell.

The first leg of the World Possession Tour kicked off in Canada and USA in March/April 1985. Support acts on the tour was Slayer and Exodus. The first shown shirt is pretty common but the last one is very rare indeed.

A very rare and unique shirt. First and only time the Manitou cover appears on a Venomshirt. On the sleeve it says: Venom 666 Manitou Tour 1985.

In the autumn of 1985 the second leg of the touring on the Possessed album began. For the first time Europe was extensively explored. Unfortunately no gigs in Sweden even though some shirts had Sweden on the tourcountries (see the grey shirt above). All four shirts are from this era. Popular and rare.

In the spring of 1986, it was back across the pond for some North American dates and a couple of hectic nights at the Ritz in New York were additionally taped for future use. In due course, the Hammersmithgig from the year before and the New York recordings formed the basis of the bands Eine Kleine Nachtmusik album. That album is a feast for the ears and the shierts above is a feast for the eyes. The jersey shirt is a classic.

By the second half of the year 1986, the lads were hard at work on their next album, which already been given the tentative title of Deadline, when things started to go horrendously wrong, ultimately culminated in Mantas going off to do his own thing. They still managed to undertake a tour of Brazil in December with two new axemen. This shirt is a ultra rare official merchandise from that tour with Exciter. Impossible to find. Probably the most difficult shirt to find for collectors.

After a decade of animosity the three volatile chemicals that form the original line up of Venom finally were back togehter. One gig in 1995 showed thet the boys were back in town, a triumphal return to form at Waldrock Festival in Holland the 24th of June, where the trio blew away most of the hapless impersonators in attendance. Here is three different shirts from that monumental night.

 

The biggest gig in the history of Venom was played at Dynamo Festival in June 1996. A crowd of 90.000 turned up when Venom made a memorable skullcrushing performance. Those shirts was the official festival shirts. Very rare today.

 

Very rare shirt from Metal Invaders Open Air Festival in Athen 1997. While the five support bands all got good responses from the crowd, Venom's dominance of that day was total

 

The official Tourshirt from the USA-leg of the Metal Black tour 2006. The shirt was printed in short quantitys and went sold out. Rare shirt!

The two headlining concerts on Thrash Domination Festival in Tokyo in September 2006 was cancelled because Cronos was taken ill. The shirt had already been printed so here it is!

 

The official Tourshirt from The Scandinavian Tour in May, 2007. Cool new logo and design on front, unfortunately no tourdates on the backprint.

Tour shirt from the very succesful South American tour in december 2009. There was no official tour shirt made for this tour. But the promoters were given 5 designs to choose from Black Metal, Hell etc and put the rest of the stuff on what they wanted. So you could call them - official bootlegs. This one is from Brasil.

 

The official festivalshirt from the Rockwekend Festival in Soderhamn, Sweden in july 2010. Unfortunately no Venom shirts were sold.

 

The official festivalshirt from the Hole In The Sky Festival in Bergen, Norway in August 2010. A limited white shirt and a hoodie version were sold as well.

 

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