Lit To Perform At Titan A.E. Premiere Tonight

06/13/2000 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(6/13/00, 1 p.m. ET) - Lit will play a five-song set tonight (June 13) at the Los Angeles premiere of the new Fox animation flick Titan A.E. The band's "Over My Head" is the first single from the movie's soundtrack. But getting to the gig means traveling several thousand air miles over a period of less than 24 hours.

The band, currently on tour with Orange County homies No Doubt, was scheduled to perform last night (June 12) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, then fly to Los Angeles first thing this morning. After the early-evening performance at the Staples Center in downtown L.A., the group will then catch another flight east again, this time to Cleveland, where they have a show scheduled on Wednesday (June 14). Guitarist Jeremy Popoff recently told LAUNCH: "We've got to talk Fox into getting us a private jet, maybe. That would be real rock. What's up with that?"

Private jet aside, Lit will perform five songs before the film begins, including "Over My Head." LAUNCH asked band members Kevin Blades and Allen Shellenberger what the evening has in store. "We have a day off. We're going to fly in. And it's at the Staples Center in L.A. And we're going to be on a little side stage, and right after that the movie plays, so it's going to be exciting. It's not really the vision we had in playing the Staples Center but it'll be cool to say that we played there. It will be a little pre-empt to what we really want to do at the Staples Center. Yeah, it'll be cool, though."

Titan A.E. opens in theaters nationwide this Friday (June 16).

-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles and Chad Dougatz, New York

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