MUSIC: ROCK ________________________________________________

US rock megastars KISS, currently on the road in Europe playing sell-out arenas and festivals to an ecstatic audience reaction, are issuing a general warning to the residents of the local Finsbury Park area and all passing aircraft. Firstly, the hand's 40 foot high inflatable replicas (in full make-up, of course), will be distracting passing motorists at the entrance to Flnsbury Park all this week- Second, their stage show includes some of the most awe-inspiring, gob-smacking pyrotechnics you've ever seen.

"Lock up your daughters, dogs and cats if you live anywhere near Finsbury Park on July 5th next Saturday," warns acne Simmons, legendary bass-player, co-front-man of Kiss and owner of the longest tongue in show business. The band's amazing stage show includes a huge pyro/firework extravaganza, full make-up, wild costumes, huge platform boots and a fantastic light show that will probably still be visible the other side of London, twenty miles away.

Lead guitarist Ace Frehley will shoot huge rocket fireworks off his specially adapted pyro-guitar, lead singer' guitarist Paul Stanley will be carried one hundred feet into the audience, accompanied by some of the most outrageous non-aircraft-friendly onstage explosives you've ever seen, while both Gene Simmons and drummer Peter Criss will be blasted fifty feet up into the air on special exploding risers, (Simmons spewing copious amounts of blood), provided with emergency parachutes in case the wind blows them off their return targets. As Simmons says: 'We don't take drink or take drugs because we always want to give 150% every night and with our show it is impossible otherwise.

Besides, with the amount of dynamite on our stage, having just one drink could mean me standing only a centimeter to the left and could result in the loss of my extremely cherished private parts" continues Simmons.

Onstage times for London's first ever (and 1907's only) Rock Festival are. Gates open - 12.3Opm L7 onstage - 2.00-2.SOpm 3 Colors Red - 2.45-3.SOpm Thunder - 4.oo-4.4spm Skunk Anansie - 5.15.6.1 5pm Rage Against The Machine -6.45- 8.OOpm KISS - 8.30-10.30pm Tickets are priced £27 and are still available (BUT GOING FAST!!) from Mean Fiddler and all the usual outlets