Sydney-based rock group Tonight Alive has stormed the UK with their third album release, Limitlesss. Touring the USA and later Japan, the UK hope to be included at some point on the coming months. Via Facebook they celebrate their UK introduction:
WAHAAAAY! Congratulations @TonightAlive on their first UK Top 40 album! #Limitless
Tonight Alive are currently touring the States:
14/3 – Walter’s Down – Houston
15/3 – Trees – Dallas
17/3 – Niles Theater – Mesa
18/3 – Soma Side Stage – San Diego
19/3 – Self Help Fest – San Bernardino Festival
20/3 – Slim’s – San Francisco
23/3 – Hawthorne Theatre – Portland
24/3 – Neumos – Seattle
26/3 – In the Venue – Salt Lake City
27/3 – Marquis Theater – Denver
28/3 – The Co-op – Albuquerque
2/4 – Punkspring – Osaka – Japan
3/4 – Punkspring – Tokyo – Japan
Tonight Alive describe themselves on their website:
“Myself and our bassist Cam [Adler] were in a band together when we were at high school, we were mostly covering tunes from other bands that we were into,” explains Jake. “Through mutual friends we met Whakaio and asked him to join the band on keys and guitar. That’s when we started getting more serious. We started writing our own songs but we still needed a committed vocalist and drummer.”
On the other side of town, Jenna McDougall was playing her own acoustic shows – inadvertently putting in the groundwork that would lead her to front Australia’s most exciting young band.
“Jenna asked me to help her record some of her acoustic demos,” explain Cam. “When we were done I said that my band didn’t have a singer and I gave her a demo of a song we’d written and asked her to record her vocals over it …and that was it!”
“We had our first practice the day before my birthday, on May 31st 2008,” grins Jenna, “We booked our first show at ‘Hypefest’ for August that year under the name ‘Tonight Alive’. Hype would later become the place we cut our teeth, developed our live show and was ultimately our doorway into the local Sydney scene.”
Tonight Alive has supported the Lost Prophets and are expanding as weeks progress. We look forward to a future UK appearance as they enter the UK charts. Expect Tonight Alive to invade the UK later this year with a superb following.
