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THE ATARIS Update

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  • 12-02-2004 7:15pm
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    jmc
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    THE ATARIS – Irish Dates, February ’04.

    Next Tuesday, Feb 17th - At The Temple Bar Music Centre
    Plus Special Guests: Planes Mistaken For Stars, and The Rocket Summer.
    Doors: 7.30pm. Over 18’s, ID Essential.

    Also playing…
    Next Wednesday, Feb 18th at The Limelight, Belfast.
    Doors: 9.00pm, Over 18’s, ID Essential.

    Californian pop-punk foursome, THE ATARIS kick off an18 date European Tour that sees them take in shows in everywhere from Glasgow to Moscow, with two Irish dates next Tuesday and Wednesday.

    A virtual touring machine since the band's inception, The Ataris have shared bills with Jimmy Eat World, Social Distortion, Blink 182, the Hives, 311, amongst others, and has also been a main stage attraction on the Van's Warped Tour.

    It all started in 1997 when Ataris' songwriter Kris Roe met Vandals founder Joe Escalante after a Vandals concert and passed on a demo tape.

    Escalanete was impressed enough to ask Roe to put together a full band and record for his Kung Fu Records label.

    Roe upped sticks and moved to the West Coast, where he enlisted Marco Pena, Mike Davenport and Chris Knapp (after a stint with ex Lagwagon drummer Derrick Plourde didn't work out).

    The newly-formed Ataris quickly put the 'Anywhere But Here 'album to tape and released it on Kung Fu Records, which brought them to the attention of the legendary Fat Mike of Fat Wreck Records (and NOFX).

    Within months, they released the 'Look Forward To Failure' EP on Fat Wreck (produced by members of The Descendants), and in 1999 they released their second album 'Blue Skies, Broken Hearts. Next 12 Exits'.

    'Let It Burn' followed in 2001 and in March of 2003 they released 'So Long, Astoria' - heralded by a cracking cover of Don Henley's nostalgic classic ‘Boys Of Summer'.

    Full throttle, heads down hardcore, not to be missed.

    Tickets for The Ataris at the Temple Bar Music Centre are €18 (inc. booking fee) are on sale from Sound Cellar, the Temple Bar Music Centre Box Office and Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.


    The Ataris are
    Kris Roe: Lead Vocals/Guitar
    Mike Davenport: Bass/Vocals
    John Collura: Guitar/Vocals
    Chris "Kid" Knapp: Drums

    www.TheAtaris.com


    Special Guests:

    Planes Mistaken For Stars
    – From Peoria, Illinois, PMFS will be previewing tracks from the forthcoming new album plus tracks from their self-titled debut, plus its exuberant follow-up, ‘**** With Fire’.

    www.pmfs.com MP3s available at: www.soundclick.com/planesmistakenforstars


    The Rocket Summer (aka Bruce Avary)

    Bryce Avary is a phenomenally gifted 20-year-old whose self-produced, self-recorded debut album, ‘Calender Days’ finds him playing all the instruments and singing (almost) all the parts to songs that, naturally, he wrote himself, and that sound like the product of someone who's had 20 years to hone his craft.

    “’Cross My Heart" and "Saturday" are two of the most infectiously joyful songs released in recent memory, while the gently preachy "What We Hate We Make" actually incorporates a chorus of sixth-graders without inducing the gag reflex at all. Avary's voice is sweet and clear, and his playing - on all instruments - is absolutely solid and assured. This is, quite simply, an astounding album, and it's a little bit scary to contemplate what the next one will sound like.”
    – All Music Guide.
    www.therocketsummer.com


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