Second Leg tour dates starting to roll in....

[VAiN]

Feb 12 - Bank Atlantic Center, Fort Lauderdale!!!

[Panamark]

No earlier Jan dates

[Freewheelin]

Also looks like Feb 8 at the Ice Palace in Tampa !!!

[VAiN]

Originally posted by Freewheelin
Also looks like Feb 8 at the Ice Palace in Tampa !!!

Nice!! Road trip!

[damngoodtimes]

96 in Atlanta ain't the same since they started that "Project" shit.

but they did say yesterday, after playing Panama, that "we know that they're coming, we just can't tell you when yet."

Va, you and poj need to drive down to Atlanta for the show; hopefully it'll be a weekend. let's see if we can get another pre-show throwdown arranged. VaiN already told me he's hitting Atlanta if they come (of course, he's roadtrippin' EVERYWHERE).

[matt19]

Re: Denver baby

Originally posted by thepunisher
CMON DENVER....
CMON DENVER....

AMEN!!

[rocknrolldork]

Originally posted by damngoodtimes
96 in Atlanta ain't the same since they started that "Project" shit.

but they did say yesterday, after playing Panama, that "we know that they're coming, we just can't tell you when yet."

Va, you and poj need to drive down to Atlanta for the show; hopefully it'll be a weekend. let's see if we can get another pre-show throwdown arranged. VaiN already told me he's hitting Atlanta if they come (of course, he's roadtrippin' EVERYWHERE).

My sister lives in Atlanta so I will probably be making that trip too. Hopefully it will be on a weekend.

[binnie]

Europe in the Sping/Summer?

[Shaun Ponsonby]

That would be a good idea...that way they could hit some of the big festivals as well (I believe American festivals are nowhere near the scale of European/UK festivals)...

Maybe even Monsters of Rock at Milton Keynes...with the Scorpions...or Whitesnake (probably the latter considering their new album is due out around that time...)

[Hardrock69]

That is one thing that is sorely lacking.

Europe has big festivals...EVERY (or almost every) FUCKING YEAR!

How often does that sort of thing happen in the US?

Not as often as we would like, but it IS getting better.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Originally posted by Freewheelin
Also looks like Feb 8 at the Ice Palace in Tampa !!!

Looks like this will actually be Feb. 18th, the 8th and 9th were scratched, at least according to the poster's source at the Links....

[tajmahal]

I want them to start recording a new album by May.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
That is one thing that is sorely lacking.

Europe has big festivals...EVERY (or almost every) FUCKING YEAR!

How often does that sort of thing happen in the US?

Not as often as we would like, but it IS getting better.

Most of the festivals are annual. In the UK alone we have

Glastonbury
Carling Weekend-Reading/Leeds (same acts on in both places over the same weekend on different days)
Download (Metal Festival @ Donnington)
T in the Park (in Scotland)
Isle of Wight (as you may expect, on the Isle of Wight)
Hyde Park Calling
Oxygen (in Ireland)
The V Festival

...and these are just the major ones all of which have over 60,000+ attendance each year and a big scramble for tickets before the acts have even been booked.

I hear American bands talk so often about how you don't have things on this scale in America. Maybe because your country is so damn big that you have to have touring festivals instead...I dunno...but a single weekend makes it more of an event than a tour....most of em are broadcast via the BBC as well...some have highlights shown on Channel 4.

The scale of them seem to be huge as well...

Check out how many people played at Glastonbury this year...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_line-ups

[Shaun Ponsonby]

HA!

A little off topic...but keeping with the festival thing...

Here's the best thing about British festivals...something which I doubt would be stood for in America...its a tradition at Reading...

While the mass-participation can and bottle fights of the 1970s and 1980s have long since ended, the Reading Festival 'tradition' of unpopular bands being bottled off (being forced off stage by a barrage of audience-thrown plastic bottles, sometimes filled with urine) has continued throughout its history.

The 1983 reggae act Steel Pulse suffered possibly the most vicious bottling-off ever seen at the Festival, before or since, disappearing within moments of appearing on stage under an avalanche of missiles launched by the temporarily-united ranks of punks and rockers waiting to see The Stranglers.

In 1988 Bonnie Tyler bravely completed her set despite an unending barrage of bottles, turf and litter. Unfortunately, the day's headliner Meat Loaf was not so brave, retreating ingloriously only 20 minutes into his set after taking a 2-litre cider bottle full in the face.

Daphne and Celeste suffered this ignominy in 2000, retreating after a wheel chair was thrown at them. Some have questioned the wisdom of putting the teen pop duo before the Heavy Metal Band, Slipknot. Good Charlotte experienced it in 2003, but remained on-stage and encouraged the crowd to throw more.

In 2004, it was the turn of rapper 50 Cent, who was pelted with urine, fireworks, mud, pieces of furniture and generally anything that people could get their hands on - even a children's paddling pool. 50 Cent lasted nearly 20 minutes at Reading, before finally throwing his microphone into the crowd in anger after a deck chair was thrown on-stage.

Footage:

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In 2006 at Reading, Panic! at the Disco lead singer Brendon Urie was knocked unconscious from a hit by a plastic bottle half filled with a citrus flavoured fizzy drink thrown from the crowd, causing the band to stop for 3 minutes while he received medical attention, before continuing to play the whole of the set with no more bottles directly hitting them. Despite this, the band played their set at Leeds the following day with no incident (aside from a thank you and praise for being a better crowd).

Footage:

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My Chemical Romance followed thrash metal band Slayer during the festival, and probably because of this, also suffered a barrage of bottles in 2006, but they completed their set, encouraging the crowd to boo, hiss and throw more. Aiden were also bottled at the Reading Festival 2006, and singer Wil Francis made it considerably worse by shouting "Let's see what you got, you fucking pussies!", which led to further pelting.

Footage:

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The controversial decision by organisers to let 50 Cent play the previous year and the chaos that ensued as a result of that decision did not put the organisers off from inviting other hip hop/rap artists such as Lethal Bizzle (or, as Jeremy Clarkson called him, "Jizzy Tissue") to play on the Carling stage, and Dizzee Rascal to play a set as second headliner on the NME/Radio One stage.

[Diamondjimi]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
My Chemical Romance followed thrash metal band Slayer during the festival

Slayer OWNS !!!