Anberlin Band • Page 118

PUMPED

 

Nothing really within my range, bummer. Was hoping for either an Indianapolis or Cinci.

 

look like (at least from presale) tickets are $28 + whatever fees

 

Wow, not bad.
Hopefully LN doesn't jack them up too much over the next few days. Since that's a thing they do now

 

New merch too
Anberlin Knockout Shirt
Anberlin Knockout Long Sleeve Shirt
Anberlin Knockout Bundle

 

My gf has a Citi card so she snagged a couple Chicago tickets. Came to about $45 each with fees, not awful.

 

Any info on what the VIP is?

 

Got LA date, this month continues to eviscerate my bank account

 

Got two tickets for me and the wife, actually really excited for ATL being the last spot on the tour.

Not to my knowledge. The fine print made sure to say, "not part of VIP packages - they are tickets only. "

 

How the fuck does a Florida band not play Florida?

 

With GA as the final stop on this tour I wouldn't be surprised at all for them to add FL dates.

 

This is what I’m hoping - or they’ll do their “final” shows to wrap up the whole world tour again. After they go overseas and such.

Then again I could see them doing “warm up” shows in Florida.

 

A sidenote that may only interest me:

Dustin Kensrue left Thrice to do full time ministry at a mega-church. He put out a worship record that flopped (even though I love it). He discovered the church is 1000x more unhealthy than he could imagine, said ‘fuck this’ and came back after a couple years to Thrice.

Stephen Christian left Anberlin to do full time ministry at a mega-church. He put out a worship record that flopped (even though I love it). He’s never, to my knowledge, said anything negative about his experience doing ministry, but it’s noteworthy that he only lasted a couple years until he moved across the country to another ministry (note: I’m a pastor. 2-3 year ministry stints are the norm, but also are bad 99% of the time. Because what Dustin discovered is true all over). He’s now apparently coming back to Anberlin in some capacity, which means the full time ministry is, at the very least, on hold, and more than likely, done (churches don’t generally give you several months off until you’ve been in ministry for 25 years. And even then, it’s rare, and not an annual thing).

I don’t know what the overarching lesson is. I suppose there could be several. But I do think this is why Stephen was so adamant they weren’t coming back - he truly believed that church work was a lifelong calling. It just turns out that usually, it’s not.

 

I know this isn’t much to go off of... but a friend of a friend works at Christian McAlhaney’s studio and is *confident* Anberlin have secretly been working on a new album for a while. I don’t know anything more than that, and feel free to disregard this since I don’t have any proof. Just thought I’d share.

 

Hey, works for me! I'd be totally fine with it

 

At this point I’ll be shocked if they don’t release a new album next year

 

Sitting in my car before work listening to Cities and getting SO HYPED

 

Anberlin tickets and VIP packages go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. local time. There will be an AltPress exclusive presale this Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time with the code ALTPRESS.

 

Don't do this to me...

 

It’d be really cool if this band just stopped keeping secrets and being cryptic but I think they enjoy it too much :(

 

Yeah honestly I agree. I wish they’d just be transparent about whatever they’re up to.

 

They’re probably just trying to replicate what Underoath did with their rebirth tour. I do agree though - I would love for them to confirm if they’re fully back or not.

 

I bet a new album from them would be kick-ass. With the members rested and excited to be a band again? That sounds awesome!

 

A friend I’m going with has a Citi card and got the tickets. So fucking excited!

 

Any VIP details would be awesome, but I’m assuming we won’t know that until Friday.