Check out Ignite rocking “Sunday Bloody Sunday” at the Groezrock festival in Belgium with Tim McIlrath from Rise Against singing backups…

http://www.movieweb.com/video/V07E46gqtEKMQR

Following up our in-store performance at the Paul Frank store in Berlin, PaulFrank.com have posted up their story on the event as well as some behind-the-scenes pictures. Check it out here.

Thanks again to our friend Chris Lisk for making it all happen.

You can view some performance footage from the event below…

Well, we are back home from an amazing European Tour! Probably the best headlining European Tour that we have ever done. Some of the highlights from the last 10 days of tour was: an unbelievable show in Saarbrucken, Germany at the Garage…then the sold out show at the Underground in Cologne, Germany…the sold out show in Budapest at A-38….then one of our favorite shows of the whole tour, Vienna playing with AFI. It was the first time we actually played a show with AFI since 1997 at the Whiskey in L.A. Needless to say it was an incredible show at the open-air stage at the Arena…the last show of the tour was a packed show at one of our favorite venues in Germany, the Backstage in Munich. Thanks to Death By Stereo and BURNTHE8TRACK for helping make this tour one of our best ever!

Check the tour dates section of the website. We are now beginning to confirm our festivals for August. Thanks, IGNITE.

This past weeked was a very busy weekend for Ignite as we played three great festivals all in the same weekend. Friday we started off in London at the famous Earl’s Court for the GIAN Festival. We joined The Used, HIM and Juliette and the Licks on stage in front of thousands. Really cool show, the Used were really good and seemed to be the crowd favorite of the day. Right after the show was finished we jumped in the bus and headed back through the chunnel to Belgium to join up with DBS and play the Groezrock Festival. This might have been the best European festival line-up that we have ever played….Rise Against, Strung Out, Hatebreed, Terror, Sparta, Tiger Army, MxPx, etc, etc…all in the same day.We had a great time at the festival and on stage. Our tent was absolutely packed when we went on and people were piled on top of each other extending all the way outside the tent area as well. Thanks to all of our Belgian, Dutch and German fans who came out to see us play at Groezrock. So, that takes us to Sunday morning….jump on a plane from Belgium to Glasgow and join back up with the same GIAN line-up as Friday. All in all it was an amazing weekend!!!

After having to take a day off yesterday in Bremen, Germany everything is back on track for Hamburg tonite! We were really sorry to disappoint any of our fans yesterday in Bremen when we had to cancel one day of this tour to rest our singer Zoli. We appreciate all of the fans that stayed to watch BurnThe8Track and Death By Stereo. It was a great show by both bands. This weekend is going to be great with the upcoming Give It A Name Festivals in London and Glasgow and the Groezrock Festival in Belgium on Saturday. See everyone there:-)

So far the tour dates with Death By Stereo nd Burnthe8track have been great! The last three nights in Leipzig, Berlin and Hannover were all sold out and super fun! Berlin however was a really special day because during the day we played a special free acoustic concert at the Paul Frank clothing store in Berlin. What a great experience! The place was packed, in fact a lot of people could not get in and had to watch from outside the store. Our friend, Chris Lisk at Paul Frank set the whole thing up and we really want to thank him or making it such an amazing day!
Check out the photos here.

The show at SO36 was again great and we really want to thank all our fans for making this tour the best Ignite tour ever. It has been a difficult tour for us because of the health problems that our singer Zoli is having. We are trying our best to make this tour work, after this tour we are probably going to be taking a few months off so Zoli can get his surgery and heal. Thanks for all of the supprt…IGNITE!!!

Well, the first week of our European tour is done and we are taking a few days off in Leipzig, Germany waiting for Death By Stereo and BurnThe8Track to arrive.

We flew a lot in the past week, 6 flights in 6 days, 5 shows in 4 different countries spanning all across Europe: Portugal to Holland to Finland to Poland….fun, but tiring for sure. The show in Lisbon, Portugal was a perfect warm-up show, a small club, packed with rabid Ignite fans singing along to everything. Then over to Holland for the Paaspop Festival which was huge and great. It was the first time since 2001 that we graced the stage of Paaspop and it was even better this time. Next morning was up farther to Helsinki where we played the club called Nosturi that was crammed with 900 people. Alex our Finnish promoter really took care of us…thanks again! Next day we flew down to Berlin where we were picked up and shuttled over to Poznan, Poland for the first of two Polish shows. Both Warsaw and Poznan were really good….Poland shows have such amazing energry and enthusiasm. Thanks to everyone who helped with these concerts.

Some of our upcoming shows are pre-seling out and the promoters are possibly moving the shows to bigger venues. Please stay posted for any changes/updates for the venues.

See you soon, IGNITE

The last two dates of our upcoming European tour have been slightly changed. We are now playing on May 8 in Vienna, Austria with AFI. The show at the Backstage in Munich has now been moved to May 9. Thanks!

We are off to Europe in just a few days. The tour starts with a few random fly-in shows in Lisbon, Helsinki, a couple shows in Poland and the Paaspop Festival in Holland. Then on April 17 the Ignite/Death By Stereo/BurnThe8Track leg of the tour starts. We are looking forward to all of this! We are going to have the “Our Darkest Days-Limited Tour Edition” cd for sale at these shows. The cd features new artwork, two bonus songs and the “Bleeding” video. This cd is very limited!!! See you soon.