The State of Eve 6: Donate Life show on Dish Network, Possible Japan shows and the nostalgia question
Its been too long since an update. I've been pretty busy with work/life, plus baseball season has begun and I am busy with my New York Yankees blog.
Quick update for Eve 6 fans nationwide - if you have the Dish Network, you can catch Eve 6's Donate Life Rocks concert from the end of October (their second show back). Upcoming air dates:
Provided By: Donate Life America
01:12:28
Alex Band and EVE6 perform at the second annual Alex Band’s Donate Life Rocks concert to raise awareness about importance of organ, eye and tissue donation for Donate Life America. Also showcased Keaton Simons, Shane Hines, and Beau Black.
Next Air Dates:
or, if you don't have the network, you can catch an archived, online version (whenever they decide to post it).
http://www.starfishnetwork.org/videos.aspx
Exciting stuff. It will be nice to see an Eve 6 concert with production quality video and soundboard quality sound - its been too long!
On to some tour news. Before anything else, I would like to throw out this disclaimer:
UNLESS A SHOW IS LISTED ON EVE 6'S MYSPACE, IT IS NOT OFFICIAL!
That message comes directly from Tony. That being said, we all love to speculate and we all love to plan our next trip to an Eve 6 show. For that reason, sites like Pollstar exist that have "their sources" who report in about shows. Most of the time, these are shows that are in the works, but aren't 100% official yet. You can check out Eve 6's pollstar page here. Something HUGE that sticks out is that it looks like Eve 6 will be heading over to Japan for Independence day. If true, this will mark the first time the guys have toured overseas since the Horrorscope days. Unfortunately for the average Japanese Eve 6 fan (do you still exist, average Japanese fan? If so, come on over and post on the Eve 6 Media HQ message board), these shows look to be taking place at an Air Force Base. This is very cool for the troops stationed around the globe, but I doubt they will be open to the public. Lets keep our fingers crossed that they guys will book some club shows while over in Japan.
Finally, I get to the whole nostalgia question. If you have been paying attention on the message boards, the recent Eve 6 shows have been a HUGE success. They have been playing to crowds up over 1,000 strong and filling up venues to capacity. However, are the people attending these shows fans? Or are they simply a mix of college age kids and mid 20's quarter-life crisis cases who want to rehash the simpler times of "Inside Out" and "Here's To The Night". I'd love to be glass half-full on this one, but I remember back to the final days before the hiatus when Eve 6 was in Atlantic City on their final tour, they had 30 people at the venue. A few years later they are playing to a sold out Recher theater just down the road in Baltimore.
Some Eve 6 fans are concerned with Eve 6's choice of setlists for the recent string of shows. The complaint is that the setlists are being constructed to appease the nostalgia-minded folks and not the hard core fans who have stuck with the band from day one, throughout the hiatus and to where we are now. I won't get into breaking down the exact reasoning behind this concern, but a lot of it has to do with the current setlists being heavy on Eve 6's singles, light on tracks from "It's All In Your Head" and even lighter on the former Sugi Tap songs that Eve 6 vowed to incorporate into their setlist.
It is obvious that a room full of concert-goers who haven't heard Eve 6 since 2001 aren't going to react as well to "Red & Black" as well as they will to "Promise" or "Leech", but it may be time for the guys to make some tough set list decisions. I would NEVER suggest that the guys of Eve 6 should forget what got them to this point and not play "Inside Out" or "Here's To The Night". Those are Eve 6 concert STAPLES and I can't image an Eve 6 show without them. However, if they don't start mixing in new material, giving these re-found fans something to whet their appetite in regard to a new album, they may suffer the fate of the Atlantic City show back in 2004 that I described above.
There have been multiple small-town / University newspaper articles about Eve 6 shows recently and they have ALL mentioned the nostalgic nature of an Eve 6 show. It is troubling to think that the only reason people are going to these Eve 6 shows, but we also have realize what a longshot it was for Eve 6 to even be playing shows! For a long time it looked like we would never get to rock out LIVE to Open Road Song ever again. Let us all be grateful that we have the opportunity to see Eve 6 in concert again!
Remember, all of this is OPINION and nothing on this website represents the views of opinions of Max Collins or Tony Fagenson. This is NOT the official Eve 6 web page and while the guys in the band have always been big fans of what we are doing here, they have no part in the running of this site.
Quick update for Eve 6 fans nationwide - if you have the Dish Network, you can catch Eve 6's Donate Life Rocks concert from the end of October (their second show back). Upcoming air dates:
Provided By: Donate Life America
01:12:28
Alex Band and EVE6 perform at the second annual Alex Band’s Donate Life Rocks concert to raise awareness about importance of organ, eye and tissue donation for Donate Life America. Also showcased Keaton Simons, Shane Hines, and Beau Black.
Next Air Dates:
| Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 12:00 AM EST |
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 1:00 AM EST |
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 1:00 AM EST |
| Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 12:00 PM EST |
| Friday, May 02, 2008 - 12:00 AM EST |
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 6:00 PM EST |
or, if you don't have the network, you can catch an archived, online version (whenever they decide to post it).
http://www.starfishnetwork.org/videos.aspx
Exciting stuff. It will be nice to see an Eve 6 concert with production quality video and soundboard quality sound - its been too long!
On to some tour news. Before anything else, I would like to throw out this disclaimer:
UNLESS A SHOW IS LISTED ON EVE 6'S MYSPACE, IT IS NOT OFFICIAL!
That message comes directly from Tony. That being said, we all love to speculate and we all love to plan our next trip to an Eve 6 show. For that reason, sites like Pollstar exist that have "their sources" who report in about shows. Most of the time, these are shows that are in the works, but aren't 100% official yet. You can check out Eve 6's pollstar page here. Something HUGE that sticks out is that it looks like Eve 6 will be heading over to Japan for Independence day. If true, this will mark the first time the guys have toured overseas since the Horrorscope days. Unfortunately for the average Japanese Eve 6 fan (do you still exist, average Japanese fan? If so, come on over and post on the Eve 6 Media HQ message board), these shows look to be taking place at an Air Force Base. This is very cool for the troops stationed around the globe, but I doubt they will be open to the public. Lets keep our fingers crossed that they guys will book some club shows while over in Japan.
Finally, I get to the whole nostalgia question. If you have been paying attention on the message boards, the recent Eve 6 shows have been a HUGE success. They have been playing to crowds up over 1,000 strong and filling up venues to capacity. However, are the people attending these shows fans? Or are they simply a mix of college age kids and mid 20's quarter-life crisis cases who want to rehash the simpler times of "Inside Out" and "Here's To The Night". I'd love to be glass half-full on this one, but I remember back to the final days before the hiatus when Eve 6 was in Atlantic City on their final tour, they had 30 people at the venue. A few years later they are playing to a sold out Recher theater just down the road in Baltimore.
Some Eve 6 fans are concerned with Eve 6's choice of setlists for the recent string of shows. The complaint is that the setlists are being constructed to appease the nostalgia-minded folks and not the hard core fans who have stuck with the band from day one, throughout the hiatus and to where we are now. I won't get into breaking down the exact reasoning behind this concern, but a lot of it has to do with the current setlists being heavy on Eve 6's singles, light on tracks from "It's All In Your Head" and even lighter on the former Sugi Tap songs that Eve 6 vowed to incorporate into their setlist.
It is obvious that a room full of concert-goers who haven't heard Eve 6 since 2001 aren't going to react as well to "Red & Black" as well as they will to "Promise" or "Leech", but it may be time for the guys to make some tough set list decisions. I would NEVER suggest that the guys of Eve 6 should forget what got them to this point and not play "Inside Out" or "Here's To The Night". Those are Eve 6 concert STAPLES and I can't image an Eve 6 show without them. However, if they don't start mixing in new material, giving these re-found fans something to whet their appetite in regard to a new album, they may suffer the fate of the Atlantic City show back in 2004 that I described above.
There have been multiple small-town / University newspaper articles about Eve 6 shows recently and they have ALL mentioned the nostalgic nature of an Eve 6 show. It is troubling to think that the only reason people are going to these Eve 6 shows, but we also have realize what a longshot it was for Eve 6 to even be playing shows! For a long time it looked like we would never get to rock out LIVE to Open Road Song ever again. Let us all be grateful that we have the opportunity to see Eve 6 in concert again!
Remember, all of this is OPINION and nothing on this website represents the views of opinions of Max Collins or Tony Fagenson. This is NOT the official Eve 6 web page and while the guys in the band have always been big fans of what we are doing here, they have no part in the running of this site.
Labels: Donate Life Rocks charity show with Eve 6 and Alex Band, Eve 6 becoming a nostalgia act?, Eve 6 concert in Japan, Eve 6 on Dish Network
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