Tours: The Wonder Years announce ten-year anniversary shows

The Wonder Years have announced a few dates at Philadelphia's Union Transfer to celebrate their ten-year anniversary. They will be playing three dates and will play a different album each night. Tickets go on sale throughTicketFly today.

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Damn. Ten years…for a band that was never planning to play a show, there
are a lot of things to write here. Things that can be said, things that
should be said - Is thank you enough? Words are never really going to put
it into perspective because The Wonder Years as you know it was never a
thing that was supposed to happen. We were going to hang out for a day,
maybe write a song or two for fun and then move on with our
post-high-school lives. We had other bands. We were going to college. We
had plans, but plans change. I remember after our first weekend tour,
Kennedy saying something like "What if this band gets signed and starts
touring full time?" We all laughed at him. A few weeks ago, we got to
stand in front of a crowd of 9,000 in Philadelphia and play songs we had
written in basements and garages and places that were literally shut down
for health code violations. It almost felt like we were crashing a party;
like we didn't belong where we were. It's a feeling we've had a lot. We're
playing with people who are, for all intents and purposes; rock stars. I
don't mean that with any of the negative connotation it carries; I just
don't know what else you'd call Blink-182 or Metallica. These guys are rock
stars and we're the same idiots we've always been. We still feel closer to
VFW Halls than we do arenas. I think we always will. We've played 25
countries and 45 states. We had a record debut in the top 20 on Billboard's
Top 200 (albeit number 20. It still counts!), but some of our favorite
memories are always going to be sleeping on strangers' floors or lying
about flat tires so that we could come to shows late after swimming in the
ocean right off the highway. So, we made it through ten unlikely years as
a band and, god dammit, we're going to celebrate. We booked three
back-to-back-to-back nights at Union Transfer in Philadelphia. The first
night, we'll play "The Upsides", straight through. The second night,
"Suburbia". and the third, "The Greatest Generation". Every night will also
feature an encore (whether you want it or not) set of old songs and
rarities. Chances are, we'll play songs that we won't ever play again,
unless we make it to twenty years or something like that. There will be
three day passes if you want to attend all three nights or single day
tickets if that's more your vibe. We're working on locking in some awesome
other bands to celebrate with us and we've gotten discounted block rates
for hotels for people that want to come from far away for the whole weekend
(as mentioned above). We're also planning to reprint some of our earliest
merch designs and have other throwback-centric surprises planned for
everyone. Seriously, we've had such an incredible time building this with
you for a decade now. We can't say thank you, enough. It sure as shit
wasn't easy. We certainly fought for it, but you all fought with us every
step of the way. We're never going to forget having to hustle CDs to people
at malls for gas money. We're never going to forget playing your friend's
basement. We're never going to forget every time a crowd sang along to a
song we wrote in our parent's houses halfway across the world. We're never
going to forget and we're always going to be grateful.
Love forever,
TWY.

Date	Album
Feb 6th	The Upsides
Feb 7th	Suburbia, I've Given You All & Now I'm Nothing
Feb 8th	The Greatest Generation