Angels & Airwaves look to 2008

Never out of the news for long, Angels and Airwaves recently spoke to Billboard about some of their plans for the coming year. Frontman Tom Delonge has lined up some interesting partners for a "large" fall tour:

There's 25 partners we're gonna have, but the first one is NASA, and I'm working on doing some incredible things with them and incorporating NASA's technologies into our show. I think people will be wowed with what I have in mind. Hopefully I can pull it off.

As for a smaller tour set for early 2008:

"A lot of our songs are religious in nature," DeLonge explains, "not with faith–based religion but more about unity and what's happening at that moment. The whole crowd is there and feeling the same thing at the same moment and very optimistic, and the message is full of hope. It's just something different than running around and saying "f*ck, f*ck, f*ck," which is what I did for 10 years (with blink) –– and we still do a little bit now, too.

Tom also mentioned the band's documentary, Start the Machine which covers the formation of Angels and Airwaves. The film has been submitted to several festivals for consideration, and DeLonge is confident it will be released to theaters in 2008 as well before coming out on DVD..

Speaking of NASA, the space agency deserves a round of applause as their Voyager space craft is the first manmade object to reach the edge of the Solar System. The craft was launched before many of our readers were born and has traveled several billion miles. In 7–10 years it will cross into interstellar space, a landmark achievement.