the tour i was referring to was the northern lights tour, not sure how skyshaper went, I couldnt make it, northern lights tour was covenant and melotron. i know its mostly venues doing pricing, but on the tour i saw i dont think tickets were above 15$, i paid 20 each for this show and it was covenant alone (with a local opener, which btw, no one should cover REM, not even REM ^_^)
the tour coincided with me and my old roomate moving to boston from miami, so we saw them in ft lauderdale, tampa (or orlando, i forget which), dc, then boston.
by the time we go to the boston show we drove melotron to the afterparty, good times :)
photo i took at the ft lauderdale show that year (feeling old realizing i uploaded this in 2003)
http://thumb3.webshots.net/s/thumb1/9/47/36/74494736APXPYp_th.jpg