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The Eastpak Antidote tour is back in October and will be headlined by Alexisonfire and Anti Flag, plus will feature great new bands The Fall Of Troy and The Ghost Of A Thousand.
The Juno-award winning ALEXISONFIRE (pronounced Alexis-on-fire) will release their fourth full-length disc Old Crows/Young Cardinals on June 22nd. This is the St. Catharines, Ontario-based quintets follow-up to Platinum-selling album Crisis which debuted at #1 on the Top 200 Soundscan Chart in Canada. Their music is characterized by turbulent and explosive dynamics with intricate guitar melodies. Alexisonfire will perform at the UKs Reading/Leeds festivals, preceded by 3 intimate sold-out London headline dates June 9 -11.
Anti-Flag released their seventh full-length album (and first on Side One Dummy), The People or the Gun, June 8th and it starts off fast and furious with Sodom, Gomorrah, Washington D.C. (Sheep in Shepherds Clothing) as Chris #2 takes aim at those who use the Bible to control the masses, spitting out the lyrics with an urgency that makes his voice crack. If the albums second track, The Economy is SufferingLet It Die, isnt nearly as reckless, its just as impassioned, recalling the more melodic moments on those first two albums by The Clash. Before theyre through, in fact, theyve fired off a number of their most explosive political broadsides from the punk-rock trenches yet. Anti-Flag will have a local Emmaus shelter involved at each show. Visit them at www.emmaus.org.uk

Alexisonfire, Anti-flag, The Fall of Troy and The Ghost of a Thousand as part of the Eastpak Antidote Tour will be coming to the following cities in October;

OCTOBER 2009
Wed 07 Cambridge Junction 01223 511 511
Thu 08 Norwich UEA01603 508 050
Fri 09 Oxford 02 Academy 0844 477 2000
Sat 10 Nottingham Rock City 0871 310 0000
Sun 11 Bristol Anson Rooms 0117 929 3301
Wed 14 London HMV Forum 0844 847 2405
Fri 16 Glasgow ABC 0844 499 9999
Sat 17 Leeds University 0113 244 4600
Sun 18 Manchester Academy 0161 832 1111
Tue 20 Birmingham 02 Academy0844 477 2000
Wed 21 Portsmouth Pyramids 023 9282 435

Tickets are £15 and are on sale Wednesday 10th June @ 9am
www.gigsandtours.com 24 hr cc hotline 0871 2200 260

Band Links
Alexisonfire http://www.theonlybandever.com
Anti-Flag http://sideonedummy.com/bands_bio1205.php?band_name=Anti_Flag
The Fall of Troy www.thefalloftroy.com/
The Ghost of a Thousand www.myspace.com/theghostofathousand