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TOUR BLOG!
Dec 2
After a 5 hour drive to Greenville NC, we arrived in the middle of nowhere! The place we were supposed to play ended up being an old strip club. After going on a scavenger hunt around the place, we found a sketchy ass old bra, and a ton of other sweet strip club memorabilia. After that, we decided it was time to figure out what the heck was going on with the show haha. Apparently there were some problems with the promoter and venue, and they venue did not know there was a show! Always really great to hear after a 5 hour drive. In any event, after talking it over, we decided it would be best to just head back home for a few days and regroup for the NORTHEAST!! In the next few days, we will be switching out gear that has suffered the battle of touring, and gearin up for the second stretch of the tour with Dropout Year. We are super excited to get back up to the northeast! See you guys Thursday in Maryland!!
Matt
Dec 1st (Arden NC- Graffiti Music Hall)
Snappp 2 updates in one day! So we got to NC early today. We had time to hang out with After the Anthems for awhile. I just want to reemphasize, they are great guys and touring with them has been a blast. I am so glad we got to know them. The show tonight was a weird one fo sho. Apparently the regular sound guy didnt show up....I think we all know what that means haha. The sound was saweeeet!! hahaha. Oh man. We had fun and rocked with everyone who wanted to do some rockin with us. It is the first of 3 nights in NC, so we are excited for what this wonderful state has in store for us! See you tomorrow night at the Bullet Music Hall!!
Matt
The Last few Days! (Nov 28-Nov 30)
Hey everyone! Sorry we haven't had a chance to update much in the past few days. Internet has been tricky to come by. Basically, we finished up Florida and headed up to the peach tree state (Georgia). Before our show which was about 30 min outside of Atlanta, we stopped by Tree Sound Studios to meet up with Kenneth Mount and Zack Odom. They were super nice guys, and the studio they work in is beyond redic!! Some of the sweetest jams have come out of that studio. It's cool to know that you might have a chance to record in a place like that. We are still trying to figure out what the deal is with recording, so whooooo knows right now ;). After leaving, we had to head up to Dallas Georgia, for what was expected to be a good show. It was the venues opening night, so we were excited to be apart of that! The show turned out to be our favorite of the tour so far!! The turnout was great, everyone was so friendly, and it was sweet to hear people singin along! It's safe to say that Georgia left a great first impression on PTD. We are all pretty big fans. Today we are in North Carolina, for the 1st of 3 shows! We are super excited to see what's up in NC.
Matt
Day 5 (1982 Bar- Gainsville FL) I didn't know it was possible, but we hung out in a mall parking lot for 6 hours playing Tony Hawk on playstation in the van. We just kept going and going haha. Load in at the venue wasn't until 8 tonight so we had plenty of time in Gainsville today. It's a nice little college town. Everyone we met was really nice, even the bums. One of the guys in After the Anthems even bought one of the bums food. The show tonight at the 1982 bar was pretty solid. One of the best turnouts of the tour so far! The sound was solid, and we a had a lot of fun. It was nice to see people seem really into the songs after the last few nights! We have one last show in Florida tomorrow in Jacksonville at the Fuel Coffee house before we head to Georgia. We are looking forward to Jacksonville! Hopefully we will get to meet a bunch of new faces!
adios
Matt
Day 4 (The Capitol- Ocala FL)
Comin to you tonight from the wonderful Ocala, Florida. The weather is still really great. The show tonight was so lame though haha. I can't even beat around the bush. It was a really sweet venue, but apparently the scene in Ocala is real bad. We did a lot of hangin around today since we had a hotel from last night. The hotel is right across from wendy's and mcdonalds so we have eaten way way to much fast food in the last day! Right now we are hangin with the after the anthems dudes! Make sure to head over to there myspace and add them! Ok im outta info for the night! We are in Florida for 2 more days (Gainsville and Jacksonville) so make sure to get some quality PTD FL action why you can!
Latas
Matt
Day 2 (Island Oasis- Orlando FL)
So we woke up this morning to a beautiful sunny day! It was 80 degrees and AMAZING all day. It is still 71 degrees at 1:45 in the morning as I type this! Florida is treatin us well so far. We decided to make the trip from Tampa to Orlando around 1ish. We got to Orlando around 3 and had some time to kill. We stopped by Chipotle for some bangin mexican fast food. I think it's safe to say that Chipotle is a PTD favorite. Everyone started to arrive at the venue around 5. We still had a few hours till doors so Blair, Manny and some of the guys from After the Anthems decided it was time for some serious mario kart DS action. I'm pretty sure Blair dominated the competition (but in the other guys defense, he plays for hours and hours a day haha). The show tonight was a good one. We played well. The sound system was not the best....to say the least, but we did what we could and had fun. We have also been playing 2 new songs in the set. Everyone seems to be into them so far, which is always a good sign haha. We have a day off tomorrow so I think we might hang out at the Brand New/Thrice tour since its in town! Make sure to say hi if you see us. See you monday in OCALA.
latas
Matt
Day 1 (Traxx music hall- Tampa FL)
After 15 hours of driving from Va down to Fl, we arrived in clearwater Florida at 6pm. We quickly met the guys in After the Anthems. They were really nice guys and it was a fun first night with them. After meeting up with the people at the venue, we discovered that we were about to be fed some delicious food. After eating, we set up all of our merch and tried to figure out how to make everything work the way it was supposed to. The show didn't start until a little after 9pm. We got lucky and had to play last haha. The guys in After the Anthems played a real solid set and I think we could all tell right off the bat that it will be a fun tour. We finally loaded all of our gear onto the stage a little after 12:30am and got ready to play. We had to fill a 45 minute set....and that is something PTD never ever does haha. We played 9 songs, it was the most we have ever played in a set. Not many people were left that late at night, but we had a fun first show! After the show, some of the girls took us out and got us all (both bands) free mcdonalds! We got free food 3 times yesterday! So sweet! We head to Orlando today for show 2.
latas
Matt