Bowling For Soup to stir it up at Bonus Arena
‘THE CROWN PRINCES OF PUNK POP’: Bowling For Soup
By Simon Bristow
American punk rockers Bowling For Soup will bring their UK tour to Hull early next year.
The band, who performed at Slam Dunk Festival at the weekend, will be joined by legendary ska punks Less Than Jake and Vandoliers when they visit the Bonus Arena on Wednesday, February 21, 2024.
Tickets for this standing gig go on sale on Friday at 10am.
With their 30 year anniversary as a band on the horizon in 2024, Texas’ favourite punk rock export Bowling For Soup continue to grow their global fanbase and expand their success year on year.
Also dubbed the crown princes of pop punk, Bowling For Soup – frontman and guitarist Jaret Reddick, guitarist Chris Burney, drummer Gary Wiseman, and bassist Rob Felicetti – have proved that not even a global pandemic has slowed the demand for their unique, humour-filled live shows and upbeat, heartfelt anthems.
Songs such as High School Never Ends, Punk Rock 101, 1985, and the Grammy-nominated Girl All The Bad Guys Want resonate as much today as when they were written and are proving extremely popular in the modern streaming world.
Their 2022 album, Pop Drunk Snot Bread, a play on the cultural reference “pop punk’s not dead”, was heralded by fans and critics alike as the band’s best release in fifteen years. Millions of streams and YouTube views for songs like Getting Old Sucks (But Everybody’s Doing It), I Wanna Be Brad Pitt and the global smash Alexa Bliss (dedicated to WWE’s multi-time world wrestling women’s champion) show that for many, Bowling For Soup can still run rings (and riffs) around their younger contemporaries.
Prior to the Covid outbreak, the band were playing to the biggest crowds of their career. Over 20,000 people witnessed their sold out 2020 UK tour with Simple Plan, and they’ve sold out arenas alongside Steel Panther. Headline appearances at recent editions of UK festivals like Slam Dunk and Reading and Leeds have also been successes.
Bowling For Soup have prided themselves on moving with the times, keeping up with the latest ways to stay in touch with their fans (Jaret is now a huge star on TikTok) and get their music out there to as many people as possible.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday, June 2 from www.bonusarenahull.com or by visiting Ticketmaster.
VIP and hospitality upgrades are also available for all shows, email hull@eu.asmglobal.com for further details.