Tours: AFI / Ceremony

Contributed by DrewXFishy. Posted by aubin on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 12:30 PM (EST)

AFI have announced the support and dates for their first shows of 2010. The band will kick off the tour on January 15th and shows will mainly feature Bridge Nine Records hardcore act, Ceremony. Other shows will include Wolves And Thieves, Viva Hate and others.

January 15, 2010	Petaluma	Ceremony, Wolves and Thieves
January 16, 2010	Reno	Viva Hate, Ceremony
January 18, 2010	Boise	Ceremony
January 19, 2010	Missoula	Ceremony
January 21, 2010	Spokane	Ceremony
January 22, 2010	Seattle	Ceremony
January 24, 2010	Vancouver	Skin Like Iron
January 25, 2010	Portland	Ceremony
January 27, 2010	Fresno	Viva Hate, Ceremony
January 28, 2010	Santa Cruz	Luke Janela, Ceremony
January 30, 2010	Tempe	Audra, Ceremony
January 31, 2010	Las Vegas	Ceremony

Bands in this story

AFI

Ceremony

Wolves And Thieves

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wagner1979 (November 24, 2009)

I'm so disappointed in AFI.
I'm all for going in a new direction...
but on their most recent tour...not one song from before Sing the Sorrow.

There are a lot of people that really love their older stuff.

At least do one or two songs from the old days.

Apparently ticket sales haven't been all that brisk...there's probably a reason.

LookingForCorpses (November 24, 2009)

I'm sure that reason has nothing to do with them not doing songs from "the old days."

dev (November 24, 2009)

I'd probably go if I was promised Sing The Sorrow in its entirety. But I'm not so I won't.

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

You're promised at least half of it each night.

Everything_Went_Numb (November 24, 2009)

I read an interview where Davey said that the old songs just don't fit with their new stuff, He feels there's just too much of a difference between say Triple Zero and Miss Murder and that it would be weird to play them in the same set. I agree though that they should play at least 1 or 2 songs for the older fans. Or even better, book 2 dates for each city and one night do Art of Drowning and before and the next night all the new stuff. That would rock!

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

Um, I saw them 7 times on their most recent tour and saw them play all of these songs:
NyQuil (1x)
Ever and a Day (3x)
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (2x)
No Poetic Device (1x)
Don't Make Me Ill (2x)
Self-Pity(1x)
The Despair Factor(1x)
Triple Zero(2x)
Values Here(1x)
6 to 8(1x)

They've actually made it a point to play at least two old songs on this tour. They've also played:
The Boy Who Destroyed the World
Half-Empty Bottle
This Secret Ninja
Wester

They even gave the crowd in Austin over the weekend the option of hearing either "NyQuil" or "Bikeage". The crowd chose "NyQuil", unfortunately, but still -theyl gave them the option.

joeydevil (November 25, 2009)

They played NyQuil off of Answer That...when I saw them and they played 6 to 8 off of Art of Drowning as well.

Tittus (November 24, 2009)

Sweet Viva Hate!

Dsquared (November 24, 2009)

This is the best april fools day joke ever

jim_gray (November 24, 2009)

I'll never understand the friendship between these two bands.

LookingForCorpses (November 24, 2009)

I don't see what's weird about it. They're from the same area, the AFI guys were/are hardcore fans.

Shogun (November 24, 2009)

It's the straight edge connection.

LookingForCorpses (November 24, 2009)

Is that somehow different than the hardcore connection? How many guys in AFI are actually straight edge now?

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

Adam is the only guy who smokes or drinks.

LookingForCorpses (November 24, 2009)

Interesting.

RavenEffect (November 24, 2009)

I wasn't even aware Ceremony was straight edge.

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

They're not. Half of them are, I believe.

Shogun (November 24, 2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z1hYhrGdOc

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

Odd timing. See below.

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

"Ceremony were on tour and I think their drummer couldn't join them on the road," Havok says, "and they had a drummer of Have Heart playing for them, who is a straight-edge kid. That made three out of the four members of the band for that evening be straight-edge kids.

"So they asked me if I wanted to sing that night, if they would play 'Straight Edge Revenge,' which would put four vegan straight-edge kids onstage -- which is the way it would have to be if you're going to sing that song. And it was really fun." He laughs. "It was a pleasure to join them."

Anyone surprised that Havok could just casually hop onstage like this shouldn't be. When he goes to 924 Gilman Street, he says he's like any other musician: He's there to support his friends, because his Bay Area pals are in hardcore bands. And when Havok jumped onstage at that show, he wasn't there as an ambassador for AFI.

"There's one thing that will unify people beyond any sort of artistic likes or dietary likes," Havok says. "And that is being straight edge. I'm straight edge; those kids that were singing along with me were straight edge. That's what that was about. It wasn't about Davey Havok, it wasn't about Ceremony: It was about four dudes playing militant straight edge, and 50 kids feeling it."

RavenEffect (November 24, 2009)

Interesting read,I was never aware of Ceremony and AFI being friends,nor was I aware half of Ceremony is straight edge and all of them being vegans.

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

Not to mention that Ceremony fucking love AFI.

mikexdude (November 24, 2009)

I'll never understand this comment.

chrisafi (November 24, 2009)

you should learn to read then

mikexdude (November 24, 2009)

Too busy bein' a badass.

Cos (November 24, 2009)

First thought that comes to mind about mike = badass

TheProblemWithFire (November 24, 2009)

i don't know but have you seen ceremony's guitarist? he seriously looks like a chick/davey havok-ish skinny pants and makeup and all

mikexdude (November 24, 2009)

straight edge revenge tour.

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

If that happened every night, I'd die.

Dante3000 (rich) (November 24, 2009)

Rad! Straight edge in Petaluma, one of California's meth hubs.
-Dante

DrGunn (November 24, 2009)

i'm pretty sure ceremony are NOT a straight edge band.

Dante3000 (rich) (November 24, 2009)

They should be. Do they know how lucrative that can be?
-Dante

Cos (November 24, 2009)

They should fight with Riverside for the title.

red_eye_inc (November 24, 2009)

Ceremony are pretty great

24HourPriapism (November 24, 2009)

all those fat mallgoth chicks are gonna be varying degrees of scared, disappointed and confused by ceremony. is this a club tour or an enormo-dome tour?

Everything_Went_Numb (November 24, 2009)

My guess is club. There isn't an arena in Tempe, just a club. The best one in the state, too.

Otter (November 24, 2009)

I am going to the missoula show. I love there old stuff, they better play a single second. I think thats the only old song they play. All the new fans will hate ceremony. I will love watching the crowd go nuts and people just hating on the mosh pit. 14 year old girls will not like ceremony is my guess

chrisafi (November 24, 2009)

They played A single second in their festival set this summer, which was awesome, but the new album has seen total immortal drop off their regular setlist I think. Which leaves Days of the Phoenix and God Called in Sick Today as the only two pre Sing the Sorrow tracks you can expect to hear.

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

They occasionally bust out "The Days..." and haven't played "God Called..." this tour, thankfully. See my post above about all the old songs they've played.

iamgodsongs (November 24, 2009)

Ceremony has gone downhill hard post "violence violence", both on record and in a live setting, though last time i saw them, they had the drummer from blacklisted filling in. Still, with how much (deserved) hype flying around a few years ago it's a shame to see them just boring these days.

nick_heitman (November 24, 2009)

never been bored at a ceremony show.

red_eye_inc (November 24, 2009)

That's crazy, they've been awesome every time I've seen them.

iamgodsongs (November 24, 2009)

i've seen them like 4 times, first i believe before violence violence came out, and last when they toured with have heart and blacklisted. last time i saw them you couldn't even tell one song from the other, for the most part. their drummer made them and losing a guitar player didn't help a whole lot either.

iamgodsongs (November 24, 2009)

could have been an off night, but still, their recorded output since violence... .sucks pretty hard.

victim (November 24, 2009)

Yeah, I mean there were still some parts that were reminiscent of Violence Violence on Still Nothing Moves You (not coincidnetally my favorite parts) but I just wasn't as into it. Glad somebody came out and said this because I am on the fence.

Not sure I totally agree with you btw, but glad it was said. They went to sounding more generic-y IMO.

iamgodsongs (November 24, 2009)

i do listen to it sometimes, and appreciate the more punk influenced stuff, and even understand that ceremony couldn't just rely on thrash riffs and blast-beats forever, but like you said, it's a bit generic. If they released still nothing... first, at least a star would have peeled off of half of the reviews for it.

victim (November 24, 2009)

I just heard another band that sort of sounds like Ceremony (vocals mainly) but the music is just..boring. The band is called Rah, from Toronto I think.

Listening to that made me realize how good Violence Violence was.

TheAutumnPeople (November 24, 2009)

I'm wondering if this AFI show should be the first show I go to at the newly opened/soon to be open Knitting Factory here in Reno.

Everything_Went_Numb (November 24, 2009)

Yes.

sugarfull (November 24, 2009)

Skin Like Iron is the best band of the bands mentioned. Canadians, it would behoove you guys to check the Vancouver date out.

Ceremony playing with Afi is interesting. It would be funny to see how many 14 year old girls hate them, and how many will be texting their friends and being like "omg I'm so hardcore right now". Hopefully they do the Red C cover.

Archangel (November 24, 2009)

Have you seen Ceremony? I don't think they can play and NOT bring out "Pressure's On."

... or did you just want points for proving that you knew it was a cover?

sugarfull (November 24, 2009)

I saw them play once at United Blood Fest this year. They were pretty good live, but "Pressure's On" was definitely the highlight for me.

It's just a fantastic song. I didn't know if that was just a one time thing (I know they recorded the cover for one of their albums) or if they did it regularly.

branden (November 24, 2009)

have you heard the rftc cover?

Evil_Dead (November 24, 2009)

Sooo stoked for Petaluma.

RavenEffect (November 24, 2009)

I'd probably be happy for Ceremony getting more exposure if the majority of AFI's fanbase is made up of 14-16 year old overweight Got Topic chicks.

RavenEffect (November 24, 2009)

*wasnt

PurpleLlama (November 24, 2009)

I really wish I had skipped my 10am class to get tickets to the Petaluma show because now it's sold out. They should've released the openers ahead of time, then I would most definitely have skipped. Fucking Ceremony! Wolves and Thieves are really good too.

Hubitcherkokov (November 24, 2009)

Have you seen the live DVD/heard the live album? Vocally, the old stuff just sounded bad. I love the old stuff as much as the next fan, but I'd rather hear the new stuff because it sounds better live.

rebam97 (November 24, 2009)

weirdest combo of bands. ceremony and AFI? really?

timethief (November 24, 2009)

good. now davey havok and the guitar player from ceremony can exchange beauty tips.
i will probably go to the vancouver show to see skin like iron.......

Amazingthemike (November 25, 2009)

SKIN LIKE IRON!!!!!

Lifebystereo (November 25, 2009)

I've seen Ceremony open for AFI before and it was a terrible, terrible match. Just... yikes. (Because this was at a secret show in '06, obviously Shut Your Mouth type sound would work well with it.)

Fuck Ceremony.