William Shatner, 95, to Launch His Heavy Metal Band The *uckers with Debut Performance at Riot Fest

 THEY MUST PERFORM....EVEN AT 95!

After more than a decade of Riot Fest trying to get him to perform, William Shatner is finally saying yes.

The Star Trek legend, 95, will make his Riot Fest debut on Sunday, Sept. 20 at Chicago’s Douglass Park, where he’ll take the stage with his newly formed heavy metal band, The *uckers, marking the group’s first-ever live performance.

Known for embracing the bizarre, the festival announced Shatner’s addition alongside an intentionally outrageous artist rider that mixes legitimate backstage requests with impossible demands directed at the city of Chicago itself.

Among the requests for the Chicagoland community? Rename a boat in his honor so he can captain a ship again, create a classic Chicago food item named after him, invite him to sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” at a Chicago baseball game and even have him co-anchor the local weather with the city’s favorite meteorologist.

The festival itself wasn’t spared, either.

Shatner’s performance rider calls for “Fire breathers. Many of them.,” an intro video created by GWAR and his artist golf cart to be replaced with a DeLorean. Backstage, he requested a dressing room themed as “Shatner’s Shag Shack,” four feet of Polish sausage, a bowl of sauerkraut, a Montreal Canadiens jersey signed by John Stamos, eight pallets of Faygo (specifically “Not to be shared with Insane Clown Posse”), white tube socks, underwear and “an assortment of adoptable puppies, sourced from a reputable local animal rescue nonprofit.”

Shatner, meanwhile, is fully embracing the moment.

“I’ve always believed that music, like space, is about exploration,” he says in a statement. “Riot Fest is exactly the kind of place where anything can happen. We’re bringing volume, intensity, and a few surprises. I can’t wait to share this experience with the fans.”

The *uckers feature an all-star lineup of veteran rock musicians, including Marcus Nand on guitar and as musical director, Phil Soussan on bass, Britt Lightning on guitar and Fred Aching on drums. The performance will reimagine songs from throughout Shatner’s musical catalog while also previewing material from his forthcoming heavy metal album, What the F Is Heavy Metal.

“That’s the name of the album because I know nothing or didn’t know anything until I found out how little I do know,” Shatner exclusively tells PEOPLE.