Category: News

Hello and hope you all are holding up okay out there! We’re staying home, schooling our kids, cooking a ton and also starting to work on new music. The concert industry is definitely on hold and we’ve also been checking out the National Independent Venue Association who are working hard to get a message to our government to help save all of your favorite small stages, you can take a look HERE. An easy way to write to your representatives about their importance!

Here is another exciting thing! For the first time, Adam is making personalized video messages! All proceeds will go to benefit our touring crew, the hardest working and most loyal people we know! Have a friend or loved one celebrating a birthday, graduation, anniversary, etc. and can’t think of the perfect gift? Have a personalized message created by Adam! You can purchase HERE.

Our friends at Craft Recordings have Remastered Tell All Your Friends! Excited to be involved in the first vinyl pressing of the original 10 song remaster! They even found a vinyl color that didn’t exist before – iridescent color-morphing green and black. It will change appearance when held up to the light! Pre-orders are available now in regular black through them and various retailers and in this limited color morphing version from us in our official online store and on tour while supplies last. Album release date is October 4! Check out our merch bundle pre-order with the album cover now over at takingbacksunday.com/usstore

Excited to announce a fundraiser for the Tommy Brull Foundation taking place this Monday, March 11 on Long Island. Here are the details and thanks to Martin Brull for inviting us to participate:
THE TOMMY BRULL FOUNDATION PRESENTS “SHINE A LIGHT MUSIC SERIES”
with TAKING BACK SUNDAY
and SOMERSET THROWER
Location: RJ DANIELS
279A Sunrise Highway
Rockville Centre NY 11570
Monday March 11th
7pm 21+

On Sale: Saturday, March 9 at 12PM
In person only at rear entrance of venue
First come first served (very limited tickets) and name must match day of show
2 ticket maximum $80 per ticket (cash preferred)
Sponsored by Barrier Brewery
A specialty Shine A Light beer, shirts and a poster with this great art by Luke LaMarca will be for sale as well.

All proceeds raised from this Shine A Light Music Series show will benefit the Tommy Brull Foundation Inc. The Tommy Brull Foundation is a 501c3 not-for-profit dedicated to improving the quality of life for children and adults with physical, intellectual, and emotional challenges on Long Island New York. The proceeds from this show will help fund the construction of Mr. B’s Adaptive/Inclusive Playground in Rockville Centre, NY. This playground will promote inclusion and allow children of all abilities to play together. Thus far, the Shine A Light Music Series and The Tommy Brull Foundation have donated $82,500 towards this project. Our goal is to bring this total over $100,000 with this show.
Read more about the Tommy Brull Foundation CLICK HERE

We’re excited to offer up Vip Tickets and our friends at Fender jumped in in a big way to also offer up a grand prize of an amazing Fender Prize Pack all to benefit the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. This benefits musicians in need for health care and other essential things. For every small $10 donation you’ll be entered into a raffle for some of these great prizes!
Get all of the details and enter HERE!

Very excited to add a show in Jakarta, Indonesia January 23 to our 20 Year Anniversary Celebration. We have been trying to visit for a long time! Ticket information coming ASAP – please follow My Will Entertainment on social media for updates! Here’s the link for information that will be active on Monday, December 17. www.rocknsound.com

We just released a new video for our new song ALL READY TO GO. Hope you enjoy and thanks to Craft Recordings and Manuel/Antonio at dreambear for getting this made!
CLICK TO WATCH

Excited to add some UK/Europe dates to our 20 Year Anniversary Celebration! Since these are one-night shows we’ll be playing Tell All Your Friends and then a nice selection of other songs. Excited to celebrate with you guys, tickets go on sale Friday, December 7 at 10am GMT.

We are now taking pre-orders for TWENTY in a variety of formats! The career retrospective album featuring two newly recorded tracks will be out on January 11.
From our official US Store you can order a variety of Vinyl + Merch Bundles in the Exclusive Panther’s Eye Variant which will only be available there and at our shows. We’ll also have the Artist Picks 10″ companion piece available on clear orange vinyl. Track listing for both is below.
CLICK HERE TO ORDER

There will also be a variety of other ways to pre-order and pre-save the album, which you can check here:
Multi Format Pre-Order
Craft Recordings + Indie Retail will have the Limited Edition Koi Pond Variant

Track Listing for Twenty:
1. Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team)
2. You’re So Last Summer
3. Timberwolves at New Jersey
4. A Decade Under The Influence
5. Set Phasers To Stun
6. One-Eighty By Summer
7. Liar (It Takes One To Know One)
8. MakeDamnSure
9. What’s It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?
10. My Blue Heaven
11. Sink Into Me
12. Everything Must Go
13. Faith (When I Let You Down)
14. Call Me In The Morning
15. Flicker, Fade
16. Better Homes And Gardens
17. Tidal Wave
18. You Can’t Look Back
19. Call Come Running
20. All Ready To Go*
21. A Song For Dan*
* newly recorded songs
Track Listing for Twenty: Artist Picks:
1. Death Wolf (Mark’s Pick)
2. All The Way (Adam’s Pick)
3. Fences (John’s Pick)
4. It Takes More (Shaun’s Pick)

We will also be doing a 2019 World Tour to celebrate the 20 Year anniversary! Tickets and VIP Packages available now for Leg 1- many more dates to be announced!
CLICK HERE FOR DATES AND TICKETS

We are thrilled to announce a celebration of our 20 Year Anniversary with a
2019 World Tour and Career Retrospective Album “Twenty” out NOW on Craft Recordings.
(That fantastic cover is by Chris/Half Hazard Press & our longtime designer Brad Filip did the 20 Logo and our good friend Greg Hunter did the video!)
TOUR INFO:
– In Australia we will be doing specific album plays listed below.
– If we are coming to your city for one night we will be playing a long set including Tell All Your Friends in full along with all of our favorites.
– In North America if we are playing two nights in your city, Night 1 we will be playing Tell All Your Friends and then we will flip a specially designed coin on night one for either Where You Want To Be or Louder Now in full as well! Night 2 we will also play Tell All Your Friends + the coin flip loser. Both nights we will try and throw in a few other favorites.
– In Europe we will play Tell All Your Friends + a great selection of songs from our catalog.
Here’s Adam to give you that run down once more:

Here are the specially designed coins that our friend Rusty from P-Nut Jewelry made for us:

NORTH AMERICA VIP:
There are two merch options with the VIP and you will also have an option to purchase with tickets or upgrade if you ALREADY have tickets – you must have them to attend! That adds up to 4 options so please choose carefully! If your show is sold out but you have tickets already you can upgrade to VIP until about a week before the show!
For VIP TICKETS:LEG 1 is now complete!
For VIP TICKETS:CLICK HERE FOR LEG 2
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Check below, on our tour dates page here and stay tuned to our socials
for all of the relevant on-sale info!
Thank you for letting us continue to do this!

2019

AUSTRALIA On-Sale Now!
Support for all shows except Melbourne is Young Lions
Support for Melbourne is Outright
Jan-9 Adelaide The Gov Tell All Your Friends / Louder Now
Jan-11 Melbourne 170 Russell 18+ Where You Want To Be / Louder Now
Jan-12 Tarwin Lower UNIFY GATHERING (On-Sale Now) Tell All Your Friends
Jan-14 Sydney Metro Theatre Tell All Your Friends / Louder Now
Jan-15 Sydney Metro Theatre Tell All Your Friends / Where You Want To Be
Jan-16 Brisbane The Triffid Tell All Your Friends / Louder Now
Jan-17 Brisbane The Triffid Tell All Your Friends / Where You Want To Be

ASIA On-Sale Now!
Jan-19 Singapore, Singapore The Pavilion at Far East Square
Jan-21 Tokyo, Japan Space Odd
Jan-23 Jakarta, Indonesia Tennis Indoor Sanayan
Jan-26 Manila, Philippines New Frontier Theater

NORTH AMERICA LEG 1 On-Sale Now!
Support for Alaska is Thera
Jan-29 Anchorage, AK Beartooth Theatre 21+
Feb-1 Honolulu, HI The Republik
Feb-2 Honolulu, HI The Republik

SOUTH AMERICA On-Sale Now!
Mar-13 San Jose, Costa Rica Amon Solar
Mar-15 Santiago, Chile Club Subterraneo 18+
Mar-16 Buenos Aires, Argentina Roxy Live
Mar-17 São Paulo, Brasil Fabrique Club

NORTH AMERICA – LEG 1 On-Sale Now!
On-Sale Now!
Support: 3/25 – 4/14 frank iero and the future violents.
4/16 – 5/5 The Maine
Mar-25 & 26 Houston, TX House Of Blues
Mar-28 & 29 Austin, TX Emo’s
Mar-30 & 31 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
Apr-1 Lubbock, TX Charley B’s
Apr-3 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater
Apr-4 & 5 Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theatre
Apr-6 & 7 San Diego, CA The Observatory North Park
April 9 Bakersfield, CA 1933 Event Center
Apr-11 & 12 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium
Apr-13 & 14 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Apr-16 & 17 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades
Apr-19 & 20 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
Apr-21 & 22 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom 19+
Apr-24 Calgary, AB MacEwan Hall
Apr-26 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theatre
Apr-27 & 28 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue 18+
Apr-30 & May-1 Denver, CO The Summit
May-2 & 3 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
May-4 & 5 Las Vegas, NV House Of Blues

UK/EUROPE On-Sale Now!
Main Support, opener in Berlin 13/6 – 26/6: The Frights
Opener 13/6 – 20/6: Geoffrey Rickly (of Thursday)
Opener, main support in Berlin 24/6 – 26/6: Bloodhype
13 June O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK
14 June SWG3, Glasgow, UK
15 June Limelight, Belfast, UK
16 June Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
18 June Troxy, London, UK
19 June Academy, Manchester, UK
20 June O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
22 June Grasspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium
23 June Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
24 June Gloria, Cologne, Germany
25 June SO36, Berlin, Germany
26 June Gruenspan, Hamburg, Germany

NORTH AMERICA – LEG 2 On-Sale Now!
Support Oct 3 – Nov 14 is Red City Radio
Support Nov 15 & 16 is Errortype:Eleven
September 12 Texas Live!, Arlington, TX
September 13 Kansas City Live!, Kansas City, MO
September 19 Waterside District, Norfolk, VA
September 20 Power Plant Live!, Baltimore, MD
September 21 Ballpark Village, St Louis, MO
October 3 & 4 Fillmore, Charlotte, NC
October 5 & 6 The Masquerade, Atlanta, GA
October 8 & 9 House Of Blues, Orlando, FL
October 11 & 12 Revolution Live, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
October 13 Jannus Live, St Petersburg, FL
October 16 & 17 Marathon Music Works, Nashville, TN
October 18 & 19 Bogart’s, Cincinnati, OH
October 21 & 22, House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
October 24 & 25 St. Andrew’s Hall, Detroit, MI
October 26 & 27 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
October 29, Corona Theatre, Montreal QC
Oct. 31 & Nov. 1 Buffalo Riverworks, Buffalo, NY
November 2 & 3 Upstate Concert Hall, Clifton Park, NY
November 5 & 6 Webster Theater, Hartford, CT
November 8 & 9 House Of Blues, Boston, MA
November 10 & 11 Fillmore Silver Spring, Washington, D.C.
November 13 & 14 Franklin Music Hall, Philadelphia, PA
November 15 & 16 Terminal 5, New York, NY