New Found Glory

Wed 31st Mar, 2010 in Features

After 10 solid years of recording and performing since their self-titled album, New Found Glory are ready once again to rock Australian stages through April with a tour that will be as diverse as the band’s recent split EP with Dashboard Confessional A Swiss Army Bromance.

Frontman Jordan Pundik is just as amped as ever to tour Australia and give the crowd something to remember , “Oh I’m real excited, it’s cool because I’ve got a lot of friends there so we get some good hang time and the shows are always awesome too so I’m excited.”.

Ten years after the self-titled album New Found Glory is still setting the mark in the pop punk world and has found they’ve grown in the process. “I was 19 when we wrote the record,” Pundik explains, “so 10 years later a lot of things have changed on the business side of things, a lot of things have changed musically and personally in our personal lives. Marriage, kids, all the crazy adult things that I never thought would happen… I’m sure there’s more to come.”

After releasing their latest album Not Without a Fight in early 2009, the end of last year and 2010 is all about touring the world. Through April we will see them rock out in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane with Hit the Lights.

It had seemed that Saosin were also set to join the bill, but fans were shocked to hear the band had pulled out of the tour after they started replying to fans from the band’s twitter site saying there had been a misunderstanding. It seems Pundik wasn’t informed either. “I had no idea to be honest. I just heard that they were on the tour then they’re not. I dunno, we’re trying to get another band for those shows; we’re working on that right now,” he explained.

Detroit pop-punk crew Fireworks have been added to replace Saosin, “they’re on the tour with us now and I don’t think they’ve ever been to Australia. It’s hard for younger bands to get out there on their own, you know what I mean? You have to fly everywhere and that sort of thing.”

Although New Found Glory has been touring the US for their ten year anniversary for the self-titled album, the band will not disappoint Australian fans with lack of enthusiasm or missing out old favourites. According to Pundik, the show will be full of “just sweaty, hot, moshing, crowd surfing, headlocking, sing-along’s and pileups”.

The band also promises to play all the songs you’ve been aching to hear since they last played at Soundwave in 2009, as Pundik explains “we will definitely play all the songs people want to hear. If there’s nights if we’re feeling frisky and kids are calling out songs we will play the songs they want to hear too. But we will definitely play all of the favourites, our fans favourites”.

“It’s weird because I don’t know what kind of set we are going to be bringing over there. Because this whole tour we’ve just been on is the ten year anniversary tour of the self-titled, so we have been playing the whole album through and it’s like twelve songs,” Pundik reveals.

“Then we would come out and play like seven more songs, just like a mix of other stuff. So we haven’t practiced any other songs besides them for ages. So if kids call out a random song, we will definitely be winging it that’s for sure. I know we will play a handful of songs [from Not Without a Fight ]. It’s hard because we have so many songs now it’s hard to pick which ones, everyone wants to hear different things.”

Catch New Found Glory on tour in April:

Wednesday April 7 – Capitol, Perth
Friday April 9 [4 pm] – Billboard, Melbourne [U/18]
Friday April 9 [8 pm] – Billboard, Melbourne [18+] Sold Out
Saturday 10 April – Sydney, UNSW Roundhouse [Licensed/All Ages]
Sunday 11 April – Brisbane, The Hi-Fi [18+]