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Mandy Moore Announces National Tour
You gotta respect Mandy Moore.
After she was initially groomed to be the next Britney Spears, this Hollywood "good" girl has taken more and more control of her own artistic direction. As a result, she has scored several hits and played in successful movies. Late last year, she cut ties with her big and mighty record label, went independent and started writing her own songs.
The result is her sublime new record "Wild Hope" that shows a whole different side of Mandy. This is not the bubblepop character you might remember. This is a confident young woman who wrote an album full of folk-pop gems together with critically-acclaimed crooners like The Weepies and Rachael Yamagata.
"Songwriting for this record was really therapeutic for me. Very cathartic," Mandy told me in our interview. "It brought a lot of clarity and made me feel better about certain situations that I wasn’t feeling so great about. So despite what happened in my life, I was able to create art from it. These are my words. The album as a whole is exactly how I wanted it be." (Read my entire interview with Mandy here.)
Now Mandy is getting ready to take the album to the people. Her management just announced that the singer will be hitting the road this fall together with Paula Cole for her first-ever co-headlining tour. Moore will also do a few solo gigs with Rachael Yamagata supporting. Get a full listing of cities and dates after the jump.
Watch Mandy Moore "All Good Things" (Live)
Mandy Moore 2007 Tour Dates
(Get your tickets here.)
Date - City - Venue
Aug 18 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
Aug 19 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
Aug 20 Seattle, WA Showbox
Aug 22 San Francisco, CA Fillmore
Aug 23 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues
Aug 24 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
Aug 25 San Diego, CA 4th & B
*Aug 28 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
*Aug 30 Forth Worth, TX Lakewood Theatre
*Aug 31 Austin, TX La Zona Rosa
*Sept 1 Houston, TX Club V
*Sept 2 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
*Sept 4 St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Landing
*Sept 6 Atlanta, GA Roxy
*Sept 7 Lake Buena Vista, Fl House of Blues
*Sept 8 North Myrtle Beach, NC House of Blues
*Sept 9 Charlotte, NC Amos
*Sept 11 Alexandria, VA Birchmere
Sept 13 Glenside, PA Keswick Theater
Sept 14 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata
Sept 15 New York, NY Irving Plaza
Sept 16 Boston, MA Berklee
Sept 18 Albany, NY Sawyer Theatre @ The Egg
Sept 19 Hartford, CT Webster Theatre
Sept 21 Pittsburgh, PA Palace Theater
Sept 22 Toronto, ON Danforth
Sept 23 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
Sept 25 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
Sept 26 Chicago, IL Park West
(*) Denotes Mandy Moore headlining with Rachael Yamagata as support
August 3, 2007 | Permalink
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Laurie Anderson: very avant garde!
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www.daveches.co.uk/80s/index
Posted by: sprengstoff at Aug 3, 2007 2:30:42 PM
Mandy had a kinda secret performance in July, maybe the end of June, at The Roxy in LA.
I have to say her live show is kinda shocking, in a good way. She actually sings. And she's good. The songs on her new CD really translate to the stage and, in some cases, even sound better.
Posted by: Matt at Aug 3, 2007 4:44:02 PM
I like Mandy Moore—I worked with her (not in a deep, meaningful way) a few times during her teen princess years. But I wish she'd be less defensive about her old music. It was a mess (the label did a silly re-release of her first record and made some other moves that were not to her benefit), but she had a few genuinely appealing pure-pop songs.
Posted by: Matthew Rettenmund at Aug 4, 2007 9:34:07 AM
