The band Jimmy Eat World is having their Bleed American Anniversary Tour signifying 25 years since the band has formed. They are known for their hits The Middle, Sweetness, Bleed American, Work, Pain and other hits.
In addition, the band plans to perform at Warped Tour after 25 years. There will be supporting acts such as Rise Against, Sunny Day Real Estate, Thrice, the Get Up Kids and many other bands in the lineup.
The tour is celebrating the anniversary of their 2001 album Bleed American where the singles The Middle and Sweetness were released on. The Middle is considered an anthem in the emo and pop-punk community.
According to Pitchfork, “The band will play the whole album but probably not in sequence, Jim Adkins told Billboard, which broke the news. Bleed American, he added, ‘changed our lives. It put us on a map. It gave us a new, broad audience of people that found something in it that they connected with. People have grown up with this record, right alongside us growing up, and I feel like it’s important to celebrate it. It’s important to acknowledge to people that we appreciate that, despite the obvious commerce involved.’”
The tour will start in early June and end in November. On Jul. 24 the band will be performing in the Bay Area as part of the tour at the Toyota Pavilion in Concord, CA. The summer show will replenish memories from fans and lead singer Jim Adkins remembers how it was a dramatic time for the band.
As part of their North American Tour, they will also be having shows in Canada in July, there will be shows in Alberta and British Columbia.
Along with Warped Tour, they also have a tour planned in the United Kingdom with outdoor shoes. They will have their biggest show in London at Gunnerbury Park on Aug. 16th. A presale for tickets had begun on Feb. 11 on Ticketmaster.
“Adkins explained how the album was unconsciously driven by ‘the seemingly disposable ways that we’re sold happiness or the thing that’s gonna do it for you and fill that black hole inside your spirit’,” NME reports.
When Jimmy Eat World released that album it became part of the breakthrough of the emo scene even though emo had started in the mid-80s.
Through their sound, the band was able to combine emo with mainstream alternative rock. Bleed American and Clarity were the two albums that made emo-pop. They influenced bands like Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy and Paramore.
The band formed in 1993 transforming their sound throughout the 90s. They had their first self-titled album Jimmy Eat World in 1994. During that time, they were still pretty pop-punk with songs such as Chachi, Amphibious and Splat Out Of Luck.
Then in 1996, they released another album Static Prevails, which brought out a more post-hardcore sound with tracks like Thinking, That`s All, Rockstar, Call It In The Air and Seventeen.
In 1999, Capitol Records had dropped Jimmy Eat World after their album Clarity after they recorded two albums with the label. They had a few singles from that album with one of them being Lucky Denver Mint and Blister.
While they were working on the album the tour is named after, the band did not have any support from a label at the time leaving the band to rely on themselves. But after Bleed American was completed, they signed with DreamWorks instead.
They worked with Interscope records to produce their 2004 album Futures and their 2007 album Chase This Light. Then they released their 2010 album Invented which they worked with DGC Records/Interscope.
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