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Oh man! We are SO PUMPED for this summer tour!
Yesterday we celebrated our 6th BANDIVERSARY! That’s right, 6 years of Harry and the Potters! Wow! I can’t really even belive that, but I’m just gonna roll with it. As always, thank you so much for your continued support. Being in this band has been a truly special and unbelievable experience for us. As we prepare to embark on our 5th straight summer of touring, we do hope that you’ll find an evening to join us. We don’t tour much anymore, so this is really your only chance to see us in 2008. If you’ve seen us before, come see us again! If you’ve never seen us, DON’T MISS IT! This summer’s show is gonna be INCREDIBLE!!! We’ve got all sorts of awesome stuff lined up and even a new song or two!
Also, this is an awesome sand castle we built after practice one day last week. We have Unlimited Enthusiasm for sand castles!
As some of you may know, we also have Unlimited Enthusiasm for awesome merch! Bring boatloads of money to the shows this summer. Seriously! All the bands will have amazing stuff. Georg (the dude who made our CD artwork) is making woodcut prints (by hand!) of the Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock cover. They are stunning. All the bands als contributed to the Unlimited Enthusiasm Summer Zine! It’s super cool! We just printed them today!!! OMG!!!!! We even have a tote bag with the giant squid on it! Wow! And of course t-shirts. Zoinks!
See you soon!
Hey guys!
Check out this video that Joe and I made for Wizard Rock the Vote:
More details on the campaign below!
Hey guys,
I am really excited to finally tell you about a project that I’ve been working on for the past few months.
It is our choices that make us who we are as individuals, it is also our choices that make us who we are as a society. For all of us in the US who will be “of age” by this November we need to Wizard Rock the Vote and exercise our choice on who the next President of the United States will be. So here’s where we come in:
The Harry Potter Alliance and Wizard Rock community have together organized Wizard Rock the Vote. We are looking for two volunteers (of any age…it’s okay if you’re under eighteen to volunteer) at every Wizard Rock concert across the country to help register audience members to vote. You’ll get to work with the bands and help talk to awesome people at the concert and register them to vote!
As a volunteer, the bands will provide you with a clipboard and registration forms before the concert to sign people up to vote for the November election.
If you are interested in being one of these awesome volunteers, check out concerts near you and fill out the form or send an email directly to samantha@thehpalliance.org - and check out the participating bands we have so far (more coming)! If you didn’t realize already, all our summer tour dates are posted on this website. The tour starts next week so volunteer NOW!
You can also help support this campaign by putting up these Wizard Rock the Vote banner ads on your myspace and facebook profiles:
AND check out the awesome new Wizard Rock the Vote t-shirts (sales support this campaign) and most importantly, during the summer of 2008 on the eve of one of the most historic elections in US history, let’s make sure to Wizard Rock the freakin’ Vote!
Yours in the revolution,
Paul DeGeorge
Harry and the Potters/the HP Alliance/Unlimited Enthusiasm CEO/Camp Jump and Yell Head Counselor
P.S. We still need a few UEE volunteers at certain shows this summer. Please see the Unlimited Enthusiasm Facebook Group for the most up-to-date info on volunteering to help our tour.
Harry and the Potters have released a promo video for the Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo. The video features a NEW SONG from their upcoming submission to the Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club which will be released towards the end of summer.
At some point today we discovered that The Owl from Owlcast had created a promo video for the Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo. Exciting!!!
Owl Promo for Unlimited Enthusiasm
New confirmations in Chicago, Vancouver, and Cleveland!
Also get us your address if you’re listed below!
Continue reading ‘New UEE Promo Video!’
For Harry and the Potters, this is our first tour where the bulk of venues that we’ll be playing are rock clubs rather than libraries. There was something really special about performing in libraries, but we’re hoping this summer, that we can create something equally special by performing in these more normal show spaces.
At this point in our career, we’ve played over 450 shows and we’ve come to realize that a show can only be as awesome and amazing as the audience will allow. So when we conceived this idea of Unlimited Enthusiasm, we thought that we should include the audience in the planning of the actual events!
For each night of tour, the bands will be showing up and rocking out. This tour has 40 shows and we will be giving you 150% EVERY NIGHT! What we are asking is that for ONE NIGHT, you give us all of your ENTHUSIASM! We need volunteers who will help craft each show in to a unique and special night for all involved. There are so many ways in which we can make these nights amazing and we want your ideas for how that can happen.
We want these shows to be so incredible that people don’t even realize it until like 10 years later, when they look back and think of the greatest night of their lives and remember the Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo from Summer 2008!
For more information and to get involved, see our volunteer page!
Hey kids!
To help you get extra pumped up for the Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo, we asked our friend Jason Anderson to record a theme song. Your assignment is to learn all the words to this song. It is the OFFICIAL song of Camp Jump and Yell and it must be sung at every show on tour this summer!
BLAST IT!
Unlimited Enthusiasm Theme Song
We are also excited to announce that Jason Anderson and the Best will be touring with the Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo from July 13 - July 26th!
More big announcements coming soon!
