Five for Fighting to show 'Lights' on tour

Pop rockers Five for Fighting will head out on the road this fall in support of their recently released studio album, "Two Lights."

The band will begin its 22-date outing Oct. 5 in Minneapolis, with the first leg of the tour concentrating on clubs and small theaters in the Midwest before heading off to scour both coasts.

Spearheaded by singer/guitarist John Ondrasik--the group's only constant member--the band scored a Top 10 hit in 2001 when the nation embraced the single "Superman (It's Not Easy)" in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Ondrasik and his bandmates performed the song at the benefit Concert for New York City that winter.

"Two Lights," which hit stores Aug. 1, follows 2004's "The Battle for Everything," and was produced by Ondrasik with two of his bandmates, bassist Curt Schneider and guitarist Andrew Williams.

The album continues a political streak that emerged in Ondrasik's music with "America Town," with a title track that recalls Ondrasik's dinner with a young soldier bound for Iraq and his father.

"I talked with the kid's father," Ondrasik said in the band's online bio. "In that moment, I saw a mixture of pride and fear in the old man's eyes. I wanted to write a song that talked about the reality of how these parents feel. The simple thing of 'Two Lights' is two lives: the father's and the son's. That's what inspired this song, the look of pride and fear in a father's eye."

TOUR DATES
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October 2006
5 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
6 - Omaha, NE - Scottish Rites Hall
8 - Urbana, IL - Canopy Club
9 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre
10 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
12 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
15 - Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live
16 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
18 - Boston, MA - Somerville Theatre
20 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
21 - Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda
23 - Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club
26 - Louisville, KY - Phoenix Hill Tavern
27 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant
29 - Kansas City, MO - Grand Emporium
30 - Denver, CO - Soiled Dove

November 2006
1 - Tucson - to be announced
2 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
4 - Los Angeles, CA - House of Blues
6 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
8 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theatre
9 - Seattle, WA - Showbox

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