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Home Sweet Home! Tonight I’m hanging out at my parents house in Orange County.  Since we have been gone for so long I thought I’d come home and visit the fam.  I am extra excited and motivated today because I just read on Mark Hoppus’ blog that Blink has been in the studio this month and is working hard on their new album.  Yes!!! Speaking of new album, we get to hear a potential single named “FALLEN (In Love)” mixed by the almighty Serban probably tomorrow!   Now that the whole crew is back home we are all having a moment of post tour syndrome and miss being on the road.  We do leave tomorrow for our show in Scottsdale, Arizona, but for the most part we are back home. A lot of people have this idea of what a tour with a rock band would be.  Although this tour was amazing and allowed us to make new fans, see a ton of new cities I never thought I would ever see, and much more, I have to be 100% honest and say that this wasn’t THE tour that everyone imagines.  There was an insane load of work, not only for the band but for LOPNation.  Making sure the shows were filled in cities where we had no radio play was definitely a challenge and much easier said than done.  To show up to a dead city like Des Moines, IA on a weekday with no school in session was near impossible to find a single person on the streets or out and about.  It was seriously a Ghost Town.  Then you had cities like Chicago and New York that were packed.  Columbus was one of my favorite shows because we had met new fans from our Warped Tour promotion and the energy from the kids was insane, but we ended on a very very high note and that being the Wichita, Kansas show.  This was our first big radio show and it left us feeling nothing but motivation.  We killed this show, and there was 1000 plus kids that are now LOP fans for life.  All in all we gained what we needed from this tour and that was experience.  It was all for allowing the band to become tight as a whole and most importantly, me being the best front man and entertainer I could be.  I’ve gone to 1000’s of shows and have left very disappointed when there was no energy or stage chemistry with the bands. I want to make sure its not only a rock show, but the bands personality is able to shine as well.  Which leads me to my last thought…. The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, CA.  This is our last show of the 2010 TURN OFF THE LIGHTS tour.  Not only is LOP going to rock the show, but we are having an afterparty that will leave people talking for years, maybe the rest of their life immediately following the performance.  So far I have had word that 300-400 people alone are arriving to the show and party via Party Busses!  Add the additional few hundred friends the other bands few hundred they are inviting, and then the 100s of kids that will just come to the show.  The Roxy only holds 550 people max, and the afterparty only holds 400.  There are going to be some pissed off people.  We are switching up the set at the Roxy to make it special for the Halloween theme we got going on.  Now its time to get some sleep.  Its a 6 hour drive to Arizona and LOP has a flag football game against the other band that we are playing with on the tour.  Going to destroy them… AGAIN. www.lightsoverparis.com/schedule itunes ping: lightsoverparis

Home Sweet Home!

Tonight I’m hanging out at my parents house in Orange County.  Since we have been gone for so long I thought I’d come home and visit the fam.  I am extra excited and motivated today because I just read on Mark Hoppus’ blog that Blink has been in the studio this month and is working hard on their new album.  Yes!!!

Speaking of new album, we get to hear a potential single named “FALLEN (In Love)” mixed by the almighty Serban probably tomorrow!  

Now that the whole crew is back home we are all having a moment of post tour syndrome and miss being on the road.  We do leave tomorrow for our show in Scottsdale, Arizona, but for the most part we are back home.

A lot of people have this idea of what a tour with a rock band would be.  Although this tour was amazing and allowed us to make new fans, see a ton of new cities I never thought I would ever see, and much more, I have to be 100% honest and say that this wasn’t THE tour that everyone imagines.  There was an insane load of work, not only for the band but for LOPNation.  Making sure the shows were filled in cities where we had no radio play was definitely a challenge and much easier said than done.  To show up to a dead city like Des Moines, IA on a weekday with no school in session was near impossible to find a single person on the streets or out and about.  It was seriously a Ghost Town.  Then you had cities like Chicago and New York that were packed.  Columbus was one of my favorite shows because we had met new fans from our Warped Tour promotion and the energy from the kids was insane, but we ended on a very very high note and that being the Wichita, Kansas show.  This was our first big radio show and it left us feeling nothing but motivation.  We killed this show, and there was 1000 plus kids that are now LOP fans for life.  All in all we gained what we needed from this tour and that was experience.  It was all for allowing the band to become tight as a whole and most importantly, me being the best front man and entertainer I could be.  I’ve gone to 1000’s of shows and have left very disappointed when there was no energy or stage chemistry with the bands. I want to make sure its not only a rock show, but the bands personality is able to shine as well.  Which leads me to my last thought….

The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, CA.  This is our last show of the 2010 TURN OFF THE LIGHTS tour.  Not only is LOP going to rock the show, but we are having an afterparty that will leave people talking for years, maybe the rest of their life immediately following the performance.  So far I have had word that 300-400 people alone are arriving to the show and party via Party Busses!  Add the additional few hundred friends the other bands few hundred they are inviting, and then the 100s of kids that will just come to the show.  The Roxy only holds 550 people max, and the afterparty only holds 400.  There are going to be some pissed off people.  We are switching up the set at the Roxy to make it special for the Halloween theme we got going on. 

Now its time to get some sleep.  Its a 6 hour drive to Arizona and LOP has a flag football game against the other band that we are playing with on the tour.  Going to destroy them… AGAIN.

www.lightsoverparis.com/schedule

itunes ping: lightsoverparis


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