IGNITE news

- April 5th, 2006

Pre-Order your copy of "Our Darkest Days" at smartpunk.com!

Click here to pre-order your copy Free poster and autographed booklet with pre-orders, while supplies last!

Dates for the U.S. Ignite headlining tour starting MAY 16 will be posted soon also!!! The tour features Blacklisted and Set Your Goals.

Stay tuned for our all new website coming soon!

- March 12th, 2006

Well everyone, here is some info regarding the new IGNITE cd. The new Ignite cd will be released on May 16th on Abacus Recordings. It is finished and going to press as we speak. Samplers are being passed out, featuring two new songs, at every Ignite show on this Comeback Kid tour and we are curerently setting up the tour dates for the summer.

You can hear those two new songs at www.myspace.com/ignitemusic

- March 7th, 2006

So far the tour with Comeback Kid has been amazing! All of the shows have been really good, especially the two Anaheim shows. The other bands that are on the tour; First Blood, Sinking Ships and Kiliing The Dream are all very solid bands....its a really good tour package. We are looking forward to heading back east now that the run of west coast shows are over. See you guys back east.....Ignite.

- February 26th, 2006

Tonight was the first show of the Comeback Kid/ Ignite tour in Seattle. A great turnout at the club called El Corazon. The last tiime we were in Seattle was with Bad Religion in 2000. Thanks for all of the kids who came out and sang along what a great first show of the tour. Tomorrow is Portland. Have fun.

- January 31st, 2006

Two more days of tracking the new cd, then we mix it next week. YES!!!! Things are sounding amazing, we are looking forward to posting songs online and we also are going to have sampler cds on the Comeback Kid/ Ignite tour with a few songs from the new cd on it.

Thanks for all the supprt during the tracking of this cd. We are truely grateful that we have such great fans who show such strong support for what we do.

We are going to have the album title, release date and song titles posted online in the next week or two.

Thanks...Ignite

- January 9th, 2005

We have just found out that we are going to be hitting the road in the U.S. with Comeback Kid. The tour starts on February 26th in Seattle, we should be getting all the tour dates very soon to post. Recording is almost finished! Just some singing left and then mix. More news soon.

In the meantime, check out the dates so far!

Feb 26 Loveland Seattle, WA
Feb 27 Rock and Roll Pizza Portland, OR
Feb 28 The Pound San Francisco, CA
Mar 1 The Underground Roseville, CA
Mar 2 Epicenter San Diego, CA
Mar 3 Chain Reaction Anaheim, CA
Mar 4 Chain Reaction Anaheim, CA
Mar 5 The Clubhouse Las Vegas, NV
Mar 6 Neckbeard?s Tempe, AZ
Mar 8 Rock Island Denver, CO
Mar 9 El Torreon Kansas City, MO
Mar 10 Gabe's Oasis Iowa City, IA
Mar 11 Creepy Crawl Saint Louis, MO
Mar 12 The Anchor Nashville, TN
Mar 13 Cave 9 Birmingham, AL
Mar 15 The State Theater, St. Petersburg, FL
Mar 16 Backbooth, Orlando, FL
Mar 17 Ray?s Downtown, West Palm Beach, FL
Mar 18 Thee Imperial, Jacksonville, FL
Mar 19 MJQ Concourse, Atlanta, GA
Mar 20 The Soapbox Landrolounge, Wilmington, NC
Mar 21 Peppermint Club, Virginia Beach, VA
Mar 22 KC?s, Fredericksburg, VA
Mar 23 Obsessions, Randolf, NJ
Mar 25 First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Mar 26 Palladium, Worcester, MA
Mar 27 Knitting Factory, NYC, NY
Mar 28 The Furnace, Syracuse, NY

- December 20th, 2005

Last week we re-located our recording to Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Monday we did a full day of guitars and then Wed-Fri we had Zoli doing 6 hour vocal sessions each day. Today we were back in Orange County at Camerons studios continuing on with the guitars. Zoli will be back in the studio later in the week once his voice recovers from last weeks singing. We should be close to being finished with all of the guitars sometime next week after Christmas. Then its vocals, harmonies and back-ups. Have a good week....Ignite.

- November 30th, 2005

Click our U.S. merch link to access the available merchandise for Ignite. We have teamed up with our friends at The Merchandise Company and have t-shirt, hoodies, stickers, buttons, etc now available.

Click here to check it out!

- November 30th, 2005

This is the start of the third week in the studio. Things are going really good and we are getting more and more excited about this new material the deeper we get in the recording process. Drums and bass are done and as of last night about half of the rhythm guitar tracks are recorded. Zoli is going into the studio tonight to start the vocals on a couple of songs. Guitars will continue on later in the week. We are going to go back and forth with Zoli singing and the guitar tracking so Zoli can get a good head start on the 18 songs. We are beginning to set up the touring schedule for next year. Lots of touring coming up in 2006!!!

- November 14th, 2005

Today was the first day in the recording studio with producer Cameron Webb. First off, it is great to be recording here in Orange County instead of making the hour long drive every day up to North Hollywood like we did for "A Place Called Home". Today was awesome as we worked on four of the new songs for the next Ignite cd. Feels good to have a great producer who cares a lot about the material and the band. Cameron is intense and relentless and is going to get the best performance out of us like he did today from Craig on the drums. Today was a good 12 hour session. Tomorrow, back at it again for another long day. These are the good times.

- November 6th, 2005

Nov 18 & 19 at The Grove in Anaheim, CA Ignite frontman Zoltan Teglas will be playing "Ace Face" in the first ever staged production of The Who's Quadrophenia album. The show is being produced by Bill Aucoin, who made his fame in the music industry by managing KISS as well as Billy Idol.

The new, quarter-million dollar production of The QUAD Tribute will be told entirely through the album?s songs, performed by a talented cast of actors and musicians, and performed by the on-stage tribute band The Who Show. The production stars Stephen Shareaux as Jimmy and Zoltan Teglas as "Ace Face" topping a cast of 23. The QUAD Tribute is directed by Peter Uribe. It?s a full-blown multi-media experience, a rock & roll concert featuring the Who?s music and some of the most talented young performers around.

Quadrophenia was previously made into a 1979 movie directed by Franc Roddam with Phil Daniels as Jimmy, though it is probably best known today for the film debut of one Sting, who played Ace Face, the chief Mod of them all. The Who played the entire album in concert during their 1996 tour.

- November 6th, 2005

Thanks to Pennywise for having us play with them last Halloween weekend! The shows were great. Friday night we dressed up for Halloween as the Misfits and played 20 Eyes, Where Eagles Dare and Skulls mixed into our set. Fun times, the crowd really seemed to like the whole set and the costumes. Saturday night we played a normal Ignite set without the Misfits costumes. 30 minutes of fast paced Ignite is what the crowd got on Saturday night.

- October 19th, 2005

Buy Tickets Now You know these shows will sell out. Take care, Ignite

- October 14th, 2005

Last nights show at the Glasshouse in Pomona was awesome! A really good night with some great bands. Thanks to all of the people who spent $30 of their hard earned money on such a great cause. We blasted through 12 songs in 30 minutes. Not too many breaks in the set, just as many songs as we could squeak in. Big shout out to the guys who flew in from NYC to catch the show...awesome!

So, if we didnt play enough songs last night dont worry we just confirmed two Pennywise shows at The Vault 350 in Long Beach, Ca in two weeks!!! Great news, we are really looking forward to playing with Pennywise again!!! The dates of the shows are Oct 28 & 29. Buy Tickets Now You know these shows will sell out. Take care, Ignite

- September 20, 2005

WHEN: Thursday, Oct 13 "To Die For Clothing Presents: Hurricane Katrina Benefit"
WHO: Bleeding Through, Poison the Well, Eighteen Visions, IGNITE, Cold War, more tba.
WHERE: The Glasshouse. Pomona, California

$30.00 Tickets Onsale Thursday Sep 22 (This will sell out quickly, buy tix as soon as they go on sale!)

We are taking some time out of the writing/recording of the new IGNITE cd to participate in this awesome benefit show. Do not miss this. It will be incredible and tickets will go fast!!! 100% of all money made will go towards buying food that will be distributed directly to communities in Southern Louisiana and Mississippi.

CLICK HERE for info on purchasing tickets.

Pics From Tour - August 28, 2005

Finally got all of the pics together from the tour. You can scroll down to see all of the news posts from tour with the pictures to go with each one. What a great tour! Now we head back into the rehearsal studio for a few weeks then start recording. We will be posting studio updates to the website during recording. Enjoy the photos!
Gräfenhainichen, Germany	Sziget Festival, Hungary
Bielsko-Biala, Poland	Crew-Leisnig, Germany

- August 17, 2005

Since 1994 we have played quite a few concerts in quite a few countries around the world. Some standout shows for us were concerts like 1997 Dynamo Festival in Holland, 2001 Bizarre Festival In Germany, Reading and Leeds Festivals in 99' and 01', sold out club shows in NYC throughout the years and of course local shows at House Of Blues, Troubadour and Chain Reaction. However... The Sziget Festival show that we just played on Aug 16 goes down as the greatest Ignite show that we have played. What an amazing experience! It was the last day of a week long festival, that had over 300,000 visitors, and the enegy that the crowd put out for us was remarkable! Thanks again Hungary for an incredible event. Thanks also to all of the fans from Germany, Austria and Switzerland who showed up for us too.

Poland - August 15, 2005

Thank you very much to the promoters Martin and Lucas for taking such good care of us yesterday. They picked us up form the airport early in the morning and took us to a special breakfast in the garden. Then they escorted us for a personal guided tour of the concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau. These horrific, historical museums have become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust all over the world and should be seen by everyone. After catching up with some lost sleep we made our way down to the venue to play another amazing show in Poland. People came from all over the country by train, car and bus to catch the concert. We are coming back to Poland for sure after the new CD is out... hopefully two stops next time. The rest of this day is our first OFF DAY of the tour as we head down to Hungary to play the Sziget Festival tomorrow with The Beatsteaks (D) and Good Charlotte. Should be an amazing day!

Tiunfeest - August 14, 2005

The show yesterday in Lierop, Holland was a lot of fun but a little different. The mix of bands was kind of strange for a smaller sized festival like Tuinfeest. We played along with the Dutch legends Heideroojes and also the rock band The Presidents of the USA. Regardless the turnout was good as a few thousand people filled up the festival grounds. We got to see our friends from the Dutch band Discipline and also hang out with our long time friend Onno Cromag. Ok... get some sleep and catch an early flight to Poland in the morning.

Saarbrucken - August 13, 2005

As mentioned below the show was almost pre-sold out for last nights show in Saarbrucken. A few minutes after the doors were open the tickets were gone and the venue started filling up. Saarbrucken has always been a great city for Ignite to play, we have played here 6-7 times at various venues around the city in the past. The show last night was the best club show so far of the tour. It felt like an a club show from 10 years ago with tons of kids stagediving and singing along to even the oldest songs. We are heading up to the Tuinfeest in Lierop, Holand today.

Stuttgart and Augsburg - August 12, 2005

The last two shows in the above mentioned cities have kept up with the rest of the shows as being great turnouts and great shows. Stuttgart was at Die Rohre, a place which we have played a few times before and last night was in a new city for us called Augsburg, which is about 60km from Munich. Thanks to all of the people from Switzerland, Austria and Munich for driving out to the show last night, you made it quite a memorable night. Now we are in Saarbrucken, a great city for Ignite, pre-sale is almost sold so it should be solid. Holland tomorrow... festival time!
Stuttgart, Germany	Augsburg, Germany

- August 10, 2005

Another packed show. The turnout for these concerts so far has been incredible. Last night was the first really HOT show of the tour. A ton of people at a club called Krone in the city of Darmstadt, Germany. When the guys from Burnthe8track got off the stage they were dripping wet and we knew it was going to be a warm one... it was! Wet and hot to say the least. Great crowd and thanks to all of the staff at Krone for being so cool. Tonight is Stuttgart at Rohre.

Sold Out in Bochum - August 9, 2005

Not bad for a Monday night. 400+ people crammed into the long-standing club in Bochum called Zwischenfall. It has been since 1997, when we were on tour with 1134, that we last played this venue and club owner Norbert did his normal great job of promotion to make sure the show was packed. All of the people from the German office of our new label Abacus Recordings made it out to the show. We also got to catxch up with some of the great staff from our European merch company Trashmark. Tonight is just a few hours down the road in Darmstadt... nice day too, clear skies.

Update - August 8, 2005

A few crazy days of flying and driving all over Europe to play 4 open air festivals in 3 days! (The pic to the right is us on the flight over from Los Angeles to Germany) First we landed in Frankfurt then jumped on a quick flight up to Sweden to play the Augustibuller festival on Friday. Really cool festival with a great staff running the show. We played with Peter and the Test Tube Babies (UK) and with our Swedish friends in the band Venerea. After the show we drove straight to the airport to catch our 6am flight back to Germany. We drove 6 hours across Germany to play the first of two shows on Saturday. The first show was at an amazing venue called Ferropolis near Leipzig. We played with the legendary German band Die Toten Hosen in front of thousands of their die hard fans (pics below are us rockin at Ferropolis). The show was awesome and the crowd was really receptive! After that we packed up and headed a few hours down the road to Leisnig to headline the Sucks N' Summer Festival. The rain really started coming down at the festival but the fans all stayed in the cold rain to sing along to all of the songs! Awesome! We got on stage at about 11.30pm and played about 20 songs.

Next morning...up early to drive to Belgium to headline the Hageland Festval in Aarschot. It was a free festival and there we met up with our touring partners and label mates Burnthe8track. More rain, rain, rain yesterday, all day. It cleared up at about 10pm when we went on stage. A great crowd showed up to the free show and we played quite a long set. OK... finally got to sleep in today and we made our way down to Bochum, Germany where we are playing the club called Zwschenfall tonite... see you there! If the pics are not up now, they will be soon.

- August 3, 2005

We leave today for our two-week trip over the Atlantic. We have a digi-camera with us and hopefully we will be able to get pics and updates on the website as often as we can. Should be a great tour, we are playing some really great festivals and also have some great cities lined up for our club shows. See you out there.
-IGNITE

- July 20, 2005

Ignitemusic.net is happy to announce that Ignite has signed a worldwide deal with Abacus Recordings!!! Read the press release below.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA -- 07/20/2005 -- Southern California's IGNITE, who hail from Orange County, have officially inked a worldwide deal with Abacus Recordings, a subsidiary label of Century Media. IGNITE is one of the most recent signings to the L.A. based label, who have also recently signed Turbonegro and The Julianna Theory. Singer Zoli Teglas proclaimed â??It feels good to get the deal we wanted with a great label like Abacus, who give us complete creative control and the ability to get our music everywhereâ??. Abacus plans to release IGNITEs first studio album since 2000's A Place Called Home during early 2006. The next IGNITE release will indeed be followed by an intense worldwide touring regiment for the boys from the O.C. Bassist Brett Rasmussen stated â??We are really excited by the fact that we are signed to one label worldwide and that we will have domestic releases, with great distribution, in all of the territories around the world that we tourâ??. IGNITE looks forward, most of all, to having a label in the U.S. that is going to push them and provide the support that they have always wanted but never received before domestically.

The four-piece band--Zoli Teglas (vocals), Brett Rasmussen (bass), Brian Balchack (guitar) and Craig Anderson (drums)--will be entering the recording studio in September with engineer/producer Cameron Webb (Social Distortion, Motorhead, SUM 41, Silverstein). First, however, the new material will be road tested, to smooth out some final wrinkles, when the group ventures to Europe in August to play festivals in Sweden, Germany, Holland, Hungary and also a handful of club shows. â??We did the same thing when we recorded our last cd, we did the European Warped Tour then came home and went straight into the studio, we were very prepared and very tightâ?? said Teglas.

Formed in suburban Orange County in 1994, IGNITE, whose fan base has largely been developed through near-constant global touring, deliver an intelligent, socially and politically aware, melodic brand of hardcore that has taken them and their message to over 30 countries worldwide. Their high-spirited career includes critically lauded records including, A Place Called Home (2000), Past Our Means (1996) and Call On My Brothers (1995). IGNITE has also released various live seven inch, ten inch records and split cdâ??s in which all proceeds have been donated to many environmental groups that the group supports including The Sea Shepherd Society, Earth First and Orange Countyâ??s own Pacific Wildlife Foundation.

- June 7, 2005

The Big Fish Pub in Tempe, Arizona ended up being the most fun show of the weekend even though it was the smallest of the 3 shows. All the people who came out were really excited that we were there and made it a great night for us. We have only headlined shows a few times in Arizona and the last time that we were in that area was in 2002 with Hatebreed and Throwdown. Thanks to the San Antonio band "Burn What Binds" for staying around an extra day to play the show and for singing along to all of the songs.

Saturday night was Orange County after quite a hot drive across the desert to get back home. Underminded and Before Today again played a great set. Both of those bands are really talented and good guys too. We got on stage at around 10:30 PM and hammered through about 19 songs including a few new songs and one that we had never played before live. So, the writing continues now and preparation for pre-production and recording. All of the dates for Europe are just about locked down for August. Take care.

- June 3, 2005

Wednesday nights show in San Diego was a good show with some great local bands. Underminded was great and there were a ton of people there to see Before Today. Its always good to see support from the hometown crowd for the local bands. We had a great time, a good starting show for these weekend dates. Tonight is Tempe, AZ at a place called the Big Fish Pub. See all you OC people on Saturday at Chain Reaction.

- May 25, 2005

We are now officially playing the Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary on August 16 with Beatsteaks, The Hives and Good Charlotte. It is going to be a great day at the week long festival. Tuinfeest in Lierop, Holland is now confirmed too on August 13 with the Heideroosjes, should be a great show as well!!! Stay tuned for more info.

- May 23, 2005

H2O has just informed us that they are not going to be able to play the upcoming west coast shows... we really wanted to do these shows with H2O but they had some serious scheduling conflicts and would not have been able to get the whole band out to the west coast in time. Toby told us that he was super disappointed about the cancellation. So, out of the 4 shows that we had booked wiht them, only the Henderson, Nevada show has been cancelled. The 3 other ones are still on and they are going to be great shows with Underminded (Kung Fu) and Before Today (EVR). More Europe shows will be announced soon also. See you soon... IGNITE

- May 16, 2005

Thanks to all of the kids who came out to our show on Saturday night in Tijuana, Mexico. We had a great time. Extra thanks to the Southbay band Final Fight for letting us use some of their gear at the show. They are a great band, please check out their website. So, we were talking to the Mexico promoter and he is bringing Agnostic Front to Mexico for a tour in July... he said if the tour goes good then we could possibly do a Mexico Tour later in the year... we will keep our fingers crossed!!!

More news... we are going to be heading to Europe for a few festivals and club shows in August before we record the new CD. It will give us the perfect opportunity to play 2-3 different new songs live each night and to get them ready for the studio. As of today we are booked on Sziget Festival (Hungary), Augustibuller (Sweden) and Sucks N' Summer (Germany)... more dates will be posted soon. We will be touring with Burnthe8track (Abacus Recordings).

- May 12, 2005

Monday night at the Troubadour was a really good time. Thanks to the bands Eightyonedays and A Dying Dream for playing the show! Also, thanks to all of the film, audio and camera crews that helped us. Thanks to Jim Schwartz and Chris Sims for everything. OK, we were a little nervous about the show because of the filming, but once the lights went down and the crowd started going crazy we immediatly started having fun. We did 23 songs and the crowd seemed to enjoy everything we played... old and older songs. The Misfits song was one of the highlights of the show for me... the crowd went crazy... especially the kid in the Misfits shirt!!! So, over the next few weeks we are going to begin the post-production process of this project. Hopefully all of the audio and video tracks came out great and we can move forward and start mixing and editing by June.

Make sure and check out the tour section of the website... H2O/Ignite shows are just around the corner starting in San Diego on June 1st!!!!

- April 26, 2005

Join us at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA on Monday May 9th when we film our live DVD. The show is a free show! Yes, it is free, so get there early! It will be packed, crazy and a lot of fun!!! Details for the show, what time doors open and set times will be posted very soon.

- April 2, 2005

The show on Tuesday night in SLC was great. We had never headlined a show in SLC before and we were glad to finally get up there and play our own show. The staff and crew at the Lo-Fi Cafe were great and we are very thankful to all of the people who braved the snow to come out to the show. After years of hearing horror stories of violence from hardcore shows in Utah it was nice to do a show and have such a positive crowd. Thanks!!!

Thursday night was a homecoming show for us. It has been quite a few months since we have played in the O.C. As normal, the Ignite fans packed the room and made it quite a memorable show. We played a long set and everybody in the room sang along with us on all 21 songs that we played. More news about upcoming shows soon. We will be recording our live DVD at the Troubadour on Monday, May 9th... get there early it will be packed!

- March 29, 2005

Saturdays show in Las Vegas, The Extreme Thing was a ton of fun. We were all very lucky and the weather was perfect for an outdoor festival show. Thanks to all of the kids who went out of their way to make the drive from Southern Calif and Arizona and of course a big thanks to all of the Vegas kids who were singing along too. The show was packed full of great bands! Terror really tore it up as well as Goldfinger... but we were really excited about the set Rise Against played... awesome!!! Their new cd is great and it was cool to get the chance to see them playing the new songs live.

Last night was Denver at the Bluebird... again. Denver never disappoints, we can always count on the Ignite fans to come out and give it their all. We played quite a lengthy set and had Lisk from the support band Rebel Fever come out and sing Man Against Man. Good times... thanks Denver!!! We will get some pics up from the shows in a few days.

- March 1, 2005

Help promote one of our upcoming club shows in Denver, SLC or Anaheim. Put flyers up at record stores, other concerts or anywhere you think would help the show. Just send us an email of what flyer for which city you would like to help promote and we will send you back a jpeg of the flyer. Looking forward to seeing you out at one of these concerts.

- February 25, 2005

Check out the tour section for details on all of the upcoming Ignite shows in March. We just confirmed Anaheim, Salt Lake City and Denver. We are also very excited about getting out to the Extreme Thing show in Las Vegas on March 26th and playing with Goldfiinger, Terror and Rise Against!!! We are in the process of writing the new cd, talking with labels, booking shows for May and gearing up for the "Live" Ignite DVD. Lots of stuff going on... stay tuned for more updates!

- February 16, 2005

IGNITE will be joining Unwritten Law, Rise Against, Lit, Terror and many more bands on March 26 in Las Vegas, Nevada for an all day sports and music festival including extreme activities and attractions.Tickets are on sale now at EXTREME THING TIX

Click on this link www.extremething.com for more details about the show!!!

- February 5, 2005

There were 464 people crammed into the Troubadour on Thursday night... what a great show and a great turnout!!! Thanks to everyone who came out and sang along. We opened the set with "Veteran" and pretty much played non-stop for an hour. Not too many breaks in the set, we tried to keep pace with the energy of the crowd. We played a few older songs like "Aggression" and "You" which seemed to please quite a few people and we also played two new songs. We are going to be writing new songs and playing various shows over the next few months so keep a look out for another local Ignite show next month or in April.

- January 13, 2005

If you want to help promote the upcoming Feb. 3rd Ignite show at the Troubadour, email us and we will send you back a jpeg of the flyer for the concert. You can still get tickets for this show by clicking this link: Ignite Ticketmaster link.

Regarding the new Ignite CD, we are working on the new songs with the same creative forces that contributed to our last CD "A Place Called Home", which included: Zoli, Brett, Craig and Brian. We are also going to be playing our upcoming Troubadour show and any other shows through the creation of our new CD with this same line-up too.

See you at the Troub... Ignite

- December 30, 2004

MSF is an organization that Ignite has been supporting for 5 years now. Please donate whatever you can, if possible! Doctors Without Borders/MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res (MSF) today began providing medical aid to people in Aceh, Indonesia, a region devastated by Sunday's earthquake. MSF is the first international organization to begin working in the area. A team of eight people, including three nurses and two doctors, arrived in Banda Aceh yesterday and set up a clinic in a camp for displaced people. Click here to read the rest of the article: Doctors Without Borders Begins Providing Aid in Aceh, Northern Sumatra

- December 27, 2004

Tickets are on sale today for our upcoming Feb. 3rd show at the Troubadour. You can purchase tickets online by clicking this ticketmaster link: IGNITE Troubador Tix.

- December 21, 2004

We have just confirmed Thursday February 3rd at the Troubadour in Hollywood, CA. Tickets go on sale 12/27 for $10 pre-sale and $12 at the door. 1208(epitaph) is going to be playing the show and the other support acts will be announced soon. See you there!!!

- November 22, 2004

Well, the first Ignite Australian tour is officially over and what an amazing week! We have to thank Graham Nixon from Resist for putting on this whole production and for dragging along our favourite Aussie... Pete from the Sydney band Last Nerve... great guy! The show last night I think was the most fun gig of the tour. Another strong turnout, even on a Sunday night!... thanks! Thanks to the guy in the crowd who got up and played Past Our Means on guitar with us... very cool. Big thanks to Pete for getting up and killing it during Man Against Man... we told you we were going to make you sing a song. After the success of this tour we already spent part of the day today talking with Graham about getting back out here late next year 2005. The plan is to get out to Australia at least once a year from now on to make up for all of the missed years. Thanks again for everyone coming out and making all 5 of these shows incredible!!! See you guys next year. Now we go home, no shows planned, just in the studio rehearsing and recording... so far the songs are coming along great!

- November 20, 2004

What agreat city Melbourne is!!! We had the chance to walk around a bit during the day and check out some stuff. Hopefully next tour we will get an off day here to go up the coast and see some of the beaches. The show was at the Evelyn Hotel tonight and we want to thank the band Fast Times for letting us use their gear and for taking us out after the show... funny night! The show was really good too. A lot of kids packed into the club! We have some good pics from most of these shows and are working on getting them up in the next few days for you guys to check out. Tomorrow is the last show in Newcastle.

- November 20, 2004

The show last night in Adelaide was a real throwback show for us. Small club, small stage and a ton of Ignite fans screaming along with all of the songs. It seemed as the show went on the crowd really got more and more into the show. By the time we closed with "Veteran" the place was going nuts. All of the kids up front came up on stage and seemed quite pleased with the show. We want to thank everyone for coming out last night. At least 15 kids came up to us after the show and said that they are all driving 8 hours today to come to the Melbourne show... really cool. See you guys tonight!

- November 19, 2004

The show 2 nights ago in Sydney at the Annandale Hotel was packed!!! 400 people crammed into the club in what was the best show of the tour so far. It is really cool to see so many people coming out to see us on our first ever tour of Australia. The two local bands Taking Sides and Strength Within definitely got the night started off on the right foot. Thanks to both bands for playing the show!

- November 18, 2004

After a very smooth (although very long) plane ride down to Australia we started the tour with a day off to adjust to the time change. Then last night we played our first show of the tour at a club called Mary St. in the city of Brisbane. The crowd was great. A lot of kids singing along with songs from every Ignite CD. We played for about an hour and blasted through 17 songs. We want to thank the bands Live Today and Just Say Go for coming out and and joining us on Wednesday night. Today we flew down to Sydney and we go on stage in about an hour. The pic to the left is Brett and Craig getting off the plane in Brisbane. Pics from the show will be up soon.

- November 14, 2004

Well, we finally can say it... we are leaving for Australia in a few hours. It has been a long time coming and we are really excited about playing these shows. We will be updating the website from the road as often as possible. See you down under!

- November 7, 2004

The last night of the tour was an Ignite headlining show in Sao Paulo at the club called Hangar 110. It was our only headlining show of the tour and we were floored to see 500 people show up on a Wednesday night to see us play. It was really fun to get on stage and headline in front of all of those hungry kids who wanted to see a hardcore show. Everyone who was on tour with us said it was the best that we played all tour. We want to thank Cesar from Highlight Sounds records for bringing us down and setting up the whole tour. It was one of the best tours that we have ever done!!! We are already talking with Cesar about coming back next year to headline a Brazilian tour once the new Ignite CD is out. We also want to thank our Brazilian crew Viola, Fernando, Gustave, Michel, and Valeria for all the hard work they did all tour. Picture on the right is us with our tour manager Cesar.

- November 2, 2004

First off we want to let everyone who was planning on going to the "Punk Rock Show" in Brasilia that we are very sorry but, the promoter called us the day before the show and cancelled. We were really looking forward to flying up the morning of the 30th and playing the festival. Hopefully we will make it up there to play next year when we come back. At least we were in Rio de Janiero for our off day. Wow!!!! What an incredible city... we stayed at the beach all day on Saturday and since it was a holiday weekend it was the most packed beach I have ever been on. Lots of fun in the sun that day.

OK, the night before we played Rio and the show was right on par with the rest of these concerts with Dead Fish. A big crowd, a big venue and a great show for both bands. The venue was outside with a tent type roof over the stage and crowd area with open sides all the way around. It was really hot that night so it was a good thing the show was outside. We played really late... about 1.45 in the morning and then Dead Fish went on at about 3am... crazy showtimes over here... just like Spain and Portugal in the summer.

Vila Velha was yesterday and it is also the home town city for Dead Fish. When we arrived at the club, about 5 hours before the doors opened, there was already about 500 people waiting for the Dead Fish guys to show up. Girls screaming for them all over the place! The show was the biggest one of the tour, about 1400 people packed into a room that only fit about a thousand. To our surprise there was a ton of Ignite kids there too. That was really cool... the show was a madhouse all night. We also played with a new band the last few nights called the "Forgotten Boys" really good band and really fun and crazy guys. OK... one more show back here in Sao Paulo then we get on the big plane, head home and get ready for Australia!!!

- October 29, 2004

Ok, so we finally played a normal sized club tonight. A 500 person capacity place with toilets and a backstage room that was similar to CBGB's if you know what I mean. However, that did not mean that the venue wasnt packed. Over 500 people squeezd into the club called Kraft and the people were falling over the monitors onto the stage. A hot show but a ton of fun! We leave in a few hours for Rio... we have our swim trunks with us! We are working on getting some pics up.

- October 28, 2004

Another huge show last night. 1,200 people in the beach city of Santos showed up to see Street Bulldogs, Ignite and Dead Fish. These venues are giant and the people just keep coming out and packing them... thanks a lot! As soon as the World Series was over last night we headed down from the production office to the stage, made our way up there and played! Poeple were going crazy everywhere. Then Dead Fish took the stage and really got the people going. I think it was thier best perrformance during the tour. Right now we are in Campinas getting ready to eat dinner before the show starts... we drive to Rio tonight right after the show... should be fun!

We are finally allowed to announce the secret show. We are playing in Sao Paulo again on November 2nd at a club called Hangar 110. We hear that it is a great club!!!

- October 25, 2004

Sao PauloÂ´s show was really fun... except for the meathead security guys who were beating up the kids that fell over the barricade. We had to stop the show 3 times to tell those idiots to leave the kids alone. I dont think that we will ever play in that club Tom Brasil ever again. They do not know how to deal with a punk rock show. Besides that it was really cool... lots of people!!!!

Last night was Curitiba. The show was packed with 800 screaming kids and the room was about 110 degrees. Wet and hot!!!! A lot of kids on stage and a great circle pit during "In My Time"!!! Today is an off day and then we head back to Sao Paulo where we are going to do a live acoustic set on the local radio station Brasil FM2000.

- October 23, 2004

The first night of the tour was mindblowing! We played in a city called Sao Jose dos Campos about 2 hours outside of Sao Paulo and 1000 kids showed up. We never would have imagined how many Ignite fans there are down here in Brazil. We started the set not sure how many people would know the songs but when everyone in the room was singing the first chorus of "Who Sold Out Now" we were really taken by surprise. They knew all of the songs, new and old. It was cool too because there were a few kids who had homemade Ignite shirts on. Needless to say, a lot of pictures with the fans and lots of people telling us that they have been waiting for years to see us. The Brazilian band that we are on tour with "Dead Fish" are really cool guys and they are really well known down here... this should be a fun tour. Tonight is Sao Paulo at a club called Tom Brasil... we have never played a club this big before.

- October 21, 2004

We landed in Sao Paulo this morning and made our way to the Hotel to do a poolside interview on MTV Brazil... pretty cool. Then we headed down to the local rock radio station, Brasil FM2000 and did a live 20 minute interview with the local disc jockeys. As we were finishing up, Chrissy Hinde from the Pretenders walked in and did an acoustic session right after we were done. She played a Radiohead song and then we took off over to AOL Brazil to do an online chat to promote the tour... busy day, but fun! Tour starts tomorrow in Sao Jose dos Campos. ROCK!!!

- October 11, 2004

An interview with Zoli from our September 26 show at Goudvishal in Arnhem, Holland is up at asice.net. Click here to read the interview.

- September 30, 2004

We are back home from Europe and we really want to thank everyone who came at to all the shows last week. The tour was really fun. The last two nights of the tour were in Arnhem, Holland and Athens, Greece. The Arnhem show was in this small club called Goudshival. We played there a long time ago in '94 and '95 but havenâ??t been back since. The club was definitely sold out! There wasnâ??t much room, however, to move around on stage or on the dance floor but we all managed to get through the show unharmed. Tons of sing-a-longs and lots of energy!!! Holland has always been great.

Then we got on an airplane early the next morning and flew down to Athens for the last show of the tour. The promoter Dimitris did his usual superb job in promoting the show and providing great accommodations for us. We last played Athens in 2001 right after the Vans "Off The Wallâ?? club tour. This time there was a lot more people out to see the show and the club was a lot better. The only downside to the Athens show was the fact that we couldnâ??t stay in Athens for a few days to check out the sights. There were no flights available back to L.A. other than 6 AM the next morning. So, we were in Athens for only about 15 hours. Next time!

- September 26, 2004

Last night was the first ever Broekrock Festival. The whole thing was really cool and all of the staff and volunteers were great! The day was a rainy, wet day in Hertsberge, Belgium but that did not stop the people from making their way to the small city a few kilometers west of Gent. The stage was in a tent (thankfully) and most of the people stayed in the tent during the day due to the rain... that worked out great for all of the opening bands because each band got to play in front of a full house. Misconduct played a great set and the crowd really went crazy for them... especially when they did the Pennywise cover. We went on stage at 10:30 PM and the place erupted!!! We played for about an hour and fifteen minutes before the crowd summoned us back on stage for an few extra songs. Hats off to the crazy monkeyboy who climbed up the lighting truss and dropped down into the crowd about 5 meters below... crazy Belgians!!! Thanks for the great night. Two more shows then back home and into the rehearsal studio.

- September 25, 2004

We played last night with our former label mates The Donots, in Munster, Germany. What an incredible concert all around. They are one of the best rock bands we have ever played with... really cool. We played before them and got a great response from the Donots Munster fanbase. Thanks for going crazy during our set too. We are heading to Belgium today for the Broerock Fest. See you there.

- September 23, 2004

We played Copenhagen two nights ago at the same club that we played on the Vans "Off The Wall" Club Tour in 2001. I think the show the other night at Loppen was really special, sort of a private show for the Danes. We just played the songs that the people called out all night and even did a bass/drum/vocal version of "Past Our Means" when Alex's guitar went down for a few minutes. Quite a few of the kids stayed around after the show and hung out with us until we left for the hotel. It was a really fun show and all of the people there seemed to have a really good time.

Ok, then a long drive to Stockholm, where we played at Cafe 44, the same club that we played in 1994 with Slapshot. 10 years later and still a bunch of Ignite fans in Stockholm singing along with all of the songs...thanks! Today we drove all the way back across Sweden to play here in Goteburg... the club seems cool and we go on really late tonight (11:30 PM). Then we get to make a great 15 hour drive to Munster to play the show tomorrow with the Donots... it is sold out... 1600 capacity... see you tomorrow!

- September 21, 2004

Well, it was only at matter of time until we played one of those 120 degree barnburner shows. Last night was it... a sold out show at a club that we have never played before in Berlin called Kato. 500 kids packed themselves into the club last night and watched the Swedes (Misconduct) open the show with a great set. We walked up on stage at about 11 PM and it was a good 100 degrees on stage before we played a note. 18 songs and about 10 liters of water later we came back out on stage for an encore and closed the night with Veteran and Bullets. We are heading up to Denmark in a few hours and are really looking forward to these upcoming Swedish shows.

- September 20, 2004

Before we got off stage last night we promised the Amsterdam crowd that we would never come back and play there again unless we put out a new cd. Four years has passed since A Place Called Home was released and people still pack that club for us... what can we say... thank you very much!!! We played 3 new songs to the veteran crowd and all three seemed to go over quite well... especially the fast one "Know Your History" - that one seemed to get the room really energized! Good news for us, we pick up the lost bass amp tomorrow, the kind people at United Airlines helped us out and flew it over today! Berlin tonight at a new club for us called Kato.

Cheers!

- September 19, 2004

After getting off the plane and heading straight to the club in London we all did our best to stay awake until showtime. The first show of any tour is always a little bit shaky but Friday night in London went off great. We met up with the guys from the Swedish band Misconduct, they are on all of these Ignite Europe shows, and they played a great set. Then we went on at about 10 PM to a hungry crowd. We played 19 songs and had Mickey from the Business come out on stage while we fixed our power problem on stage. By the way, if anybody found an Ampeg SVT3 bass amplifier at the LA Airport, it's ours. Seems we walked on the plane and left the amp sitting on a chair at gate 77... that's a bummer.

Ok, last night was Bochum at a club called the Matrix. Last time we played this club was in 1999 with Ensign. I have to say, five years later and it was a better show. More people, more sing-a-longs and a better disco after the show was over. Tonight we are at the Melkweg in Amsterdam... we will get some pics up soon.

- September 16, 2004

Last night was the closest thing to a backyard party in a club that we have ever played. What a fun night! Really good energy in the room and a lot of smiles on peoples faces. Thanks to everyone who came out on a school/work night to help see us off on our European trip. The crowd was really having a good time as well as us up on stage. Thanks a ton to the Troubadour for allowing our ridiculous guest list...73 names. We leave in about 8 hours for London! Good times!

- September 15, 2004

Tonight is the first of 12 upcoming shows. We play the Troubadour tonight in Hollywood then we get on a plane and head over to London for the start of the European shows. We will be updating the website daily if possible and trying to get pictures up as we go. The venue for the Munster show on September 24th has changed... we are now playing at a place called Jovel Music Hall with the German band THE DONOTS. This show is going to be a lot of fun and most likely the 1600 person hall will be sold out. Get your tickets now! See you on the road.

- September 9, 2004

For those of you who are interested in helping promote the upcoming Troubadour show on Sept 15th or any of the upcoming club shows in Europe, email us and we will send you a jpeg of the flyer for that show.

Also, Ignite is now up on myspace. Log on and add us to get even faster updates on what is going on with Ignite. The URL is http://www.myspace.com/ignitemusic.

Thanks, Ignite

- August 27, 2004

If you live in the Southern California area and have some free time on this Monday, August 30, we really need your help at Pacific Wildlife in Laguna Niguel. Zoli is going to be working there all day changing out the sand in the pelican cages, cleaning, feeding and going on some pelican rescues in Dana Point. We need people who have the day off or free time that day and can come down for 5-8 hours. You will be provided with lunch and we will put you on the guest list for the upcoming Troubadour show. Please email the Ignite website contact@ignitemusic.net and include your name and phone number and we will call you.

Thanks!!!

- August 23, 2004

We are happy to annouce 2 upcoming shows in Sweden during our September trip to Europe. We have not played up in Sweden in quite a few years and we are looking forward to getting back up there. We are also very excited to announce all of the clubs and dates for the upcoming November Australian Tour. Check the tour dates page for details!!!

- August 8, 2004

Now we have just confirmed a tour in Brazil in October. Things are heating up! The tour will start in the third week in October and right now we can announce shows on Oct 23 & 24 at Hangar 110 in Sao Paulo and a festival in Brasilia with Voodoo Glow Skulls on Oct 30th. All of the Brazilian tour dates as well as our Australian dates will be posted soon on the website. More tours and news coming soon!!!

- August 4, 2004

Well it has finally come to pass. We will be going to Australia in November. It is going to be five shows on the east side of Oz (dates and venues will be posted very soon). It is going to be amazing and it will also open the door for us to tour Australia thoroughly once the new Ignite cd is out next year. We are really looking forward to these shows!!! A big thanks goes out to all of the Australian Ignite fans who have relentlessly emailed us for the past few years about getting down there to play.

Thanks, Ignite

Greetings Ignite fans!!! - July 25, 2004

We are very sorry that the website has been only working at about 50% for the last few weeks, we had to make some technical changes in the website and in fact we are gearing up to do a complete website overhaul in the next month or so. The last 3 shows of the tour were really good, especially the With Full Force Festival near Leipzig (scroll down to see some tour pics from some club shows and the festivals). We have some exciting news. First the new songs are coming along great and we have been in the studio demoing the new material. We also booked a local show at the Troubadour on September 15... more info on that show to come soon! We just confirmed that we are going to be headlining the Broekrock Festival in Belgium on September 25th. You can check out the details at broekrock.net. We are also going to be doing about a week of shows in Europe before the Festival, hopefully some UK dates and possibly Sweden too. OK, here is the good stuff... we are currently working on Australian, South American and a Japan tour for the end of the year. We will post any confirmations of these tours as they happen!!! Thanks for coming out to all the shows in June/July in Europe and on the east coast. See you soon!!!
Herne, Germany	Haarlem, Holland
Graspop Festival, Belgium	Haarlem, Holland
Wanted Festival, Hungary	Graspop Festival, Belgium
Leipzig, Germany

- July 2, 2004

The Fesival yesterday in Hungary ended up being a lot farther east than we had expected. The Festival was in a city called Mezotur, which was a 2 hour drive east of Budapest. It is a 3 day festival and we had the opportunity to headline the first night. We went on stage at about 11pm and played for about an hour and a half. There was a big crowd that turned up in the little city that is near the Romanian border and they are expecting 10,000 people for each of the weekend days as well. Today is Poland and tomorrow is the "With Full Force Festival" in Germany....cheers. This hasd been the most sleep deprived Ignite tour ever and if I am rambling and dont make any sense on these posts then you know why.

- June 30, 2004

We are doing a few club shows this week while we are making our way down to Hungary for the Wanted Festival. Monday night we played a great show at the Patronaat in Haarlem, Holland. The promoter Kevin took really good care of us and did his job of getting the room packed with people. Sven joined us on stage for Man Against Man which always makes it a special night! Last night was a little club in Wangen, Germany called Tonne and we played the in 1999 with Guy Smiley but had not been back since then. The club was small, hot, wet and full. There were a lot of fans who had not seen us play since 1999 and the people seemed really glad that we came back!!! Good times. Tonight is Vienna at the Arena then we head out tomorrow to Hungary!

- June 28, 2004

Graspop Festival was a ton of fun although really, really dirty. We had almost as much fun walking around the festival checking out all of the metalheads as we did playing. The show was great, about 7,000 people in the tent stage that we played with lots of hardcore kids. We played through about 13 songs during the 40 minute set definitely including the crowd favorite, Ignite's version of Sunday Bloody Sunday. OK, as for walking around the festival we got some great pictures of passed out metal guys face down in the dirt. Also metal guys having dirt wars with thier buddies.....good stuff! OK, Holland tonight! Later.

- June 27, 2004

Last nights Pressure Festival in Herne, Germany was by far the best show of these dates. The Halle was packed last night and the Ignite kids came out in numbers. It was good to get back on stage in Germany at a great festival!!! Right now we are at Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium backstage on the mobile computers updating the websites. It should be really good later today, hopefully the rain stays away.

- June 26, 2004

The Fury Fest in Le Mans, France yesterday was pretty incredible. We had never played a Festival in France before and there were over 10,000 people who showed up to catch, Hatebreed, Dropkick Murphy's, Soulfly, Blood For Blood, Shai Hulud and more. We played the main stage at about 6.30 PM yesterday and received, by far, our best response ever in France. Thanks goes out to all the Ignite fans screaming along with Zoli. I also got to hear a few of the tracks off of the new Agnostic front CD that Jamey from Hatebreed had on his ipod and wow!!!! People are going to be happy! We are on stage in 3 hours at the Pressure Fest in Germany. We will hopefully get some pics to post tomorrow.

- June 22, 2004

Last two nights were great. The NYC show was sold out, packed, hot and wet! The opening bands were great especially Flat Earth Society and Love Is Red (thanks for letting us use your backline on these 3 shows) and by the time we hit the stage the room was ready to go. 17 songs with tons of sing alongs and plenty of stage participation. It was good to see a lot of our friends come out and all the TVT Records people who made it down too! (pic on the right from NYC)

Last night was Wilkes-Barre, PA with the always memorable Murphy's Law of course. That band is one of the funniest bands ever, Jimmy kills it every night! There was a good crowd out at the Wyoming Valley Zoo and we appreciate all of the Ignite fans making it out after us not playing that town in 4 years....good showing! Well, thats it, off to Europe in a few hours, getting ready to play these upcoming festivals and club shows....see ya.

- June 21, 2004

Quick update....last night's show at the Trocadero in Philadelphia was fun and hot! We got on stage at about 8 PM and blasted through 16 songs for the packed room. Tonight is NYC at the Continental...doors are at 7 PM, its going to be another barn burner....pics up soon!

- June 18, 2004

Last nights show at Chain Reaction in Orange County was really fun!!! We had not played in Orange County in about 2 years and a lot of people were happy to see us! We saw a lot of familiar faces in the crowd but there were definitely more new faces than old. It was the perfect lauch to a 2 week run of shows that is going to be incredible. We are really looking forward to getting back to the east coast this weekend and also heading back over for the festivals in Europe. See you in Philly!!!! (Sorry to those of you who did not get it last night)

- May 29, 2004

Interested in helping promote one of the upcoming Ignite club shows? Just send us an email and tell us which show you you want to help promote and we will email you back a flyer for that show.

- May 27, 2004

Ignite would like to post an official apology to anyone who was planning on seeing us a the Summertime Festival and to the concert promoters. It seems there was some confusion with the booking of this show and which show was confirmed by the booking agent and the band.

The Graspop Festival should be a lot of fun on Sunday the 27th of June. We are playing with Judas Priest, Life Of Agony, Dimmu Borgir, Hatebreed and many more. As for the 3 east coast Ignite shows and the one local So. Calif show they are all booked as mentioned below. The dates for all of the shows are posted on the tour section along with website links. The line-up for these shows is going to be Zoli, Brett Craig and Alex. We are looking forward to seeing all of you out at these shows. Thanks for all of the emails....Ignite

- May 19, 2004

OK, check out the tour section to see all of the shows that are booked. We booked a NYC show along with a couple of shows in Pennsylvania and also a local Orange County show at the all ages venue Chain Reaction...should be fun! These going to be the first east coast shows since we did the two Pennywise shows at Irving Plaza in 2002. It is also the first Orange County show in almost 2 years. We are really looking forward to getting back out there and playing for you guys. Not to mention Europe is going to be incredible playing the With Full Force Festival in Germany and Ignite is headling the main stage on the Thursday night at The Wanted Festival in Hungary. Spread the news!!!

- May 8, 2004

In June we going to be rocking for two weeks!!! There are 10 shows scheduled for Europe and there are going to be 3 shows on the east coast too. The European shows are posted in the tour section and the east coast shows will be posted this week (it looks like NYC, Philly and somewhere in Mass.) More news about these dates will be posted very soon. There also might be a So. Cal show too....stay tuned.

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