Paramore Plans to “Light a Fire” on Forthcoming “Celebration”

Image Courtesy of Fueled by RamenParamore's forthcoming spring tour is less of a tour and more of a celebration. Officially billed as Writing the Future: An Intimate Evening with Paramore, the trek will be the band's first since their Monumentour, a giant summer co-headlining stint with Fall Out Boy.

"We needed some time off after Monumentour, to process everything that we were able to do, but also a lot of amazing personal things happened as well," frontwoman Hayley Williams tells Rolling Stone. "Now we're so ready to get on the road, to be with our fans. That's going to light a fire under our asses to get into what we're going to do next. I can just feel it. And that's exciting."

Among those "amazing personal things" was Paramore's first Grammy Award -- the band's single "Ain't it Fun," from their 2013 self-titled album, beat out work from the likes of Beck, Jack White, The Black Keys and Ryan Adams for Best Rock Song. Williams says that the Writing the Future celebration feels like a victory lap.

"We never in a million years thought we would win a Grammy, or any of the other crazy things that happened along the way," she says. "So we're thinking of each [Writing the Future] show as an event, as a way to celebrate our relationship with fans, to celebrate the album and to celebrate the past two years of this band."

While Writing the Future will certainly rejoice in the successes of Paramore, the band also will pepper the set list with a few deeper cuts.

"No matter all the amazing things that happened with [Paramore], we're still a band; we still have the same influences and there's still a feeling that we never want to go away," Williams says. "So [Writing the Future is] sort of our way of digging back into that, hoping that our fans new and old will want to go back with us."

Writing the Future: An Intimate Evening with Paramore will begin April 27 in Augusta, Georgia. The celebration will run through May 25 in Portland, Oregon.


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