Passion Pit will hit the road later this year to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the indie electro-rock outfit’s 2009 debut album, Manners. The 18-show tour will begin on April 30th with a performance at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, AZ, and continues throughout the month of May before wrapping on May 25th in Washington, DC. The band did not state who would be joining them throughout the tour as support to go with Monday’s announcement.
The run of spring performances will make a point to visit primarily major U.S. and Canadian cities. Some of the venues included on the band’s spring tour schedule include The Observatory North Park in San Diego, CA (5/1); The Masonic in San Francisco (5/5); Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, BC (5/8); the Ogden Theatre in Denver, CO (5/12); the Riviera Theater in Chicago, IL (5/15); Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, ON (5/17); Pier 17 at South Street Seaport in New York, NY (5/21); House of Blues in Boston, MA (5/23); and The Fillmore in Philadelphia, PA (5/24).
The band’s lead singer, Michael Angelakos, also shared a statement about what the album still means to him 10 years later:
“One of the greatest challenges for me, has been attempting to listen back to Manners and not relive the terror, confusion, and euphoria that it was so vividly informed by. For most of my life, I’ve ignored or dismissed it as a type of coping mechanism. It always seemed to play back like an audible dream journal I can’t even remember writing. And, the years we spent touring in support of it were never easy, especially in the beginning, as though playing the songs every single night were a form of exposure therapy in front of an audience. Ten years later, Manners seems to finally feel like the moment that it was: a tectonic shift during the strangest, most defining year of my life. To me, and to many of the people closest to the project, Manners has always been the most deeply misunderstood Passion Pit album. Eleven years after I began writing it, and ten more struggling to comprehend it, it suddenly does not seem so frivolous or self-absorbed to celebrate Manners—to celebrate surviving it, to get another chance to shine a certain light on it, but without the fear and the pain that went into making it. I can’t think of a better way of doing so than performing it live, doing both the album and one of the most significant moments of my life, a healthy justice.”
Tickets for the tour will go on sale to the public starting this Friday, February 8th, at 10 a.m. local time. Fans can head to the band’s website for ticket info. A full listing of tour dates, cities, and venues can also be referenced below.
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