Tour
Before their show at Woodstock in June, Our Lady Peace played a set of secret gigs in Muskoka and Toronto under the pseudonym Belly Flop Communist, at Jamie Edwards' suggestion. T-shirts were even made up and sold at the shows. While the shows were secret, the band divulged their true identity over the radio causing the shows to soon sell out. Here, the band played many of the songs from Happiness for the very first time live. They played at Woodstock on July 25, 1999 where they played a 12 song set including six songs from the new album.
Soon after the release of Happiness... in September 1999 the band set off on a tour across the United States opening with Oleander for Creed. They did a short tour in Europe opening for The Stereophonics in December as well as in February 2000 back in Canada. The cross-America tour continued into January 2000 before the band began their cross-Canadian headline tour dubbed "The World's a Blister Tour". They returned to the United States in the Spring to participate in multiple music festivals such as Pointfest in St. Louis, Missouri and SpringFest in Pensacola, Florida.
During August 2000, the members of OLP organized the second Summersault tour, where them and other Canadian and American bands including The Smashing Pumpkins and Foo Fighters toured together across Canada. Touring effectively ended after Summersault as the band had announced work for a brand new studio album, Spiritual Machines which they had been working on since before the festival and which would be completed and released in Canada before the end of the year.
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