Sick Puppies are all set to go on tour in support of their upcoming album Tri-Polar (out July 14 on Virgin/EMI Music). Sponsored by Samsung Mobile, the tour had its gala launch party/showcase at the famed Capitol Tower on July 7 (videos below). The event, co-sponsored by Samsung along with Makers Mark, and Archie’s Ice Cream featured a screening of “Rock Prophecies”, the film about the band’s good friend, legendary rock photographer Robert M. Knight, who guided/mentored the band when they moved to America from Australia. “Rock Prophecies” will be shown along the tour route as well as have a theatrical release this fall.
The band’s new single, “You’re Going Down,” which also served as the theme for WWE’s Extreme Rules PPV broadcast last month, is currently Top 20 at both Active and Modern Rock, adding such Active Rock stations as WRIF Detroit, WIYY Baltimore, WCHZ Augusta, KLAQ El Paso and WHXR Portland and Modern Rockers outlets WSUN Tampa and WJRR Orlando. A video has been filmed and will be out soon.
Sick Puppies are also currently featured on Joost.com’s “Countdown to Release” feature with a series of webisodes that document the making of the album at http://www.joost.com.
Samsung Mobile’s sponsorship of the tour includes several upcoming Sick Puppies’ acoustic performances on site at T Mobile locations, how to become “Roadie for a Day”, flat-screen tv and Samsung Memoir camera phone giveaways and so much more. The band will also be providing thrice-weekly text and photo blogs shot with their Samsung Memoir camera phones at http://www.SickPuppies.net/SamsungMemoirMoments and http://www.rockprophecies.com.
