2008 Honda Civic Tour Featuring Panic At The Disco Sells Out Shows Coast to Coast

2008 Honda Civic Tour Featuring Panic At The Disco Sells Out Shows Coast to Coast

Additional Nationwide Performance Dates On Sale

Tickets Go On Sale Feb. 16, With Access to Special Pre-Sale Tickets Beginning Feb. 13 Through www.hondacivictour.com

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 Honda Civic Tour (HCT) featuring Panic At The Disco is one of the hottest tickets in town, selling out shows on both coasts and announcing additional dates. With tickets going fast, a second set of dates will go on sale Feb. 16, and fans will have a chance to snap up tickets in a pre-sale on Feb. 13 by visiting www.hondacivictour.com. The nationwide trek, which begins April 10, will take Panic to more than 40 cities, with support acts Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound and Phantom Planet along for the ride.

Due to overwhelming demand a second show has been added at San Francisco's Warfield Theatre, on April 11, New York's Roseland Ballroom, on May 8, and at Chicago's Congress Theatre, on May 24. Tickets for the San Francisco and New York dates are on sale now, while the second Chicago date goes on sale on Feb 16.

"We're really glad our fans are as excited as we are for this year's Honda Civic Tour," said Ryan Ross of Panic At The Disco.

This year's Honda Civic Tour is rolling out an environmental action plan in which tickets themselves will equal action: For every Honda Civic Tour Panic At The Disco ticket purchased, $1 will go into a fund designated for nonprofit tour partners Reverb and Global Inheritance. Selected by Panic At The Disco, Reverb (a leader in the "greening" of concert tours) and Global Inheritance (a champion of progressive causes with a tight connection to youth subcultures) are collaborating to engage audiences in fun, fan-friendly, interactive exhibits during the tour. Additionally, this collective will make a substantial contribution -- in the name of the 2008 Honda Civic Tour with Panic At The Disco -- to a cause to be determined by the end of the tour. The beneficiary will be selected on merit and its potential to have a lasting impact on the generation-defining environmental movement.

The video for the first single off Panic At The Disco's upcoming release, Pretty. Odd., premiered yesterday on "TRL." Titled "Nine In The Afternoon," the video was directed by Shane Drake, who also helmed the band's 2006 MTV Video Music Awards Video of the Year, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." Pretty. Odd. hits stores nationwide on March 25.

Honda began operations in the U.S. in 1959 with the establishment of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda's first overseas subsidiary. Honda now employs more than 35,000 associates in North America. Honda currently has 14 manufacturing plants in North America, producing automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, personal watercraft, engines, transmissions and other components. Nearly 8 of 10 Honda and Acura cars and light trucks sold in America are assembled in North America as well. Many of these products are now designed and developed at one of Honda's U.S. R&D centers. Honda annually purchases more than $17 billion in parts and materials from suppliers in North America.

Produced by Marketing Factory, the Honda Civic Tour brings innovation and environmental consciousness to the masses by combining the hottest in automotive technology with the hottest in music.

The Honda Civic Tour is scheduled to visit the following cities (dates and venues subject to change):

DATE VENUE CITY ON SALE
April 10 Warfield San Francisco, CA Sold out
April 11 Warfield San Francisco, CA On sale now*
April 12 Soma San Diego, CA On sale now
April 13 Mesa Amphitheatre Phoenix, AZ On sale now
April 15 Brady Theatre Oklahoma City, OK February 16
April 17 Thomas Assembly Center
at Louisiana Tech Ruston, LA February 16
April 18 Palladium Ballroom Dallas, TX On sale now
April 19 Stubb's BBQ Austin, TX February 16
April 20 Verizon Wireless
Theatre Houston, TX On sale now
April 22 Ruth Eckerd Hall Clearwater, FL On sale now
April 23 The Fillmore
Miami Beach at the
Jackie Gleason
Theatre Miami, FL On sale now
April 24 House of Blues
- Orlando Orlando, FL On sale now
April 26 The Tabernacle Atlanta, GA On sale now
April 29 House of Blues
- Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach, SC February 16
April 30 Constitution Hall Washington DC On sale now
May 2 Alfond Arena at the
University of Maine Orono, ME February 15
May 3 RPI Field House Troy, NY February 15
May 6 Gordon Fieldhouse
- Rochester Institute
of Technology Rochester, NY February 16
May 7 Roseland Ballroom New York, NY Sold out
May 8 Roseland Ballroom New York, NY On sale now*
May 9 Festival Pier Philadelphia, PA On sale now
May 10 Chevrolet Theatre Wallingford, CT On sale now
May 11 Bank of America
Pavilion Boston, MA On sale now
May 13 Metropolis Montreal, QC February 16
May 14 The Sound Academy Toronto, ON On sale now
May 16 Tower City
Amphitheatre Cleveland, OH February 16
May 17 PromoWest-Outdoor
(LC Pavilion) Columbus, OH February 16
May 18 Egyptian Room
at Murat Centre Indianapolis, IN February 16*
May 20 The Fillmore Theatre Detroit, MI On sale now
May 23 Congress Theatre Chicago, IL On sale now
May 24 Congress Theatre Chicago, IL February 16*
May 25 Eagles Ballroom Milwaukee, WI February 16
May 27 Myth Minneapolis, MN On sale now
May 30 The Pageant St. Louis, MO On sale now
May 31 Westfair Amphitheatre Omaha, NE February 16
June 1 Uptown Theatre Kansas City, MO February 16
June 3 The Fillmore
Auditorium Denver, CO On sale now
June 4 Salt Air Theatre Salt Lake City, UT February 16
June 6 PNE Forum Vancouver, BC February 16
June 7 Paramount Theatre Seattle, WA February 16
June 8 Portland Exposition
Center Portland, OR February 16
June 10 Grand Theatre at the
Grand Sierra Resort
and Casino Reno, NV February 16*
June 13 The Pearl Las Vegas, NV February 16
June 14 The Theatre at the
Honda Center Anaheim, CA February 16

*Just added

Source: American Honda Motors Co.

CONTACT: Fran Curtis, +1-212-445-8423, fcurtis@rogersandcowan.com, or
Lauren Ceradini, +1-212-445-8418, lceradini@rogersandcowan.com, both of ROGERS
& COWAN, for Honda Civic Tour; or Christina Kotsamanidis, +1-212-707-2241,
Christina.Kotsamanidis@atlanticrecords.com, for Panic At The Disco; or Chris
Martin of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., +1-310-783-3164,
chris_martin@ahm.honda.com; or Matthew Berkson of Marketing Factory,
+1-310-314-8008, matt@marketingfactory.com

Web site:

http://www.hondacivictour.com/

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