Passion Pit Announces Manners 10th Anniversary Tour

Passion Pit has confirmed 2019 tour dates to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of their breakthrough debut album, Manners.

For founding member and frontman Michael Angelakos, the tour marks a cathartic moment: "Ten years later, Manners seems to finally feel like the moment that it was: a tectonic shift during the strangest, most defining year of my life." Read Angelakos' commentary, below.

The Manners 10th Anniversary tour will allow Angelakos to revisit a beloved Passion Pit collection that he says "seemed to play back like an audible dream journal I can't even remember writing."Upon the album's release, AllMusic praised, "...thanks to the meticulous production values, the insane catchiness of the hooks, and the pure and true emotional underpinnings below all the gloss, the album is a total success of both sound and vision."

Michael Angelakos' commentary about the 10th anniversary of Manners: "One of the greatest challenges for me, has been attempting to listen back to Manners and not relive the terror, confusion, and euphoria that it was so vividly informed by. For most of my life, I've ignored or dismissed it as a type of coping mechanism. It always seemed to play back like an audible dream journal I can't even remember writing. And, the years we spent touring in support of it were never easy, especially in the beginning, as though playing the songs every single night were a form of exposure therapy in front of an audience. Ten years later, Manners seems to finally feel like the moment that it was: a tectonic shift during the strangest, most defining year of my life. To me, and to many of the people closest to the project, Manners has always been the most deeply misunderstood Passion Pit album. Eleven years after I began writing it, and ten more struggling to comprehend it, it suddenly does not seem so frivolous or self-absorbed to celebrate Manners - to celebrate surviving it, to get another chance to shine a certain light on it, but without the fear and the pain that went into making it. I can't think of a better way of doing so than performing it live, doing both the album and one of the most significant moments of my life, a healthy justice."

Ticket pre-sales are underway, with general on-sale set for February 8th at 10am local time.

Date Venue City, State
4/30/2019 Marquee Theatre Tempe, AZ
5/1/2019 The Observatory North Park San Diego, CA
5/3/2019 House of Blues Las Vegas, NV
5/5/2019 The Masonic San Francisco, CA
5/7/2019 Showbox SoDo Seattle, WA
5/8/2019 The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC
5/9/2019 Roseland Theater Portland, OR
5/11/2019 The Complex Salt Lake City, UT
5/12/2019 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
5/14/2019 Palace Theatre Saint Paul, MN
5/15/2019 Riviera Theater Chicago, IL
5/16/2019 Royal Oak Music Theatre Royal Oak, MI
5/17/2019 Danforth Music Hall Toronto, ON
5/19/2019 The Rapids Theatre Niagara Falls, NY
5/21/2019 Pier 17 at South Street Seaport New York, NY
5/23/2019 House of Blues Boston, MA
5/24/2019 The Fillmore Philadelphia, PA
5/25/2019 The Anthem Washington, DC
Passion Pit has confirmed 2019 tour dates to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of their breakthrough debut album, Manners.

For founding member and frontman Michael Angelakos, the tour marks a cathartic moment: "Ten years later, Manners seems to finally feel like the moment that it was: a tectonic shift during the strangest, most defining year of my life." Read Angelakos' commentary, below.

The Manners 10th Anniversary tour will allow Angelakos to revisit a beloved Passion Pit collection that he says "seemed to play back like an audible dream journal I can't even remember writing."Upon the album's release, AllMusic praised, "...thanks to the meticulous production values, the insane catchiness of the hooks, and the pure and true emotional underpinnings below all the gloss, the album is a total success of both sound and vision."

Michael Angelakos' commentary about the 10th anniversary of Manners: "One of the greatest challenges for me, has been attempting to listen back to Manners and not relive the terror, confusion, and euphoria that it was so vividly informed by. For most of my life, I've ignored or dismissed it as a type of coping mechanism. It always seemed to play back like an audible dream journal I can't even remember writing. And, the years we spent touring in support of it were never easy, especially in the beginning, as though playing the songs every single night were a form of exposure therapy in front of an audience. Ten years later, Manners seems to finally feel like the moment that it was: a tectonic shift during the strangest, most defining year of my life. To me, and to many of the people closest to the project, Manners has always been the most deeply misunderstood Passion Pit album. Eleven years after I began writing it, and ten more struggling to comprehend it, it suddenly does not seem so frivolous or self-absorbed to celebrate Manners - to celebrate surviving it, to get another chance to shine a certain light on it, but without the fear and the pain that went into making it. I can't think of a better way of doing so than performing it live, doing both the album and one of the most significant moments of my life, a healthy justice."

Ticket pre-sales are underway, with general on-sale set for February 8th at 10am local time.

Date Venue City, State
4/30/2019 Marquee Theatre Tempe, AZ
5/1/2019 The Observatory North Park San Diego, CA
5/3/2019 House of Blues Las Vegas, NV
5/5/2019 The Masonic San Francisco, CA
5/7/2019 Showbox SoDo Seattle, WA
5/8/2019 The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC
5/9/2019 Roseland Theater Portland, OR
5/11/2019 The Complex Salt Lake City, UT
5/12/2019 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
5/14/2019 Palace Theatre Saint Paul, MN
5/15/2019 Riviera Theater Chicago, IL
5/16/2019 Royal Oak Music Theatre Royal Oak, MI
5/17/2019 Danforth Music Hall Toronto, ON
5/19/2019 The Rapids Theatre Niagara Falls, NY
5/21/2019 Pier 17 at South Street Seaport New York, NY
5/23/2019 House of Blues Boston, MA
5/24/2019 The Fillmore Philadelphia, PA
5/25/2019 The Anthem Washington, DC