Eve 6 To Spread The 'Horror' With New Tour

06/29/2000 5:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(6/29/00, 5 p.m. ET) - Eve 6 will hit the road next week for a series of warm-up gigs in support of its second album, Horrorscope, which is due in stores on July 25. The Los Angeles pop-punk trio will be joined by Goldfinger and Dynamite Hack for the tour, set to begin in Atlanta on July 6 and wind its way through much of the western United States through most of the month.

The tour and album open a new chapter for the group, which arrived on the national scene with a self-titled major-label debut that stemmed from the band's signing while they were still in high school. Eve 6 drummer Tony Fagenson tells LAUNCH that they learned a lot from their early rock experiences and that times have since changed.

quot;We didn't know what we were, and we didn't know what we wanted, and how we wanted to be perceived,quot; he says. quot;It was such a new thing to us that we were just kinda going with the ride. Now, after what we've learned we've taken more control and, you know, are showing people the real us more. We're a band with punk-rock roots and I want that to come across, you know. It might not have come across as much in the first record.quot;

Fagenson adds, quot;We're just being a lot more natural about things [and] we're not being as precious. We're more open-minded and happier now.quot;

Here are the tour dates (subject to change):

July 6 - Atlanta, GA - Roxy Theater
July 7 - Birmingham, AL - 5 Points
July 8 - New Orleans, LA - House Of Blues
July 10 - Houston, TX - Numbers
July 11 - Dallas, TX - Deep Ellum Live
July 14 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theater
July 15 - Salt Lake City, UT - State Fair Promitary Building
July 16 - Pocatello, ID - TBA
July 18 - Seattle, WA - Showbox
July 20 - Sacramento, CA - Crest Theater
July 21 - San Francisco, CA - Fillmore Theater
July 22 - Los Angeles, CA - Palace
July 23 - Phoenix, AZ - Webb Theater
Look for more tour dates in August, including several across Canada in the first half of the month.
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles

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