THE TWENTY YEARS NUMB TOUR

So it’s not really a tour-tour. Maybe a micro tour..? Nano Tour? It’s really just a handful of Saturdays and a Friday, peppered throughout the US. Like we said, we are dedicating all of our non-important-real-life-things time this year to getting our new record finished and into your earballs, and that is priority numero uno. But we couldn’t just NOT play a few shows. That, like peace, was never an option.

SO! COME OUT AND CELEBRATE OUR 20TH BIRTHDAY WITH US, AND SING ALONG AS WE PLAY OUR FIRST RECORD, EVERYTHING GOES NUMB, FRONT TO BACK EVERY NIGHT (plus some other ditties, we’re not abandoning you after a measly 12 songs).

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY! These will likely sell out so GO GO GOOOOO!

SAT JUN 24 ASBURY PARK NJ (THE LONG SUMMER NIGHT)

FRI SEP 22 SAN FRANCISCO CA

SAT SEP 23 LOS ANGELES CA

SAT OCT 14 CHICAGO IL

SAT NOV 11 ORLANDO FL

SAT DEC 02 BOSTON MA

ALSO, DON’T FORGET ON OCTOBER 28TH WE PLAY DENVER WITH THE BANDITS OF THE ACOUSTIC REVOLUTION ORCHESTRA!

LATER HOMIES AND HOMETTES!

BOTAR LIVES TO SEE ANOTHER YEAR!

TL;DR: Streetlight Manifesto, fronting the Bandits Of the Acoustic Revolution Orchestra, are playing the Mission Ballroom in Denver on October 28th, 2023!

Wordy Version:

DENVER COLORADO, HALLO! The sleeker, more efficient and rawkusier Bandits Of The Acoustic Revolution (Orchestra), fronted by your boys in Streetlight Manifesto, played a Hail Mary Pass show in Boston last year to determine the fate and future of the project, and the results were all gravy, all the way down the line, which means… NEW YEAR, NEW CITY, as promised. And that’s you, Denver, Colorado, you Muesli munching, drug legalizing, laid back psychopaths that you are; we choose YOU to host (according to your wishes or against your will, depending on your feelings about Orchestral Punk Rock) the 2023 BOTAR(O) concert at the Mission Ballroom on October 28th! Since day one, Denver has been one of our dear homie cities and we are thrilled to bring this special project to you this fall.

As promised, we’re keeping the BOTAR live show train a chugging, now it’s up to you to show up, sing and/or scream along, mush your little hippie-punk butts off and ensure that round about this time next year you are passing the baton to another unsuspecting city somewhere in the country. Maybe somewhere OUTSIDE the country too..?! A 45-person Orchestra of Mayhem can only dream!

Tickets on sale this Friday, at 10am Denver time, which is like, whatever o’clock, man yeeeeeaaah. Semi secretive presale happening sometime between now and then, probably. We don’t know, we just show up and toot toot our instruments onstage. Use a Google, damn.

Show poster by our main dude, Mr @andre_ducci , always absolutely slaughtering it. As he so eloquently put it, if Mr. Fox and Mr. Rooster can coexist and party together, why can’t Orchestras and mosh pits do the same? OK, he didn’t say that but he was probably thinking it. MYOB.

THE LONG SUMMER NIGHT 2023

(TL;DR at the bottom of the post)

Despite somehow still feeling like the new kid on the block, it’s both sobering and exhilarating to realize that we’ve survived for two god damned decades as a band. From the early days of flirting with death every week in various vehicles speeding though various countries, to the middle days of watching the crowds grow larger and more fervent with every tour, to more recent days as we arrive at a place where we can sit back for a moment and appreciate how big and beautiful a part of our lives this band of fellow goofballs has become. TWENTY YEARS. DAMB. Next year we can finally ditch our fake ID’s, holy moly.

SO! To celebrate, we will be treating our fellow New Jerseyans (and each other) to a concert at a venue we haven’t played in many, many years. It’s arguably our first home venue despite our long absence, since many of our early shows were in the smaller, indoor part of the club, but today we are excited to announce an OUTDOOR SUMMER HEADLINE SHOW at the Stone Pony Summer Stage. And what’s more, as a throwback to those early days of making noises in Asbury Park, we’ll be playing our first record, Everything Goes Numb, from front to back (as well as a handful of other tunes of course) during a sweet New Jersey summer Saturday evening.

This band has been a joy and an honor for every one of us in it, and we hope you all can come out to celebrate our birthday year with us. Much love, the SM boys.

Tickets on sale this Friday!

TL;DR:

WE ARE TWENTY YEARS OLD. SO IS OUR FIRST RECORD. WE’RE PLAYING THE STONE PONY SUMMER STAGE ON JUNE 24TH, PLAYING OUR FIRST RECORD, EVEYRTHING GOES NUMB, FRONT TO BACK. CONGRATULATIONS ON HATING TO READ, VERY COOL.)