Dashboard Confessional Headlines Fourth Consecutive Year of Civic Tour; Kicks Off May 13th in Portland, ME; Pre-Sale of Tickets Starts Today at civictour.com.Entertainment Editors VENICE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2004 Gearing up for the fourth annual Civic Tour, American Honda Motor Co., is pleased to announce this year's tour headliner, Dashboard Confessional Dashboard Confessional is an American indie band, led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Carrabba, from Boca Raton, Florida, USA. History Dashboard Confessional was started in 1999, as a side project from Chris Carrabba's venture with Florida rock band Further Seems . Building on the success of the last three years with such A-list artists as blink-182, Everclear, Incubus incubus (ĭng`ky  bəs), lascivious male demon said to possess mortal women as they sleep and to be responsible for the birth of demons, witches, and deformed children. , Good Charlotte and New
Found Glory New Found Glory (formerly A New Found Glory) is an American pop punk band, that formed in 1997 in Coral Springs, Florida, and is currently based in California. History , Honda continues their support of emerging talent with this
year's headliner. The nationwide tour will launch on May 13 in
Portland, ME."We're excited to be involved with this tour because it allows us to branch out to a larger audience, while still keeping it intimate and affordable for our fans," said Chris Carrabba Christopher Andrew[1] "Ender" Carrabba (born April 10, 1975) is the lead singer and guitarist of the acoustic-alternative band Dashboard Confessional, and previously was the original vocalist for the Christian rock band Further Seems Forever. , singer of Dashboard Confessional. "Plus, our fans will be able to win our one-of-a-kind customized Civic." Fans can share the experience by logging onto civictour.com beginning March 8th to gain access to special pre-sale information and tour schedules. "We're thrilled to join forces this year with Dashboard Confessional. The past tradition of bringing emerging talent to Civic Tour fans continues with what is sure to be an amazing show," said Tom Peyton, Senior Manager, National Advertising for American Honda Motor Corporation. New to Civic Tour this year is a special download promotion. Details of this promotion are forthcoming. The band chose to have the Civic Coupe (one of Honda's top selling models) painted and designed with a unique and vibrant look. Included in this year's customized Civics civics, branch of learning that treats of the relationship between citizens and their society and state, originally called civil government. With the large immigration into the United States in the latter half of the 19th cent. are state-of-the-art, premium audio components from Alpine Electronics Alpine Electronics, Inc. (アルパイン株式会社 . The system features a 500-watt DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. mobile multimedia system with DVD/CD/MP3/WMA/CDR/CDRW playback and satellite-linked navigation. High-performance Type-S speakers, subwoofers and V12 amps complete the system. Each vehicle will also include an Apple iPOD that can be controlled directly from the in-dash receiver using Alpine's new interface. Back this year, by popular demand, is the traveling Civic Tour Non-Stop Music Lounge presented by Alpine Electronics, where the customized Dashboard Confessional Civic will be showcased as well as provide a cool spot for fans to visit before and after the show. The new Civic will be on tour with the band, giving fans an up-close-and-personal look at the highly customized machine autographed by Dashboard Confessional. A total of 10 of these unique Civics will be awarded through national and local media promotions, one of which will be given away through civictour.com. Civic Tour is a unique promotion where music fans can catch their favorite acts at a great low-ticket price, with this year's tour bringing the lowest price to date. Fans also get a chance to win one of the many new customized Honda Civics, designed and autographed by Dashboard Confessional. Created and produced by Marketing Factory, Inc., Civic Tour is bringing the Honda Civic Coupe closer to youthful, contemporary drivers, while offering music fans their favorite bands. It's been four years since Chris Carrabba recorded an album full of intimate acoustic songs and released the album "Swiss Army Romance" under the name Dashboard Confessional. One year later, Vagrant VAGRANT. Generally by the word vagrant is understood a person who lives idly without any settled home; but this definition is much enlarged by some statutes, and it includes those who refuse to work, or go about begging. See 1 Wils. R. 331; 5 East, R. 339: 8 T. R. 26. Records released the follow-up album, "The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most," which sold more than 500,000 copies becoming the label's first Certified Gold record. Dashboard followed that up with an "MTV Unplugged  This article or section may contain a proseline.Please help [ convert this timeline] into prose or, if necessary, a . " album & DVD, which went platinum. 2002 saw Dashboard take home a coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. "Moon Man" when they were named the MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. 2 Artist of the Year. After a virtual non-stop world tour lasting two years and more than 450 shows, the band (which includes bassist Scott Schoenbeck, guitarist/keyboardist John Lefler and drummer Mike Marsh Mike Marsh may refer to:
prank-playing fairies; mislead travelers. [Br. Folklore: Briggs, 328–330] See : Mischievousness , Counting Crows) to record "A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar." That album, which spawned the top ten modern rock hit "Hands Down," debuted at #2 on the Billboard Charts upon its release in August and quickly went gold. The real Dashboard Confessional experience however takes place on the road. With thousands of loyal fans turning out en masse to sing along and pour their hearts out, a Dashboard Confessional show has to be seen to be believed. Joining Dashboard Confessional on this year's Civic Tour are Thrice thrice adv. 1. Three times. 2. In a threefold quantity or degree. 3. Archaic Extremely; greatly. , plus special guests to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. . For information on Civic Tour, up-to-the-date itinerary changes and pre-sale information check out civictour.com. The Civic Tour is scheduled to visit the following cities (dates and venues subject to change). Date City Venue Thurs 5/13 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center Sun 5/16 Niagara Falls, NY Dome Theater Tues 5/18 Cleveland, OH Tower City Amphitheatre Wed 5/19 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center Thurs 5/20 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theater Fri 5/21 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena Sat 5/22 Minneapolis, MN Target Center Sun 5/23 Grand Forks, ND Alerus Center Ballroom Tues 5/25 Clive, IA 7 Flags Event Center Wed 5/26 St. Louis, MO Pageant Thurs 5/27 Kansas City, MO City Market Fri 5/28 Denver, CO The Fillmore Sat 5/29 Salt Lake City, UT E Center Tue 6/1 Seattle, WA Exhibition Center Wed 6/2 Portland, OR Portland Expo Center Thurs 6/3 San Jose, CA Event Center at SJSU Fri 6/4 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theater Sat 6/5 Las Vegas, NV Orleans Theater Sun 6/6 San Diego, CA Cox Arena Tues 6/8 Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre Thurs 6/10 Austin, TX Stubb's Fri 6/11 Dallas, TX NextStage at Grand Prairie Sat 6/12 Houston, TX Reliant Arena Mon 6/14 Tampa, FL USF SunDome Tues 6/15 Pompano Beach, FL Pompano Beach Amphitheatre Wed 6/16 Orlando, FL House of Blues Thurs 6/17 Orlando, FL House of Blues Fri 6/18 Orlando, FL House of Blues Sat 6/19 Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Center Sun 6/20 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues Tues 6/22 Cary, NC Regency Park Amphitheatre Wed 6/23 Portsmouth, VA NTELOS Pavilion Thurs 6/24 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion Sat 6/27 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center For more daily updated information, visit the official Civic Tour online press kit site: http://www.marketingfactory.com/civictourpress/ |
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