SOUNDWAVE 2009
Current mood: sick

We are playing it!

Side show information coming soon. We are really excited to go back to Australia!

Go to http://www.soundwavefestival.com for the dates and presale tickets

Oh and here is this:

The official bill for the 2009 Soundwave festival in Australia has been recently released. The festival will visit five of Down Under's major cities (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth) starting in Brisbane on the 21st of February and finishing up Perth on the 2nd of March, 2009. Limited pre-sale tickets will be made available for $110 (Australian) via registering at the Soundwave Festival website.

The bands definitely ready to rock out so far are Nine Inch Nails, Alice In Chains, Bloodhound Gang, Scars On Broadway, Lamb of God, Alkaline Trio, Billy Talent, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Face To Face, In Flames, Rival Schools, Anberlin, Every Time I Die, Devildriver, Funeral For A Friend, Less Than Jake, Poison The Well, Madina Lake, New Found Glory, From First To Last, Bedouin Soundclash, Hellogoodbye, Finch, Goldfinger, The Subways, Say Anything, Chiodos, Silverstein, Saves The Day, Lacuna Coil, 36 Crazyfists, Straylight Run, Evergreen Terrace, Minus The Bear, Moneen, Ace Enders, (The Early November), I Am The Avalanche, Jaguar Love, Unearth, Bayside, Emery, Houston Calls, The Audition, Attack In Black, Innerpartysystem, Valencia, In This Moment, Alesana, The Riverboat Gamblers, HORSE The Band, Maylene and The Sons Of Disaster.

The dates for the Fest are as follows:
Saturday 21 February – Brisbane - RNA Showgrounds, Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, Brisbane
Sunday 22 February – Sydney - TBA
Friday 27 February – Melbourne - Melbourne Showgrounds, Ascot Vale, Melbourne
Saturday 28 February – Adelaide , Bonython Park, Port Rd, Adelaide
Monday 2 March - Perth - Steel Blue Oval, Bassenden, Perth

Tickets go on sale from the following dates:
Brisbane: Thurs 9 Oct @ 9am
Sydney: Fri 10 Oct @ 9am
Melbourne: Sat 11 Oct @ 9am
Adelaide: Sun 12 Oct @ 9am
Perth: Sunday 12 Oct @9am

General Admission tickets will be $130 (Australian), and will be available through the Soundwave Festival website and the Ticketek website.

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Brazil, South America, South Africa: READ
Current mood: okay

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As datas de concertos para America do Sul em Outobro e Novembro que voces viram em outros sites NÃO são officiais.

As unicas datas certas são as que estão aqui no nosso Myspace. Eu não sei quem inventou essas outras datas mas elas não são de verdade.

Desculpa se voces estavam planejando em ver a gente :(
Diga para quem voce conhece que acha que nos vamos estar ai nessas datas que elas sao falsas.

Nos queremos muito ir ai, e vamos! Mas nos temos que marcar as datas nos mesmos e fazer certeza que tudo esteja em ordem.
Então não se preucupem! Nos iremos.. so não agora. E quando estivemos indo com certeza as datas vão aparecer aqui no nosso Myspace.

Hi.

The South American and South African dates on www.last.fm and other websites for October and November are NOT real.

The only real shows are the ones posted on our myspace.

I don't know who posted those other shows but we never talked to anyone about them or said we were playing.

Sorry if you were planning to go :( Please tell anyone you know who thinks those shows are happening that they are fake.

And, we really really really want to come to South America and South Africa, and we will! But we need to book the dates ourselves and make sure we do a good job. So don't worry, we are gonna come, just not yet. And when we have real shows scheduled they will be posted on our myspace.

Everyone fucking freaking out right now read this blog again. This isn't about European or USA shows.

Also, translations of this message in your native tongues are coming soon.

H THE B

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New Drummer
Current mood: happy
Category: Friends

Hi everybody!

We found a new drummer.

It's Daniel from Bleeding Kansas!

We've known Daniel for like 5 years. He was there when Nathan did his first show on vocals. He has watched the ages of Karuza, Alex Duddy, Eel Eye, Christopher Prophet, and our beloved Jon Karel from the 12 Looks Like You come and go. He is also the hardest-hitting, most brutal, passionate, smartest, coolest drummer any of us have ever seen in 10 years of touring this planet "Earth". Any of you who have seen Bleeding Kansas understand, we now have the most brutal drummer ever. He would have been our drummer like 5 years ago but he was finishing up college.



Also Daniel's playing style is more suited to what we have always wanted to be. As "not a fan of Meshuggah" or gay technical I play scales fast and use triggers and stand-still metal, we can truly pursue our dream to become the most relentless, dynamic, energetic, spastic, punishing, cathartic, glorious, meaningful-core music band in the world.



QUESTIONNAIRE:
Who was your favorite drummer?
Who had the best personality for HORSE the band?
Which drummer was the worst?
Which drummer was the ugliest?
Which drummer had the best fashion sense?
Which drummer had the best tribal tattoos?
Which drummer talked too loud?
Who was the best at blast beats?
Who was the best at double bass?
Who was the best at making up meaningful beats?
Who made the catchiest beats?
Who was the best at playing upside-down snare-kick patterns with only a single kick?
Who was the most innovative?
Which drummer was the most annoying when you "really got to know him"?
Which drummer was the dumbest?
Which drummer had the most natural skill?
Which ex-HORSE drummer has the brightest future in terms of making money and having a stable family life?

None of these questions matter. Daniel is the answer. You will just see. All your drum idols will be forgotten when you see how the drums are played by a true hero.

:D We are really happy!

Currently listening : Women as Lovers By Xiu Xiu Release date: 2008-01-29

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EARTH TOUR Recap Audio Interview
Current mood: sweaty
Category: Life

Ryan from Ryan's Rock Show just posted a 20 minute interview with Erik where you can listen to both of them talking about "what went down" on Earth Tour instead of having to do stupid reading. It is the most important interview in 5 years.

If you want to book your own EARTH TOUR, this is the first thing you should do, even b4 going to the library

www.ryansrockshow.com

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HTB RS TOC E UK
Current mood: froggy
Category: Travel and Places

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Globe-o-rhea Earth Tour Video Blogs

"Round the world!  There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct?  Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us.

"Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, the there was promise in the voyage.  But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over his round globe, they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed."

    -Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Australia

New Zealand

Japan

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UK/Europe/rest of world Merch Store

Hey all you sniveling whining stinking Eurotrash

As I sit here eating my Amy's Microwaveable INDIAN MATTAR TOFU I am reminded of the sensation of shit gliding across my tongue and down my throat and I realize that I am SICKENED by your incessant COMPLAINING! Complaining of "this" and "that" and "can't buy our merch" without "spending a lot of money". Vomit spills from my mouth onto my chin.

So, I went and did the dirty work, and signed a contract with the European merchandising conglomerate MAMstore, who, besides selling mammary glands, also is now legally approved to print and sell officially-licensed and approved H THE B gear in the European territory.

It's time to put your money where your disgusting mouth is.

To add insult to injury, MAMstore was concerned that HORSE the band wouldn't sell enough merchandise for them to make a profit, and took over 3 years to put together this "virtual storefront". Accordingly, their initial offering of merchandise is "lean" to say the least.

Well, you can fucking SHOW THEM WHOSE MERCH YOU WANT TO BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Set Your Goals? Paramore? Steve Stevensensensen?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

The more merch you buy, the more merch they will make. And the more they will make the more we will FUCK THEM and whisper I TOLD YOU PUSSY in their ear, repeatedly. We will make them pay for their mediocre life policy and underestimation of the economic power we command at the push of a button!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111
1111

FUCK YOU

http://www.mamstore.co.uk/x48473.html

USE IT OR LOSE IT BITCH

PS-
The yellow girl shirt here is exclusive. If I was a girl I would want to be yellow, and I would want to wear this shirt every day and feel my boobs all the time.

I'll go soon, but I leave you with this: If you don't buy clothes in our store, have fun being a loser in Europe and never getting laid.

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EARTH TOUR
Current mood: adventurous

Three years ago we booked a three-month, eight country tour with no booking agency, manager, or CD in stores. It was the funnest tour we have ever done. 3 years and 11 professional package tours later, we've become disillusioned, bad-attitude nerds and pariahs of the established music industry. FUCK IT.

We are currently planning a 40-country tour of Earth. We are booking the tour by ourselves, and going by ourselves because everyone is scared of us and no one will let us play their tours because we are too wild and crazy. In addition, no booking agencies will book shows for us on foreign soil because we have no "tour history on the books" or "soundscans" or "albums in stores". It is time to once again take matters into our own hands, go off the beaten track, and show the music industry that they don't matter anymore because of the INTERNET. We hope to be an inspiration to all young bands with honest dreams and the willingness to say "FUCK IT" to the shitty, boring, timid, sterile conventions that have slimed their way into our scene with the recent commercialization and homogenization of underground music. We will be producing a TV show/movie about recklessly circling the globe playing volatile shows, eating weird new foods, meeting new races and species, seeing the marvels of nature and man, narrowly escaping tragedy (or not escaping it), all while teetering on the brink of alcoholism and mental illness and sharing the language of music that unites us all!"

We need all the help we can get, but we know we can do it using the power of the INTERNET, MUSIC, and SELF-RELIANCE!

We are starting in early March. The following is a rough list of where we want to play. If your country isn't on the list, but you want us to play there, we want to know. Cause we will come one day! FUCK IT.

Los Angeles, USA
Honolulu, USA
Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Chiba, JAPAN
Tokyo, JAPAN
Osaka, JAPAN
Tokyo, JAPAN
Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Hong Kong, CHINA
Manila, PHILIPPINES
Bangkok, THAILAND
INDIA
INDONESIA
Singapore City, SINGAPORE
Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Istanbul, TURKEY
Ankara, Turkey
Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
Jerusalem, ISRAEL
ITALY
FRANCE
SPAIN
PORTUGAL
GERMANY
BELGIUM
NETHERLANDS
DENMARK
SWEDEN
NORWAY
FINLAND
ESTONIA
RUSSIA
UKRAINE
POLAND
CZECH REPUBLIC
BELGIUM
AUSTRIA
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
CROATIA
SWITZERLAND
ENGLAND
SCOTLAND
NORTH IRELAND
IRELAND
New York City, USA
Las Vegas, USA

If you want to book a show or throw us a reliable contact of someone who can, email us at horsethebooking@gmail.com. If you want to help promote a show in your country (flier, write, burn CDs and give them to people), email horsethebooking@gmail.com. If you're interested in press or promotional materials, email us at h2theb@gmail.com. We will send to any country. If you are interested in producing, filming, or helping out in any way with the TV show (you know it is going to be the next Hills!), email h2theb@gmail.com. If you are interested in sponsoring the tour, email h2theb@gmail.com. We are looking for any and all sponsors, especially airlines. If you are a writer for a magazine and want to write a feature or the Great American Novel, email h2theb@gmail.com.

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Review of Chiodos Review
Current mood: artistic

I give this review a 4.5 out of 5
http://www.punknews.org/review/6750

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To our Kangaroo Friends

For the first time ever one of our records is gonna be available in Australia!!!!
It's our new one, A Natural Death, mate!

It's coming out on Shock Records freaking tomorrow, mate!

I don't know how many stores it's going to be in since we're new over there mate, but if you guys can go into your local music store and pester them to order the CD that would be super!

If we sell a few copies we can probably come tour Australia in a few months, mate :D

Here's the link to buy it online:
Shock Records

Tell all your friends!

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