7/10/06 -- Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
7/12/06 -- Berkeley, CA @ Berkeley Community Theatre
7/13/06 -- Los Angeles, CA @ Gibson Amphitheatre
7/14/06 -- Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
7/15/06 -- Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Amphitheatre
7/18/06 -- Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre
7/19/06 -- Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7/21/06 -- Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
7/22/06 -- Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
7/24/06 -- Atlanta, GA @ Atlanta Civic Center
7/25/06 -- Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
7/27/06 -- Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
7/28/06 -- Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
7/31/06 -- Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum Theatre
8/2/06 -- Columbus, OH @ PromoWest Pavilion
8/3/06 -- St. Louis, MO @ Pageant
8/4/06 -- Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
8/5/06 -- Pittsburgh, PA @ Chevy Amphitheatre
8/7/06 -- Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
8/8/06 -- Norfolk, VA @ Chrysler Hall
8/9/06 -- Washington, D.C. @ DAR Constitution Hall
8/11/06 -- Camden, NJ @ Tweeter Center at Waterfront
8/12/06 -- New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
8/13/06 -- Boston, MA @ Boston Opera House
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July 10 - Seattle, WA (Jake Turner)
Our first show of the tour after having to cancel all of our Canada shows. We were super bummed and super bored for a week straight. Sorry Canada, we still love you! The show tonight was filled with built-up energy of not playing shows for two weeks straight. The show was great! Gibson loaned me a Les Paul to try out. I’m really diggin’ it.
July 12 - Berkeley, CA (Jake Turner)
We had a day off after the Seattle show. Another freaking day off was sucky! But we were psyched about playing another show. It was an all seated show. Not really our style, but we made people get up and do some dancing. The crowd was really into it, which got our energy going. The shows with all seating are hard for us to get into because we’re such a personal and interactive band live. But we make the best of it and have a killer time.
July 13 - Los Angeles, CA (Jake Turner)
Today was an important day for us as a band. We had sooo many important people that were coming out to the show including a Gibson guitar rep, which is an important thing to me. I think we killed it tonight. Randy, our manager, was here tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. His approval of a good show is an awesome sign to me. The Gibson rep had to take the loaner Les Paul back from me, which was a bummer. I’m going to buy one now so that’s ok. Haha. I feel like tonight was a success.
July 14 - Las Vegas, NV (Jake Turner)
Tonight… WOW!! A crazy night! Alex (our bass player) and Annie (our merch girl) got married at The Little White Wedding Chapel. An amazingly beautiful wedding, yet so chill, and informal. Congrats Alexander and Annie Kent! Anyways… haha back to the show. The show was amazing tonight. It was a more interactive show. House of Blues Las Vegas is more of a venue we are used to. It felt more like home on stage. VEGAS!
July 15 - Mesa, AZ (Jake Turner)
All I have to say…. It’s tooooo freakin’ hott here! Haha. The show went really well tonight. There were a bunch of hardcore Say Anything fans that were singing their hearts out. I wore shorts on stage for the first time ever in my musical career. It was an awesome show though. Thank you Arizona for toughing it out through the heat for us.
July 18 - Austin, TX (Alexander T Kent)
Dear Diary,
Austin Texas. Live music capital of the world. I love Austin. We had a day off before the show in Austin so me and Annie splurged and stayed the night at the clean and pristine Driskill Hotel. It was so frikkin hot outside. We left the hotel on a mission to walk to Whole Foods but it was so hot that we jumped in a cab like lazy little slothy humans. It was truly a hot day.
The show was at the Paramount Theater. Another very cool looking venue on the tour. Another venue that was all seating. A little awk at first but by then I was getting used to it. The capacity was around 1200, which I think is the smallest show on the tour. Ironically, our biggest show on our last tour was 1200, ha. Nothing like a good margarita when you're in Texas, so me and some of the dudes missioned and were turned onto a great happy hour by a nice homeless man.
The show turned out to be pretty good. I played some Pokemon and looked forward to Houston. AAAAA!! Blog.
July 19 - Houston, TX (Alexander T Kent)
Dear Diary,
Today was good. Today was great. Today was GRAND! I love playing in Houston. We've always had great fans and great shows here. We usually play at the Java Jazz which is a really cool intimate place. So it was definitely crazy to play at a frarking Verizon Wireless Theater. That night was the first night id say we were truly IN THE ZONE. NHL Hitz Blue Fire, hat trick, slap shot. If there was a goalie, we could have checked him in his own goalie box.
After we played we went out to meet some of the fans. We stayed out there for a while. I love it when kids are talkative about regular stuff. Communication is fun. I can't remember, but after the show I probably watched LOST! Oh yah, and I ate a great risotto for dinner. Blog.
July 21-23 - Orlando, FL (Alexander T Kent)
Or or or or ORLANDO! I love it I love it I love it. We played at a House of Blues 3 nights in a row, which was so awesome because there was a pit. I love nothing more than pits. Pits of fruit. Armpits. Barbecue Pits. Pits at a show. We switched up our setlist a little bit every night to give the kids who were there all 3 nights a little taste of versatility. We also tried Spidersong out for the first time on the tour. It was great to be able to hear the kids singing out songs from the crowd again.
Both nights we stayed at a hotel and both nights we ordered pizza very late. We tried cheeseless pineapple onion one night and I highly recommend it. Blog.
July 24 - Atlanta, GA (Alexander T Kent)
Chingy@# Great show. The Civic Center was a litttttle intimidating but it was awesome. It was all seating again but our fans came down the aisles and stood as close as they could get and screamed to what seemed like their hearts content. It was the first night we tried taking Admit it! Out of the set, and it didn't bother me to not play it. Quite possibly my favorite song to play live.
Met a lot of cool people after the show. It seemed a lot of people drove far to get to there. We met a nice man, his wife, and his friend from the local radio station too. I also finished downloading season two of LOST on my computer. If you haven't seen this show, I am now forcing you to watch it. PLEASESESESE GO WATCH IT. I love you. Blog.
August 11 - USA (Max)
So here we are in the homecoming stretch of our tour with Dashboard Confessional and Ben Lee. It's been a long ass month and a half. One would think that since the other bands are really cool, it's our first tour on a bus, and we're main support for an extremely successful act, this would be a breeze. It's not. Coming from our last tour, which was in small intimate venues where we would headline to crowds of kids singing our lyrics in our faces, this is a strange experience.
We have to work to win over these crowds. The venues are big, and sometimes the audiences are sitting down when we play. Therefore, we have to truly embrace the feelings behind our own music rather than relying on the minimal amount of people who are huge Say Anything fans at these shows. Which isn't to say that our peeps haven't represented; every day when we come out to sign merchandise there are huge lines of kids, many who are at the shows just as much there to see us as Dashboard. It's like we're truly PERFORMING rather than INTERACTING so much. It's given me a chance to really work on my skills. I have to truly concentrate on my voice and really letting go and rocking out to our sounds.
I would say this is the most challenging experience we've ever had playing onstage. Previously, when we were the first or second act out of four bands, your job is to warm up the crowd, which is difficult sometimes because nobody knows who you are, but, at least in my experience, more focus is put on the main support act. You are supposed to be part of the main reason why people are at the show. I look forward to being able to be main support for other huge acts in the future if we're lucky.
However I'm extremely happy that we'll be doing our last headlining tour for this album in the fall. It will probably be the most fun I've ever had playing shows, as we are playing with two of my favorite bands, mewithoutYou and Piebald. It's an honor that these bands are actually opening for us, these fucking newbie kids who worship their music. I can only hope that the crowds are as enthusiastic as they were a few months ago. Everything that keeps happening with this band is blessing and no matter how hard it gets I feel lucky to be able to experience things I dreamed of so often when I was younger. Thanks everyone.
