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JAPAN!  We’re very excited to announce a string of farewell shows in your beautiful country this December!  Thank you to everyone that made this possible.  We can’t wait to come visit one last time, we hope you’ll join us for these special shows.  

VALENCIA Farewell Japan Tour 2011/11/21

Dec 6 - “Back To Basic vol.14 featuring VALENCIA” - Nagoya/Kamimaezu - MUSIC BAR BOB

Dec 7 - VALENCIA Farewell Japan Tour 2011 - Osaka/Namba - ROCKETS

Dec 8 - VALENCIA Farewell Japan Tour 2011 - Nagoya/Sakae - RAD

Dec 9 - VALENCIA Farewell Japan Tour 2011 - Tokyo/Shinjuku - MARZ

Dec 9 - “Back To Basic vol.15 featuring VALENCIA” - Tokyo/Shinjuku - MARBLE

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We’re excited to announce today that our very good friends in EVERY AVENUE will be one of the bands joining us for our last show on December 28th at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia.

Tickets are on sale now, they are going very fast. Get them here: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/02004743901843B1

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We just added a bunch of new stuff to our online store, including some new crew neck sweatshirts for the fall and winter!  Also, if you’re still waiting for an order, we are finally caught up after the past few weeks. 

Check it out at http://valenciamusic.bigcartel.com

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Tickets for our final show on 12/28 in Philly at the Electric Factory are now on sale to the public: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/02004743901843B1

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Valencia originally came together back in 2003. Most of us were still just in high school, but we all had gotten to know each other through the tightly knit music community we grew up in around Philadelphia. We started this band because of a mutual need to create something heartfelt and to give everyone a message we needed to share. We all felt like music would be the most significant part of our lives, but never in our wildest dreams could we have predicted the things we’d get to do, or more importantly, the people we would meet because of this band and the songs we wrote and shared with the world.

We started touring full time in late 2004, thanks to everyone at I Surrender Records putting faith in our band and releasing our first record. Ever since then, we’ve given everything we had to our music. We’ve been touring nx since then, playing shows in 46 states and five different countries over seven years, all of them places we were brought to thanks to people that believed in what we had to say.

This band started when we were teenagers, and now, as we enter our mid-to-late twenties, we’ve decided that it’s time for us to scale back our time on the road and explore the other elements of life that are not as easily accessible while touring full time. We aren’t considering this our band breaking up, because if that was the case, this situation would feel very final, and it doesn’t feel that way to us. It remains natural for us to write music together and there is always a possibility that we will release new music as Valencia sometime in the future. In the meantime, new music will be written and released by each of us and when that happens, we will let you know.

In honor of starting this next chapter, please join us on December 28th, 2011 for one last show in our hometown of Philadelphia, at the Electric Factory. We hope you’ll be there with us to share one of the most personal, memorable, and important nights of our lives. Thank you all for everything - the letters, the tattoos, the years of listening, for so many countless, priceless sentiments - there’s no way we could ever fully express our gratitude for everything you’ve done for us. We’ve been given the chance to go down a path not many are able to take, and because you’ve had our backs through the story that is our band, we’re able to continue that journey through whatever comes next for us.

From the bottom of our hearts,

Shane, George, Brendan, Dan, Trevor, JD, and Max Valencia

VALENCIA’S LAST SHOW Wednesday, December 28, 2011 The Electric Factory 421 N. 7th Street Philadelphia, PA phone: 215.627.1332http://www.electricfactory.info/

ticket presale begins October 4 at 12:00 noon at http://valencia.ducatking.com public onsale will begin on October 14 via Ticketmaster

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On Friday afternoon, September 30th, our brother and former drummer in our band, Maxim Soria, passed away in a motorcycle accident.   We always knew Max as being one of the most meticulous and cautious people we’ve ever met, and hearing the news and processing it over the past few days has been incredibly hard for all of us.  We’d like to thank everyone that has been reaching out to us during this difficult time.  The shock of this news left the Soria family, our families, our close friends, and ourselves  completely devastated, but hearing everyone the world over leave their condolences helped everyone realize how important Max is to the people he touched.  Keeping that in mind, we have been doing our best to remember the best times we had with him, think about the way he impacted so many thousands of people around the world, and it helps us find a little glimmer of light in these very dark moments.

We toured with Max for seven years, but even after he left the band, he remained a big part in all of our lives.  Whenever we were home from tour, we would spend almost every day together, either talking about music, movies, food, or just life in general.  He was everyone’s confidante, always lending his ear and his wisdom to anyone who needed advice and went to him for it.  In fact, the last time I spoke with Max was a time where he spent an hour on the phone with me and helped guide me through a personal situation I had no idea how to handle.  I’ll never forget that about him.  We will always appreciate the chance we had to be surrounded by such a bright, caring, talented, and intelligent person.

After the overwhelming reaction we have seen worldwide regarding what has happened, we would like to inform everyone of a public service and remembrance to be held in Max’s honor this Wednesday and Thursday, October 5th and 6th at Shelly Funeral Home and St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Warrington, Pennsylvania.  If you are able to, please join us and the Soria family in paying our respects and celebrating Max’s life.  It may have been tragically cut short, but his family, friends, us, and you all have so many great memories to take away from the short time we had with him.  Once again, thank you all for your support and kind words, it has meant the world to all of us.

A Celebration of the Life of Maxim Soria

Wednesday, October 5th

Shelly Funeral Home

Viewing: 6 PM - 8 PM

1460 Easton Road

Warrington, PA 18976

Thursday, October 6th

St. Robert Bellarmine Church

Viewing: 10 AM

Funeral Mass: 11 AM

856 Euclid Ave.

Warrington, PA 18976

St. John Neumann Cemetary

Burial Ceremony: Noon

3797 County Line Road

Chalftont, PA 18914

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Check out this video that our great friend Katie Rodriguez made for “The Way” on the Do America Tour!

http://katiejrod.buzznet.com/user/video/5097251/exclusive-video-valencias-way/

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We just added a ton of new merch to our online store, including the Anchor tank top we had on the Do America Tour!  Check out the reduced prices on some of the older stuff, too.

Check it out at http://valenciamusic.bigcartel.com!

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We just added a ton of new merch to our online store, including the Anchor tank top we had on the Do America Tour!  Check out the reduced prices on some of the older stuff, too.

Check it out at http://valenciamusic.bigcartel.com!

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