“Everyone in the industry is always asking, ‘who is the next great headliner’?  I believe we just found it.” --Shane Quick, Premier Productions

 

SKILLET SELLS OUT 60% OF COMATOSE TOUR

packed houses in Chicago, Kansas city, more

 

 

NASHVILLE, TN….5/15/08….Atlantic/LAVA/Ardent/INO rockers Skillet completed their “COMATOSE” headline tour with Thousand Foot Krutch and Decyfer Down this past weekend to a SOLD OUT show in Lancaster, PA., something they got used to during the 2.5 month tour with 60 % of the shows selling out, turning away hundreds, while packing out houses in Birmingham, AL (2482, The Basement), Kansas City, MO (1870, First Baptist Raytown), Des Moines (1656/Val Air Ballroom), Chicago (1142/House of Blues), Springfield, MO (1817/Remington’s), Anderson, IN (1383/Reardon Auditorium) and South Bend, IN (Elco Theater/1665).

 

“Skillet never ceases to amaze me. These guys bring a high energy show packed with great songs, production and an encouraging message. Everyone in the industry is always asking ‘who is the next great headliner’?  I believe we just found it.”  -Shane Quick, Premier Productions

“Very few rock bands stir the kind of excitement that Skillet does,” said Chris Barrett, President of Rock the Sound Concerts who promoted the NYC concert.  “We sold out with 9 days remaining and had to turn away hundreds. We believe so much in Skillet and what they do and that we have booked them for Rock the Sound IV in Bridgeport, CT, our biggest concert, at the Arena at Harbor Yard.”

 

NEW YORK CITY/Hammerstein Grand Ballroom

  SOLD OUT

 

MINNEAPOLIS, MN/Club 3 Degrees

 SOLD OUT

 

CINCINATTI, OH/The Underground

 SOLD OUT

 

ALBANY, NY/Northway Auditorium

 SOLD OUT

 

LANCASTER, PA/LMHS Fine Arts Center

 SOLD OUT

 

KALAMAZOO, MI/ Wings Stadium

SOLD OUT

 

EAU CLAIRE, WI/Memorial H.S.

 SOLD OUT

 

DAYTON, OH/The Avenue

 SOLD OUT

 

PORTLAND, ME

New Life Christian Fellowship

 SOLD OUT

 

 

HAGERSTOWN, MD/ North Hagerstown H.S.

SOLD OUT

 

LONGVIEW, TX/Letourneau University

 SOLD OUT

 

ABILENE, TX/Civic Center

 SOLD OUT

 

JACKSONVILLE, FL/Murray Hill Theater

 SOLD OUT

 

MOBILE, AL/Civic Center

 SOLD OUT

 

CHATTANOOGA, TN

Tivoli Theatre

 SOLD OUT

 

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Artist of the Year nominee Skillet’s explosive 2006 Lava/Atlantic/Ardent/INO Records GRAMMY-nominated release, Comatose follows 2004’s Collide, which launched the group into the public eye and garnered the band their first prestigious Grammy nomination. A critical fave, Comatose has become their best-selling project to date, doubling the sales of Collide in half the time. In follow up to packed out headline club shows, a tour with FlyLeaf, and summer festivals Skillet spent last fall opening for mainstream rockers Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace.  In the process of becoming one of the hardest working, most rocking, and broadly appealing acts of its generation, radio welcomed Comatose with open arms, as the first single, “Rebirthing” spent seven-weeks at No.1 on Christian Rock. Their second single, “The Last Night,” also took the top spot, this time at both Rock and CHR (CRW/R&R), while their latest singles, “The Older I Get” (CHR/Rock) and “Comatose,” which received a 2008 GMA Dove Award for “Rock Song of the Year,”  have become their third and fourth consecutive No. 1 singles. At the end of 2007 the band was lauded with R&R’s No. 1 Christian CHR Song of the Year for “The Last Night”, which was also R&R’s No. 2 Christian Rock song of the year.  In addition, Skillet was named 2007’s No. 2 top artist on both the CHR and ROCK year end lists.