Lostprophets Return to the States With Tour Dates in Support of Group's First #1 UK Album, 'Liberation Transmission'

Lostprophets Return to the States With Tour Dates in Support of Group's First #1 UK Album, 'Liberation Transmission'

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NEW YORK, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Welsh rock band Lostprophets will return to the states in late August to begin a series of tour dates including headline club and theater gigs as well as an ongoing slot on the Finnish quintet HIM's "No Sleep Till Halloween" Tour beginning October 18 (see itinerary following).

The Lostprophets' latest North American tour comes in celebration of Liberation Transmission. The group's third full-length album entered the UK charts at #1, becoming their first UK chart-topper, and has already achieved gold status (over 100,000 copies). (Lostprophets 2001 debut, Fake Sound of Progress, peaked at #44 while the band's 2004 Start Something reached #4.)

Back in the states, Liberation Transmission entered the Billboard Top 200 bestselling albums chart at #33, mirroring the US debut (also #33 in the Top 200) of Start Something in February 2004.

"Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)," the first single from Liberation Transmission, hit the UK Top 10 (#8) while garnering significant Rock and Alternative Airplay in the US. The track is currently Top 15 at Modern Rock and still climbing. "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" comes with a video lensed in Los Angeles and co-directed by the band and Ryan Smith (Story of the Year, Good Charlotte, Bowling For Soup).

The late June 2006 release of Liberation Transmission was greeted with enthusiasm from the stateside music press. "The mix of pop-punk dynamics, classic rock riffage, and hair metal flourishes is well-executed," enthused Will Hermes in Entertainment Weekly (July 23, 2006) while Billboard's (June 10, 2006) Sven Phillip raved about the single, writing, "'Rooftops' has already raised the roof at modern and active rock radio, ensuring that these Welsh prophets will not get lost."

Liberation Transmission, the first Lostprophets album since 2004's RIAA gold-certified Start Something, is produced by Bob Rock (whose work on Metallica's self-titled "black album" is much admired by Lostprophets). Tracks for Liberation Transmission were recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood and Rock's Plantation Recording in Maui, Hawaii and mixed at The Warehouse in Vancouver.

Liberation Transmission premieres 12 new Lostprophets songs: "Everyday Combat," "A Town Called Hypocrisy," "The New Transmission," "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)," "Can't Stop, Gotta Date With Hate," "Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time)," "Everybody's Screaming!!!," "Broken Hearts, Torn Up Letters and the Story of a Lonely Girl," "4:AM Forever," "For All These Times Kid, For All These Times," "Heaven For The Weather, Hell For The Company," "Always All Ways (Apologies, Glances and Messed Up Chances)."

Lostprophets are: Ian Watkins (vocals), Mike Lewis (guitar), Lee Gaze (guitar), Stuart Richardson (bass) and Jamie Oliver (keyboards, programming).

Lostprophets Tour Dates

Headlining

08/30/06 Fresno, CA The Belmont
08/31/06 Sparks, NV New Oasis
09/01/06 Santa Rosa, CA Last Day Saloon
09/02/06 San Francisco, CA Live 105 radio show
09/04/06 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre
09/05/06 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre
09/06/06 Odessa, TX Dos Amigos
09/08/06 Ft. Worth, TX Ridglea Theatre
09/16/06 Lancaster, PA Chameleon
09/25/06 Orangevale, CA The Boardwalk
10/04/06 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
10/13/06 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock Cafe
10/16/06 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights

w/HIM "No Sleep Till Halloween" Tour

10/18/06 Lowell, MA Tsongas Arena
10/19/06 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
10/20/06 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
10/21/06 Camden, NJ Tweeter Waterfront Center
10/23/06 Rochester, NY ESL Sports Center
10/24/06 Toronto, ONT Ricoh Coliseum
10/25/06 Chicago, IA Aragon Ballroom
10/26/06 Des Moines, IA Val Air Ballroom
10/29/06 San Jose, CA Event Center, San Jose State University
10/30/06 San Diego, CA SDSU Open Air Theater
10/31/06 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre

Source: Columbia Records

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