Bowling For Soup

With their upcoming new Greatest Hits album officially due for release on August 25th, Bowling For Soup have now put out a brand new animated video for 1985.

Originally released back in 2004, 1985 has now been re-recorded for their upcoming album, and it’s the freshly recorded version that’s been given the animated treatment here.

Other songs included on the new Songs People Actually Liked – Volume 2 release include the likes of Almost, High School Never Ends, and Ohio (Come Back To Texas), and for those interested in seeing some of these classics performed live? You’ll be able to catch Bowling For Soup live in the UK when they return to these shores in 2024 with Less Than Jake.

You can check out the official new animated video for 1985 below:

Bowling For Soup have posted numerous covers on their YouTube channel in recent months, the latest of which is a cover of Social Distortion’s When The Angels Sing.

The cover has been mixed and produced by Linus of Hollywood, and the band’s frontman Jaret Reddick had the following to say about the decision to cover a Social Distortion song:

Social Distortion…What can you REALLY say about a band that pretty much sets itself apart from every other band and genre in the world. Little bit o’this..Little bit o’that…But tough as hell!! Mike Ness is the epitome of “cool,” and his songs sincerely never age…Nor does HE for that matter. Anytime you cover a song from musical royalty, you take a chance. But we took a stab at “When the Angels Sing,” and I think we did it justice

You can listen to Bowling For Soup’s cover of When The Angels Sing below

Whilst Bowling For Soup frontman Jaret Reddick insists that the band will not be breaking up, Bowling For Soup is about to embark upon its final UK tour this coming October, and you can find a full list of the dates that the band will be playing in the tour poster above.

As Reddick explains in a YouTube tour announcement (that you’ll find posted below), Bowling For Soup will not be able to make it to Ireland on this coming tour, so if you’re one of the band’s Irish fans then you’ll have to try and catch Bowling For Soup at one of their shows in the UK if you’re able to. Also, Bowling For Soup does not currently have a farewell tour of the US planned, so it’s pretty special that they’ve chosen to give us UK fans one last chance to see them live, and we can definitely thank Jaret, Chris, Erik, and Gary for being so kind as to see to one final UK tour before they say goodbye to touring and concentrate on their personal lives away from the band.

As well as having this farewell UK tour coming up in October, Bowling For Soup will also soon be entering the studio in order to record their twelfth studio album. You can back this process and sign up for all sorts of perks by heading over to their PledgeMusic page where you can then choose from an assortment of different options as to how you wish to back the band with album number twelve.

For $10 you can bag yourself a digital copy of the album as soon as it’s finished, or for $10,000 you can even have the band come and perform a show at your house on October 8th 2013 (go on, you know you want to!). There are plenty of other options to choose from in-between, and you can show your support for this fantastic American pop-punk band by making a pledge and reaping the rewards.

The following is the video that Jaret posted on YouTube with regards to the upcoming Bowling For Soup UK tour and the future plans for the band:

Bowling For Soup is hitting the road in the UK this weekend, with the Party In Your Pants UK Tour kicking off at Glasgow Academy on October 17th. Eleven shows are to be played in total, with the tour ultimately ending at London Roundhouse on October 29th.

The ‘Sorry For Partyin’ studio album was released this week, and this tour will therefore provide a fantastic opportunity to hear the new material on the live circuit. It’s the band’s tenth album to date, and you can also expect to hear some of your favourites from the previous albums played on the tour as well.

After finishing in the UK the band is then off to Japan and Australia before heading back to the States, let’s not worry about that just yet though; let’s just focus on Bowling For Soup’s UK tour for now, and I’m sure that if you’re heading along to any of these eleven dates then you’ll therefore be in for a night to remember.

Here is the full list of tour dates for the Party In Your Pants UK Tour:

Sat October 17 Glasgow Academy
Sun October 18 Newcastle Academy
Tue October 20 Cambridge Corn Exchange
Wed October 21 Margate Winter Gardens
Thu October 22 Birmingham Academy
Fri October 23 Sheffield Academy
Sat October 24 Leicester Demontfort Hall
Sun October 25 Manchester Academy
Mon October 26 Exeter Great Hall
Wed October 28 Bournemouth Opera House
Thu October 29 London Roundhouse

The official video for the Bowling For Soup single ‘My Wena’. There is also a clean version of the video available if you’d prefer to watch that. ‘My Wena’ is a track from the tenth Bowling For Soup studio album ‘Sorry For Partyin’.

Label: A&G Records
Release Date: September 28th 2009