The Wonder Years Hit Year No. 10

Do you remember what you were doing in 2005 – the year YouTube launched, No. Korea announced it possessed nuclear weapons and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” dominated the box office?  If you lived in Pennsylvania you might remember The Wonder Years taking its very first steps toward international prominence.

Now the band is commemorating 10 years of music.  Playing Philly’s Union Transfer Feb. 6-8, The Wonder Years will perform 2010’s The Upsides in its entirety the first night and 2011’s Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing on night No. 2.  2013’s The Greatest Generation concludes the run.

But it won’t just be a string of album performances.  You can also count on fan favorites and unexpected rarities to finish off one decade and commemorate the band’s entry into its second 10-year stretch.

And now this message from The Wonder Years:

Damn. Ten years…for a band that was never planning to play a show, there are a lot of things to write here.

Things that can be said, things that should be said – Is thank you enough? Words are never really going to put it into perspective because The Wonder Years as you know it was never a thing that was supposed to happen. We were going to hang out for a day, maybe write a song or two for fun and then move on with our post-high-school lives. We had other bands. We were going to college. We had plans, but plans change. I remember after our first weekend tour, Kennedy saying something like “What if this band gets signed and starts touring full time?” We all laughed at him.

A few weeks ago, we got to stand in front of a crowd of 9,000 in Philadelphia and play songs we had written in basements and garages and places that were literally shut down for health code violations. It almost felt like we were crashing a party; like we didn’t belong where we were. It’s a feeling we’ve had a lot. We’re playing with people who are, for all intents and purposes; rock stars. I don’t mean that with any of the negative connotation it carries; I just don’t know what else you’d call Blink-182 or Metallica. These guys are rock stars and we’re the same idiots we’ve always been. We still feel closer to VFW Halls than we do arenas. I think we always will.

Tickets for the anniversary gigs go on sale Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. EST.  For those of you traveling from somewhere else to Philadelphia, a block of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday Inn Express – Penn’s Landing.  Click here for more info.

And be sure to click here for The Wonder Years’ website to learn more about the band’s 10th anniversary celebration.