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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 5, 2013 BAD COMPANY TO PERFORM IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 34 YEARS 40th Anniversary Celebration Tour Comes To Victoria, Penticton & Coquitlam New York --- Bad Company will perform in British Columbia for the first time in 34 years this month. The band will make stops in: Penticton (9/14), Victoria (9/15) & Coquitlam (9/18). The Coquitlam show is sold out. “We kicked off the tour on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in LA back in June and this final leg of the tour ends in LA a true full circle. Including Penticton, Coquitlam and Victoria in this 40th Anniversary Tour was super important to me for the fan's sake and since B.C is where Cynthia and I live,” remarked Paul Rodgers. Bad Company’s summer tour has been one of the concert industries major success story. Beginning on June 15 in Rancho Mirage, CA the band has been performing to packed houses every night on the tour. Bad Company were dubbed a super-group upon the band's formation due to the union of Free's Paul Rodgers (Vocals / Multi-Instrumentalist) with Mott The Hoople's Mick Ralphs (Guitar) plus Free's Simon Kirke (Drums) and King Crimson's Boz Burrell (Bass), who passed away in 2006. Over the next nine years, the band released a string of six albums that sold tens of millions of copies, yielding international hits "Can't Get Enough," "Bad Company," "Feel Like Makin' Love," and many others penned by the main songwriters Paul Rodgers and Mick Ralphs. Original members Rodgers, Ralphs, and Kirke will be joined by guitarist Howard Leese and bassist Todd Ronning (both from Rodgers Solo band). BAD COMPANY TOUR DATES 9/14 Penticton, BC, CAN South Okanagan Events Centre 9/15 Victoria, BC, CAN Esquimalt’s Bullen Park 9/18 Coquitlam, BC, CAN Red Robinson Show Theatre –SOLD OUT 9/19 Manson, WA Mill Bay Casino Deep Water Amphitheater 9/21 Glen Ellen, CA BR Cohn Winery Amphitheatre 9/27 Lincoln, CA Thunder Valley Casino Resort 9/29 Pomona, CA Los Angeles County Fair http://www.badcompany.com/ .

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