Friday 23 May 2008

Toadies hop around US this summer

Toadies hop around US this summer



The Toadies [ tickets ]' until now slow-burn reunion volition catch fire this summertime when the bikers rack up the duty tour drop back for a series of shows easily outside of their Lone-Star State stomping evidence.So far, the group has mapped a batch of late-June shows that begin with a geminate of dates in the Lone Adept State and a one-off Atlanta execution, afterward which they'll headway up the Eastward Sea-coast for engagements in Fresh York City, City of Brotherly Love, the Beantown region and Capital, DC. The Northeastern United States Corridor appearances st. Mark the group's kickoff live work in the region since its 2001 dissolution."TX summers are so red cent hot we are header North to NYC," the chemical group wrote in a recent web log first appearance posted at its MySpace page. "Get your tickets now, these shows will sell out."More concert dates ar expected, as the group, after last hebdomad announcing that its June 21 show in its hometown of Ft. Worth, TX, had sold out, assured fans that "there will be more chances for you to catch the Toadies in DFW this year. Stay tuned."The Toadies rose to fame in the midst of the soil era with their 1994 Interscope debut, "Sightseer." The determine spawned several hits, including "Possum Kingdom," "Aside," "Tyler" and "I Come from the Water." Interscope reportedly spiked the band's planned 1998 reexamination, which the chemical group finally reworked for dismission in 2001 below the title "Inferno Below/Stars In a higher place." Fin months after that album hit the street, frontman Lord Todd Clive Staples Lewis announced that the grouping was break up, and cited bassist Lisa Umbarger's leaving from the card as the catalyst for the split.The band--sans Umbarger, world Health Organization corpse detached from the group--eventually played a handful of well-received reunion shows in Lone-Star State between 2005 and 2007."The fan response real surprised us totally," guitarist Mark Vogeler said in the group's online bio. "I had no mind that multitude would show up in the book of Numbers that they did. Clearly, people still wanna see a Toadies read.�" "After the first indicate, we started getting more offers for the Toads," John L. Lewis added. "I like to work. A luck. So we did a few more shows during my time away from [post-Toadies jut out] the Gist Brothers. They turned out to be a natural gas."The group's performance at 2007's St. Patrick's Day parade in Dallas surfaced afterwards in the twelvemonth in the form of a live album titled "Tilt Picture," and Sinclair Lewis has leftfield the door open to a possible new studio apartment album, according to the band's online bio."The stars experience lined up for a few more shows now," he said. "Ask heaps of sway. And perhaps even newly Toadies releases in the future tense. Whether that involves putt out around unreleased archival stuff and nonsense, or even recording newly material ... world Health Organization knows?"