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Terminal 5

610 W. 56th St., 10019, Manhattan, NY, US

www.ticketmaster.com/Terminal-5-tickets-New-York/venue/1112

Capacity: 3,000

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Doors open: 18:30

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The Story So Far biography

The Story So Far are an American pop punk band from Walnut Creek, California, who formed in 2007. They’re currently signed to Pure Noise.

The band’s website loudly proclaims that their work ethic and attitude basically corresponds directly to one of their lyrics - “you don’t deserve what you haven’t earned” - but the band themselves had hardly been slogging it out for years before their own breakthrough came along - the group were not long out of school when they put together the original lineup of Parker Chest Hole Cannon on lead vocals, Kelen Capener on bass, Ryan Torf behind the drums and Kevin Geyer and Kevin Ambrose playing guitar. That same lineup still exists today, although with William Levy having replaced Ambrose on six-string duties.

The band have released two albums to date, and their first, ‘Under Soil and Dirt’, saw them move a step closer to the holy grail for pop punk bands, the Warped Tour, by playing both its UK leg and its warm-up, Road to Warped, in their native U.S. in 2012. They built up enough of a fanbase through events like that - as well as through high-profile support slots to the likes of New Found Glory - to secure them a slot on the tour proper in 2013, around the time they were promoting album number two, ‘What You Don’t See’. They returned to the tour in 2014, alongside the likes of Bowling for Soup and The Devil Wears Prada, and are lined up to be a key fixture on the Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour of Europe in winter 2014, too.

Live reviews

California has produced some of the best punk bands of all time and The Story So Far is looking to keep that amazing reputation.

Coming out of Walnut Creek, California the band has been on a rocket ship of exposure as they began in the very sought after Warped Tour playing along with the greats such as Less Than Jake and New Found Glory. But I was able to catch them in Portland, Oregon where they brought punk to the home of grunge.

Hawthorne Theatre is not a large arena by any means but you couldn't tell that by the volume of the audience. Hundreds of fans singing along as the band pounded their way through hard-hitting songs. What amazed me is how much the band vibed with the audience. This was not a stiff show with people swaying to the songs they liked. It felt more like being at someone's house with your friends on stage, rocking out. To add to that feeling, the small stage was swarmed with audience members jumping up, running around and then diving into their fellow fans - all while front man Parker Cannon continued to spit lyrics and expertly dodge the oncoming rush of super fans.

By far one of the more intense shows I've been to and who doesn't like a guy jumping off the stage and falling right next to you?

Anonymous

During the early Noughties, Drive-Thru records were the kings of pop punk and emo. US pop-punkers The Starting Line were one of their bigger breakthroughs, with debut album Say It Like You Mean It (2003) becoming a smash thanks to the MTV-friendly single ‘The Best Of Me’ (surely one of the catchiest pop punk anthems from that era. They were, for a time, pretty huge in America, but that success never fully caught on here, despite ‘The Best Of Me’ dominating the music video channels in 2003.
They were unlucky to have arrived when post-blink 182 pop punk was at its most over-saturated, with similar sounding bands New Found Glory and Simple Plan proving victorious. With that said, Say It Like You Mean It remains one of a defining record of the Drive-Thru years. I actually saw them live during its touring cycle, when they came over to the UK in 2003 supporting Reel Big Fish – they rotated set times each night of the tour with fellow punk outfit Sugarcult. At this particular gig at the Astoria (RIP) in London they came on first and absolutely killed it, receiving a much wilder reception than Sugarcult who followed. Singer/bassist Kenny Vasoli’s clean vocals were just so perfect for teenage love letters and the young crowd connected so easily with the simple, melodic hooks and bouncy rhythms. I can still hear the near-deafening sing-a-along to closer ‘The Best Of Me’ now!
The band reformed a couple of years ago to play Say It Like You Mean it in full to celebrate the ten year anniversary and it was a real shame I missed out. Hopefully more shows will follow…

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