Report: Being A KISS Fan Is Like Being Part Of A Big Family

May 15, 2004

Claire Halliday of Australia's TheAge.com.au is reporting that life as a member of KISS tribute band KISSTROYER is a busy one for Andrew Kyriacou, 31. The tribute band formed two years ago and tours nationally, doing around 30 shows a year to a steady base of fans who need to get their fix of live KISS music in between tours of the real thing.

KISS, Kyriacou says, is "kind of like THE BEATLES on steroids". A perfect combination of "theatre and great rock music".

"Being a KISS fan is like being part of a big family," says Glenroy sales rep Robin Brewin, 34.

For her partner, Dean Stewart, 33, a printer, it's a shared passion and one of the reasons the couple first got together almost four years ago.

"She was over here and we were meant to be going out and she just started looking through all my old memorabilia and she just stayed," Stewart says. [Read more]

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