7th Annual Wreck The Halls Tour Preview: Featuring The Street Dogs, Off With Their Heads, and Murder the Stout

Well, as retailers refuse to let you forget, Christmas is coming. The goose is getting fat, grandma is finishing the new fetching holiday sweater for you to wear this year, your over-achieving sister is hand printing 150 cards with her perfect children in them, and you've already started secretly drinking when your mother calls.

But amid all the forced holiday cheer comes a ray of actual happiness, the Street Dogs' seventh annual "Wreck the Halls" tour is coming, and this time they're taking Off With Their Heads and Murder the Stout with them. No, this isn't a dream brought to you by ghost of Christmas future, this is real and it's happening soon.

Fronted by the wildly energetic Mike McColgan, the Street Dogs have been everywhere lately, from labor protests in Wisconsin, to touring Europe this summer, and even doing some time on the Warped Tour, this is a band who not only play great songs, and do it loud, but also go the distance to give their all to their fans. Case in point, this holiday tour, which started as a few dates around the band's native Boston has now grown to span 4 weeks, and some 15 states.

As always, the band is putting their money where their mouths are, so to speak, and backing their message 100%. The tour kicks off November 26 in Houston, with a benefit show for the Wounded Warrior Project, a charity that provides support for returning soldiers and their families, and seeks "To foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded warriors in this nation's history." Throughout the rest of the tour, the band will also be collecting for Toys For Tots, which collects new, unwrapped gifts for needy children in the community.

The tour starts in Texas, and winds its way through Chicago, New York, and a slew of other cities before finally arriving in Boston December 16 and 17. If you are made of stone, and still unmoved, these are also the last announced Street Dogs dates for the US, as the first quarter of 2012 sees the band in Australia and Japan, so you won't want to miss these shows. Treat yourself, after all, it's Christmas.

Full listing of Street Dogs tour dates, as well as links to purchase tickets can be found here: http://street-dogs.com/

More info on the Wounded Warrior Project is here: www.woundedwarriorproject.org

More info on Toys For Tots is here: www.toysfortots.org
 

 

 

 

-Jo Problems-
Big Wheel Staff Reporter

 

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