Misery blogness.
First off: Yes, I will be working the word "blog" into every song title I use for subjects on this lil' thing. We should end up with some cringeworthy ones eventually ("Wake Me Up When September Blogs" was my original idea for this entry but I quickly vetoed it), but that will be part of the roller coaster ride you and I will be taking over the next 50 or so years, dear reader. Yes, I said 50. If I'm not blogging on my deathbed, then you reserve the right to raid my CD collection for your own personal business. Not the vinyl, though. Leave the vinyl alone.
Today's subject line has a bit of a double meaning. In the literal sense, today Paramore announced the dates for their headlining tour this August with Jack's Mannequin and Phantom Planet, and I, for one, was excited to see Cleveland on the routing. I'm still not in love with Riot! like seemingly the rest of the world, but I do quite enjoy seeing Hayley & Co. do their thing live -- as a fellow drummer, I always find myself locked on Zac Farro, with a ton of respect and admiration for someone that young coming this far already with their instrument (and yes, a tinge of jealousy, too -- the coolest music-related thing I had done by age 17 was have my old pop-punk band open for a very, very young Alkaline Trio, which I still brag about to this day, but it's not nearly as cool as having a freakin' gold record with your name on it).
Many of you have been complaining that Jack's Mannequin aren't playing your date of the Paramore tour. Well, I'm going to pull the curtains back on a little music-industry secret. (Would you look at this -- it's only my second blog and already I'm bringing The Man down from the inside.) When a band is currently on one tour but has another tour after that booked and both tours will be playing in or around the same city, they aren't allowed to announce the second show until the first one's done. A perfect example is last year when Brand New announced their fall tour with Thrice and mewithoutYou, but strangely, San Diego and Chicago shows were left out of the routing, even though there were open dates in the routing where those cities would normally fall. Upon further investigation, it turned out the band already had festival gigs booked in both cities before the fall tour was to even begin, and wouldn't you know it, the day after each one of those festivals ended, a Brand New headlining show was "magically" confirmed and announced. The reason bands do this is because if they had two confirmed shows in the same city within a month or so of each other, it could hurt the attendence of one (or maybe even both) of the shows.
So what does this have to do with Jack's Mannequin? Bear with me.
JM are doing a stint on Warped Tour this summer, including playing Montreal, Toronto and Cleveland -- three cities where Paramore just announced tour dates without Jack's Mannequin on the bill. How much do you want to bet that the day after each one of those Warped dates, Jack's are magically added to the Paramore bill? See, if they were already announced now, you might just skip buying a Warped ticket because you'll know you'll see them with Paramore, or vice versa, and no one wants that. (Seriously, if you don't buy a ticket to Warped Tour this summer, I don't think I can let you read my blog anymore. Have you seen this year's lineup? Talk about stacked!)
Keep in mind I have no physical evidence to prove this will happen, but I have a gut feeling it will, and my gut is rarely wrong. I mean, it's a pretty big gut, so if you figure the bigger your brain is, the smarter you are, than my gut's like Albert Einstein. Or something.
And now that I look at Paramore's tour routing some more, I notice they have some pretty random off-days, too -- for example, they don't have a show on August 3 or 4, yet they're in Arizona on the 2nd and Little Rock on the 5th. You have to drive through Texas for that. How much do you wanna bet once Paramore finishes their five-show stint on Warped this July -- which, surprise surprise, includes all three Texas stops -- they'll confirm a show in the Lone Star State?
See, this is what you get when you peruse my blog, dear readers. You get exclusive insight no one else can give. Or maybe I'm completely talking out of my ass and this is just one musical conspiracy theory I'm inventing. I guess time will tell.
Oh, and as for the second part of the two-sidedness of today's headline: My stomach's been hurting all week long, which has put me into a bit of (you guessed it) misery. I think it's from that big bag of Sour Patch Kids Tim gave me on Monday which I promptly ate in about a half-hour. Oy.
Today's subject line has a bit of a double meaning. In the literal sense, today Paramore announced the dates for their headlining tour this August with Jack's Mannequin and Phantom Planet, and I, for one, was excited to see Cleveland on the routing. I'm still not in love with Riot! like seemingly the rest of the world, but I do quite enjoy seeing Hayley & Co. do their thing live -- as a fellow drummer, I always find myself locked on Zac Farro, with a ton of respect and admiration for someone that young coming this far already with their instrument (and yes, a tinge of jealousy, too -- the coolest music-related thing I had done by age 17 was have my old pop-punk band open for a very, very young Alkaline Trio, which I still brag about to this day, but it's not nearly as cool as having a freakin' gold record with your name on it).
Many of you have been complaining that Jack's Mannequin aren't playing your date of the Paramore tour. Well, I'm going to pull the curtains back on a little music-industry secret. (Would you look at this -- it's only my second blog and already I'm bringing The Man down from the inside.) When a band is currently on one tour but has another tour after that booked and both tours will be playing in or around the same city, they aren't allowed to announce the second show until the first one's done. A perfect example is last year when Brand New announced their fall tour with Thrice and mewithoutYou, but strangely, San Diego and Chicago shows were left out of the routing, even though there were open dates in the routing where those cities would normally fall. Upon further investigation, it turned out the band already had festival gigs booked in both cities before the fall tour was to even begin, and wouldn't you know it, the day after each one of those festivals ended, a Brand New headlining show was "magically" confirmed and announced. The reason bands do this is because if they had two confirmed shows in the same city within a month or so of each other, it could hurt the attendence of one (or maybe even both) of the shows.
So what does this have to do with Jack's Mannequin? Bear with me.
JM are doing a stint on Warped Tour this summer, including playing Montreal, Toronto and Cleveland -- three cities where Paramore just announced tour dates without Jack's Mannequin on the bill. How much do you want to bet that the day after each one of those Warped dates, Jack's are magically added to the Paramore bill? See, if they were already announced now, you might just skip buying a Warped ticket because you'll know you'll see them with Paramore, or vice versa, and no one wants that. (Seriously, if you don't buy a ticket to Warped Tour this summer, I don't think I can let you read my blog anymore. Have you seen this year's lineup? Talk about stacked!)
Keep in mind I have no physical evidence to prove this will happen, but I have a gut feeling it will, and my gut is rarely wrong. I mean, it's a pretty big gut, so if you figure the bigger your brain is, the smarter you are, than my gut's like Albert Einstein. Or something.
And now that I look at Paramore's tour routing some more, I notice they have some pretty random off-days, too -- for example, they don't have a show on August 3 or 4, yet they're in Arizona on the 2nd and Little Rock on the 5th. You have to drive through Texas for that. How much do you wanna bet once Paramore finishes their five-show stint on Warped this July -- which, surprise surprise, includes all three Texas stops -- they'll confirm a show in the Lone Star State?
See, this is what you get when you peruse my blog, dear readers. You get exclusive insight no one else can give. Or maybe I'm completely talking out of my ass and this is just one musical conspiracy theory I'm inventing. I guess time will tell.
Oh, and as for the second part of the two-sidedness of today's headline: My stomach's been hurting all week long, which has put me into a bit of (you guessed it) misery. I think it's from that big bag of Sour Patch Kids Tim gave me on Monday which I promptly ate in about a half-hour. Oy.
4 Comments:
I could just use the new Jack's Mannequin album already. I have faith it won't disappoint me but the delay spooks me out. Kind of interested in that tour but only for JM and Phantom Planet. I still can't figure out why Paramore is popular.
And you better have a great LOST post soon after the finale next week. I pray we are going to get some bearded Jack!
I've seen that happen with tours too and i've been called crazy...so I'm glad someone else noticed it. And I am not it love with Riot! so we should be buddies. I do love All We Know Is Falling though...its places over Riot! anyday.
Proof of what you said...The Hush Sound played in Milwaukee last night and when I went to check the venues website this morning...there was a big sign...JUST ANNOUNCED...THE HUSH SOUND
oh yea! i got presale tickets for this tour! and warped! so im gonna get a double dose of JM and it fill sin for the fact that paramore wont be on warped when im there! score.
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