On September 6th, Kevin Kilkenny, one of IGNITE’s full time touring guitar players for the past decade, riding the Cardboard Robot KX500 dirt bike, exited the timed mile at the Bonneville Salt Flats, USA at 130.418 miles per hour. He turned the bike around and ran back across the same stretch of real estate at 132.444 m.p.h. Setting a new record average of 131.431 m.p.h. and raising the AMA National 500cc MPS/P motorcycle speed record nearly ten miles an hour.

Kilkenny was racing against a record set by seven time Baja 1000 winner Steve Hengeveld and F2 Racing. Kilkenny set a new AMA national record, he was the fastest 500cc sit-on bike at the event and the bike he rode, the Cardboard Robot KX500, is the World’s Fastest Dirt Bike.

For video footage of the World Record Event, take a look below:

More details can be found at: www.wolbrinkrace.blogspot.com

Ignite is coming to Costa Rica this Saturday!

Finally, after a few attempts in the past we have now been able to lock in a date to play in San Jose, Costa Rica. The show is going to be on October 4th at a venue called Club Capone, the club only holds 450 people so make sure and get yopur tickets early!!!

We are in the process of editing our dvd that we filmed in Germany this past April. Today was day two of the editing, we have a few more days to go and then we get into the studio with Cameron Webb to mix the audio portion of the show. So far it looks great and sounds great as well. We are really excited about getting this dvd finished and getting it out to you guys. No release date has been set. We should be announcing a title for it in the next few days. IGNITE

IGNITE has just announced a show in Hollywood, California on July 10th. The show will happen a couple days before the Australian Tour starts!

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Yes…Ignite will be heading back to Australia in July!

IGNITE will be signing autographs at their IGNITE/Trashmark merchandise booth at the Pfingst Open Air Festival in Essen, Germany, on Monday May 12th. The autograph session will begin at 4pm and go for 45 minutes. Ignite will be signing picture-cards and anything else you want to bring to the festival. The festival is FREE and a couple other bands playing are the Lemonheads and Born From Pain.

SEE YOU THERE!!!

Hey everyone, tour is still going great over here in Europe. Check out some of the action below!

First of all, this tour just keeps getting better! The last few days have been really good topped off with a very sold out show last night in Cologne, Germany at the Essig Fabrik. Over 1500 people crammed into the venue and all the bands had really good sets, especially Death Before Dishonor, who are becoming really popular in Europe everywhere.

FOUR really great upcoming things to report about:

1. We are filming a “Live Dvd” at the April 20th show in Leipzig, Germany. So, if you want to be part of Ignite’s history archived onto dvd come out to the show at Werk 2 and be part of the Ignite show.

2. We are very happy to announce that we are playing a free concert in Essen, Germany at an Festival called “Pfingst Open Air” on May 12.

3. We have added one last show to this European tour. we are very happy to announce that we will be playing in Hasselt, Belgium on May 31st at the Musik-O-Droom. This is the first IGNITE headlining clubshow in Belgium in years!!! Tickets will be on sale soon!

4. We are playing an acoustic show on May 25th at the Paul Frank Store in Amsterdam at 8pm. Should be awesome!!!

Yesterday we kicked off this great package tour in Mannheim, Germany. The show was really good….lots of people came out and we are expecting full houses for most of these shows. The band ‘So Far Away’ opened the show  in Mannheim and we are going to have some other great opening bands as well for some of these dates. Tonite is Tilburg, Holland at 013 with ‘No Turning Back’ opening the show!!! See you soon…..IGNITE