Civic Tour Adds Special Giveaways to Complete an Already Perfect Spring Tour

Business Wire, April 29, 2004

Entertainment Editors

VENICE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2004

From a Civic Tour Travel Package To Exclusive Live Music Downloads,

Civic Tour Announces Exciting National and Local Media Promotions

If winning a customized Honda Civic seems like a long shot, not to worry, fans still have a chance to win other cool Civic Tour prizes. In addition to winning the grand prize, one of the customized Dashboard Confessional Civics, fans can also win concert tickets, meet and greet passes, Alpine AM/FM/CD car stereo head units, Apple iPods, autographed guitars, exclusive live music downloads, crew rides and a Civic Tour concert travel package for two.

A total of 11 customized Civics, complete with unique, airbrushed paint jobs, specialized interiors, performance tires and an Alpine audio/visual system, will be awarded through various media promotions. Fans can win one customized Civic through civictour.com when they submit an entry from May 13 to August 31. Another will be given away on-air to one lucky MTV/MTV2 viewer (details to be announced shortly). This year, Civic Tour has also teamed up with music television station FUSE, which will run a national contest for a Civic giveaway (details to be announced shortly). The remaining Civics will be awarded through various radio promotions including KROQ in Los Angeles, K-Rock (WXRX) in New York, WBCN in Boston, WHFS in Washington D.C. and Live-105 (KITS) in San Francisco.

For the first time in its four year history, Civic Tour is offering fans the opportunity to download music exclusively from the official civictour.com website, free of charge. Fans will be able to download up to three recently recorded live tracks from various Dashboard Confessional shows just by logging onto civictour.com. These three live tracks are exclusive to civictour.com. There will not be any special passwords, download charges or secret login information, but it will be limited to the first 500,000 downloads. The downloading will launch in conjunction with civictour.com on May 13 and the songs will be available for download and play on all popular operating systems.

Civic Tour is a unique promotion where music fans can catch their favorite acts at a great low-ticket price, with this year's tour bringing the lowest price to date. Created and produced by Marketing Factory, Inc., Civic Tour is bringing the Honda Civic Coupe closer to youthful, contemporary drivers, while offering music fans their favorite bands.

The Civic Tour is scheduled to visit the following cities (dates and venues subject to change).

Date              City                    Venue
Thurs   5/13      Portland, ME            Cumberland County Civic
                                           Center
Sun     5/16      Buffalo, NY             Dome Theater
Tues    5/18      Cleveland, OH           Tower City Amphitheatre
Wed     5/19      Cincinnati, OH          Riverbend Music Center
Thurs   5/20      Detroit, MI             DTE Energy Music Theater
Fri     5/21      Chicago, IL             Allstate Arena
Sat     5/22      Minneapolis, MN         Target Center
Sun     5/23      Grand Forks, ND         Alerus Center Ballroom
Tues    5/25      Des Moines, IA          Val Air Ballroom
Wed     5/26      St. Louis, MO           Pageant
Thurs   5/27      Kansas City, MO         City Market
Fri     5/28      Denver, CO              The Fillmore
Sat     5/29      Salt Lake City, UT      E Center
Tue     6/1       Seattle, WA             Exhibition Center
Wed     6/2       Portland, OR            Portland Expo Center
Thurs   6/3       San Jose, CA            Event Center at SJSU
Fri     6/4       Los Angeles, CA         Greek Theater
Sat     6/5       Las Vegas, NV           Orleans Theater
Sun     6/6       San Diego, CA           Cox Arena
Mon     6/7       Irvine, CA              Bren Center at UC Irvine
Tues    6/8       Mesa, AZ                Mesa Amphitheatre
Thurs   6/10      Austin, TX              Stubb's
Fri     6/11      Dallas, TX              Nokia Live at Grand Prarie
Sat     6/12      Houston, TX             Reliant Arena
Mon     6/14      Tampa, FL               USF SunDome
Tues    6/15      Pompano Beach, FL       Pompano Beach Amphitheatre
Wed     6/16      Orlando, FL             House of Blues
Thurs   6/17      Orlando, FL             House of Blues
Fri     6/18      Orlando, FL             House of Blues
Sat     6/19      Atlanta, GA             Gwinnett Center
Sun     6/20      Myrtle Beach, SC        House of Blues
Tues    6/22      Raleigh, NC             Regency Park Amphitheatre
Wed     6/23      Norfolk, VA             NTELOS Pavilion
Thurs   6/24      Columbia, MD            Merriweather Post Pavilion
Fri     6/25      Philadelphia, PA        Wachovia Spectrum
Sat     6/26      Holmdel, NJ             PNC Bank Arts Center
Sun     6/27      Boston, MA              Tsongas Arena
Wed     6/30      Pittsburgh, PA          Chevrolet Amp at Station
                                           Square

For more daily updated information, visit the official Civic Tour online press kit site: http://www.marketingfactory.com/civictourpress/