Jimmy Eat World in Brisbane

Jimmy Eat World is an American alternative-rock band formed in Mesa, Arizona, in 1993. Their guitar-driven mix of emo, power pop and pop punk is best known through the album Bleed American and the songs “The Middle” and “Sweetness”; the follow-up Futures added “Pain” and “Work” to their catalogue. On the 2002 Pop Disaster Tour, Jimmy Eat World opened North American amphitheatre dates for Blink-182 and Green Day. The band marked the tenth anniversary of Clarity with the 2009 Clarity x 10 tour, performing the album in full, and later co-headlined The Amplified Echoes Tour with Manchester Orchestra in 2023.