They're heading out for a new tour starting this month. Only the dates for the first leg of the tour have been released.
Here's the info for the first leg of the tour (copy/pasted from their Myspace page):
THE JONAS BROTHERS ARE COMING TO YOUR CITY!
Tickets go on sale THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 12th!
The FIRST 20 ROWS go on sale exclusively at the venue Box Office this Saturday!
We did this to ensure that OUR FANS have a chance to get the BEST SEATS.
This is a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE opportunity.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, January 12th!
Below is a list of venues and on sale times.
January 31 Tucson, AZ - Tucson Convention Center Music Hall Theater (On Sale 10 am on January 12th)
February 1 Las Vegas, NV - Planet Hollywood (On Sale 10 am on January 12th)
February 2 Los Angeles, CA - Gibson Amphitheater (On Sale 12 noon on January 12th)
February 5 Everett, WA - Everett Events Center (On Sale 10 am on January 12th)
February 6 Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (On Sale 10 am on January 12th)
February 8 Salt Lake City, UT - E-Center (On Sale 10 am on January 12th)
February 11 El Paso, TX - Abraham Chavez Theater (On Sale 12 noon on January 12th)
Visit JonasBrothers.com for more tour dates and information.
You can also purchase your tickets online at www.livenation.com or through your local ticket outlets.
** There is a 4 seat maximum on the number of seats each person can purchase. **
** The first 20 rows will be given away through a wristband system on site at the box office **
I think that the first 20 rows thing is awesome- I'm glad they learned from the Miley Cyrus tour fiasco that the fans deserve a better system. I was all giddy when I saw that they had added dates to their website, but they haven't released any east coast dates yet...
I totally will have to be camping out when they announce when tickets will go on sale for the next leg...I hope Bobby doesn't say no...he doesn't understand why I get all worked up about musical artists I like! But, I read when I initially tried to copy/paste dates from their website, that they won't necessarily be going in order...they'll give people wristbands with numbers on them, I guess, and they'll randomly select a number to start with. So, if they start with number 75, then all of those people will go before Person #1, so, even if Person #1 was waiting in line since midnight, he/she may not even get a ticket (they'll go back to #1, 2, 3, etc. after everyone else); what I read said that even if you have a wristband, you're not guaranteed to get any tickets, and that sucks. I love how they're doing the first 20 rows thing, but I think they should just start giving tickets with Person #1, and then to Person #2, etc.I find this interesting...on their last solo tour (summer 2007), they played smaller venues (I saw them at the House of Blues). For this tour, they're playing slightly larger venues (I don't know if they're playing anywhere that's as large as where they've played on the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus tour, though). Have they gotten that much more popular since the summer? I'm proud of them for having the success they're having, but it surprises me that they're not playing smaller venues like they had been.
Sometime later this year (in the not-so-distant future), their TV show "J.O.N.A.S" will be premiering on Disney Channel, so I'm sure we'll all be talking about that when that show starts up.
Also, I know that they have started recording their next album on their tour bus. So that's more exciting news!
As much as I'm a fan of theirs and wish them continued success, I wonder when some of the Jonasmania will die down. Hanson was hugely popular back in 1997-1998, and then they lost a lot of that popularity. I think it's probably cooler for artists after the hysteria has died down- like at Hanson shows, the band knows that they're not playing to large crowds (not large like they once were), and that the fans that go to their shows are in for the long-haul, are the die-hard fans. I think that Jonas Brothers have been more backwards- they started with a smaller, supportive fanbase, and then, once Disney got a hold of them (which was awesome, since their old record label dropped them), they've become massively popular. I remember when I first heard "Mandy" (or saw, because I think it was on MTV), I liked it a lot, but I didn't rush out to get the album (I didn't even know that they had an album...I thought that it was just a random song that they had recorded, for some reason). I ended up getting their CD, "It's About Time" either at the end of 2006 or the beginning of 2007- still before they were massively popular. I didn't listen to that CD (which is awesome) on a regular basis until shortly before their latest CD (which is also awesome) came out.
I love all of their songs, but my least favorites are "Hollywood" followed by "Games". My favorites are "7:05", "Time For Me to Fly", and "Goodbye & Goodnight".
My favorite is Kevin...he's really sweet and I love his dances (like the "S.O.S. dance)...! He rarely sings solos, but on Youtube, I've found a couple instances where we can hear what he sounds like...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIN3PoohTYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTtw3vul4f8
I think that he has a really nice voice, and I wish that he'd sing solo more often!!! On their next album, he should totally, if not have his own solo song, at least have one that he sings by himself for some of it.
So, what are your thoughts on the Jonas Brothers?
