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On Your Mark, Get Set, Tour!
The band will kick off The Starting Line tour October 23 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, N.J., and hit clubs and theatres around the U.S. and Canada through the end of November.
Other stops on the itinerary include the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto (October 26), the Congress Theatre in Chicago (October 30), the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver (November 4), SOMA in San Diego (November 11), Stubb’s Bar-B-Q in Austin (November 18), Rams Head Live! in Baltimore (November 23), and Roseland in New York City (November 28).
Opening duties for the tour will be handled by The Almost and Set Your Goals.
Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.
Paramore came together in 2002 when singer Hayley Williams, then 13, moved to Nashville and was introduced to brothers Zac and Josh Farro, who were 11 and 14 at the time. The trio drafted Jeremy Davis to play bass, and began playing wherever they could.
The group’s high energy live shows and Williams’ dynamic stage presence quickly attracted the attention of a number of labels, and the band was signed to Fueled By Ramen in April of 2005 and its debut album, All We Know Is Falling, was released the following July.
Before heading into the studio last fall, band members talked about what they were planning for their latest album, Riot!.
“Our band is not one to repeat something that we’ve already done. With any artist there should be constant growth, and with this record we are going to stretch ourselves to the limit – and past it,” they told Pollstar.
“When you throw yourself out into the great big world, you can’t help but learn something. The new record will certainly be evidence of the changes that have been made in us and the people we’ve become.”
The band’s strategy for reaching new places appears to have worked. Riot! debuted at a respectable position on both the U.S. and U.K. album charts when it was released in June and has continued to hold its own since then.