After supporting Thrice and Pelican for their spring 2008 tour
In a 2008 interview, Wilson discussed Blackfield’s future at the time, stating, “I think we’re going to tentatively start working on some new songs and that’s as far as we’ve got regarding planning. I think there almost certainly will be another record. As with No-Man and my other projects, there’s…
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In the spring of 2008, Scholz and Sweet introduced a new Boston lineup, which subsequently did a North American summer tour, playing 53 dates in 12 weeks (on a double bill with Styx ). Scholz was the only founding member of Boston to play on the tour, although longtime member…
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On February 21, 2008, Pineda performed for the first time with Journey in front of 20,000 fans in Chile. The band began the Revelation tour in the United Kingdom in June, continuing the tour into North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. The 2008 leg concluded in October. Receipts from…
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The band headlined the 2008 Kerrang! Tour in the U.K., where the band performed and recorded a cover of “The Trooper” by Iron Maiden , which is featured on Kerrang!’s Iron Maiden tribute album, Maiden Heaven , that came with the July 16 issue. They were nominated for Best International…
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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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Corgan and Chamberlin continued to record as a duo, releasing the four-song EP American Gothic in January 2008 and the singles ” Superchrist ” and ” G.L.O.W. ” later that year. That November, the group released the DVD If All Goes Wrong , which chronicled the group’s 2007 concert residences…
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The band prepared a four-month world tour beginning in January 2008. They later headlined at The Bamboozle 2008 music festival.
In 2008, the band had the opportunity to re-release their 2002 EPs Just Visiting Part One and Just Visiting Part Two as a full album; Just Visiting , with the intended track listing and the never previously heard original (long) version of Bondi . Lucius Borich spent time at Studios…
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The band went on a tour, entitled Tour 2008 L’7: Trans Asia via Paris, which covered several major Asian cities, as well as Paris , France . On this tour, a live show hiatus until 2011 was announced, although new material would still continue to be released.