LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Octone Records) - What better way to celebrate the gold-selling certification of your self-titled debut album than to head out your first headlining tour? With a devout fan base firmly in place, the heralded Austin-based band
Flyleaf will embark on a headlining tour kicking off in Memphis, Tennessee on March 25th. Memphis-based
Skillet has been tapped to support the band throughout the tour with Dropping Daylight, Resident Hero and others supporting in select markets. Tickets everywhere go onsale Saturday, February 10th, but an exclusive fan presale will begin Tuesday, February 6th at 3pm local time (details available at www.flyleafmusic.com).
Calling it the "Justice & Mercy Tour" holds special significance, since the band is teaming with World Vision to offer fans a limited- edition four song EP (available exclusively on the road) and a specially designed t-shirt. All proceeds for both items will benefit World Vision, which provides worldwide aid to those in need (for more info, visit www.worldvision.org).
Flyleaf – vocalist/lyricist Lacey Mosley, guitarists Sameer Bhattacharya and Jared Hartmann, bassist Pat Seals, and drummer James Culpepper – have been playing together since 2002, though misleadingly diminutive singer Mosley, Bhattacharya and Hartmann hooked up in 2001. Over the past few years Flyleaf has garnered and extremely loyal fan base which they credit to constant touring. Their success is also fueled by an EP released in 2004, followed by their Octone/J Records debut album, released in October, 2005. FLYLEAF has spawned two powerful singles, "I'm So Sick" and "Fully Alive" both of which were played on major market active rock radio, modern rock radio, MTV 2, Fuse and initially Yahoo Music. Flyleaf has also had national television exposure performing their recent single "Fully Alive" on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, CD USA, and NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly.
FLYLEAF "JUSTICE AND MERCY" TOUR DATES:
MAR 25 07 Memphis, TN Newby's
MAR 27 07 Houston, TX Warehouse Live Studio
MAR 28 07 Beaumont, TX Antones
MAR 30 07 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit
APR 01 07 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
APR 02 07 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
APR 04 07 Columbia, SC Headliners Live
APR 05 07 Jacksonville, NC Hooligans
APR 06 07 Charlotte, NC Tremont Music Hall
APR 10 07 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre
APR 11 07 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
APR 14 07 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
APR 15 07 Chicago, IL House of Blues
APR 17 07 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre
APR 19 07 Omaha, NE The Rock
APR 20 07 Minneapolis, MN Trocaderos
APR 23 07 SAUGET, IL Pop's
APR 25 07 Knoxville, TN Blue Cats
APR 30 07 Port Saint Lucie, FL Mojo Room
