Hey Hey In Rockers and Welcome to The Lobby coming to you from a jam-packed summer tour with my band as we make our way around North America on the Summer Anthem tour w/ Dashboard Confessional! We're about 7 shows deep now into a 43-city run that takes us around the US and Canada for another series of shows in outdoor amphitheaters around the country. The first bunch of shows were indoors, in Arizona, Palm Springs and a few shows in Texas, it was 48 degrees Celsius at the start of the tour, unbelievably hot, so now that it's only 35 we're ready to take the show out into the heat, well, I don't know if we're ready for it, but that's what going on!
We started out in Palm Springs at the same venue we rehearsed at for a week before the tour began, we needed a large room to set up all of the sound and lights, and as we often end up doing, we scheduled a show at the same venue we rehearsed at, I mean we’re already set up, right? It's always a crazy day when you step out on the stage at the first show of a new tour. We always try to make the show feel new, but don't want to have people leave the concerts missing anything they really wanted to hear. After 30 plus years of making records it's become a challenge to construct a setlist that spans your career, grows the band's legacy a bit with some new tunes and still addresses all the songs people come to see each and every year, always a challenge, but in the end we seem to end up with a great set of music for everyone.

A couple of days ago we played at The Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville, TN and our friend singer/songwriter Colbie Caillat came out to perform Supertramp's “Give A Little Bit” with us, Colbie did her very first tour with us in 2007 with the band Lifehouse and it's always great to catch up w/ her, even better to share a stage once again! There are some performances on social media floating around you can check out if you have some time, tons of fun!

Tonight, we are playing a show at Chastain Park in Atlanta which has become a traditional stop for us over the past few decades. We stayed here in Atlanta for the day off and I got to have a spectacular dinner at Chef Nobu's restaurant here in town and enjoyed a nice Omakase set and relaxed for a bit before kicking things off again tonight!

I’m not sure if you’ve gotten a chance to check out the new video for our single “Nothing Lasts Forever” from our upcoming Summer Anthem album, we shot it in LA in a set pretending to be a NYC subway, I know, confusing, but it’s how things work in Hollywood. We’ll be releasing another single in a week or 2 and then in late August we’ll be releasing a full 7 song mini album called “Summer Anthem” We’ve already been performing 3 of the new songs at the shows and they’ve been going over really well with the crowd, we can’t wait for you to hear them!

We’ll be heading out in our bus after the show tonight to continue the tour! I look forward to sharing more with you as we make our way through the summer itinerary. Enjoy your summer, stay cool and we’ll see you next month here in the pages of the mighty In Rock!

Peace
Robby

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