May 20, 2002 — With the group's fifth studio album, Gravity, hitting the stores June 18, Our Lady Peace have hit the road for a series of performances beginning May 15-16 with a two-night stand at the Asylum in Dayton, Ohio (complete tour itinerary follows). The tour includes radio festival gigs and headlining club shows.

Produced by Bob Rock (Metallica) and mixed by Randy Staub (Nickelback), Gravity was recorded over the course of 10 weeks (the quickest of any OLP album) in late 2001/early 2002 at Rock's Plantation Studios in Maui. The band utilized the vintage gear in Rock's studio -- including an amp used by Pete Townshend, the guitar played by Billy Duffy in the Cult's "She Sells Sanctuary" video as well as guitars and amps deployed by Metallica and the Cult -- to capture the energy and spirit of Our Lady Peace's live concerts.

"Somewhere Out There," the first single from Gravity, has already gone Top 10 on the Modern Rock Track's chart and is scaling both the Mainstream Rock and the Active Rock charts. The band shot a video for the track in Montreal in late April with director Eric Heimbold whose resume includes the Baha Men's "Who Let The Dogs Out" and the Brian Setzer Orchestra's "Jump Jive An' Wail," among others.

Spiritual Machines, the band's fourth record was released in the US March 13th, 2001. The album was certified platinum in the band's native Canada just four weeks after its release. (Spiritual Machines achieved platinum status more rapidly than any record in the OLP catalog.) The band hit the road in support of the album and toured in the US until fall of last year.

Our Lady Peace's first album, Naveed (released on Relativity in the U.S. in 1995), generated the Top 10 Modern Rock and Active Rock hit, "Starseed." and went on to sell more than half a million copies worldwide.

The band's second album, Clumsy, was released in 1997 and entered the Canadian sales charts at #1. The record has sold some 2.5 million units worldwide and achieved Diamond status in Canada with sales of more than 1,000,000 copies. Clumsy contained "Superman's Dead" and "Clumsy" which were Top 5 Modern Rock Tracks in the U.S.

Happiness... Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch was released in 1999 and the album debuted at #1 in the Canadian sales charts, this time ahead of Nine Inch Nails, Chris Cornell, Tori Amos and other albums released that week. "One Man Army," the first single from "Happiness... ", went Top 10 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks; "Is Anybody Home?" went to #20 on that chart. Following this release, Our Lady Peace joined in celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival.

Our Lady Peace Tour Dates

• May 15th and 16th - Dayton, OH - headlining club gigs at the Asylum
• May 18th - Chicago, IL - Q101 (radio festival lineup includes Kid Rock, Billy Corgan, Tenacious D, The Strokes and Hoobastank, among others)
• May 19th - St. Louis, MO - The Point radio festival lineup includes Sevendust, Tenacious D, Hoobastank, X-ecutioners, Lost Prophets, and many others) at UMB Bank Pavilion
• May 25/26th - Washington, DC - WHFS Festival - playing w/The Strokes, Eminem, Hoobastank and Paul Oakenfold on the 25th. Papa Roach, Alien Ant Farm, X-ecutioners and Good Charlotte on the 26th at RFK Stadium
• June 1st - Detroit, MI - 89x Festival (Headlining!!! - playing with Dashboard Confessional, Quarashi, Sloan, Doves and X-ecutioners)
• June 2nd - Cleveland, OH - WXTM Festival at Tower City Amphitheatre - playing with Static X, Rob Zombie, Unwritten Law and Apex Theory
• June 3rd - State College, PA - headlining club show at Crowbar
• June 4th - Lancaster, PA - headlining club show at The Chameleon
• June 6th - Old Bridge, NJ - headlining club show at Birch Hill Night Club
• June 7th - Philadelphia, PA - Y100 Festival - paying w/ System of a Down, Incubus, Papa Roach, Jimmy Eat World, Alien Ant Farm, Pete Yorn, Unwritten Law on main stage at Tweeter Center At The Waterfront
• June 8th - Norfolk, VA - radio show for KROX at Virginia Beach Amphitheatre
• June 9th - Boston, MA - WBCN River Rave @ CMGI Field (playing w/Outkast, P.O.D, Papa Roach, The Strokes, Sum 41 and others)
• June 11th - Clifton Park, NY - headlining club show at Northern Lights
• June 22nd - Seattle, WA - KNDD Festival
• July 4th - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest - Miller Oasis Stage
• July 5 - Indianapolis, IN - Indy Summer Stages - Nuvo Stage
• July 6 - Bonner Springs, KS - Sandstone Amphitheatre -KQRC radio show
• July 7 - Omaha, NE - Nebraska Raceway Park - KRQC radio

Additional Our Lady Peace tour dates TBA