A Perfect Circle return to Europe this summer with the Maynard James Keenan (Tool, Puscifer) and Billy Howerdel (Ashes Divide)-led band performing their first live shows on the continent since 2018. News of the headlining dates, which include back-to-back outings at London’s O2 Academy Brixton and a performance at Berlin’s Zitadelle, follow several festival announcements featuring the band, including Copenhell, Rock Im Park, Rock Am Ring, and Nova Rock.
Ghost Cult caught up with Billy Howerdel (also of a perfect circle) to discuss his new solo album – What Normal Was (Alchemy Records, Rise Records, BMG). Billy discusses his career up to now, the choice to use his own name instead of Ashes Divide, letting his 1980s influences fly on the new album, his upcoming tour dates, and some plans for a perfect circle too. Continue reading
Billy Howerdel is best known as the songwriter and guitarist for A Perfect Circle, the band he created with his good friend James Maynard Keenan (Tool / Puscifer) after they met when Tool were supporting Fishbone for whom Howerdel was a guitar tech in the early nineties, before sharing a house together in the Hollywood Hills. Howerdel would work on his early material while also engineering for the likes of David Bowie, Guns n’ Roses, and Nine Inch Nails.