HELLO FEST FRIENDS!!! We have been diligently working on FEST 17/ PRE-FEST 6 and we can’t wait to share everything with you! So mark your calendars: April 9- the brand new website will be launched and the first round of bands will be announced!! April 12- Tickets and hotels go on sale! October 24 & 25- Big Pre-Fest in Little Ybor 6! October 26, 27, & 28- FEST 17! Start your group chats with your buds because y’all won’t want to miss out this year!! Is it FEST yet?!
IF I attend this year it will be my 8th year in a row! But I am waiting to see if Wrecking Ball happens this year because I might give that a go this year instead. But here is just some bands I would love to see play! Some played last year and some unlikely for Fest but a man can dream... Alkaline Trio (Headliner) NOFX (Headliner) The Smith Street Band Tiny Moving Parts Touché Amoré Jetty Bones No Trigger Anchors Nervus House Boat The Hotelier Wax Bottles Muncie Girls Junior Battles Iron Chic Heartsounds The World Is a Beautiful Place.... Camp Cope The Unlovables Reunions/One Off Shows Fireworks Polar Bear Club Mixtapes Modern Baseball The Swellers Make Do And Mend
PBC and Mixtapes could happen for sure I don’t think the other will but I’d shit if The Swellers did My two big hopes are Menzingers and LTJ and both seem likely Others: Jeff Rosenstock PUP Lemuria Antarctigo Vespucci Touché Amore Broadway Calls The Sidekicks Bouncing Souls The Lawrence Arms Dead To Me Strike Anywhere The Loved Ones
Before last year you could bet your house on The Menzingers playing...Then they ruined it last year. But yeah they would be a must see for me! The Swellers last show still annoys me! It was a Punk Festival in Belgium (Groezrock) don't get me wrong a great festival and I managed to catch part of the set! But I always felt that they would end at Fest because they played it quite often from what I recall. If not Fest then a hometown show. LTJ I have heard playing Hello Rockview is a good possibility. Outside of LTJ it shall be be interesting to see the other headliners this year. The Menzingers could maybe one?
I think The Menzingers are definitely credible enough to headline for sure LTJ playing Rockview would be so awesome And yeah agreed about Swellers I went to their last Cleveland show and was planning on Detroit but skipped because I figured they'd definitely do a Flint show for their actual last one and I'm still so bummed they didn't
My biggest hope is for Alkaline Trio but honestly I'd settle for someone doing a cover set at this point. Other hope is for Camp Cope and The Sidekicks. I said last year would be my final Fest but then a week after it ended I booked my hotel for this year "just in case".
And that's hopes of Alkaline Trio dashed early on at least. With Blink doing the Las Vegas residency unless they headlined on the Sunday at Fest. I would actually love to go to 1 of them Blink shows in Vegas so might look into factoring it in to my travel plans.
This is literally the only "concert" I go to every year and I had to miss last year, which sucked. With Daggermouth releasing a new song, I am hoping they play again this year. Hoping to get my fix of A Wilhelm Scream as well, since they play every year and never come close to my town. Regardless of the lineup, I am pumped.
Last year was probably the most fun I had ever had at fest. My saturday schedule was amazing. Can't wait for this year. My hope is for a hostage calm reunion. I think they were supposed to play the year they broke up .
Honestly quite surprised with that just given that it would be a prefect time to play Hello Rockview in full. You have any other insight?
Basically Tony waited too long to ask them and they already have other things planned. Similar reason why they're only playing a few days of Warped instead of the whole thing.
Yeah, I really didn't watch a ton of sets at the main stage last year. I definitely did, but I was at High Dive (I think) by the pizza place a lot.
The indoor shows were definitely a better vibe than the outdoor shows. Against Me being really the only exception and maybe Iron Chic Crowd was completely dead for almost every band I wanted to see outside though. High Dive forever Also only one week until the announcement!!!!
the lineup is of course cool but piebald being on this... this post got so little traction, that needs to change
Damn that's a bummer about Piebald didn't know that... Also lineup is definitely cool but very bare minimum. Nothing really big to me here. Assuming the next announce will have a ton of awesome stuff though. Right now I'm excited for: Broadway Calls The Copyrights Dead To Me Dikembe Direct Hit Iron Chic Lemuria PKEW PKEW PKEW Prince Daddy & The Hyena Red City Radio Rozwell Kid Signals Midwest Spanish Love Songs And I would watch: Bad Cop Bad Cop Cursive Daggermouth Elway Gouge Away Katie Ellen Kississippi Lagwagon Makewar Meatwave Mom Jeans Nothington Pears Riverboat Gamblers Tim Barry War on Women Really hoping Menzingers play
Not really a Lagwagon, Cursive, or Piebald fan. Hoping for some combination of the Bouncing Souls, Lawrence Arms, Menzingers, Teenage Bottlerocket, D4 on the "headliner" side. Stoked to see Bike Tuff and Spanish Love Songs though.