Fest 18 Festival • Page 3

ok this is sick

 

Buying mine on Thursday

 

Just booked our flight, have the Airbnb all set, just need to purchase the tickets. Pumped as usual.

 

Down to roughly 300 tickets for anyone (me) that hasn't purchased yet.

 

Passes acquired!

 

Less than 100 left.. crazy

 

Read less than 100 left last night and ordered right away. I really hope the cost increase and tier pricing will not be the norm moving forward.

 

The "Jawbreaker" effect as a bigger than usual headliner did have a huge effect on ticket prices and crazy sales, compared to past years. Wonder if they will try to book at list 1 bigger headliner moving forward

 

Officially sold out

 

Maybe because I don't like them, but I didn't know Jawbreaker was such a big deal.

 

They're a big deal in a niche way for sure

Also it's just surprising to me this doesn't sell out every year since it's only 3000 passes

 

FEST 17 ATTENDANCE STATS:

• 3 DAY PASSES SOLD- 2,205
• INDIVIDUAL SHOW TICKETS 1,416
• BAND MEMBERS/ Wrestlers/ Comedians 1,529
• Volunteers/ Staff 610
• SPONSORS/ PRESS/ VENUE COMPS 435
• TOTAL ATTENDANCE 6,195

 

That makes more sense

 

Beers sold: 300,000

 

So Arms Aloft got fucking dropped because they dared to point out the fact that 95% of the bands playing fest make peanuts while the headliners all make bank. Weren't even critical of Fest either. They were just pointing out how fucked up the music industry is.

 

This seems to have become a bigger deal than I think was supposed to happen.

 

Does not surprise me Arms Aloft said something about it. Very much up their wheelhouse. Bummer they won’t be playing.

 

did anyone else cover it other than the massive post on fest friends? fest itself has been actively suppressing comments about it on their social media

 

Not that I am aware of. I, too, seen it on Fest Friends. Fest is getting a bad look for sure.

 

Dag Nasty dropped off :(, do we think we are getting a replacement?

 

At this point I'm not sure, but one would be welcomed! I guess they do need a replacement for headlining 8 Seconds on Friday since the lineups were announced

 

Sounds like Heartsounds is teasing a possible "Until We Surrender" 10 year anniversary full album shows - So either they will play it during their set on Friday, or hopefully we get a secret set from them on Saturday.

 

Welll looks like that isn't happening anymore! They dropped from the schedule on the app which is a bummer.