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Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre

14900 - 15000 Metropolitan Parkway, 48312, Sterling Heights, MI, US

www.freedomhill.net/

Capacity: 7,200

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Tour name: Bleed American 25th Anniversary Tour

Doors open: 19:00

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Jimmy Eat World biography

Jimmy Eat World is an American rock band founded in Mesa, Arizona in 1993. Though they started off as punk rock/punk pop the band has evolved toward alternative rock and indie rock.

Childhood friends Jim Adkins and Zach Lind partnered with guitarist Tom Linton and bassist Mitch Porter to form the band in 1993. Under local label Wooden Blue Records Jimmy Eat World released a few singles, an EP and a self-titled album during 1993-94. The band got lucky in 1995 with a contract under Capitol Records that allowed them to release the album “Static Prevails.” For this venture, friend Rick Burch replaced Mitch Porter and drummer Mark Trombino joined the group.

In 1999, Jimmy Eat World released “Clarity” which was recorded in studios in California. The single “Lucky Denver Mint” was featured on the soundtrack of rom-com “Never Been Kissed” which elevated the band to mainstream audiences. However, the album that prompted Jimmy Eat World to worldwide fame is “Bleed American” which was put out in 2001 by DreamWorks. The single “The Middle” exploded on the airwaves and took the #5 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.

Following tremendous success with “Bleed American” Jimmy Eat World recruited producer Gil Norton (whose previous experience includes working with bands like the Pixies and Foo Fighters) to work on “Futures.” Their fourth album came out October 2004 and the single “Pain” became a hit. By this time Jimmy Eat World had toured independently to promote “Bleed American” and also in collaboration with Taking Back Sunday. In 2005 they joined forces with Green Day on a worldwide tour.

In total Jimmy Eat World has released eight studio albums both independently and under major label Interscope Records (formerly DreamWorks). The band’s name comes from a cartoon drawn by Linton’s younger brother Ed, who was making fun of their brother Jim. The drawing depicts a slab of the Earth resting on Jim’s jaw, and the rest is history. Jimmy Eat World considers punk bands Mr. T Experience, Radon and Tempe’s Horace Pinker as influences in their music.

The Get Up Kids biography

The Get Up Kids (formed in 1995) is a pioneering American alternative and emo band, hailing from Kansas City, Missouri, in the U.S.

Prior to the earliest incarnation of The Get Up Kids, members Ryan Pope, Rob Pope and Jim Septic had been in a band entitled Kingpin, and Matt Pryor had been frontman in the band the Secret Decoder Ring. After the disbandment of both, The Get Up Kids were formed with Pryor on guitar and lead vocals, Septic on guitar, Rob Pope on bass, and Ryan Pope on drums. The band’s debut release was a 7-inch entitled “Shortly/The Breathing Method”, and before long The Get Up Kids became staples in the underground Midwestern music scene alongside Rocket Fuel Is The Key and Braid.

The Get Up Kids subsequently released the single “A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts”, and the EP “Woodson”. With the success of the releases, the label Doghouse signed the band for a two-album contract, the result of which was “Four Minute Mile” released in 1997. The release and subsequent tour sent ripples across the U.S. and The Get Up Kids signed a new record deal with Los Angeles-based Vagrant Records. In a collaboration with the band Coalesce’s drummer James Dewees, Matt Pryor and Rob Pope released the album “Greatest Hits 1984-1987” under the moniker Reggie and the Full Effect, before returning to the studio as The Get Up Kids.

“Red Letter Day”, a five-track EP arrived in 1998, followed by the band’s genre-defining sophomore album “Something to Write Home About”. Released on Vagrant records, the album propelled the emo genre into the mainstream, and influenced countless bands that would succeed them – with its carefully crafted melodic and introspective energy.

After releasing the album “Endora” featuring previously released material, and touring alongside the likes of Green Day, Hot Rod Circuit and Weezer, The Get Up Kids, released their third full length “On a Wire”. The album was far more minimalist than its predecessor and took the emo genre in a new and sombre direction. Followed by “Guilt Show” in 2004, and a live album “Live @ Granada Theatre” in 2005, the band decided to call it a day and played their last show at their hometown’s Uptown Theatre in July 2005. The Get Up Kids returned in 2009 to marked the 10 year anniversary of “Something to Write Home About”, and subsequently released the EP “Simple Science” and the full-length “There Are Rules”.

Live reviews

Emo stalwarts Jimmy Eat World have been truckin' since the early/mid-90s, careening through venues across the world and honing their live show into a precise, well-oiled machine. Make no mistake though, they're not corporatised puppets – Jimmy Eat World retain the raw streak that made them so appealing at the outset of their career. Don't worry, they'll still make you bawl like a toddler who's dropped their ice cream with their tender balladry and grazed-knee emotion. Big numbers such as “Pain”, “A Praise Chorus”, “Sweetness” and “The Middle” are still stellar anthems from the Arizona natives in live settings, and though they've been going over twenty years, the voltage runs hot through the veins of Jim Adkins, Rick Burch, Zach Lind and Tom Linton when they coo, strum, pick and thwack. The energy and emotion courses through them as if each track was being played for the first time. Damaged and Invented may not have charted as well as their early records, but there's not one inkling that Jimmy Eat World are waning in quality. Head back in time, relive those emo years, or discover them for the first time – either way, there's so much to love about these living legends.

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larryday

Despite the fact that they never did meet with huge commercial success, Sunny Day Real Estate can at least claim to be titans of their own genre; before the term emo was hijacked by the media in the mid-noughties and completely arbitrarily applied to the likes of My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy, it referred to a nineties scene in the U.S. that saw the likes of The Promise Ring, American Football and Texas Is the Reason making incendiary guitar music - think indie rock, but heavier, and with an unyielding emotional edge. In 2009, eight years on from their initial dissolution, the stars finally aligned in a manner that allowed a Sunny Day reunion; one of the many factors keeping them from touring throughout the noughties was bassist Nate Mendel’s obligations with his other band, Foo Fighters. They toured the world extensively to rave reviews, playing sets that spanned their career and tearing through the classics with an energy that, if anything, was even more visceral than it had been first time around. They intended to record a new album once they got off the road, but the sessions ended in failure, with just one new song, ‘Lipton Witch’, emerging; officially speaking, the band are now dissolved again, but don’t be surprised to see them play further live dates in the future.

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Joeg_67

The Get Up Kids were one of the first bands to ascend to the mainstream on the back of the burgeoning Emo scene and despite temporarily splitting up in 2005, since 2008 they’ve been back together and making new music unlike the majority of their contemporaries. While to the layman Emo music might seem best fitted to long dark nights of the soul in one’s bedroom, Matt Prior’s mob were always at their best when heard live. With his signature howl and their mix of lacerating guitar riffs with New-Wave indebted keyboard s, this is music that’s well and truly alive. It’s infused with enough soul and passion to power a train and it only gets more vital when it’s performed live. Not many artists play music that has truly inspired people and made them the best that they can be, and the band in turn is pushed to greater heights than they could ever get without them with every live show. Emo rock began here, and it evolved and mutated to the extent where every major rock movement of the past 15 years has an element of it within its very DNA. With that in mind, I urge you to see one of the most quietly influential bands of the 21st century the next chance you can get, you will not regret it.

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