The band reunited with Jeff Pinkus and Teresa Nervosa for a tour of the East Coast and Europe in Summer 2008 with the Paul Green School of Rock All Stars. It was the first time the reunited line up played together since 1989. The group performed at the All Tomorrow’s…
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Hewlett described Carousel in a 2008 interview as
During the summer, Kent toured Scandinavia, first with a short spring tour at the end of May (24 May–2 June) and then at festivals and own concerts in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark during June, July and August. During this summer tour they started their concerts with an old unreleased…
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Still in 2008, legendary English rock band Oasis extended an offer for the Pillows to play as the opening act at their concert in Japan, but frontman Sawao Yamanaka refused their offer. In a January interview for Japanzine , Yamanaka joked that he “turned down the offer in order to…
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In mid-2008, the band played all the U.S. dates of the “Easycore Tour” along with New Found Glory , Four Year Strong , Crime in Stereo and International Superheroes of Hardcore .
Despite Chad having proclaimed the new material to be their best work yet, incorporating elements of all the band’s previous albums and praising Draper’s writing as being better than ever, Draper later claimed that when working on the new album, none of the band’s hearts were in it and in…
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3 Doors Down released their self-titled fourth album on May 20, 2008. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 , selling 154,000 copies in its first week. It became the band’s second consecutive number 1 album on the chart after Seventeen Days , as well their fourth album…
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Throughout 2008 and into 2009, Mumford & Sons performed in small to moderate venues in the UK and US, exposing audiences to Love Your Ground tracks and other material that would eventually become Sigh No More . The band finally recorded Sigh No More with Markus Dravs , who had…
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In 2008, Short Stack was awarded Channel V Oz Artist of the Year Award, beating other popular acts such as The Getaway Plan , The Living End , The Veronicas and Kisschasy .
as well as appearing at the 2008 Warped Tour .