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Jonas Says Band Is Getting ‘Ramped Up’ For Tour |
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The Jonas Brothers will hit the road with special guest Demi Lovato beginning August 7.
During a season that finds the Biebs, the cast of “Glee” and Gaga all on the road, concertgoers have plenty of choices when it comes to catching live music this summer. And for Jonas Brothers fans, the selection is only going to get sweeter when the band kicks off its tour on August 7 in Tinley Park, Illinois. We recently caught up with one-third of the JoBros, Joe Jonas, on the set of TV Land’s “Hot in Cleveland,” where he’ll guest as Valerie Bertinelli’s son on the August 11 episode of the sitcom. MTV News pressed him about what surprises or special guests to expect when they come to town.
“We’re looking really forward to it,” Joe said of their 35-plus concert dates, spanning North and South America. “I’m excited to get onstage again and perform, get ramped up with that again.”
The always-media-savvy middle Jonas didn’t want to reveal specifics, but teased some good details.
“We’re going to be bringing a lot of our friends from ‘Camp Rock’ on tour, which will be fun,” he said of featuring pals from the JoBros’ Disney channel flicks. “And also, there might be a couple [surprise guests] here and there; artists that might pop in, but we haven’t really said anything too much yet,” Jonas added.
According to the band’s official website, current tour guests include Jonas’ ex-girlfriend, Demi Lovato, along with a bevy of Disney favorites: Alyson Stoner, Matthew “Mdot” Finley, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Roshon Fegan and Jordan Francis.
“I think they’ll just [be a] surprise and come onstage,” he explained of the yet-unnamed performers. “We have a lot of buddies in the music industry that just kind of are always around hanging out onstage. We’ll call them up, and they’ll maybe play a song with us or something like that.”
In addition to performing songs from their albums, like 2009′s Lines, Vines and Trying Times, fans can probably expect the guys to sing songs from the upcoming Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, album, which might in turn mean a possible (awkward?) duet by exes Joe and Demi of their “Wouldn’t Change a Thing.” (The track leaked online last week.)
Source: MTV News
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The Jonas Brothers perform a free concert at the Warner Theater |
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Fans get a jolt of Jonas Brothers first thing in the morning at Warner Theatre
What happened was Shelley Hierstetter, 18, got the e-mail from the Jonas Brothers fan club, and she immediately called Alex, but Alex didn’t answer the phone (she was at the pool), so she called Amanda and then Brooke O’Barr, who called Chelsea Graff, who put the executive plan into action, which was this:
They would all be first in line to see the Jonas Brothers’ last-minute Warner Theatre concert Wednesday at 7 a.m.
“No, wait,” Shelley amends her recollection. “Before I called anybody, I just screamed,” and then her mom ran into her room, but all she could do was point at the computer screen and quiver.
Shelley and friends have been standing in the concert’s entrance line for 26 hours. They sleep in shifts. Behind them are hundreds of additional giddy teens, and parents blearily swaying in the pre-dawn, pre-Jonas light. Periodically, someone squeals, as if releasing pressure from a boiling pot, and then the squeal catches on and everyone goes, “Eeeeeee!”
Couldn’t the Jonas Brothers — Kevin, Joe and Nick (everyone agrees Nick is the cute one) — have performed at a saner hour? Couldn’t the Jonas Brothers — the holy trinity of Disney teen stardom — have announced the concert earlier, giving everyone more time to plan? (“Our teacher thinks we’re all at the doctor,” one 15-year-old confides.)
They could not. The Jonas Brothers are in town primarily to fete Paul McCartney at the White House. This first-come, first-served free concert is a kickoff for “No Service Fee June” — promoter Live Nation’s attempt to boost ticket sales — and the whole thing came together in a week. Tickets were distributed on Tuesday; a Live Nation official says about a thousand were given away.
“The JB’s are the greatest partners we have,” says Brad Wavra, a senior vice president with Live Nation. “I called up Papa Jonas,” who manages things for his sons, and he said yes within a second.
Some have argued that the time of Jonas is fading. Some have argued that Justin Bieber, he of the swirly hair, is usurping the Jonas Brothers, they of the curly hair. Those people aren’t here.
“Justin sings really great,” tween Kaye Hyder tells her younger sister, Ally. “For a girl.”
At 6:45-ish the doors open, and everyone stampedes in. Brooke reports that her friend lost a shoe in the madness, the way shoes are sometimes lost in tornadoes or other acts of God.
The Jonas Brothers, who are just as heartthrobby in person, perform five songs, including “Burnin’ Up,” which causes Sarah Harkins, 13, who has written “Jonas Brothers” on her face in black marker and who will most certainly not wash it off before school, to inform her friend Sophie Rizzo, 15, that the Jonas Brothers are, in fact, Right There. “They are right there!” she says. “There they are, rightthere!”
Sophie, who manages to stay calm despite this momentous news, can only grasp her friend’s hands, look deeply into her eyes and whisper, “I know.”
After the concert, everyone evaluates the experience.
“I got to touch Joe,” Brooke reports. “Nick is my favorite, but he wasn’t touching anybody, so I got to touch Joe.”
“I touched Kevin,” says Chelsea, “And I got his pick!” She holds aloft the beloved guitar pick, thrown into the crowd by the eldest Jonas, for inspection.
Then buoyed by Jonasness, they all float outside, where the sun has barely risen.
Source: Washington Post
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Oops! Jonas Brothers Trapped in Elevator for 45 Minutes |
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After the Jonas Brothers treated thousands of fans to a free outdoor concert at The Grove in Hollywood last Saturday, the trio planned to make a hasty retreat. But instead, they found themselves trapped in an elevator – “for 45 minutes,” says Kevin Jonas.
“We were stuck in an elevator with eight people and Big Rob,” adds Joe Jonas, referring to the band’s illustrious security guard. “It was a 21-person elevator,” notes Kevin.
Asked who panicked first, Joe says, “Me and Nick” – which prompted some disagreement from Nick.
“I didn’t panic,” insists the young star, who, mindful of his diabetic condition, points out, “I just didn’t have my [blood-sugar] checker with me. No one had it on them, and I was afraid that if [my blood-sugar level] went low in an elevator we wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.”
Interjects Joe: “It went from, ‘Okay, this is hilarious, we’re stuck in an elevator, okay press the button,’ to ‘This is crazy, okay, I can’t breathe, this is insane.’ ”
But at least the brothers – who with special guest Demi Lovato are preparing to kick off a 46-city tour in Dallas on July 27 (also joining the tour during its run will be cast members of Camp Rock 2 The Final Jam) – were in good company during their containment.
“Chef Tim Love was in the elevator, with us and he was trying to become Rambo in the moment,” says Joe, who, as a fan of Love’s cooking, had invited him to join them that day.
“It was really funny,” says Joe. “It was crazy to see the fact that he was put in the situation.”
To top it off, the entire experience was captured on film. “We had our photographer Rob Hoffman with us, and he had his video camera so he taped the whole thing,” says Nick.
Adds Joe: “It ended with the fire department coming through with axes.”
Source: People.com
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