BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:543@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T234500 DTSTAMP:20231114T164137Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/bowling-for-soup/ SUMMARY:Bowling For Soup DESCRIPTION:With their thirty year anniversary as a band on the horizon in 2024\, Texas’ favourite punk rock export Bowling For Soup continue to gr ow their global fanbase and expand their success year on year. Also dubbed the crown princes of pop punk\, Bowling For Soup - frontman and guitarist Jaret Reddick\, fellow guitarist Chris Burney\, drummer Gary Wiseman and bassist Rob Felicetti have proved that nothing\, not even a global pandemi c\, has slowed the demand for their unique\, humour filled live shows and upbeat\, heartfelt anthems. \n\nSongs such as High School Never Ends\, Pu nk Rock 101\, 1985 and of course the Grammy nominated Girl All The Bad Guy s Want resonate as much today as when they were written and are proving ex tremely popular in the modern streaming world. Their 2022 album\, Pop Drun k Snot Bread\, a play on the cultural reference “pop punk’s not dead ”\, was heralded by fans and critics alike as the band’s best release in fifteen years. Millions of streams and YouTube views for songs like Get ting Old Sucks (But Everybody’s Doing It)\, I Wanna Be Brad Pitt and the global smash Alexa Bliss (dedicated to WWE’s own multi-time world wrest ling women’s champion) show that Bowling For Soup can still run rings (a nd riffs) around their younger contemporaries. The album also features son gs like The Best We Can\, Wouldn’t Change A Thing and the positive menta l health anthem Hello Anxiety\, where Bowling For Soup show they can do bo th serious and reflective\, with a BFS heart at the core.  \n\nIt's a te stament to the bands' enduring appeal and a fanbase that continues to grow day after day - evidenced by their 100 million streams on Spotify in the year 2020 alone. Finding their niche back in the 1990's would be tough whe n the musical climate was in serious shift. "We were just the stereotypica l\, small town guys with nothing else to do - starting a band to keep ours elves out of trouble" recalls frontman Jaret Reddick looking back. There w as certainly no trend to follow\, every other band seemed to be genre jump ing to try and catch "the next big thing" without knowing what "the next b ig thing was"\, leaving the members of Bowling For Soup with no option to just go out and have fun. Brought up on a heady diet of 80's John Hughes M ovies\, LA Hair Metal\, Steve Martin comedy routines (which spawned the ba nd's name) and hook laden punk rock\, BFS hit the ground running on the si mple blueprint - have a good time and pretty soon\, everyone else will joi n in! \n\nBowling For Soup are a band who've proven time and again that t hey can move with the times throughout a period of turbulence for the musi c industry. From their DIY roots\, through to being on a major record labe l for many years (Jive Records) and being very successfully independent wi th their own label for over a decade\, they are a band who've found succes s in every way. ‘We're in control of everything now. If we decide we wan na do something\, we just do it - we don't need to ask anyone’s permissi on. It also makes you feel super proud when you do something yourself and it’s a success’\, reveals Reddick. \n\nPrior to the COVID-19 outbreak \, Bowling For Soup were playing to the biggest crowds of their career. Ov er 20\,000 people witnessed their sold out 2020 UK tour with Simple Plan a nd they've sold out arenas alongside Steel Panther. Headline appearances a t recent editions of UK festivals like Slam Dunk and Reading and Leeds hav e gone down a storm. At Reading Festival 2019 the crowd overflowed out of the stage with fans peering for a glimpse of "BFS"\, while their appearanc es at the final editions of the US Vans Warped Tour brought enormous crowd s to every show\, no matter what time of day the band were performing. \n \nWith the world experiencing live music again following COVID in 2022\, B owling For Soup’s enduring live appeal saw fans return in droves for hug e tours in both the UK and US\, many making a “BFS” show their first t aste of live music since the pandemic. Whether it was huge theatre shows w ith Lit and The Dollyrots (UK)\, Less Than Jake and The Aquabats (US) or t he sold out UK singalong with Jaret and Rob acoustic tour\, the demand to see Bowling For Soup live in the flesh is bigger than it ever has been. 20 23 sees the band return to play festivals and shows in mainland Europe for the first time in many years\, alongside huge slots at the UK Slam Dunk F estival\, while multiple US tours are in the pipeline. A Second chapter of their greatest hits\, Songs People Actually Like Volume 2\, is due to lan d late this Summer. Frontman Jaret Ray Reddick is also enjoying new advent ures with his journey in the world of Red Dirt Country Music with his debu t solo album Just Woke Up. \n\nWhile the music industry and the world at large is ever evolving\, Bowling For Soup have prided themselves on moving with the times\, keeping up with the latest ways to stay in touch with th eir fans (Jaret is now a huge star on TikTok) and get their music out ther e to as many people as possible. For generations of fans\, there has alway s been a Bowling For Soup song for every occasion. They’re the band who make you smile and they’re the band who will pick you up when you are do wn\, and as their song says\, they wouldn’t change a thing.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2023/09/REV_BOWL_4X6-1.jpg CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR