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2008 Honda Civic Tour Featuring Panic At The Disco Sells Out Shows Coast to Coast


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Additional Nationwide Performance Dates On Sale

Tickets Go On Sale Feb. 16, With Access to Special Pre-Sale Tickets Beginning Feb. 13, 2008 Through www.hondacivictour.com

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 -- The 2008 Honda Civic Tour (HCT) featuring Panic At The Disco is one of the hottest tickets in town, selling out shows on both coasts and announcing additional dates. With tickets going fast, a second set of dates will go on sale Feb. 16, and fans will have a chance to snap up tickets in a pre-sale on Feb. 13 by visiting www.hondacivictour.com. The nationwide trek, which begins April 10, will take Panic to more than 40 cities, with support acts Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound and Phantom Planet along for the ride.

Due to overwhelming demand a second show has been added at San Francisco's Warfield Theatre, on April 11, New York's Roseland Ballroom, on May 8, and at Chicago's Congress Theatre, on May 24. Tickets for the San Francisco and New York dates are on sale now, while the second Chicago date goes on sale on Feb 16.

"We're really glad our fans are as excited as we are for this year's Honda Civic Tour," said Ryan Ross of Panic At The Disco.

This year's Honda Civic Tour is rolling out an environmental action plan in which tickets themselves will equal action: For every Honda Civic Tour Panic At The Disco ticket purchased, $1 will go into a fund designated for nonprofit tour partners Reverb and Global Inheritance. Selected by Panic At The Disco, Reverb (a leader in the "greening" of concert tours) and Global Inheritance (a champion of progressive causes with a tight connection to youth subcultures) are collaborating to engage audiences in fun, fan-friendly, interactive exhibits during the tour. Additionally, this collective will make a substantial contribution -- in the name of the 2008 Honda Civic Tour with Panic At The Disco -- to a cause to be determined by the end of the tour. The beneficiary will be selected on merit and its potential to have a lasting impact on the generation-defining environmental movement.

The video for the first single off Panic At The Disco's upcoming release, Pretty. Odd., premiered yesterday on "TRL." Titled "Nine In The Afternoon," the video was directed by Shane Drake, who also helmed the band's 2006 MTV Video Music Awards Video of the Year, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." Pretty. Odd. hits stores nationwide on March 25.

Honda began operations in the U.S. in 1959 with the establishment of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda's first overseas subsidiary. Honda now employs more than 35,000 associates in North America. Honda currently has 14 manufacturing plants in North America, producing automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, personal watercraft, engines, transmissions and other components. Nearly 8 of 10 Honda and Acura cars and light trucks sold in America are assembled in North America as well. Many of these products are now designed and developed at one of Honda's U.S. R&D centers. Honda annually purchases more than $17 billion in parts and materials from suppliers in North America.

Produced by Marketing Factory, the Honda Civic Tour brings innovation and environmental consciousness to the masses by combining the hottest in automotive technology with the hottest in music.

The Honda Civic Tour is scheduled to visit the following cities (dates and venues subject to change):

  DATE        VENUE                   CITY                  ON SALE
  April 10    Warfield                San Francisco, CA     Sold out
  April 11    Warfield                San Francisco, CA     On sale now*
  April 12    Soma                    San Diego, CA         On sale now
  April 13    Mesa Amphitheatre       Phoenix, AZ           On sale now
  April 15    Brady Theatre           Oklahoma City, OK     February 16
  April 17    Thomas Assembly Center
                at Louisiana Tech     Ruston, LA            February 16
  April 18    Palladium Ballroom      Dallas, TX            On sale now
  April 19    Stubb's BBQ             Austin, TX            February 16
  April 20    Verizon Wireless
                Theatre               Houston, TX           On sale now
  April 22    Ruth Eckerd Hall        Clearwater, FL        On sale now
  April 23    The Fillmore
                Miami Beach at the
                Jackie Gleason
                Theatre               Miami, FL             On sale now
  April 24    House of Blues
                - Orlando             Orlando, FL           On sale now
  April 26    The Tabernacle          Atlanta, GA           On sale now
  April 29    House of Blues
                - Myrtle Beach        Myrtle Beach, SC      February 16
  April 30    Constitution Hall       Washington DC         On sale now
  May 2       Alfond Arena at the
                University of Maine   Orono, ME             February 15
  May 3       RPI Field House         Troy, NY              February 15
  May 6       Gordon Fieldhouse
                - Rochester Institute
                of Technology         Rochester, NY         February 16
  May 7       Roseland Ballroom       New York, NY          Sold out
  May 8       Roseland Ballroom       New York, NY          On sale now*
  May 9       Festival Pier           Philadelphia, PA      On sale now
  May 10      Chevrolet Theatre       Wallingford, CT       On sale now
  May 11      Bank of America
                Pavilion              Boston, MA            On sale now
  May 13      Metropolis              Montreal, QC          February 16
  May 14      The Sound Academy       Toronto, ON           On sale now
  May 16      Tower City
                Amphitheatre          Cleveland, OH         February 16
  May 17      PromoWest-Outdoor
                (LC Pavilion)         Columbus, OH          February 16
  May 18      Egyptian Room
                at Murat Centre       Indianapolis, IN      February 16*
  May 20      The Fillmore Theatre    Detroit, MI           On sale now
  May 23      Congress Theatre        Chicago, IL           On sale now
  May 24      Congress Theatre        Chicago, IL           February 16*
  May 25      Eagles Ballroom         Milwaukee, WI         February 16
  May 27      Myth                    Minneapolis, MN       On sale now
  May 30      The Pageant             St. Louis, MO         On sale now
  May 31      Westfair Amphitheatre   Omaha, NE             February 16
  June 1      Uptown Theatre          Kansas City, MO       February 16
  June 3      The Fillmore
                Auditorium            Denver, CO            On sale now
  June 4      Salt Air Theatre        Salt Lake City, UT    February 16
  June 6      PNE Forum               Vancouver, BC         February 16
  June 7      Paramount Theatre       Seattle, WA           February 16
  June 8      Portland Exposition
                Center                Portland, OR          February 16
  June 10     Grand Theatre at the
                Grand Sierra Resort
                and Casino            Reno, NV              February 16*
  June 13     The Pearl               Las Vegas, NV         February 16
  June 14     The Theatre at the
                Honda Center          Anaheim, CA           February 16

  *Just added