Hey hey Hey Everyone!
We are very excited to officially announce our 2009 Fall Tour! The tour kicks off on Friday, Sept. 18th when U-Melt returns to Higher Ground in South Burlington, VT. We are psyched to welcome Burlington's own Michetti (of Raq) to support the night in the Showcase Lounge. As with many shows this tour, Higher Ground’s Showcase Lounge has limited capacity so we encourage everyone to buy tickets in advance by clicking here: http://higherground.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?lid=34565
The following night, we'll be travelling down to Greenfield, Mass. for this year's Wormtown Music Festival. U-Melt has been given the honor of playing 2 sets again this year, this first on the Main Stage at 8:00pm and the second set in the brand new Wormtown Cabin at 11:00pm. Other acts scheduled to perform on Saturday include Zach Deputy, Jeff Bujak and Jimkata. For additional information, please check out Wormtown's website by clicking here: http://www.wormtown.com/wormfest/
Next up, on Thursday Sept. 24th, U-Melt will be returning to Northampton, Mass. to headline The Iron Horse Music Hall. This is a late show, with 10:00pm doors and a 10:30pm show time. The Iron Horse Music Hall has very limited capacity so please buy your tickets in advance by clicking here: http://www.nbotickets.com/default.asp?mode=artist&name=4654
From there, U-Melt will be heading to Rhode Island to headline the Friday night of the Calling Planet Earth Music Festival in Charleston. U-Melt will be performing from 8:45pm-10:00pm and will be joined by the Pat McGee Band, Entrain and others on Friday night. For additional information the festival, please click here: http://www.myspace.com/callingplanetearthfest
The next night, U-Melt is very excited to be heading back to Portland, ME to once again headline the beautiful new Port City Music Hall. We are happy to have Portland's own Superfrog opening up the show. Tickets are now available by clicking here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/76728
The following weekend, we will be performing two shows in New York State as part of U-Melt's Breast Cancer Benefit Weekend. U-Melt will be donating a portion of each ticket sold to the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. First, on Friday, Oct. 2nd, U-Melt will be returning to Ithaca to headline Castaways! We are psyched to have our friend Jeff Bujak supporting this show. The next night, we'll be heading up to Buffalo where we'll return to headline Nietzsche's for the second part of the weekend. This is a late show, with 9:30pm doors and will go late!
After taking Columbus Day weekend off, U-Melt will return to the road on Thursday, Oct. 15th, with an exciting return to The 8x10 in Baltimore, MD. We always love playing The 8x10 and we hope you can join us for this show with Second Self as the opening band. The 8x10 has limited capacity so please be sure to buy tickets in advance by clicking here: http://walthertix.musictoday.com/WaltherProductions/calendar.aspx
The next night, we'll be heading up to Philadelphia to once again headline The North Star on Friday, Oct. 16th. We'll be welcoming Three Legged Fox as support for this show which also has limited capacity so please buy your tickets in advance by clicking here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2623404
Then, on Saturday, Oct. 17th, U-Melt will be returning home to New York City to once again throwdown at the always rocking Sullivan Hall. We are psyched to be welcoming our new friends CliffsidePush from New York City and Kinetix from Colorado as support for the night. Sullivan Hall also has limited capacity and we expect this hometown show to sell out in advance so please buy your tickets immediately by clicking here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2430224
The following weekend, we are very excited to travel back to the Boston area to headline The Middle East (Upstairs) in Cambridge, Mass on Friday, Oct. 23rd. Local rockers Mondo Gecko will be supporting the show which has extremely limited capacity. In fact, the show is close to 50% already sold out so please also buy tickets for this show as soon as possible by clicking here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2385804&pl=rockon From there, we'll be heading down I-95 to Rhode Island for return to The Wheelhouse in Narragansett on Saturday, Oct. 24th. Advanced tickets for The Wheelhouse show will be available soon.
The following weekend, U-Melt will heading up to Syracuse, NY for a headlining show at The Westcott Theater on Friday, Oct. 30th. We'll be supported by Jeff Bujak as well as another soon to be announced band. Then, on Halloween night, we are very excited to return to Red Square in Albany to perform a very special late night post moe. show following moe.'s performance at the downtown Armory in Albany. U-Melt will be supported by Albany's Dirty Paris in the back room as well as Jeff Bujak in the front room who will both be performing earlier in the night for those not attended another show. U-Melt will take the stage around midnight and play till they kick us out at 4:00am. Red Square also has very limited capacity so we have made advanced tickets available for this show through Red Square's ticketing service by clicking here: http://redsquarealbany.tickets.musictoday.com/RedSquareAlbany/calendar.aspx
However, we will not be selling the entire allotment of tickets on-line and will be sure to make some tickets available at the door and will allow people to purchase tickets as people leave Red Square so please encourage everyone attending the moe. show to come down to Red Square that night!
We will be announcing additional Fall Tour dates for November in the coming weeks so please be sure to check back to U-Melt.com for updates! In the meantime, please check out all the details for our Fall Tour on our tour dates page by clicking here: http://www.umelt.com/gigs.shtml
And please don’t forget to check us out at The Backwoods Pondfest in Peru, NY this Friday night! Completed details can be found by clicking here: http://www.backwoodspondfest.com/index.html
U-MELT’S RELEASES NEW DVD! VISIONS OF SOUND, VOLUME 2!
U-Melt is excited to announce the release of a brand new DVD, Visions of Sound Vol. 2! Filmed and edited by Alison Holmes, the DVD memorializes U-Melt's 2-night stand at Sullivan Hall in New York City on March 28th and March 29th, 2008, and Disc 1 features the following U-Melt songs:
1) Through The Prism>
2) A Portrait of Kismet
3) A Robbins Tale Part 1
4) Missed
5) Disclaimer/Disillusion >
6) Elysian Fields
Visions of Sound Vol. 2 (Disc 1) is available at U-Melt shows at the merch table, as well via PayPal for a limited time. To purchase the DVD through our secure PayPal system, please click here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5234175
As a preview to what you can find on the new DVD, please check out the following video for "Through The Prism", which is now streamable on U-Melt's video page which you can find by clicking here: http://www.umelt.com/video.shtml
And please be on the lookout for news on Visions of Sound Volume 2 (Disc 2) coming soon!
Thanks so much everyone and we hope to see you on the road soon!
Take care and be well!
U-MELT
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U-MELT'S 2009 FALL TOUR
Fri, 9/18 - Higher Ground - S. Burlington, VT
Sat., 9/19 - Wormfest - Greenfield, MA
Thu, 9/24 - Iron Horse Music Hall - Northampton, MA
Fri, 9/25 - Calling Planet Earth Music Festival - Charlestown, RI
Sat, 9/26 - Port City Music Hall - Portland, ME
Fri, 10/2 - Castaways - Ithaca, NY
Sat, 10/3 - Nietzsche's - Buffalo, NY
Thu, 10/15 - The 8x10 - Baltimore, MD
Fri, 10/16 - The North Star - Philadelphia, PA
Sat, 10/17 - Sullivan Hall - New York, NY
Fri, 10/23 - The Middle East - Cambridge, MA
Sat, 10/24 - The Wheelhouse - Narragensett, RI
Fri, 10/30 - The Westcott Theater - Syracuse, NY
Sat, 10/31 - Red Square - Albany, NY (LATE NIGHT POST MOE. SHOW)
http://www.umelt.com/gigs.shtml
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