HNET Newsletter Oct 5, 2013

By | October 5, 2013
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NEW
Message From The Band

Looking forward to a little time up north as we head in to a run of shows through Canada. It feels good to come back to cities that only a few years ago we were playing for the first time. Tour continues to be a blast even with the road bumps of getting sick and or getting spit on. We have lost a few good friends now that Paul McDonald and crew have left the tour, but another good friend David Ryan Harris has joined the tour. We love sharing good music with our fans, and in the case of Paul and David we are very proud to share the stage.

Because of being under the weather we have had to cancel the last few walks, but after a little rest and a few days off we are ready to take our shoes off and dust off the megaphones. Today we are in Regina Canada, quite a ways north from the hot streets of southern California where we last walked about a week ago. So we take our feet from the frying pan, into the ice box, but with a smile on our face.

Isaac, Taylor and Zac

NEW Anthem Live in New York DVD+CD

ANTHEM Live In New York has been delayed and will now begin shipping on October 14th. Customers who have ordered the DVD will receive shipment confirmation emails when there orders are shipped.

We apologize for the delay and thank you for your continued support of HANSON through Hanson.net.

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE
European Members Only Events

For Fan Club Members Only!

We are really excited to be hosting four different special Members Only Events (MOE) in Europe this fall.

The events will take place as part of the concert in the following cities:
Birmingham, UK
Tilburg, NETHERLANDS
Paris, FRANCE
Rome, ITALY

Each event will feature 30 minutes of members only music featuring the new members ep “The Sound Of Light”, plus other special tunes, along with a Q&A with the band and a meet and greet where we take group pics with everyone!

Don’t forget to RSVP HERE if you are an existing member. If you are not yet a member, you can join right now HERE.

NEW
Weekly Photo

Canadian Rocky Mountains 2013 – ANTHEM World Tour – Canada
This week we are making our way into beautiful western Canada, and along the way we get to take in the breathtaking natural beauty. Who is planning to join us for a show while we are in Canada? Tell us about it.

Mean Betty: An Open Letter to the Dude Who Snuck onto Hanson’s Tour Bus and Spat on Zac Hanson

By | October 4, 2013
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Betty Confidential

 

To the fellow who weaseled his way onto Hanson’s tour bus and spat on Zac Hanson when he was discovered: Meanie has a few choice words for you.

Hanson Are Launching Their Own Beer- And It's Called MMMHop. For Real.

Dear Dude Who Snuck onto Hanson’s Tour Bus and Spat on Zac Hanson,

Oh, dear. Meanie can barely believe that she finds herself in the position of needing to write ANOTHER open letter to a slightly-off-his-rocker music fan only two weeks after the last one… but here we are, kittens. Dude Who Snuck onto Hanson’s Tour Bus, Meanie needs to have a few words with you about this:

First off, kitten: What on earth made you think it was appropriate to sneak onto Hanson’s tour bus in the first place? If you were relaxing in your own vehicle, how would you take it if a random stranger manhandled his way in and started relaxing alongside you? Meanie would guess the answer is “not well.”

As was the case with Beyonce’s overzealous fan, Meanie understands that perhaps your desire to spend a moment in the band’s tour bus arises from misguided feeling that you, in your intense fandom, personally know Zac, Taylor, and Isaac. Or perhaps you are simply a jerk who was dared by his equally jerky buddies to worm your way into Hanson’s inner bastion. Either way, though, your behavior is even more unacceptable than Mr. Overzealous Beyonce Fan’s due to this simple fact: When Zac attempted to escort you off the premises, you spat in his face.

Read Mean Betty: An Open Letter to the Overzealous Beyonce Fan Who Tried to Pull Her Into the Audience

What did you hope to accomplish by expelling the contents of your mouth in the face of a stranger? If you were displeased about the fact that Hanson did not take kindly to having a person they did not know invade their personal space, may Meanie remind you that you had no business being there in the first place. When, as musicians tend to be, one is on the road for lengthy amounts of time, one’s tour bus is one’s home away from home. It is a sacred space, meant for relaxing away from the harsh glare of the public eye. As such, the band was perfectly in their rights to ask you to leave. Expectorating on Zac did not, nor will ever, change this fact.

If you felt humiliated at being forced to leave and therefore felt your only retaliation option was to humiliate those doing the forcing (and may Meanie remind you, they appear to have done it in the nicest way possible), you failed in this respect as well. Zac was unfazed by the flying saliva, merely wiping it off and later Tweeting the following:

Gonna be a good show tonight, I cleaned off all the spit and I am feeling ready to go! -Z

— HANSON (@hansonmusic) October 1, 2013

Kitten? Meanie has the following words of advice for you: Although it is tempting to think that because a person or group of people are public figures, they are therefore “asking for” invasions of privacy, this is simply not the case—and furthermore, such logic as this is a slippery slope to even grievous violations against your fellow humans than spitting in their faces. Meanie would suggest that you veer from this course immediately, less you endanger others in significantly worse ways in the future.

Also, some anger management classes may be in order. Meanie is sure that her darling Butler will be more than willing to help you find out more, should you require his assistance.

Butler, dear? Another mimosa, if you will?

XO,

Mean Betty

Read more at http://bettyconfidential.com/2013-10-2-celebrities-mean-betty-an-open-letter-to-the-dude-who-snuck-onto-hansons-tour-bus-and-spit-on-zac-hanson/#rCWA8zCSmKj2chO1.99

Hanson visiting Festival Place

By | October 4, 2013
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Sherwood Park News

The Hanson brothers will be bringing their talents to Festival Place on Monday, Oct. 7. Photo Supplied

The American pop-rock band known as Hanson will hit the stage at Festival Place on Monday, Oct. 7.

The band of brothers features Isaac on guitar, vocals and drums; Taylor on keyboards, piano, drums and vocals; and Zac on drums, piano, guitar and vocals.

They are on their Anthem World Tour to promote their latest album. The tour kicked off in July, working its way up through South America and North America before it will end in Europe on Dec. 17.

Anthem is the band’s sixth studio album. Their website (www.hanson.net) notes that the album was created as a way of bringing people together.

“We have always been in awe of the ability music has to engage people, whether it’s a song that makes you want to dance, or a song that inspires you to take action for a cause. We want this record to be the anthem for all of those moments,” Taylor said on the website’s bio.

Isaac added that “the sound of this record touches on most of our musical influences, a bit of soul, a bit of song craftsmanship and some good old fashioned rock n roll… this time it just has a little more fight in it.”

The Hanson concert will start at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 7 with David Ryan Harris opening. The show is sold out.

The band was not available for an interview prior to press time.

People Are Pissed With Hanson Because MmmBop Is Still In Their Head

By | October 4, 2013
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Heckler Spray

 

When you think of super popular, totally overplayed musical acts from the 90s, the really pretty Hanson brothers tend to top a lot of lists.  This was back when MTV actually played music videos, so you could hear the high pitched white version of scatting in “MmmBop” on both radio and television multiple times an hour.  Parents everywhere were on the verge of mass murder.

Then puberty hit, their Jesus loins were chained, a bajillionity children popped out of their groupies turned housewives, and the world collectively went “Ahh!”  Sadly for some, it wasn’t enough.  Some are still really bitter about their ear damage.

So, if anyone living in Seattle heard a lot of squealing Monday night, and found a few pairs of size 10 Hanes Her Way control top underwear laying on the street, there’s a perfectly good reason.  Hanson was performing a show.  Take a minute to control your shock and laughter, yes Hanson still tours.  And one man took it upon himself to fight back.

According to some witnesses (a handful of 40 year olds wearing t-shirts covered in puffy paint and glitter), there was some random dude with a stick up his ass who managed to sneak onto the tour bus.  When the former Sun-In spokesmen got onto their bus, they found the creepster.  The littlest Hanson, Zac, decided to man up and kick the guy off. Not only did the future Chris Hansen victim not appreciate the lack of hospitality, but he wanted payback for all the years of damage done to his ear drums.

 

And how does a grown ass man get revenge?  He obviously brings out his inner 4 year old, and hocks a massive loogie.  And lucky for us, everyone has a smart phone these days.

That shit is just nasty.  And you can tell Hanson doesn’t have Beiber type bodyguards, because everyone just  kind of stood around going “Well, that just happened.”  Beiber’s on the books hoodlums would have had saliva man swapping spit with the concrete in seconds.

ZacHansonThe highlight of the whole video is Zac’s little smirk at the end.  It’s like he is saying “Oh please.  Like this is the first time I have ended up with a face full of fluid.”

Setlist: Vancouver 10/2/13

By | October 3, 2013
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Fired Up
Ive Got Soul
Wheres The Love
Scream and Be Free
This Time Around
And I Waited

Save Me
Been There Before
For Your Love (I solo)
Fire on the Mountain (Z solo)
Never Let Go (T solo)

Juliet
Waiting For This
Minute Without You
You Can’t Stop Us
Tragic Symphony
Thinking Bout Somethin
Give a Little
MMMBop
Get The Girl Back
Something Going Round
In The City

Lost Without Each Other

Looking for Canada Setlist Help

By | October 1, 2013
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Canada Fans! We are looking for a few people willing to keep track of the setlist for the upcoming Canadian dates:

October 4 Regina
October 5 Calgary
October 7 Sherwood Park
October 8 Saskatoon
October 9 Winnipeg
October 10 Winnipeg

You can either tweet the list song by song or every few songs (just let us know your twitter name so we know where to look!) You can text us at (908) 2HANSON with the list song by song or every few songs or you can keep track of the whole list and email it or send a screen cap of it on your phone to us after the show.

Basically as long as we get the list somehow after the show we don’t care how you do it 🙂

If anyone can help out with these shows please let us know!

Setlist: 9/30/13 Seattle, WA

By | October 1, 2013
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Fired Up
In the City
I’ve Got Soul
Where’s The Love
Scream And Be Free
This Time Around

On And On
With You In Your Dreams
More Than Anything (I Solo)
Go (Z Solo)
Kiss Me When You Come Home (T Solo)

Juliet
Crazy Beautiful
Happy Together
Minute Without You
You Cant Stop Us
Tragic Symphony
Thinking Bout Somethin
Give a Litte
Mmmbop
Get The Girl Back
Lost Without each other
Cecilia
It’s a Long Way To The Top If You Want To Rock N ROll