Bowling For Soup On The Vans Warped Tour 2003; Band Scheduled To Appear On ``Live With Regis & Kelly'' April 2nd

Business Wire, March 20, 2003

Entertainment Editors/Music Writers

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2003

They may not have won the Grammy for "Best Performance for a Duo or Group" this year, but Bowling For Soup has secured a place on the Van's Warped Tour 2003. The group has signed on for the entire tour, which will include Rancid, AFI, The Used and Andrew W.K.

Additionally, Bowling For Soup have just been confirmed to perform their current hit single "Girl All The Bad Guys Want" on "Live With Regis & Kelly," Wednesday, April 2nd.

Bowling For Soup are currently riding high with the Top 40 track. Radio stations including KIIS (Los Angeles), Z-100 (NY) and KHKS (Dallas) are playing the song in heavy rotation, and it is the #10 Most Requested Song in the country. The song moves to #18 on R&R's Top 40 Chart this week, while their album "Drunk Enough To Dance" moves up on Billboard's Top 200 Albums to #145, and to #4 on Billboard's Top New Artist Albums. The band recently performed on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, and will be part of a "buzz band" feature in an upcoming issue of US Magazine.

"Drunk Enough To Dance" was initially released in August 2002. This is the band's sophomore album for Jive. Bowling For Soup have been touring extensively in the United Kingdom where the album has been certified gold.

Vans Warped Tour 2003 dates are:

6/19: Boise, ID - Idaho Center Amphitheatre
6/20: Bozeman, MT - Gallatin County Fairgrounds
6/21: Salt Lake City - Utah St. Fairgrounds
6/22: Denver, CO - Invesco Field
6/24: Kansas City, KS - Sandstone Amphitheatre Lot
6/25: St. Louis, MO - UMB Bank Pavilion
6/26: Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
6/27: Indianapolis, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
6/28: Minneapolis, MN - Float-Rite Amphitheatre
6/29: Chicago, IL - Tweeter Center
7/2: Calgary, AB - Race City Speedway
7/4: Vancouver, BC - Thunderbird Stadium
7/5: Seattle, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre Lot
7/6: Portland, OR - Columbia Meadows
7/8: Pomona, CA - Pomona Fairplex
7/9: Ventura, CA - Seaside Park
7/10: San Diego, CA - Coors Amphitheatre Lot
7/11: Long Beach, CA - CSULB
7/12: San Francisco, CA - Pier 30/32
7/13: Sacramento, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
7/15: Phoenix, AZ - Peoria Sports Complex
7/18: San Antonio, TX - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7/19: Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Music Center Lot
7/20: Houston, TX - Reliant Center
7/23: Atlanta, GA - Hi Fi Buys Amphitheatre Lot
7/24: Orlando, FL - Central Florida Fairgrounds
7/25: St. Petersburg, FL -Vinoy Park
7/26: Miami, FL - Pompano Beach Amphitheatre Lot
7/27: Jacksonville, FL - Jacksonville Raceways
7/28: Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
7/29: Virginia Beach, VA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
7/30: Washington, DC - Nissan Pavilion Lot
7/31: Boston, MA - Suffolk Downs
8/1: Montreal, QB - Parc Jean Drapeau
8/2: Toronto, ON - Molson Park
8/3: Detroit, MI - Pontiac Silverdome
8/4: Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheatre
8/5: Cleveland, OH - Tower City Amphitheatre Lot
8/6: Pittsburgh, PA - Post Gazette Pavilion
8/7: Buffalo, NY - Darien Lakes PAC
8/8: Philadelphia, PA - Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
8/9: New York City, NY - Randall's Island
8/10: Asbury Park, NJ - Asbury Park Lot

For more information, go to www.bowlingforsoup.com or www.warpedtour.com.