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Bowling For Soup release Fishin’ For Woos EP ahead of UK tour

Frankie Genchi

Hold onto your cowboy hats… those much-loved Texan pop-punks Bowling For Soup have announced details of a brand new EP.

Fishin’ For Woos is scheduled for release on October 5th to coincide with their biggest UK headline tour to date! The EP precedes a new, full-length album release – the band’s 11th studio album – scheduled for early 2011.

Support for the UK tour comes from LA trio The Dollyrots (signed to Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records), fellow Texans Forever The Sickest Kids and the UK’s very own rock gods A, who will make their eagerly awaited return to the live stage – in fact, the band have been discussing a joint tour with Bowling For Soup for the last ten years!

The EP will be followed by a new, full-length studio release next year, which will be the band‘s first independent album release since the original FFROE Records version of the Rock On Honorable Ones album in 1996.

Singer/guitarist Jaret Reddick explains: “We split with our US label, JIVE, after 10 years in December last year. The sad thing is, Sorry For Partyin (BFS’ 10th album: their 6th on JIVE) had only been out 4 weeks, and no radio/ video campaign was ever launched.”

“I wasn’t bitter, I understand business and that relationships change. It was time for the label, and BFS as well, to move along. But I was broken hearted that Sorry For Partyin’ never really got a shot. We worked REALLY hard on that record, and for it not to get a fair shake really bummed me out”.

“So, after touring on a “shelved” album, I was like ‘we can either sit on our asses until the next string of dates, or we can bust our ass and just go make another record’ So, after returning from our SOLD OUT acoustic tour of the UK in April, I locked myself in a room and wrote a record in three weeks.”

“I was nervous it would sound like I just SHIT out a bunch of songs, but it all just came out of me, well… Like SHIT, but in a good way! I sent the songs to the guys three days before we went into the studio and we went in and made the record in three weeks…”