From Nick Thompson:

I’m sitting in a hotel watching Family Guy and eating some calorie free noodles that are about 4 months past the expiration date. I shouldn’t take chances like that, but it’s raining and I wasn’t going to walk back to the store again. Lazyness > Personal Safety and Health. We are currently on the “Strength In Numbers” Tour with D.R.U.G.S., Like Moths to Flames, Sparks The Rescue and The Action Blast. We’ve been touring the country for the past month and are nearing the end of our great journey. This tour has been a blast from the start, everyone in all the bands are great, really funny people and we’ve felt very comfortable hanging with them every day. The shows for this tour have been very interesting. We’ve had some great ones and others where I honestly felt that we were playing in front of a pack of zombies. We took this tour knowing that we were going to be playing in front of a lot of new people and would be exposing ourselves to a new audience, and with that being said; it never gets old when I see a group of kids in the front row who don’t give a shit about my band and don’t have the decency to even look at us when we’re performing right in front of them. Let’s get one thing straight right now: you don’t have to like my band, you don’t have to listen to my band after you leave the show; but for the next 40 minutes THAT STAGE IS MINE, so get your hands off the monitors if you don’t want them stomped on and don’t act like I’m a leper when I’m rocking close to you. Above ALL else: IF YOU ARE HONESTLY CHECKING YOUR FACEBOOK OR SMART PHONE RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME WHILE I’M PERFORMING - I AM GOING TO FUCK WITH YOU. 

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Hit The Lights are out on the Strength In Numbers tour with D.R.U.G.S., and PropertyOfZack is thrilled to be having Nick Thompson from the band doing a Road Blog for us. Nick’s got a lot to say, so read up and check back every week for more!

From Nick Thompson:

Hey everyone! I’ve been asked by the good people at PropertyOfZack.com to do a tour blog for Hit The Lights as we roll along on the “Strength In Numbers” tour with The Action Blast, Sparks The Rescue, Like Moths to Flames and D.R.U.G.S. If you’re reading, please enjoy and I apologize in advance for anything vulgar, offensive or disgusting that I may(and probably will) be sharing. Cheers!

When HTL was approached with the offer to tour with the fine gentleman in D.R.U.G.S., we were admittedly a little surprised. I mean, obviously our two bands are very different and we knew that our fans would be as well, but in the same aspect we’re essentially two heavy pop bands. The more we thought about it, the more we liked the idea that two sides of this pop spectrum could be brought together and furthermore, our brand new record would be coming out right at the beginning of the tour. We said “Hells Yes” and were very excited to hear what other bands would be added. Fast forward to a few weeks later and with the addition of Sparks The Rescue(whom we’ve known for years now) and Like Moths To Flames(Ohio bros) the S.I.N. tour was complete and was indeed a line-up with an EXTREMELY diverse lineup. We knew it would be interesting to see all of the different fans coming together and reacting to bands that they normally wouldn’t listen to. 

The tour started off in Chicago, one of my favorite cities in the U.S. of A. We knew going into this that we weren’t going to be the main draw on this tour and that we would be playing to a LOT of new people that probably didn’t give a shit about our music. At the same time, HTL hasn’t done a support tour in 2 years, so when it comes to headlining, you really don’t have to work that hard to get the crowd into your music. It can be a completely different experience on support tours. For the first 2 to 3 shows they were fun, and our fans were great, but I really wasn’t feeling like we were getting through to the crowds. From my role as a frontman especially, I felt like I had forgotten to get people who didn’t want to move to MOVE. On top of that we are playing 3 new songs on this tour which can always be a weird transition as you’re learning to play the songs and keep up energy. 

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