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It is not even past noon and yet the hot sun is already torturing the hundreds of cars parked outside the Warped Tour gates in Denver, the seemingly endless line is just about inside which means only one thing for the Tallahassee Florida-based quintet known as Mayday Parade: about ten hours of absolutely nothing to do but wait they have already spent the last few hours walking up and down in line with the children at the entrance making new friends and especially new fans when the show finally ends later that evening the boys will once again strap on their book bags full of CDs and talking with nAgon, and all they can find "The hardest part was waiting most of our van is locked up and there was nowhere to go," says guitarist Brooks Betts' It was too hot to sleep and only a couple of times we could not even get into the show "
by the conclusion of the 2006 Vans Warped Tour Mayday Parade made 10,000 new fans without playing a single show Now with 221000 + MySpace friends pull in everything from Alternative Press to Outburn to Substream and several national and UK tours under his belt, the band will take 2009, with the storm after a fall run of "the compromising of integrity Morality & Principles for remuneration Tour with All Time Low Every Avenue and The Maine, together with a large music festival in Britain and a stop in Japan with Paramr under his belt and
The band was formed in the winter of 2005 when two local Tallahassee bands break point and Kid Named Chicago decided to merge the still anonymous collection of Derek Sanders Alex Garcia Jake Bundrick Jeremy Lenzo, and Brooks Betts entered the studio with producer Lee Dyess and took for one week to finish their debut EP "Tales Told by Dead Friends" While in the studio the band settled on the name Mayday Parade as a band they would spend much time climbing on the rooftops in Tallahassee especially when the winter parade was going center Alex who was a fan of the word Mayday made the claim that they name the band Mayday Parade in an effort to remember his time watching hometown parades together from the rooftops All älskard idea and the name stuck
It became clear att Touring more was on the horizon for Mayday Parade after finishing the European Parliament and has sold over 10000 copies, while after 2006 Vans Warped Tour "Following Warped taught us so much about touring," says singer Derek Sanders' and now we are traveling to places we never even played and there are children singing songs that we wrote It's a pretty amazing feeling "Mayday Parade hard work and dedication was rewarded finally in the autumn of 2006 when the band signed with California based Fearless Records" The dream had finally come true "remembers Brooks" It was like taking a final step on top of a long series of stairs and fearless believed in us and admired what we uträttatpå our own "
In September 2006, Mayday Parade embarked on their first U.S. tour with the Fire Maresand Melee, followed by a second U.S. tour with Plain White T's having sold more than 20.000 copies of the EP Mayday was ready to get back into the studio in January and February 2007, the band went into the studio with producers Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount (Cartel All Time Low ) and the tracks were mixed by Mark Needham (My Chemical Romance The Academy Is) The new record titled "A Lesson in Romantics" showcases the bands maturity and growth songs are much deeper and more powerful than those on the EP but still have that irresistible catchiness that made thousands of people in love with the band to begin with to make its debut in July 2007 album fad enthusiastically dubbed "the best album to come out in years" from MTV Girls Gone Punk Blog "A Lesson in Romantics" has sold more 45th000 copies and reached # 1 on both Absolute Punk's King of the Hill Function # 1 on PureVolumecom and # 1 on SmartPunkcom
After their album's release Mayday Parade co-headlined a tour with Bedlight for Blue Eyes hit the steps in the Vans Warped Tour and has since its touring with As Cities Burn Paramore Madina Lake All Time Low and Emery has not only made Mayday wrappers Substream Magazine and the Campus Activities Magazine has been featured in Spin AMP Poll Star and Alternative Press magazine The band's music video for "When I Get Home You're So Dead "premiered on the front page of MySpace Music trimmed more than 75,000 songs in just two days with this kind of attention it is easy to see why Mayday's songs are like spun on radio stations across the countryfrom Chicago to Orlando WKQX encroachment
When meeting Mayday Parade for the first time is a deniable fact: the band does everything for each other, "My favorite part of being in Mayday Parade is the people I play music with," says bassist Jeremy Lenzo "The dedication is always there "The boys always have fun never take anything too seriously and this positive energy shines in their live show You will find it almost impossible not to smile while watching Mayday Parade perform their always fun energetic set
Mayday Parade will not be leave your stereo when ärlighetav their texts and the power of their music enters your head, not only will be held there for several days, but you will find yourself making progress to keep it there intentionally,
"It wis Brooke's birthday the night that we flipped our brand new trailer heading from Wisconsin to Minnesota, "remembers drummer Jake Bundrick" The girl who drove us almost beat a deer and lost control, I just remember looking out the window and see the trailer next to the van instead of behind it Our cds far above the highway ... but it did not stop us, "If countless hours in the boiling sun sleeping in the car overnight and run five days camping stints on the side of the highway could not stop them, you can rest assured that nothing will derail their success
Let majDay Parade hard work and dedication of limited extent in an industry where so many bands expect to have everything sent to them
