Tool set to tour

Why, it was only last weekend for these very columns that our rock reviewer, Russell Baillie, reached into his keyboard and dug out three stars for Tool's first album in five years, Lateralus.

And here we are today to tell you that the lads will be forsaking the balmy climes of LA for a winter tour Down Under next month.

The band that launched a thousand nu-metallers plays the North Shore Events Centre on Thursday, July 19 (tickets from Ticketek and Real Groovy, phone credit card bookings on (09) 307 5000).

The Christchurch gig is at the Westpac Trust Centre on Saturday, July 21 (tickets from Ticketek, phone credit card bookings on (03) 377 8899).