Theory of a Deadman
11.21.2008
THEORY OF A DEADMAN HALF-TIME PERFORMANCE!
Theory of a Deadman will be performing the halftime show at The Grey Cup (Canadian Football League Super Bowl) in Montreal on November 23.
Canadian TV broadcast will be on TSN (English) and RDS (French).
The game will also be shown in the U.S. and internationally on:
*Dish Network
*Voom-World Sport Network (HD)
*America One Television Network
*ESPN360.com
*Versus
*Catch 47 Tampa Bay, Florida
*Fox Sports International (Middle East, Europe) *ESPN Star Sports (Asia) *CFL.ca *US and Canadian Armed Forces Networks
In other Theory news: Make sure you tune into FUSE's No. 1 Rock Countdown and No.1 Alternative Countdown to see Theory's "Bad Girlfriend" Video
For more on Theory of a Deadman, check out www.roadrunnerrecords.com and www.theoryofadeadman.com.
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11.21.2008
THEORY OF A DEADMAN: $5 ON AMAZON.COM!
Theory of a Deadman's new release Scars & Souvenirs is on Amazon.com right now for $5! Check out the deal HERE!
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11.17.2008
THEORY OF A DEADMAN ON TOUR WITH MOTLEY CRUE!
Motley Crue To Rock The New Year With
Saints Of Los Angeles 2009 Tour
North American Dates with Hinder, Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas Kicks Off February 2nd in San Diego, CA;
Tickets On Sale Beginning November 21
Pre-Sale Begins Friday, November 14 at 5pm EST
For Fan Club and American Express Card Members
Los Angeles (November 14, 2008) - Mötley Crüe announced today plans for their Saints of Los Angeles 2009 Winter Tour, hours before headlining a special one off performance at the historic Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. The Live Nation produced, Saints of Los Angeles 2009 Tour, will feature special guests -- Hinder, Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas. The tour kicks off February 2nd in San Diego, CA with 29 shows throughout North America, including a date at Madison Square Garden, with the final performance on March 18th in Portland, ME. Tickets go on sale beginning November 21st at www.livenation.com and www.motley.com.
American Express Card members will have access to presale tickets beginning Friday, November 14 at 5pm local time through Thursday, November 20 at 10pm local time via www.motley.com.
"It's great to go back out on a tour like this where the bands are all about returning rock to the forefront of music today," says Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe. "On top of it, we get to introduce a new band who jumped the line to arenas through the Guitar Center: On Stage contest. Just like Ozzy gave us a chance and took us on tour at the start of our career, we're looking forward to taking The Last Vegas on the road and giving them the same opportunity."
Hinder front man Austin Winkler said, "Mötley Crüe is a massive influence on us, and an inspiration on so many levels for what we do! Mick even played on the title track for our new album. It will be an honor and privilege for us to tour with one of the greatest rock bands ever! And we can't wait to party our asses off with them!"
"We are so pumped to be a part of what I think will be the biggest and most bad ass tour of 2009. Three kick ass bands on one bill, not to mention how honored we are to play with one of the best rock n roll bands of all f#@%kn time, Mötley f#@%kn Crüe," said Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman.
Rock icons Mötley Crüe recently returned to the charts with Saints of Los Angeles, their first new studio album with the original line-up -- Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil -- in over a decade and the ninth studio album in their career. Based on the band's New York Times bestseller The Dirt, the disc debuted at #1 on the Independent Album chart and was the top debut of the week on the Billboard's top 200 at #4.
For more information on Mötley Crüe, please visit: www.motley.com and www.myspace.com/motleycrue.
SAINTS OF LOS ANGELES 2009 TOUR DATES
2/2-3/18 with Hinder, Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas
- Mötley Crüe only on February 6 and 7 in Las Vegas -
* Indicates On-Sale November 21
** Indicates On-Sale November 22
*** Indicates On-Sale December 6
FEBRUARY
2 San Diego, CA Cox Arena **
4 Reno, NV Reno Events Center **
6 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel**
7 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel **
10 Omaha, NE Quest Center **
11 Moline, IL iWireless Center **
13 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena **
14 Madison, WI Alliant Energy Center **
15 Rockford, IL MetroCentre **
17 Des Moines, IA Veterans Memorial **
18 Minneapolis, MN Xcel Energy Center **
19 Green Bay, WI Resch Center **
21 Nashville, TN Sommet Center **
22 Birmingham, AL BJCC Arena**
25 Greenville, SC BI-LO Center **
27 Lafayette, LA Cajun Dome ***
28 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena ***
MARCH
3 Miami, FL Hard Rock Casino***
4 Orlando, FL UCF Arena **
6 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa **
7 Erie, PA Erie Civic Center **
8 Hershey, PA Giant Center ***
10 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place *
11 Hamilton, ON Copps Coliseum *
13 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena **
14 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena **
16 New York, NY Madison Square Garden **
17 Manchester, NH Verizon Wireless Arena**
18 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center **
11.14.2008
THEORY OF A DEADMAN ON TOUR WITH MOTLEY CRUE!
Motley Crue To Rock The New Year With
Saints Of Los Angeles 2009 Tour
North American Dates with Hinder, Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas Kicks Off February 2nd in San Diego, CA;
Tickets On Sale Beginning November 21
Pre-Sale Begins Friday, November 14 at 5pm EST
For Fan Club and American Express Card Members
Los Angeles (November 14, 2008) - Mötley Crüe announced today plans for their Saints of Los Angeles 2009 Winter Tour, hours before headlining a special one off performance at the historic Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. The Live Nation produced, Saints of Los Angeles 2009 Tour, will feature special guests -- Hinder, Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas. The tour kicks off February 2nd in San Diego, CA with 29 shows throughout North America, including a date at Madison Square Garden, with the final performance on March 18th in Portland, ME. Tickets go on sale beginning November 21st at www.livenation.com and www.motley.com.
American Express Card members will have access to presale tickets beginning Friday, November 14 at 5pm local time through Thursday, November 20 at 10pm local time via www.motley.com.
"It's great to go back out on a tour like this where the bands are all about returning rock to the forefront of music today," says Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe. "On top of it, we get to introduce a new band who jumped the line to arenas through the Guitar Center: On Stage contest. Just like Ozzy gave us a chance and took us on tour at the start of our career, we're looking forward to taking The Last Vegas on the road and giving them the same opportunity."
Hinder front man Austin Winkler said, "Mötley Crüe is a massive influence on us, and an inspiration on so many levels for what we do! Mick even played on the title track for our new album. It will be an honor and privilege for us to tour with one of the greatest rock bands ever! And we can't wait to party our asses off with them!"
"We are so pumped to be a part of what I think will be the biggest and most bad ass tour of 2009. Three kick ass bands on one bill, not to mention how honored we are to play with one of the best rock n roll bands of all f#@%kn time, Mötley f#@%kn Crüe," said Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman.
Rock icons Mötley Crüe recently returned to the charts with Saints of Los Angeles, their first new studio album with the original line-up -- Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil -- in over a decade and the ninth studio album in their career. Based on the band's New York Times bestseller The Dirt, the disc debuted at #1 on the Independent Album chart and was the top debut of the week on the Billboard's top 200 at #4.
For more information on Mötley Crüe, please visit: www.motley.com and www.myspace.com/motleycrue.
SAINTS OF LOS ANGELES 2009 TOUR DATES
2/2-3/18 with Hinder, Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas
- Mötley Crüe only on February 6 and 7 in Las Vegas -
* Indicates On-Sale November 21
** Indicates On-Sale November 22
*** Indicates On-Sale December 6
FEBRUARY
2 San Diego, CA Cox Arena **
4 Reno, NV Reno Events Center **
6 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel**
7 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel **
10 Omaha, NE Quest Center **
11 Moline, IL iWireless Center **
13 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena **
14 Madison, WI Alliant Energy Center **
15 Rockford, IL MetroCentre **
17 Des Moines, IA Veterans Memorial **
18 Minneapolis, MN Xcel Energy Center **
19 Green Bay, WI Resch Center **
21 Nashville, TN Sommet Center **
22 Birmingham, AL BJCC Arena**
25 Greenville, SC BI-LO Center **
27 Lafayette, LA Cajun Dome ***
28 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena ***
MARCH
3 Miami, FL Hard Rock Casino***
4 Orlando, FL UCF Arena **
6 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa **
7 Erie, PA Erie Civic Center **
8 Hershey, PA Giant Center ***
10 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place *
11 Hamilton, ON Copps Coliseum *
13 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena **
14 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena **
16 New York, NY Madison Square Garden **
17 Manchester, NH Verizon Wireless Arena**
18 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center **
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11.13.2008
WANT TO BE IN A THEORY OF A DEADMAN VIDEO?!
THEORY OF A DEADMAN WANTS YOU IN THEIR NEW MUSIC VIDEO!!!
The band will be in Los Angeles this weekend shooting their new music video for "Hate My Life" at the historic WARNER BROTHERS STUDIOS IN BURBANK this Saturday (11/15 ) afternoon 12pm - 5pm!
40 lucky fans will able to be a part of the video and get some cool signed Theory stuff to boot!
If you love Theory of a Deadman, want to be in their video and are available this Saturday from 12-5pm, please
send your contact info to:
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Theory of a Deadman had a simple but daunting goal for its third album: to make the greatest record possible.
"I always try to remind the guys and myself that there are 20 bands lined up behind us just waiting for a chance to take our place," says frontman Tyler Connolly. "So that means we had to go in there and make a great record." With Scars & Souvenirs, the Vancouver trio has hit its mark.
The balanced 13-track effort is the polished and passionate testament to seven years of hard work, heavy touring and diligent attention to its craft. From the swirling grind of "By the Way" to the nasty snarl of "Crutch" to the soaring melodicism of "Not Meant to Be" and "Wait For Me," Scars & Souvenirs is a broad-reaching endeavor that puts Connolly, guitarist Dave Brenner and bassist Dean Back high in the rock pantheon, achieving creative growth without sacrificing the hard-hitting power that got them here in the first place.
"We really dug hard on this one," Connolly notes. "The longer you're in a band, the more you write songs, the better you get. We've had such a great opportunity to figure out what to do better, how to write a better song and keep building and building. That's exciting for us."
Scars & Souvenirs began taking shape in February of 2007, as Theory was winding down from touring to support its second album, 2005's Gasoline, a slump-defying sophomore outing that launched the hits "No Surprise," "Say Goodbye," "Santa Monica" and "Hello Lonely (Walk Away From This)." The group returned to Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson, who in turn issued marching orders that set the tone for the project.
"Before we even went into the studio, Howard wanted to gear this record up to sound huge," Connolly recalls about Benson's "all killer, no filler" approach to the record. "He said, ‘You have to go into a record with great songs. You can't make them while you're there. You can't just go in with one or two great songs. You've got to have 10.' So we just kept sending him songs until we had the 10 to 12 great ones, and then he said, 'OK, let's go.'"
Theory actually brought about 17 songs to Los Angeles' Bay 7 studios in August of 2007. Amidst low-key hijinks -- Brenner and Back grew mustaches, Connolly sported a fake one in the name of band unity -- the group and studio drummer Robin Diaz recorded 15 before choosing the 12 that ultimately comprise Scars & Souvenirs, which proved an apt title for the range of emotions Connolly sings about on the album.
"It's the Scars & Souvenirs of your life," he explains. "The songwriting on the record is really about someone's past or and present, their relationships and how they shape everything. It's more metaphorical than physical scars and trophies."
And while Connolly has certainly done his turn as a rock 'n' roll king of pain on Gasoline and 2002's attention-catching debut Theory Of A Deadman, he went into Scars & Souvenirs determined to show he could be more than the "callous bastard" Rolling Stone magazine called him in an early profile.
Here, Connolly explores broad new lyrical terrain, indicative of his growth as a person and as songwriter. "For awhile there, every song was, 'Get the f*&k out! I don't need women! Screw them!' That's kinda how I felt at that point," Connolly says with a self-effacing laugh. "But I've grown as a songwriter, and as a person. I wanted to write some different, nicer songs for a change."
He didn't have to look hard for inspiration. He wrote "Wait For Me," with its acoustic guitar underpinning and rich chorus, for his wife, paying tribute to her fortitude in being home alone while he's on the road. The piano-laden "All or Nothing," meanwhile, chronicles their relationship, which began as a good friendship before blossoming into romance. "It was kind of sick of me writing all these woman-hater songs before," acknowledges Connolly, whose mother left his family when he was in high school, providing rich source material for his earlier work. "People thought I was writing about my wife." While Connolly's lyrics have taken on a kinder, gentler pallor on Scars & Souvenirs, the band continues to keep the knobs cranked to 11.
Connolly also went into Scars & Souvenirs trying to write some songs that were "just for fun," and succeeded with tracks such as "End of Summer," an anthem about the bittersweetness of endings, whether that of a season or a relationship.
But even though the album mines a deeper emotional trough, it charges with the same potent force of its predecessors. When fans eagerly crank up the likes of "So Happy," "Got it Made" and "Bad Girlfriend," they'll end up with a set of blown out speakers, thanks to the firepower that crackles in these rockers, while "Sacrifice" bristles with the kind of primal, super-charged defiance that has long defined the best hard rock.
"A lot of bands, they grow older and they get grayer and they just can't do the rock songs anymore," Connolly says. "I don't see that happening to us. Fans are gonna hear our record and hear some softer stuff, but we're a rock band. I think it sounds bigger than the other two (albums) we've done."
Which is, not surprisingly, why Connolly, Brenner and Back are chomping at the bit to take Scars & Souvenirs out on the road. "We really want to take the band farther this time," Connolly says. "We want to get out there to places we have not been before - where a lot of our fans are --Asia, Australia, as well as reaching our fans in North America and Europe. We're just a hard-working band, man. We want to be out there for a couple of years and play these songs to everybody we possibly can."
With an album like Scars & Souvenirs, the fans will be lining up to listen.
All upcoming tour dates
| Date | Venue | Address | Other Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.3.2008 | Zydeco | 2001 15th Ave. S. Birmingham,
AL 35205
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18+: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, Pop Evil, Framing Hanley and STEADLUR support. Tickets: $22 Adv/$25 DOS. |
| 12.4.2008 | The Masquerade | 695 North Ave. NE Atlanta,
GA 30308
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All Ages: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, Pop Evil, Framing Hanley and STEADLUR support. Tickets: $18 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 12.5.2008 | Cannery Ballroom | 1 Cannery Row Nashville,
TN 37203
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Ages 18+: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, Pop Evil support. Tickets: $18 ADV/$20 DOS. |
| 12.6.2008 | Newport Music Hall | 1722 North High St. Columbus,
OH 43201
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All Ages: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, Pop Evil support. Tickets: $15 ADV/$18 DOS. |
| 12.8.2008 | Valarium | 1213 Western Ave. Knoxville,
TN 37919
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All Ages: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, Pop Evil support. Tickets: $16 ADV/$18 DOS. |
| 12.9.2008 | Pop's | 1403 Mississippi Ave Sauget,
IL 62201
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All Ages: Hinder headline, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, Trapt, and Revelation Theory support. Tickets: $26.50 ADV/$29.00 DOS. |
| 12.11.2008 | Mayo Civic Center | 30 Civic Center Dr. S.E. Rochester,
MN 55904-3701
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1. FURRYFUR SAID...
It's the Furball! I don't know what Theory of a Dead Man sounds like, but it rules so much that (I think they play metal) metal will be played at a game. It also rules that the place has "Grey Cup" in the name. I LOVE gray, and it's even spelled like the Greys (aliens)! :-D
-Furball
November 22, 2:22 AM
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2. .APE. SAID...
Ohhh wow i have to watch this!! i just hope i get any of the above channels!!
November 24, 1:11 PM
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