Bamboozle 2023 Tour • Page 3

Thinking on it, I think Green Day would be a pretty epic grab. If they got My Chemical Romance, Green Day, and Run the Jewels? I would be all in assuming they go as deep as they claim they're going to with the undercard.

Great, now I'm daydreaming about seeing Green Day, the Gaslight Anthem, the Menzingers, and the Bouncing Souls all on the same day...

Really not sure about the reunions. Because the ones I assumed they would have hyped aren't much of a "reunion" grab at this point. Except maybe Yellowcard and Something Corporate, which we kind of have to assume are in the mix, right?

(Unless there's something with Adjacent's thing where Andrew can't play with any project before or whatever, hah.)

 

I have a feeling that 6 of their 9 "headliners" won't even be as big as Adjacent's subs Bleachers, Coheed, Turnstile and JEW.

I'd guess their headliners are MCR, Kid Cudi, The Gaslight Anthem and Yellowcard.

Whether the lineup is trash or amazing, Riot Fest last year taught me that I'm too old to survive 3 day festivals. Putting my hope in Yellowcard being on the bill, and I'll plan on doing their day.

 

Taking Back Sunday is absolutely on this and in one of those slots

 

We're looking forward, not backwards.....so here's Taking Back Sunday headlining our final day doing Tell All Your Friends in its entirety!

 

“Taking Back Sunday original 1999 lineup ft. Jesse Lacey and Eddie Reyes!”

 

I'm still laughing that they wrote "we passed" on Blink 182 (with the Tom reunion) and Paramore.

 

"It's a huge celebration of all the bands who play Starland over and over again.....topped by Blink and Paramore. Couldn't be happier and more excited for Adjacent."

From the original post I get the vibe he didn't pass on Blink or Paramore but everyone under them. Which is why I didn't like adjacent that much. Cause all the other bands tour america like 2 or 3 times a year.

 

That'd be funny if he passed on them because they asked for more than they could afford or something lmao

 

The Adjacent line-up kinda feels like Boston Calling in terms of draw to me (obviously different from an aesthetic perspective). Like, I don't think they're trying to be a "destination" festival.

Yeah, they want people to travel. But if I had to guess, they're shooting for primarily people in the tri-state area and New England in terms of draw. Rather than all over the US and/or the world.

I can also see a huge appeal here being people who were "priced out" of Blink and/or Paramore tickets. Yeah, with a hotel and such it's bound to be expensive but... You're getting way more bang for your buck.

 

Is bamboozle supposed to be a destination fest? The previous lineups don't scream destination fest. But the way John talks in his posts make it seem that easy

 

I think that's what it grew to. And looking at the old line-ups it was a lot like a more scene/Warped Tour-leaning Riot Fest.

Look at the size of the headliners, the number of bands and stages (it's like, 3x what Adjacent is doing), the unique gets, etc. And at the time, it was the only festival doing anything like that. You also have to think about what it was like in the late 2000s in terms of festival culture, shows, and the like. Some of these bands weren't very active, didn't tour at all or as much, and some of the acts were on the come-up.

The Bamboozle line-up was a big deal for anybody who was loosely into "scene" music or culture. I do think it drew pretty heavily from northeast fans overall. But it was definitely something people traveled to. There's a reason they expanded to a west coast addition.

 

What made Bamboozle so special was that at the time, the major music festivals refused to touch the scene. Maybe you'd see Jimmy Eat World pop up randomly on a Coachella lineup, but for the most part those bands got ignored when it came to the Lollapaloozas, Bonnaroos and Coachellas etc. Which in hindsight is very odd considering emo/pop punk was a cultural phenomenon at the time, but I guess they thought their hipster audiences wouldnt think it would be "cool" to have Taking Back Sunday or The Used play their fests.

 

I thought by Bamboozle 2010 the festival had become pretty mainstream with Weezer headlining....and then two years later it was over (until now) but that also could be due to saturation of music fests rather than any other factor.....that fest was awesome too...fun fact: Young the Giant was there under their former moniker The Jakes

 

Weezer still felt on brand with the scene, but I felt like they lost the plot that year when Drake headlined the first night. And then the following year Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne and Motley Crue were headliners. And the year after Skrillex and Bon Jovi headlined....
Although to be fair, those choices may have been due to the fact that the scene was losing popularity, and there weren't many alternative headliners left to choose from that could move 20k tickets for a festival.

 

See I don't feel like that was to strange of a move. I guess I'm proven wrong again and again by like by that blink and lil wayne tour. But at the time I was super into the scene but also into lil wayne and wiz and kesha. So they always felt scene adjacent to me and could work in the fest.

 

This is pretty spot-on. I think what happened with Bamboozle, though, is they kept trying to go bigger and bigger. And you can't do that if you want to keep your focus on Warped Tour-style artists. I think shifting away from pop-punk, emo, hardcore, and whatever was a helpful decision in that regard. But it also meant the line-up was so all over the place that for a certain part of their demo? It lacked all appeal.

It was trying to be so much of everything that it kinda wound up being nothing. If that makes sense.

I think they just kept trying to go bigger. And after a certain point, it's not really feasible or financially viable. Because then you're attempting to compete with Coachella and the like... Which at that point in time wasn't workable. (And I still think, even in 2022, WWYF only worked the way it did because of the backing behind it.)

 

Oh yeah one more crazy thing.... AC Beer & Music Fest is at Bader Field (location of Bamboozle) the week after Adjacent. And they always have punk leaning bands. Granted it'll only be like 6-8 bands, that's still even more going on in AC within a few weeks of both Bamboozle & Adjacent

 

bet the headlining rap artist is Nothing Nowhere, or Blackbear

 

Holy wow! Not gonna lie, if all of this were within like... 1-2 hours of my own? I would be 100% going to all three of those, no question.

 

agree with all of that except for the final sentence about WWWY. When the Warped Tour festival came to AC in 2019 that sold 40,000 tickets within a day, and really if you look back at it it wasn’t that star studded of a lineup. A lot of great acts, but other than Blink 182 there weren’t any arena caliber artists on there. Just a hodgepodge of scene bands that typically tour venues that range from 500 - 3000 capacities. But packaged together and the masses went nuts for it.
I think live nation backing or not, people were hungry for these scene specific fests.

 

Fair point, and I think there's some truth to that (people really want this sort of thing ATM). But I don't think that they would have been able to afford that many bands without that financial backing. That's more what I was getting at. A fledgling festival generally wouldn't be able to convince THAT many artists without $$$.

I'm still pretty convinced that Warped Tour got by on the history and name for that one-off in AC. The line-up was a big part of the draw, obviously, but it was that coupled with it being billed as the last show that helped. Many people who had a history with that festival were bound to feel more compelled to go. It's sort of like when bands who are middling announce that it's their last tour and suddenly get bumped up a venue level (or a reunion tour, on the flip side).

 

ahhh 100%. I think when you mentioned the Live Nation backing I was thinking of the Live Nation “clout,” but yeah very good point it definitely requires a financial backing that only a massive promoter like LN could afford

 

The Seinfeld of music festivals

 

Months ago they teased demi. They could definitely be a headliner

 

I wouldn't put them as a headliner unless Bamboozle is downgrading significantly. Their latest tour isn't selling so hot, last I checked, and the new album doesn't have much buzz.

Could see them being a late afternoon or early evening artist on a stage, though.