It's become a family and a brotherhood of people that I feel depend on us. I'm still here to continue to deliver the message as are Byron and Randy. Our motto is to follow your dreams and pursue them. Don't waste time because if you're wasting time on something you're not into, then you're not living. We're going to go out there and have fun doing what we love until it stops being fun.

Pennywise is one of the most significant bands to emerge from Southern California’s second wave of punk rock. Formed in 1988 in Hermosa Beach, California, Pennywise has released nine full-length studio albums; one live album; two extended plays; and one DVD. Their most recent studio effort, Reason to Believe, was released to over 500,000 fans for free through a limited offering from MySpace Records.

The critically acclaimed album was also sold physically and digitally the world over. “The Western World,” the first single from this watershed album, quickly became the most successful single of the band’s storied career.

Founded when punk rock couldn’t be less popular and hair bands were in fashion, Pennywise quickly developed a style entirely its own--a tsunami of California hardcore, melodic surf punk and optimistic anthems that went against the seek-and-destroy ethos of its era. “

We’ve done things our own way,” Dragge points out, “and we’ve never taken no for answer. We’ve been a punk band for 20 years, and we’ve traveled the world and we’ve had a lot of people tell us what we could and couldn’t do. ‘Tell me what we can’t do, and I’ll try twice as hard to do it.’ That’s the one thing this band has taught me: ‘If you want it bad enough, you can have it.”

Pennywise European Tour Dates
(w/ Strike Anywhere & Wilhelm Scream)

24-Apr                  B             Meerhout - Groezrock Festival
25-Apr                  D             Saarbrücken - Garage / RECONSTRUCTION Show!
26-Apr                  D             Hamburg - Markthalle with The Bouncing Souls
27-Apr                  D             Berlin - SO36 with The Bouncing Souls
28-Apr                  A             Vienna - Planet.TT/Gasometer info & tickets
30-Apr                  H             Budapest - Dürer Kert tickets / more tickets
01-May                 SLO        Maribor - Stuk tickets
02-May                 D             Munich - Werk tickets
03-May                 CH          Zurich - Dynamo
04-May                 F              Istres (Marseille) - L´Usine
06-May                 ESP         Barcelona - Sala Apolo
07-May                 ESP         Barakaldo - Sala Rockstar tickets
08-May                 F             Toulouse -Bikini
09-May                 F              Paris - Trabendo
11-May                 UK          Bristol - Academy tickets
12-May                 UK          Leeds - Academy tickets
13-May                 UK          Newcastle - Academy tickets
14-May                 UK          Glasgow - ABC tickets
15-May                 UK          Birmingham - Academy tickets
16-May                 UK          London - Shepherds Bush Empire tickets