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The band performed their first dates for three years in Japan at the beginning of September and then embarked on what was dubbed the 'Troublemaker' tour - 21 dates around the US, including one in Canada. "Angels and Airwaves" and "Tokyo Police Club" joined them as support at each show and Brian Bell's 'other' band [[The Relationship]] also performed at a handful of dates. Shortly before the encore at each show, the band would bring on fans with various instruments and perform [[Island in the Sun]] and [[Beverly Hills]] with them. At a show in Austin, after Tokyo Police Club had played their set, Rivers was wheeled out in a box and mimed to a recording of rare Weezer demo, 'My Brain', donned in pyjamas with puppets on his hands, before being wheeled off again. This bizarre event later surfaced as the lead song for Rivers' second demo album, [[Alone 2]]. | The band performed their first dates for three years in Japan at the beginning of September and then embarked on what was dubbed the 'Troublemaker' tour - 21 dates around the US, including one in Canada. "Angels and Airwaves" and "Tokyo Police Club" joined them as support at each show and Brian Bell's 'other' band [[The Relationship]] also performed at a handful of dates. Shortly before the encore at each show, the band would bring on fans with various instruments and perform [[Island in the Sun]] and [[Beverly Hills]] with them. At a show in Austin, after Tokyo Police Club had played their set, Rivers was wheeled out in a box and mimed to a recording of rare Weezer demo, 'My Brain', donned in pyjamas with puppets on his hands, before being wheeled off again. This bizarre event later surfaced as the lead song for Rivers' second demo album, [[Alone 2]]. | ||
====Alone 2, Christmas Songs and Album 7 | ====Alone 2, Christmas Songs and Album 7==== | ||
Cuomo released a second solo CD of home demos on [[November 25]], [[2008]], entitled [[Alone 2: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]], featuring three additional pieces recorded for "Songs From The Black Hole", a song written by Jermaine Dupre, a variety of songs which ended up as Weezer demos and various previously unreleased tracks. Rivers also revealed that a new compilation dubbed ''[[Odds and Ends]]'' will be released during 2009. It will feature a variety of b-sides and songs that "didn't make the final cut for [a] record". It'll be very much in the vain of Rivers' two demo releases and may be the final release to expire the band's seven album Geffen contract. | |||
Another set of 2008 songs emerged in the form of [[Christmas with Weezer]], six Christmas hymns rerecorded by the band for exclusive use on the iPhone game 'Tap Tap Revenge'. The songs were ripped and leaked in perfect form making up a six track mini-album as a Christmas suprise to many fans. | Another set of 2008 songs emerged in the form of [[Christmas with Weezer]], six Christmas hymns rerecorded by the band for exclusive use on the iPhone game 'Tap Tap Revenge'. The songs were ripped and leaked in perfect form making up a six track mini-album as a Christmas suprise to many fans. | ||