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Hey Monday Tour Dates

• 10th Aug 2009

Barely out of high school, Cassadee’s new beginning is a dream come true. Discovered at a regional music conference where the teenage siren would sing for anyone willing to listen, she attracted the attention of record label scouts at a time when most of her friends weren’t even old enough to drive. Less than two years later she’s preparing for the release of her band’s first album, Hold On Tight, a joint venture between Columbia Records and Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz’s Decaydance Records. Produced by S*A*M and Sluggo [The Academy Is, Gym Class Heroes, Metro Station], the album is a free-spirited spin through life’s post-adolescent twists, turns, trials and triumphs.

Forming a songwriting tandem with lead guitarist Mike Gentile, Cassadee’s vocals pierce Hey Monday’s guitar-driven underbelly like melodic daggers, her lush, vibrant voice spiraling amidst the tracks like an aerobic workout. Forging her musical path, Gentile and rhythm guitarist Alex Lipshaw riff with an infectious sense of urgency and a propensity for hyperactive pop-rock, and bassist Jersey Moriarty and drummer Elliot James elevate the bottom end with a heave-ho so dynamic, it shakes the album at its very foundation.

From the racing guitars that run rampant through the hot summer sun of “Arizona,” to the more anxious styling of “Homecoming” and the empowering ballad “Candles,” Hey Monday deliver an album that embraces the youthful energy of the musicians that created it. Spiteful breakup songs and bitter observations that an ex has moved on mingle with muffled expressions of independence and a quest for one’s self in the world around us. Hey Monday can see the light, and it is shining bright before them. Who said the weekend needs to end?

Forthcoming Hey Monday UK tour dates:

9/27 – Leeds @ The Cockpit

9/28 – Southsea @ Wedgewood Rooms
9/29 – London @ Islington O2 Academy £10*
9/30 – Cardiff @ Clwb Ifor Bach
10/2 – Oxford @ O2 Academy
10/3 – Wolverhampton @ Civic Bar
10/4 – Glasgow @ King Tut's
10/5 – Manchester @ Academy 3 £8*

*Tickets are on sale now at link 24 hr cc hotline 0871 2200 260.

Debut album “Hold on Tight” out now