Anti-Flag: Joins 2006 Warped Tour / Tour Dates

Anti-Flag will take a few months out of its socialist-propagandizing schedule to help a shoe company reach the teen market this summer. The (up until recently) avidly anti-corporate act will join the Warped Tour for the package tour’s full schedule next year. Anti-Flag joins acts such as NOFX and Rise Against who’ve already pledged allegiance to the summer package tour. The Warped Tour was conceived in 1994 as a cross-promotional effort for Vans shoes to piggyback on music culture marketing.

Anti-Flag’s long been known for its socialist and anti-corporate stance.

“I don't really want right-wing fuckers coming to our shows and invading our community!" front man Justin Sane told Aversion in 2001 . "We consider ourselves as part of a struggle. If a person who is counter to our struggle infiltrates our scene simply because he or she likes our music it could be very counter-productive to what we are trying to achieve."

The band’s RCA Records debut, For Blood and Empire is on track for a March release.

TOUR DATES

Sat. Nov. 26 in Chicago, Illinois @ Vic Theatre
D@ 5:00 pm
with RISE AGAINST and BANE

Sun. Nov. 27 in Chicago, Illinois @ Vic Theatre
D@ 6:00 pm
with RISE AGAINST and BANE

Thu. Jan. 12 in Hamburg, Germany @ Grünspan
D@ 6:00 pm
with GOOD CLEAN FUN & MIKE PARK

Fri. Jan. 13 in Berlin, Germany @ SO 36
D@ 6:00 pm
with GOOD CLEAN FUN & MIKE PARK

Sun. Jan. 15 in Prague, Czech Republic @ Futurum
D@ 6:00 pm
with GOOD CLEAN FUN & MIKE PARK

Tue. Jan. 17 in Wien, Austria @ Arena
D@ 6:00 pm
with ACCIDENTS, GOOD CLEAN FUN & MIKE PARK

Wed. Jan. 18 in Olten, Switzerland @ Schützi
D@ 6:00 pm
with GOOD CLEAN FUN & MIKE PARK

Fri. Jan. 20 in Knokke-Heist, Belgium @ Ravelingen
D@ 6:00 pm
with SEVERANCE, GOOD CLEAN FUN & MIKE PARK

Sat. Jan. 21 in Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Waterfront
D@ 6:00 pm
with GOOD CLEAN FUN & MIKE PARK

Sun. Jan. 22 in Hannover, Germany @ Faust
D@ 6:00 pm
with GOOD CLEAN FUN & MIKE PARK

Mon. Jan. 23 in Bochum, Germany @ Matrix
D@ 6:00 pm
with THE VADERS, GOOD CLEAN FUN & MIKE PARK

source: aversion / anti-flag website