Editing Strike Anywhere (section)

==History==
[[file:StrikeAnywhere logo.svg|thumb|The band's logo]]
The band embarked on their first tour, spanning four weeks from May 29 to June 30, 2000, across the entire United States with Florida melodic hardcore band [[As Friends Rust]].<ref>{{cite web |date=February 18, 2002 |title=As Friends Rust Interview |url=http://www.music-scan.de/infos/stories/details.php?id=37 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020401073605/http://www.music-scan.de/infos/stories/details.php?id=37 |archive-date=April 1, 2002 |access-date=December 30, 2021 |website=Music-Scan}}</ref><ref name=":69">{{Cite web |last=Julien |first=Alexandre |author-link=Alexander Julien |date=January 10, 2020 |title=As Friends Rust - A skeletal repository of As Friends Rust's timeline |url=http://www.abridgedpause.com/as-friends-rust |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506055852/http://www.abridgedpause.com/as-friends-rust |archive-date=May 6, 2022 |access-date=May 6, 2022 |website=Abridged Pause Blog |language=en-US}}</ref> The tour included several cross-over shows with [[Glasseater]], Mid Carson July and The Agency (the three of which were on tour together), as well as stops to play such festivals as Mixed Messages in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Pheer Festival in College Park, Maryland.<ref name=":69" /> Strike Anywhere again teamed up with As Friends Rust for their first European and British tour, which spanned five weeks from October 29 to December 5, 2001.<ref>{{cite web |last=Aubin |first=Paul |date=October 18, 2001 |title=Strike Anywhere / As Friends Rust in Europe |url=https://www.punknews.org/article/2114/strike-anywhere-as-friends-rust-in-europe |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513183838/https://www.punknews.org/article/2114/strike-anywhere-as-friends-rust-in-europe |archive-date=May 13, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2021 |website=Punk News |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=October 2001 |title=Shows |url=http://www.dchardcore.net/afr/shows.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011120135129/http://www.dchardcore.net/afr/shows.html |archive-date=November 20, 2001 |access-date=March 23, 2022 |website=As Friends Rust}}</ref> A highlight performance at London, England's [[Camden Underworld]] from midway through the tour, on November 16, 2001, was filmed and later [[Camden Underworld, London – 16 November 2001|released on video and DVD]] by British home video company Punkervision in December 2002.<ref>{{cite web |last=Aubin |first=Paul |date=January 14, 2003 |title=As Friends Rust/Strike Anywhere live DVD |url=https://www.punknews.org/article/4915/as-friends-rust-strike-anywhere-live-dvd |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231141302/https://www.punknews.org/article/4915/as-friends-rust-strike-anywhere-live-dvd |archive-date=December 31, 2021 |access-date=December 30, 2021 |website=Punk News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/punk_planet_54 |title=Punk Planet 54 |date=March 2003 |publisher=[[Punk Planet]] |chapter=Punkervision Ad}}</ref>

The band played their last show with guitarist Matt Sherwood in Auckland, New Zealand on March 17, 2007, with Mark Miller replacing Sherwood. Since then, the band has continued its regimen of international touring, including the group's first South American tour, where they played Brazil and Colombia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/webexclusives.aspx?csid1=146 |title=Strike Anywhere's Thomas Barnett |website=www.exclaim.ca |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811061426/http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/webexclusives.aspx?csid1=146 |archive-date=11 August 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In an interview in December 2016, Barnett confirmed that the band is currently working on a fifth studio album.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thepunkarchive.com/strike-anywhere/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-12-19 |archive-date=2016-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220182522/http://www.thepunkarchive.com/strike-anywhere/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> On July 17, 2020 the band released an EP titled ''Nightmares of the West'' via Pure Noise Records. The EP contained seven newly recorded songs that were the result of ideas that had been exchanged between bandmates over the course of the 2010s decade.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sacher |first1=Andrew |title=Strike Anywhere's Thomas Barnett talks protests, punk activism, first EP in 11 years, more in interview |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/strike-anywheres-thomas-barnett-talks-protests-punk-activism-first-ep-in-11-years-more-in-interview/?fbclid=IwAR0O0M7sugOgbX8NV9mrWMzzciQIY3k8_bfU5GWbQxbfjDuTzEUujP6EfX8 |website=Brooklyn Vegan |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>