We are giving away a pair of tickets to Echo and the Bunnymen @ Crystal Ballroom on September 25. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed Monday, September 19.
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From our sponsors:
Echo and the Bunnymen
September 25, 2016
7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show | $30 ADV, $35 Doors | All Ages
More info: crystalballroompdx.com
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209
“’80s new-wave legends Echo And The Bunnymen are still making grand, sweeping, dramatic anthems, and they’ve got an album full of them called Meteorites” Stereogum
April 22, 2014 Santa Monica, CA: Legendary Liverpool band Echo & the Bunnymen are announcing their return to the U.S. for a tour in support of their 12th studio album and first since 2009, Meteorites. The first leg of the tour begins August 1st in Los Angeles at the historic Orpheum Theatre. Confirmed dates listed below. Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 25th. Produced by Youth (Killing Joke, The Verve), Meteorites contains ten hand-picked new songs written by founder Ian McCulloch and performed by Bunnymen stalwarts Mc Culloch and Will Sergeant along with Gordy Goudie (guitar) and Stephen Brannan (bass). The Bunnymen are releasing two singles-“Holy Moses” in the U.S. and “Lovers on the Run” in the UK. Described by Ian McCulloch as the worthy successor to Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here, Porcupine and Ocean Rain, Meteorites will be release in the UK on May 26th and the U.S. on June 3rd.
Formed in 1978, the Bunnymen have been a vital force in the indie rock world for over 36 years having won over millions of obsessive music fans worldwide and indelibly influenced countless bands with their signature sound-from the Flaming Lips to Coldplay to Pavement. Meteorites is a key addition to their repertoire. It’s an intimate song cycle written by Ian McCulloch performed by the band with a renewed sense of purpose showcasing all of their unmistakable musical hallmarks while taking them to a new level.
Says McCulloch: “For me, this is a whole new approach. It’s more edgy than anything I’ve ever done. I’m dealing with something on this record I didn’t want to deal with for a long time.”
I’d love to see Echo & the Bunnymen because I’ve never seen them before!
Echo & The Bunneymen are one of my favorite 80’s bands. They are right up there with Devo & Missing Persons. Would love to see them live at The Crystal Ballroom with that floor bouncing.
I would love to see Echo & The Bunnymen because they are my favorite band and I am poor and sad.
I’d love to see Echo and the Bunnymen because they were the first group I ever saw live and I went because my best friend said I’d love them. He was right and I have been a fan ever since. This same friend friend is flying from SLC to see the concert with me and I could pay him back (since he took me back in 1986).
Echo!
Such an influential band! I shared my love of Echo and the Bunnymen with my son when he was growing up & would love to be able to experience seeing them live with him now !
I would love to see these guys! New stuff, old stuff- it’s all good stuffs!!
I have never seen Echo & The Bunnymen and to be able to see them at The Crystal Ballroom would just Rule!
I’ve been a fan of Echo & The Bunnymen pretty much my whole life – my mom was a big fan and I came of age listening to them in the house. I’d love to see them live, especially at The Crystal Ballroom!
I wanna win!
I absolutely LOVE Echo and The Bunnymen!
Never had a chance to see them live and would absolutely love it!
Need to see The Bunnymen with my love! We are the biggest fans and want a night out!
My husband and I would love to see Echo & The Bunnymen! Ian McColloch’s lyrics from “Silver” are on the front of our wedding invitations from 1997. They are one of our all time favorite bands!!!
I want to see them. They have the best band name ever and I want a shirt. Also good music but best band name!
love those guys!
Ocean Rain is one of my all time favorite Albums and Killing Moon was the first song I learned on the Guitar. And I’ve never seen them live before!
Would love to hear Killing Moon live.
Last time they were here, they were sorta disappointing. Pick me and I’ll let you know if they rise above. :)
I went to Liverpool for the very first time last year as I love the music that has come from that city! I’d be excited to win tickets because I know from experience that Echo & The Bunnymen are a great live band (kind of edgy and unpredictable – you never know what you’re going to get!) and it would continue my Liverpool connection (LOVE that city!).
This would be so cool! Please, take me there! :D
Lips Like Sugar – I sang this song to my wife, before we got married
Love it! Great music and great venue!
I would love to give these tickets to a co-worker who loves E&BM. He loves all of this genre. He was recently ill so this would be a great “glad you’re better” gift.
I love Echo and the Bunnymen. Id love to see what Will Sergeant does live. He’s a wizard on the guitar!
Bedbugs and Ballyhoo.
My future husband and I were at a show a million years ago. We hadn’t met yet. But we still talk about that show and how our little Universe was working in cahoots for us to meet. And what a great show it was! We have seen them several times over the years and it Would be a blast to see them!
PS- the new album is awesome, too!
It would be a dream to see Echo and the Bunnymen!!!!
Have listened to these folks forever, would be great to see them!
The 80’s music is one of my favorites! I’d love to see them perform!
Fulfill a lifelong dream of mine please!!
Great band at a cool venue- this would be awesome.
I can’t wait to dance my butt off!
The music of my teenagehood!!!
Nothing lasts forever except Echo & The Bunnymen!
do it clean!
make my Donnie Darko dreams come true!
It’s all in the name, I’ve learned this from personal experience; Well, personal failure.
Love those eighties
somehow i have never heard of them before but i just looked them up and this looks like a GREAT show!
I love Echo & The Bunnymen, and am eager to hear their new releases. This is the only band I have never skipped a song on my iPod. I never get tired of their unique lyrics and unique sound. Love this band.
Pick me this would really add to a special weekend
What?!? I’m down for a session of these moody sounds of my youth.
I would DIE if I got to see Echo! I need a break from cleaning dirty bottoms and educating about how to give enemas. I will love Pipeline for.ever!
An ex named her cat Echo – always liked that cat
I would absolutely love to go to this! I just turned 43, so that’s reason alone for me to win these tickets! Love me some Echo.
I love 80’s music. Especially Echo and the Bunnyman! ;-)
I wanna feel 25 years younger, just for one night.
Such a great band of the true New Wave Era I was part off growing up in Europe. I would SO LOVE TO see them perform live. There music takes me back to a part of my youth when everything was possible…I want to feel that way again!
I still listen to them! Love streaming music… Hope to win
Really want to see them, would be a specual delight!
Wow another great 80’s band that I would like to see at least once.
Can I relive the 80’s for 1 night?
I never got to see them in the 80s, so seeing them now would fulfill my new wave dreams. Plus, who doesn’t want to be the oldest person in the room.
I want to take my wife so she won’t complain about the huge amount of their records I have.
Geek out ya’ll free tickets will definitely get the word out when I start posting pics…
My boyfriend would love this 80’s music night and we could have a much over due date nigbht!
Ahhhhh they would be so awesome to see. I want to go so bad but I’m tuition poor and on teacher pay so I’m hoping I can win!!!
It has been a long time since I’ve had the extra money to go see a show and I would love to see them! I work hard and I love music, it would be a very special treat to be able to do something like this.
I’d gladly check this out
My partner had the ultimate Bunnymen hairdo as a kid. His head is going to explode from excitement!
This brings back great teen memories! Would love to take my husband, we are big fans! ♥
Lips Like Sugar is one of my favorite songs!
Get your 80s on!
80s music is the best
Pick me me mee meee…get it, it’s an echo.
They have one of my favorite songs on one of my favorite soundtracks
Echo and the Bunnymen have been such an inspiration to me since I discovered them when I was much younger. If I won tickets I would dress head to toe in New Wave style and live like it’s the 80’s again. I can’t afford tickets rught now because I’m trying to save money to go back to school to get my CNA license and to fund my makeup art small buisness.
Wonderful, wonderful! My partner and I would love to get tickets for this!
Awesome band, would love to see them.
This is the one band I always seem to miss I would love to see them finally and at the Crystal what a bonus!
love me some echo and the bunnymen! pick me!
Kisses like sugar!
Yessss give me edgy hipsters plz thx k bi :D
Hoping they play something off Heaven Up Here!
My boyfriend would go wild if I took him to the Crystal Ballroom to hear their 80’s music! Boy, would I make some points!
Echo and the Bunnymen is a Band not to miss.
i freaking love these guys! have not ever seen them in person!
I’ll work hard on being dark and brooding, and I’ll start grooming to pull off the best throwback new wave hairstyle. I’d love these tickets!
Me Me!!!
Send this 80’s baby to a great concert ‼️
Class of 1988!!
Yes please!!!
Bring on the dancing horses!
Leave it!
this will be a great show!
My husband & I grew up on Echo & the Bunnymen way back when & continue to be huge fans! Imagine our excitement upon finding out they are coming to The Crystal (we come from Grants Pass just for the New Wave vda at Lola’s Room every two months). We would love to have an excuse to take off from work – “we won tickets to an awesome alternative concert & won’t make it in on Monday” PLEASE SEND US!! WE ARE DESERVING!!
Bring on the dancing horses.
Won’t you come on down to my rescue! I love Echo and the Bunnymen! Want to take my Gen X man and self to this!
Yeah, I could handle these tickets! Thank you in advance. It will be nice to hear something reminiscent of simpler times.
Didn’t get into E&B till the 90’s…regardless their music has been with me through some major ups and downs.
I’d love to see them live.
Dear Mr. Echo, please choose me!
Pleeeaaaasssseeeee
I remember at 15 getting a mix tape from a punk I was acquainted with. Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, The Cure and, of course, Echo & the Bunnymen. . . men . . men. men. So good.
Who’s ready to dance?!?!
If the walls of the crystal could speak!
Yessss pick me
“Never Stop” and “Bring On The Dancing Horses” make in onto every mixtape. Here’s hoping I can catch both live!
Funny Wabbits on stage!!
If whoever wins doesn’t want them -I’ll take them!!!
Happy death men!!
They never go out of style with their dark swirling music of pathos. One of my all time favorite bands. Let me go please !!!!! I want i want!!