Reel Big Fish releasing new live DVD and touring with English Beat & Supervillains
Music News | May 18th, 2009
Reel Big Fish will be releasing a new full length DVD this summer, titled, appropriately enough, Reel Big Fish Live! In Concert! Reel Big Fish Live! In Concert! will be released July 21 on Rock Ridge Music for a very fan-friendly price.
The live concert DVD was filmed before a sold-out, hometown crowd at the Grove of Anaheim this past January and features 20 classic Reel Big Fish songs, as well as all of the hilarious in-between-song-banter-and-shenanigans that fans have come to expect. Reel Big Fish has also lined up another killer summer tour for ‘09. The veteran ska-rock outfit will be hitting cities across America with 2-Tone legends The English Beat and Orlando, FL-based reggae/ska punks The Supervillains.
Reel Big Fish front man Aaron Barrett says the band is amped to be touring with one of its musical idols. Barrett explains, “We are so excited to be playing with one of our favorite bands of all time and one of the biggest influences on our music!! We LOVE the English Beat. This tour is a dream come true for us!”
The English Beat front man Dave Wakeling responds, “I was thrilled many years ago to be invited to play at Reel Big Fish’s first album release party, and we are thrilled again to be touring with them now that they are bona fide Skadfathers!”
The trek kicks off July 3rd in Royal Oak, MI. More dates are being confirmed daily and will be posted on www.myspace.com/reelbigfish.
Southern California fans can also catch Reel Big Fish at BuFest in Malibu, CA on Sunday, May 31 with MXPX and Unwritten Law.
For ticket info and the full lineup visit: http://www.bufest.com/.
Formed in the suburban garages of Orange County, CA in the early 90’s, Reel Big Fish has gone on to release 6 full-length studio releases, headline countless tours in North America (as well as Europe, Asia and Latin America) and amass combined sales of over a million albums. In other words: these guys are sort of a big deal. Reel Big Fish’s latest album, a compilation of cover songs entitled, Fame, Fortune, and Fornication is out now on Rock Ridge Music.
Reel Big Fish Tour dates:
May 29- Savannah, GA- Forsyth Park (with Michael Franti and Spearhead)
May 31- Malibu, CA- Bufest (with MXPX, Unwrtitten Law)Reel Big Fish (with The English Beat and The Supervillains):
July 3- Royal Oak, MI- Royal Oak Theatre
July 5- Milwaukee, MI- Summerfest
July 7- Boston, MA- House of Blues
July 8- Hampton Beach, NH- Hampton Beach Casino
July 9- New York, NY- Nokia Theatre
July 10- Atlantic City, NJ- House of Blues
July 11- Sayreville, NJ- Starland Ballroom
July 12- Providence, RI- Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
July 15- Cleveland, OH House of Blues
July 18- Norfolk, VA- The Norva
July 20- Richmond, VA- The National
July 23- Orlando, FL- Hard Rock Live
July 24- Atlanta, GA- The Masquerade
July 26- Dallas, TX- The Palladium Ballroom
July 27- Houston, TX- Warehouse Live
July 28- Austin, TX- La Zona Rosa
Aug 1- Los Angeles, CA- Club Nokia
Aug 2- Anaheim, CA- The Grove
Aug 12- Apple, MN- Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre