Story of the Year coming to U.V.S.C.

Utah Valley State College gets ready to wrap up the semester by hosting a concert with the bands Story of the Year and The Bravery playing at the McKay Events Center in Orem.

The event will take place Tuesday, April 8 at 7:30p.m. and doors open at 6:30p.m. The tour is part of a promotional campaign for Story of the Year’s new album release “The Black Swan” which is scheduled to his stores April 22.

The Utah concert is the third stop in their spring tour. The show was originally scheduled for the Salt Lake Fairgrounds, but sponsors relocated it to U.V.S.C. to better accommodate the audience with the unpredictable April weather.

The concert is sponsored by X-96, The Daily Herald, Ken Garff, Spring, and Novell who have been hosting many ticket and prize giveaways as the concert grows closer.

“Its great, I got five tickets from X-96 when I went in to their studio. They were just giving them out for free. You just had to spin a wheel to see how many you would get,” said U.V.S.C. student Dan Eicher.

Story of the Year has headlined many big shows in Utah including the Vans Warped Tour and the Taste of Chaos Tour. Many U.V.S.C. students seem to be excited for the tour to arrive.

“I am excited to see Story of the Year. They always seem to put on a good show and it is a good break during the end of the semester,” said U.V.S.C. student Carrie Andrews.

Story of the Year has had great success with their 2003 smash debut album “Page Avenue” and their second release in 2005 “In the Wake of Determination.” The 2003 single “Until the Day I Die” received platinum awards for their album sales.


The bands The Spring Tour will include 40 shows ending June, 2 in Melbourne, Australia.
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Brooke dragged me to the stupidest thing ever right now and I am very luck to have my computer so I can complain about it. After we got out of class Tuesday night Brooke went in to watch this stupid ballet dancing practice in the Reagan Theater. I was forced to go because I did not drive to class today. Now I am regretting every moment of my entrance into this room. There are stupid, bad dancers prancing around the stage in front of me. Swaying and swinging to some Latin influenced music. I am so fortunate to have my laptop with me so I can at least get something productive done and write my last and final blog entry.
I can’t believe it; school is almost out for summer. I have so much to do as the semester winds down to an end. All of the difficult things that we have learned in the semester come to this challenging climax as all of my teachers assign the biggest most difficult assignments to try to have us, students implicate the many things we were supposed to retain through the semester. All I can say is that I am excited for it to end and take a break this summer. I can’t believe what I am in for this summer. It is going to be fun, and exciting with many new things to face. The summer starts out by me going to California for Brooke’s sister’s wedding. Her poor parent dealing with two daughters getting married within three months. The next adventure and the biggest (possibly the biggest ever in my life) is my own wedding. I get married June 7 and immediately following my wedding I leave on a week cruise to the Mexican Riviera. The following week I will stay in San Diego and have another wedding reception in Escondido. After that two-week vacation I will return home for two weeks. The next adventure I have planned is my annual family Lake Powell trip which happens to be one of the best vacations one could ever dream of. My family is so cool and we always have a good time together. Later in the summer I will go to Northern Idaho to my mothers lake house. Then I will go to San Diego and Phoenix one more time to conclude my summer before I begin my fall semester at UVU.