The Get Happy Tour 2018 Presents: Bowling For Soup! Texan Pop Punk Favourites To Play Breakthrough Album Drunk Enough To Dance In Full Across The UK BFS Will Be Joined by The Aquabats! and Army Of Freshmen For The First UK Get Happy Tour Since 2007
Looking back to the late 00’s, fans of pop punk, punk rock and ska will fondly remember The Get Happy Tour; Bowling For Soup’s touring package that brought together bands like The Bloodhound Gang, Zebrahead and Army Of Freshmen, and of course Bowling For Soup themselves. Now, a decade on from the original Get Happy Tour, Bowling For Soup are delighted to announce The Get Happy Tour 2018! In bringing The Get Happy Tour back to the UK, Bowling For Soup have decided to give their fans what they’ve been asking for for many years. For the very first time, Bowling For Soup will perform their smash hit breakthrough album Drunk Enough To Dance in its entirety. Fans have been clamouring for a Drunk Enough To Dance “anniversary” tour ever since the album turned ten back in 2012, and now the time has come. With the hit singles Punk Rock 101, Emily and Girl All The Bad Guys Want, as well as longtime fan favourites like Cold Shower Tuesdays and Runnin’ From Your Dad, Drunk Enough To Dance is the album that brought Bowling For Soup to the fore in the early 00’s pop punk scene, a scene where they’ve remained favourites ever since. Joining Bowling For Soup as special guests on the new Get Happy Tour will be US rock superheroes The Aquabats! Being renown for a brilliant, comedic live show, The Aquabats! style makes them ideal touring partners for Bowling For Soup. The Aquatbats! invite you all to join their band of costume clad crime fighters in the pursuit of all things radness as they head to the UK for the first time in five years as part of Get Happy 2018. Opening up the 2018 Get Happy Tour will be original Get Happy Tour alumni Army Of Freshmen. Celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band, Army of Freshmen want to celebrate this notable achievement in style, and are also planning to play one of their most popular albums in full by performing Under The Radar from start to finish.
The Get Happy Tour 2018 will play nine shows across the UK in February 2018, culminating in two enormous shows at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena and London’s Brixton Academy.
How do you get tickets for Get Happy 2018? Let us tell you! The first chance to get tickets will be The Bowling For Soup Fanclub VIP pre-sale, which will take place starting 10am on Monday 25th September. For more information, please visit www.bowlingforsoup.com. The general on sale will begin two days later at 10am on Wednesday 27th September at AXS and Ticketmaster. Get Happy 2018 is set to be an exciting time for everyone, and possibly the most excited person of all is Bowling For Soup’s own Jaret Reddick! Here are his thoughts on reviving The Get Happy Tour: “I’m super excited to be announcing this tour! GET HAPPY is 11 years old! That’s just crazy! And I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than bringing it back, with Army of Freshmen from the original lineup and adding The Aquabats! on to make it even happier! Now I need to get back to relearning all of the Drunk Enough To Dance songs!!!”
Cheeky punk-pop outfit Bowling for Soup were formed in 1994 in Wichita Falls, Texas, featuring lead vocalist/guitarist Jaret Reddick, guitarist/vocalist Chris Burney, bassist Erik Chandler, and drummer Gary Wiseman. However, they didn’t rise beyond local prominence until 1997, when a heavy touring schedule helped broaden their fan base and landed them opening spots for nationally prominent punk and ska bands. The following year, Bowling for Soup recorded a debut EP for the local FFROE label, titled Tell Me When to Whoa!; by this point, their base of operations had been moved to Denton, Texas, the site of the label’s headquarters as well. Later in 1998, Bowling for Soup issued their first full-length album, Rock on Honorable Ones!!! Both it and its predecessor proved to be popular around the state (Honorable Ones sold over 10,000 copies alone) and the band ended up scoring a deal with Jive/Silvertone.
Let’s Do It for Johnny! For their 2000 major-label debut, Let’s Do It for Johnny!, Bowling for Soup re-recorded some of the best songs from their indie records and added a few new tracks, including lead single “The Bitch Song” and a cover of Bryan Adams’ “Summer of ’69.” Two years later, the band released Drunk Enough to Dance, and nabbed a Grammy nomination for the single “Girl All the Bad Guys Want.” Hangover You Don’t Deserve followed in 2004, and BFS landed another hit single with “1985,” which helped propel Hangover to number 37 on the Billboard 200. Bowling for Soup returned in 2005 with Goes to the Movies, on which they tackled various television and movie theme songs. The Great Burrito Extortion Case followed in the fall of 2006, spearheaded by the bouncy single “High School Never Ends,” while Sorry for Partyin’ — the band’s seventh studio effort — arrived in late 2009. After rounding out the year with a holiday album, Merry Flippin’ Christmas, Vol. 1, Bowling for Soup launched an acoustic tour in 2010 and began recording the band’s 11th studio album later that summer. The resulting Fishin’ for Woos was finished in three weeks and released in 2011; they also released a second holiday album, Merry Flippin’ Christmas, Vol. 2, that year. In 2013 the band announced that, due to the toll the rigors of touring took on their personal lives, Bowling for Soup would no longer be touring in the U.K. after that year, which would find them returning to Europe one last time after the release of their twelfth album, Lunch. Drunk. Love.
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Bowling For Soup are an american pop punk band from Texas, whose beginnings start way back in the mid nineties. Bowling For Soup are most famous for there big hitting singles ‘Girls all the bad guys want’, ‘high school never ends’ & ‘1985’.
They released 5 studio albums before breaking into the mainstream with 2002’s ‘Drunk Enough To Dance’ – which went silver in the UK and 2004’s ‘A Hangover You Don’t Deserve’ went Gold in America. In total Bowling For Soup have released 11 studio albums, 18 singles, 3 Ep’s and 4 compilations.
Their most recent studio album was 2011’s ‘Fishin For Woos’, 2011 also saw them release a split EP with The Dollyrots, their second christmas compilation (Merry Flippin Christmas Vol 2) and a greatest hits (The Very Best Of Bowling For Soup).
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