Tonight Alive

            Tonight Alive is an Australian rock band that formed all the way back in 2008 in Sydney, Australia. The band is made up of lead vocalist Jenna McDougall, Whakaio Taahi on lead guitar, Jake Hardy on rhythm guitar, Cam Adler on bass, and Matt Best on drums.

            They were signed to Takedown Records and it took them a few years before they released their first EP in 2010 called Consider This. They also released an EP called All Shapes and Disguises that year as well. It wasn’t until near the end of 2011 that they released their first full length album, What Are You So Scared Of?, after they left Takedown and signed with both Sony Music Entertainment Australia and Fearless Records. It wasn’t released in the United Kingdom or the United States until one year later.

            They recorded their 2nd and latest album, The Other Side, which they started writing just after the release of What Are You So Scared Of?. The Other Side debuted at number 5 on the ARIA Albums Chart in early September of 2013. They haven’t released anything else since other than a song called “The Edge” which they recorded for The Amazing Spiderman 2 Soundtrack in 2014. They are working on their third album as of right now and they expect it to be released this summer in July.

            They have done a plethora of tours since they formed and they just recently finished their latest tour supporting All Time Low on their Future Hearts Tour during their Australian and US legs of the tour. Through the years they have toured with bands like Set It Off, You Me At Six, Taking Back Sunday, Chuck! No Capitain Chuck!, Mayday Parade, The Story So Far, The Downtown Fiction, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, We Came As Romans, Black Veil Brides, Sleeping With Sirens, Pierce The Veil, The Wonder Years, We Are The In Crowd, Breathe Carolina, and Simple Plan. They have also gone on Vans Warped Tour in 2012 and 2013.

          Tonight Alive is an amazing band and Jenna McDougall is such an inspirational person. At all of the shows before singing “What Are You So Scared Of?” she would have the crowd repeat this mantra back to her “From this day I refuse to live in fear of someone else’s judgment!” She is literally the queen of the punk scene and I aspire to be like her!