Rookie of the Year Adds New Tour Dates

rochaus is in west dundee il, not chicago, go home flyer, you are drunk!

i really came here to say rookie of the year is still active!?

hehe i make myself laugh

 

Haha, he is and he's gone pop now

 

At least a bunch of the shows are with Framing Hanley. Another band that is still hanging around releasing solid songs

 

I loved The Goodnight Moon when I was 15 as much as the next Purevolume/Myspace kid, but I cannot believe they are still active and making any kind of living from it.

 

The Goodnight Moon part II was solid as well. They did put out an album last year it seems with a Relient K feature but I doubt it did good numbers.

 

I saw Rookie of the Year with Mest and Amber Pacific in Sept 2024. It was quite the timewarp.

 

What were they like? Many people there?

 

I actually missed most of ROY's set because I had a work incident I had to deal with. I caught the last song though, and they sounded quite good. Honestly, all three of those bands did.

It was a very small venue, but it was pretty well populated. Better than I expected. I'd say maybe 100-125 people there? Mest literally played past curfew to get their last song in (despite being told to stop playing).

I was glad because the last time I saw ROY, it was with Sherwood in Dallas on their reunion/comeback tour, and there were like 30-50 people there It was a bigger venue too. And the lead singer of ROY was in the crowd after the show asking for people to give "anything, even a dollar" for CD's so they could "afford gas." I really enjoyed finally seeing Sherwood, but it was such a bummer of an end to the show. I ended up giving him $10 and he gave me two CD's.

I told my wife about this experience at the show last year, and funny enough, the lead singer of ROY was out mingling with the crowd after the show and still selling CD's (though this time, it was their latest album that wasn't even released yet). And he didn't sound sad and desperate this time around, so I felt much happier giving him $10 again for two CD's.

 

Whatever sells aye!