THE VALLEY ARENA ANODYNE RECORDS Links: Label / Official / Publicity / Photos / Stage Plot SHOWS DATE VENUE APPEARING WITH 01.19 Riverside, CA - Back To The Grind 02.15 Long Beach, CA - Alex's Bar 02.25 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour 03.08 Mesa, AZ - Sweetcakes 03.09 El Paso, TX - The Brickhouse 03.11 McAllen, TX - The Incubator 03.12 Houston, TX - Notsuoh 03.13 Austin, TX - Room 710 Anodyne Records Party 03.13 Austin, TX - West's 03.14 Austin, TX - Monkey Wrench Books 03.15 Austin, TX - North Loop Parking Lot 03.15 Austin, TX - Emo's AP Party 03.16 Oklahoma City, OK - Convergance w/ The Photo Atlas and 1090 Club 03.18 Lawrence, KS - Jackpot Saloon w/ The Photo Atlas and 1090 Club 03.19 Kansas City, MO - RecordBar w/ The Photo Atlas and 1090 Club 03.20 St Louis, MO - The Bluebird w/ The Photo Atlas + 1090 Club 03.21 Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room w/ The Photo Atlas and 1090 Club 03.22 Lincoln, NE - Box Awesome w/ The Photo Atlas and 1090 Club 03.23 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive w/ The Photo Atlas and 1090 Club 03.24 Colorado Springs, CO - The Black Sheep w/ The Photo Atlas + 1090 Club 03.25 Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts w/ The Photo Atlas + 1090 Club 03.26 Upland, CA - The Wire w/ The Photo Atlas and 1090 Club 03.27 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory w/ The Photo Atlas + 1090 Club 03.28 Long Beach, CA - Alex's Bar w/ The Photo Atlas + 1090 Club 03.29 Sacramento, CA - Old Ironsides w/ The Photo Atlas + 1090 Club AVAILS DATE SITUATION Mar-Jun 2008 To Support/Package Formed in Long Beach, CA in 2003, the foursome—singer/guitarist Warren Woodward, guitarist/vocalist Chris Stevens, bassist Dave South, and drummer Mike Nielson— paid their dues with other bands working the SoCal circuit (Mike and Chris first played together at the age of 13), but the first time the four attempted to combine their separate pursuits as one entity, things instantly clicked. A mere few months after their inception, the group completed what would become their first full-length, Take Comfort in Strangers. Produced by Jason Cupp (The Elected, Finch, Val Emmich) while the band were still unsigned, the debut recalled D.C. darlings Fugazi and Q And Not U, the darker undertones of the first generation of post-punk and art-punk with a hint of mid-’90s Touch And Go Records-style aggression. Shortly after the completion of Take Comfort... the band was approached with a record deal offer by New Jersey’s Eyeball/Astro Magnetics records. Since the 2005 release of their debut LP, The Valley Arena have relentlessly toured the U.S. and Europe (supporting Thrice), garnered rave reviews in magazines like Alternative Press, Filter and Revolver and, defying all logic, saw their home-made music video voted #1 on Fuse’s Oven Fresh show above Coldplay, U2 and Eminem. In late 2006, without losing a beat, they returned to the studio with Jason Cupp once more to furiously begin work on their 2nd full length, the highly anticipated, highly evolved Sons of Cigarette City, a string of stories set in a desperate, hyper-sexual, re-imagination of their hometown. With a new arsenal of songs under their belt - ones that find the band trading in their brash guitar battles in for snake-like grooves and songwriting that digs deep under the skin - the band will spend 2007 pushing forward with the same scrappy ambition and abandon that has endeared the band to the many that know them.