According to the US Census Bureau, the median value of an American home in 2000 – the last year Sunny Day Real Estate were active – was $119, 600. That’s $174,200 in today’s dollars. The current median home value is $180,100, hardly a healthy increase. If you believe the government, it’s because we had a bad loan system, corrupt banks, yadda yadda, whatever. If you believe your heart, though, it's because Sunny Day Real Estate’s breakup put a cloud over the mortgage industry.
But there is hope, and this hope is more than a campaign slogan. That’s right, recently foreclosed homeowners, Sunny Day Real Estate are reuniting!
Singer Jeremy Enigk confirmed in an interview with a radio station in Seattle that the band got together in March and decided to tour again. And now, according to a Sub Pop press release:
Following a more than 10 year hiatus, all four original members of pioneering Seattle rock band Sunny Day Real Estate will regroup for a 20-date US tour starting Sept. 17th, 2009. In addition, Sub Pop Records will re-issue both Diary and the band’s second full-length album, commonly known as LP2 (or “The Pink Album” for its entirely pink cover). Both re-mastered albums will include rare bonus tracks as well as newly written liner notes and will be released on both CD and LP Sept. 15, 2009, just prior to the start of the tour.
If these shows go well enough and the boys work their magic, we may be out of this financial mess faster than you can say “sub-prime lending”!
The waiting could crush my heart:
09.17.09 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
09.18.09 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
09.20.09 - Murray, UT - Murray Theater
09.21.09 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theater
09.23.09 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
09.24.09 - Chicago, IL - Metro
09.25.09 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall
09.27.09 - New York, NY - Terminal Five
09.28.09 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
09.30.09 - Washington, D.C. - 930 Club
10.01.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
10.03.09 - Atlanta, GA - CW Center Stage
10.05.09 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater
10.06.09 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live - Ballroom
10.07.09 - Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
10.09.09 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee
10.10.09 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
10.11.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theater
10.13.09 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
10.15.09 - Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory
10.16.09 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theater
Meanwhile, Jeremy Enigk released his latest solo album, OK Bear, last month via Lewis Hollow.
[Photo: Mark Swanson]
