With The Project Revolution tour approaching in just under a week, we only have two headlining shows left for the summer, Montreal, QC (July 13) and Huntington, WV (July 29). We have just completed a two-week tour that took us up the west coast and across Canada. At some of these shows the promotion has been less than ideal. We have come out to the crowd after every show and talked with many people. A disturbing number of you have stated things like “Why are you keeping these shows a secret?” or “I have been an APC fan and now ASHES, and had no idea you had a show until like 3 hours ago when I passed the venue on my way home from work”. The point being, the traditional avenues of officially spreading the word have been almost non-existent for us. So grass roots here we come. Call it a street team or whatever you want but we need a boots-on-the-ground style campaign dropping flyers and such at places where people might go that could be interested in ASHES dIVIDE. Drive around with a bullhorn mounted on your VW van local politician style if you need to, just spread the word. I just went to pollstar.com and saw that Stone Temple Pilots are playing at Bell Centre and The Bravery is playing Le National in Montreal on July 11th. We play 2 nights later at Le National. If you are willing to help and need help with printout ideas, we would be more than happy to send you a PDF.
Thank you very much and we will see (and sweat with) you in a few days.
-Billy, Jeff, Matt, Andy and Adam