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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

2008 Honda Civic Tour Featuring Panic At The Disco Sells Out Shows Coast to Coast

2008 Honda Civic Tour Featuring Panic At The Disco Sells Out Shows Coast to Coast

Additional Nationwide Performance Dates On Sale

Tickets Go On Sale Feb. 16, With Access to Special Pre-Sale Tickets Beginning Feb. 13 Through www.hondacivictour.com

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 Honda Civic Tour (HCT) featuring Panic At The Disco is one of the hottest tickets in town, selling out shows on both coasts and announcing additional dates. With tickets going fast, a second set of dates will go on sale Feb. 16, and fans will have a chance to snap up tickets in a pre-sale on Feb. 13 by visiting www.hondacivictour.com. The nationwide trek, which begins April 10, will take Panic to more than 40 cities, with support acts Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound and Phantom Planet along for the ride.

Due to overwhelming demand a second show has been added at San Francisco's Warfield Theatre, on April 11, New York's Roseland Ballroom, on May 8, and at Chicago's Congress Theatre, on May 24. Tickets for the San Francisco and New York dates are on sale now, while the second Chicago date goes on sale on Feb 16.

"We're really glad our fans are as excited as we are for this year's Honda Civic Tour," said Ryan Ross of Panic At The Disco.

This year's Honda Civic Tour is rolling out an environmental action plan in which tickets themselves will equal action: For every Honda Civic Tour Panic At The Disco ticket purchased, $1 will go into a fund designated for nonprofit tour partners Reverb and Global Inheritance. Selected by Panic At The Disco, Reverb (a leader in the "greening" of concert tours) and Global Inheritance (a champion of progressive causes with a tight connection to youth subcultures) are collaborating to engage audiences in fun, fan-friendly, interactive exhibits during the tour. Additionally, this collective will make a substantial contribution -- in the name of the 2008 Honda Civic Tour with Panic At The Disco -- to a cause to be determined by the end of the tour. The beneficiary will be selected on merit and its potential to have a lasting impact on the generation-defining environmental movement.

The video for the first single off Panic At The Disco's upcoming release, Pretty. Odd., premiered yesterday on "TRL." Titled "Nine In The Afternoon," the video was directed by Shane Drake, who also helmed the band's 2006 MTV Video Music Awards Video of the Year, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." Pretty. Odd. hits stores nationwide on March 25.

Honda began operations in the U.S. in 1959 with the establishment of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda's first overseas subsidiary. Honda now employs more than 35,000 associates in North America. Honda currently has 14 manufacturing plants in North America, producing automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, personal watercraft, engines, transmissions and other components. Nearly 8 of 10 Honda and Acura cars and light trucks sold in America are assembled in North America as well. Many of these products are now designed and developed at one of Honda's U.S. R&D centers. Honda annually purchases more than $17 billion in parts and materials from suppliers in North America.

Produced by Marketing Factory, the Honda Civic Tour brings innovation and environmental consciousness to the masses by combining the hottest in automotive technology with the hottest in music.

The Honda Civic Tour is scheduled to visit the following cities (dates and venues subject to change):

   DATE        VENUE                   CITY                  ON SALE   April 10    Warfield                San Francisco, CA     Sold out   April 11    Warfield                San Francisco, CA     On sale now*   April 12    Soma                    San Diego, CA         On sale now   April 13    Mesa Amphitheatre       Phoenix, AZ           On sale now   April 15    Brady Theatre           Oklahoma City, OK     February 16   April 17    Thomas Assembly Center                 at Louisiana Tech     Ruston, LA            February 16   April 18    Palladium Ballroom      Dallas, TX            On sale now   April 19    Stubb's BBQ             Austin, TX            February 16   April 20    Verizon Wireless                 Theatre               Houston, TX           On sale now   April 22    Ruth Eckerd Hall        Clearwater, FL        On sale now   April 23    The Fillmore                 Miami Beach at the                 Jackie Gleason                 Theatre               Miami, FL             On sale now   April 24    House of Blues                 - Orlando             Orlando, FL           On sale now   April 26    The Tabernacle          Atlanta, GA           On sale now   April 29    House of Blues                 - Myrtle Beach        Myrtle Beach, SC      February 16   April 30    Constitution Hall       Washington DC         On sale now   May 2       Alfond Arena at the                 University of Maine   Orono, ME             February 15   May 3       RPI Field House         Troy, NY              February 15   May 6       Gordon Fieldhouse                 - Rochester Institute                 of Technology         Rochester, NY         February 16   May 7       Roseland Ballroom       New York, NY          Sold out   May 8       Roseland Ballroom       New York, NY          On sale now*   May 9       Festival Pier           Philadelphia, PA      On sale now   May 10      Chevrolet Theatre       Wallingford, CT       On sale now   May 11      Bank of America                 Pavilion              Boston, MA            On sale now   May 13      Metropolis              Montreal, QC          February 16   May 14      The Sound Academy       Toronto, ON           On sale now   May 16      Tower City                 Amphitheatre          Cleveland, OH         February 16   May 17      PromoWest-Outdoor                 (LC Pavilion)         Columbus, OH          February 16   May 18      Egyptian Room                 at Murat Centre       Indianapolis, IN      February 16*   May 20      The Fillmore Theatre    Detroit, MI           On sale now   May 23      Congress Theatre        Chicago, IL           On sale now   May 24      Congress Theatre        Chicago, IL           February 16*   May 25      Eagles Ballroom         Milwaukee, WI         February 16   May 27      Myth                    Minneapolis, MN       On sale now   May 30      The Pageant             St. Louis, MO         On sale now   May 31      Westfair Amphitheatre   Omaha, NE             February 16   June 1      Uptown Theatre          Kansas City, MO       February 16   June 3      The Fillmore                 Auditorium            Denver, CO            On sale now   June 4      Salt Air Theatre        Salt Lake City, UT    February 16   June 6      PNE Forum               Vancouver, BC         February 16   June 7      Paramount Theatre       Seattle, WA           February 16   June 8      Portland Exposition                 Center                Portland, OR          February 16   June 10     Grand Theatre at the                 Grand Sierra Resort                 and Casino            Reno, NV              February 16*   June 13     The Pearl               Las Vegas, NV         February 16   June 14     The Theatre at the                 Honda Center          Anaheim, CA           February 16    *Just added  

Source: American Honda Motors Co.

CONTACT: Fran Curtis, +1-212-445-8423, fcurtis@rogersandcowan.com, or
Lauren Ceradini, +1-212-445-8418, lceradini@rogersandcowan.com, both of ROGERS
& COWAN, for Honda Civic Tour; or Christina Kotsamanidis, +1-212-707-2241,
Christina.Kotsamanidis@atlanticrecords.com, for Panic At The Disco; or Chris
Martin of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., +1-310-783-3164,
chris_martin@ahm.honda.com; or Matthew Berkson of Marketing Factory,
+1-310-314-8008, matt@marketingfactory.com

Web site: http://www.hondacivictour.com/


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