How YOU can contribute

Want to help out with the blog, it’s easy! Just send in whatever you have about the tours – videos from the walks, photos from the walks, concerts or at the bus, photos of the marquee at the venues that say HANSON, reviews, funny things that happened at the shows… and of course – TICKET STUBS!

You can submit items to: hansontickets@gmail.com

I try to check the account at least once a day.

(Also information on past openers tours and what they are up to is appreciated as well!)

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When he is done talking, I always expect to hear “This mailbox is full. Please try again later”

Looks like tour announcements are “days” away. So much for mid-this week, huh boys?

Site Updates

2000 Setlists – Norman (OKC) and Sweetstock added
2001 – Riverfest “ticket” (pin) added

Also updated affiliates on the main page. Want your site to be an affiliate? Let me know! It doesn’t have to be a Hanson-related site

And we’re back!

HansonTickets.com is back up and running! If you notice anything missing or not working right, please let me know Also if you have any of the stubs or setlists that aren’t posted, please do not hesitate to send them in.

I can’t wait to start adding in the 2009 tour dates… Let’s hope they really are posted next week and not while I am on vacation!

HansonTickets.com back July 4th!

The plan is for HansonTickets.com to go live on July 4th. There might be a slight glitch as the domain name is in the process of switching between companies. We hope that any down time will be minimal while we switch everything from one company to the other

Upcoming Tour Info from Zac!

Zac posted on hanson.net some info about the upcoming tour, album, etc.

When will the Tour Dates Be Announced:
We believe that some time mid next week we will be able to announce the tour dates.

Where will you Tour In the Fall:
This coming Fall tour will only be in the US and Canada. We do have plans to tour outside of North America but that will not happen till next year.

When will the new album come out:
The new album will not be coming out until next year, some time in the first quarter is what we are thinking, we planning to spend the rest of this year putting together the partners who will release the album outside the US.

Will there be New Music this year:
We are planning on releasing a new EP with the Fall tour, so there will be something new this year.

Will there still be walks on the Fall tour:
Yes. We have been busy in the studio working on the new album, and because of that we have not been able to share our plans for the next lap around the world. We are almost finished and after that much of our attention will be focused on continuing to build off of the work that so many of you have already been a part of.

He also talks a bit more about the features that will be added to the new website.

I am taking the “mid next week” with a grain of salt, since he put “believe” in that sentence.

The new HansonTickets.com MIGHT be up this weekend, if I don’t run into any snags – I wanted to put it up when the dates are out, but I’m kind of getting sick of waiting! There are just a few more pages to put together so keep your eyes posted to the blog and once it’s up I will let you all know

Tyler Hilton cancels tour

Past opener, Tyler Hilton, has been forced to cancel his summer tour. What a bummer, I was hoping to (finally) get to see him again!

He posted on his official website, tylerhilton.com :

(Deep breath in….and…) I’ve got some good news and bad news for you guys. First, the good news. Matt Serletic has joined the team and will be producing the last songs needed for the record. We start today and are planning on working for the next 3 weeks or so on 6 new tunes. This will be it! No more recording to come after this. There is a light at the end of this long tunnel. Unfortunately, like some good things that come, they do so at a price. The price of this final hurrah will be having to cancel the tour with Better Than Ezra that I had planned starting on the 9th. Look, this is something I hate to do and I know lots of you were looking forward to the shows, but this is something I really need to do. It’s importance is implicit in having to cancel a tour my friends in the band went out of their way to help me out and bring me aboard. Believe me, all I want to do is get out there and play for you. Every freaking state, every country. My tour plans the last few years have been so scatter brained because there has always been this record to contend with. I will finish this music this summer and then all I’ll have to focus on will be playing it back to you live and as often as your area will have me. I’m so so sorry to everyone who was looking forward to seeing the shows and sorry to everyone on the Better Than Ezra team and my team who did all the work to promote and make this happen. I hope everyone will understand and know that I’ll be back out there soon enough. And when the next time comes to leave on tour….I’ll be
out there for a long while. I’ll be yours again!

Thanks for understanding

At least we still have his new album to look forward to!

Honor Society embarks on first headlining tour

Past local opener, Honor Society, is getting set to start their first headlining tour – The Full Moon Crazy tour. Known as a tour within a tour, the gentlemen are also opening up for The Jonas Brothers on the Canadian and American legs of their World Tour.

The Full Moon Crazy tour is the official pre/after party of the World Tour Shows! You never know who is going to show up! Some of the shows are matinee shows while others will start after the Jonas concert has already wrapped.

If you are in the area for any of these shows, I strongly suggest that you check the guys out. Self proclaimed as “Justin Timberlake’s Rock Project”, Honor Society’s songs will make you want to dance and sing along, no duh. Also keep an eye out for their upcoming debut album, due out later this year.

If you go to a show – let them know that Katie sent you if you happen to meet them (and I suggest you try to if you can, they’re really great guys!) and if you end up at the Boston, Farmindgale or New York shows – come by and say hi to me as well, as I’ll be there! (And Farmingdale is my birthday so bring cupcakes too.. if you want.. lol)

Article: Pop Graduates: Acts That Made the Leap From the Teen Scene to Grown-Up Rock

RollingStone features Hanson in their Pop Graduates article

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Early Schooling: Always unfairly lumped into the kiddie pop, the three Hanson brothers always wrote their own songs and played their own instruments, setting them apart from the bulk of their Tiger Beat peers. Is it their fault they were so unbelievably adorable?
Turning Point: Puberty (surprise, surprise). 2001’s This Time Around slunk quietly into oblivion, but the trio’s talent and perseverence secured them a steady cadre of fans that stuck around long past the groups’ cute-pop heyday.
Post-Graduate Work: The Hanson brothers have quietly grown into elder statesmen of independent music. They established their own label (3CG), and continue to release mature, winning records that synthesize ’60s pop and R&B into irresistible confections.

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