Boston based indie rockers Mission Hill recently won the chance to open for Bon Jovi at their July 24th show at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts.  While the bands performance at the show was a clear crowd pleaser and helped the band gain thousands of new fans, how the band got to the chance to play the show was pretty amazing.

“I saw a contest one day on OurStage.com and I just threw our profile up there to enter us in the contest.  The funny part is I totally forgot that I even did it, I was just surfing the internet on our computer and I just randomly saw it,” Mission Hills lead singer Adam Jensen told Alternative Addiction.  “So then I signed on one day, and I had this message saying we were in the Top 20.  Then I guess it goes on to Bon Jovi’s people to pick, and I guess they picked us.”

When Jensen received the news he said he was in a hospital recovering from knee surgery.

“I was sitting in a hospital on a drip for the pain, and I get this call telling me we won and we are going to open for Bon Jovi,” explains Jenson.  “I started yelling in the hospital saying I was playing for Bon Jovi, people were like ‘No you’re not, just go back to sleep!’  And I was like, ‘No I am serious, I am playing for Bon Jovi,’ it was so funny.”

If you missed the band’s first performance at Gillette, you can catch the band doing a repeat performance on August 26th, as part of the pre-game show before the Patriots’ 3rd pre-season game against the St. Louis Rams.

Mission Hill’s brand new 7-song EP, Beautiful Addiction  was release July 20th on iTunes and features the hit song “Crazy”

For more on Mission Hill, visit www.missionhillband.com

Listen To Alternative Addiction’s Interview with Mission Hill