Yesterday, New York Times broke the story on how THE HUMP restaurant at the Santa Monica airport was busted by THE COVE filmmakers for serving whale meat—an endangered specie of whale, no less! (Click on the link for full article in NY Times.)

BUT the restaurant is still open for business and the $20,000 fine they could end up being slapped with is nowhere near enough to put them out of business. Meanwhile, uninformed patrons continue to spend top dollar to eat there! Please rally with us THIS FRIDAY during their lunch rush to get the word out! 1130am to 2pm.. We need to bring LOCAL media attention to inform people in the surrounding community about the truth about this restaurant – that they are illegally serving endangered species. We will be holding a peaceful protest in front of The Hump’s front entrance to let the media know that this shameful restaurant has secretly serving endangered Sei Whale meat. We will have signs made but please bring some of your own. Signs should say “shame on you for serving endangered species” to “stop serving whale meat” etc! Please help with getting more people to this protest so we can make a HUGE impact on things and inform people in Santa Monica what’s going on in their own backyard.

DATE: Friday March 12th

TIME: 11:30am-2:00pm

PLACE: THE HUMP: http://www.thehump.biz/

Google Maps Link

3221 Donald Douglas Loop South
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 313-0977

DIRECTIONS:

405 NORTH

10 WEST

EXIT Bundy South

RIGHT on Airport Ave.

RIGHT – Donald Douglas Loop (look for soccer fields to the right – there should be ample parking)

More about this in the press…

NY Times

LA Times

Fox LA

LA Weekly

They Will Rock You

A Thousand Guitars

ReadJunk

PunkWorldViews

AltSounds

RigaBlood

DisarrayMagazine

BlackVelvet

TheGauntlet

Monster & Critics

Thanks to loyal fan “Dodio”, we’ve got a slew of videos from our last show at The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA.

Use the arrows in the right and left to scroll through the video playlist…

youtube.com/view_play_list?p=357CF5706A25A4D4

A lot has been going on in the world of IGNITE over the past month. Here is the latest update.

IGNITE has confirmed a local California show at the Glasshouse in Pomona on February 27th with DEATH BY STEREO, TOUCHE AMORE and ROTTING OUT. We are very excited about this show! We have also started confirming festivals in Europe during the Summer. So far the confirmed shows in Europe are:

June 18,  Southside Festival- Neuhausen, Germany

June 20, Hurricane Festival- Sheessel, Germany

June 26, Mach1 Festival- Montabour, Germany

June 27, Graspop Metal Meeting- Dessel, Belgium

More shows will be added to this tour and will be updated here and on our myspace page as soon as we have the information!

The non-IGNITE news. Many of you know that Zoli has been filling in on the vocal duties for Pennywise since their longtime singer Jim Lindberg left the band a few months ago. Well, Zoli will be joining Pennywise as their full time frontman! They have some warm-up shows in March on the West Coast then they will head out on a month long European tour starting at the Groezrock Festival in Belgium on April 24th. We are very excited for Zoli and this great opportunity for him to sing in one of the greatest punk bands of all time! Dont worry IGNITE fans, Zoli is not quitting IGNITE and we are not breaking up either, we will continue to write, record and tour with IGNITE as long as our fans want us to continue!

In more non-IGNITE news: NATIONS AFIRE, the band that features Brett and Nik from IGNITE as well as former members of Rise Against and Death By Stereo, have made a line-up change and Nik has taken over vocal duties for NA! NATIONS AFIRE is currently in the rehearsal and recording studios writing songs for their much anticipated debut full-length cd. NA will be playing shows as early as March with the new line-up as well.

27.11. Torhout @ De Mast (Beligium)
28.11. Oberhausen @ Turbinenhalle (Germany)
29.11. Eindhoven @ Klokgebouw (Netherlands)
30.11. München @ Backstage Werk (Germany)
01.12. Wien @ Gasometer (Austria)
02.12. Würzburg @ Posthalle (Germany)
03.12. Paris @ Elysée Montmartre (France)
04.12. Saarbrücken @ Garage (Germany)
05.12. Dresden @ Messe Dresden (Germany)
06.12. Hamburg @ Docks (Germany)

The members of PENNYWISE have announced that Zoli Teglas, front man for OC hardcore/punk band IGNITE will be filling in on vocals during the band’s set on the 2009 Smokeout Festival at the San Manuel Amphitheatre in San Bernadino, CA October 24th, as they begin their search for a new singer.

The two day Smokeout Festival will take place on October 23 and 24 and marks the seminal Hermosa Beach punk band’s first major show since Pennywise singer Jim Lindberg and the band parted ways last month after 19 years together.

Pennywise will be playing on a lineup that includes such acts as Slipknot, Deftones, Cypress Hill, Kottonmouth Kings, Bad Brains, Method Man/Red Man, a recently reunited Sublime (performing with their new singer, Rome) and many more.

As a former tour mate and a longtime friend and fan, Pennywise’s Fletcher Dragge says Teglas is a natural choice to help the band out during this transitional period. Dragge explains, “As everybody knows, Jim has left the band and we’re looking for a new singer. For the time being our friend Zoli has agreed to fill in for Jim for a couple shows to avoid having to cancel them while we look for a permanent replacement.”

Teglas is looking forward to playing with Pennywise and their hometown So Cal fans adding, “I’m stoked to be singing these upcoming shows with Pennywise. I’m a huge fan of the band and am super grateful to share the stage with my long time friends Fletcher, Byron, and Randy. “

Check the tour dates section of the website to see the updated tour dates for May in California and July in Europe. More dates will be posted soon!!!

IGNITE has been confirmed to play at the festival BAMBOOZLE LEFT @ The Festival Grounds at Verizon Wireless Ampitheater on April 5th.

On September 6th, Kevin Kilkenny, one of IGNITE’s full time touring guitar players for the past decade, riding the Cardboard Robot KX500 dirt bike, exited the timed mile at the Bonneville Salt Flats, USA at 130.418 miles per hour. He turned the bike around and ran back across the same stretch of real estate at 132.444 m.p.h. Setting a new record average of 131.431 m.p.h. and raising the AMA National 500cc MPS/P motorcycle speed record nearly ten miles an hour.

Kilkenny was racing against a record set by seven time Baja 1000 winner Steve Hengeveld and F2 Racing. Kilkenny set a new AMA national record, he was the fastest 500cc sit-on bike at the event and the bike he rode, the Cardboard Robot KX500, is the World’s Fastest Dirt Bike.

For video footage of the World Record Event, take a look below:

More details can be found at: www.wolbrinkrace.blogspot.com