Bold set time means I'm leaving before or arriving after when it ends. Thursday Aquabats / Koo Koo Kanga Roo / MC Lars Friday 1155 1235 Pkew Pkew Pkew 105 130 Yours Truly 130 215 Anti-Flag 300 310 Mat Kerekes 310 400 Senses Fail "Let It Enfold You" 400 420 Angel Du$t 420 500 The Get Up Kids 510 550 Hot Mulligan 550 610 Lucero 610 635 Pennywise 635 715 Dashboard Confessional "The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most" 715 815 Descendents 815 840 The Flaming Lips 845 945 Jawbreaker 945 1000 Blink 182 "Enema of the State" Saturday 1215 100 Masked Intruder 105 150 The Hu 155 240 Turnstile 245 330 GWAR 335 355 Avail "Over the James" 355 425 The Damned Things 425 445 Testament 445 515 Turnover 515 615 The Story So Far 615 645 PVRIS 645 715 Anthrax 715 730 Manchester Orchestra 730 800 Wu-Tang Clan 800 830 Andrew WK 845 915 Bloc Party "Silent Alarm" 915 1000 Slayer Against Me! / Pink Fly Sunday 1245 130 Save Ferris 140 220 White Reaper 235 300 Village People 300 345 Less Than Jake 355 510 Against Me! "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" / "Reinventing Axl Rose" 515 530 The B-52s 530 600 American Football 600 615 The B-52s 645 745 The Starting Line 745 815 The Ergs! 815 910 Taking Back Sunday "Tell All Your Friends" / "Louder Now" 910 945 Bikini Kill
Friday: Can't Swim -> Yours Truly -> Mat Kerekes -> Senses Fail (partial) -> Neck Deep -> Dashboard Confessional -> The Flaming Lips -> Blink-182 Saturday: Prof -> Elder Brother -> The Story So Far -> PVRIS (partial) -> Wu-Tang Clan -> Bloc Party -> Taking Back Sunday/The Get Up Kids Aftershow Sunday: Kali Masi -> This Wild Life -> Less Than Jake (partial) -> Against Me! -> The Starting Line -> Taking Back Sunday Senses Fail would be on there more but I'm seeing them in OKC two nights before I leave. I'm not mad about any of this for my first trip to Chicago! Hope everyone has a great time!
Also just bought tickets to see Blink 182 in Michigan a few days before. Need to see Enema in full at least once, and I'd REALLY prefer not to have to cut Jawbreaker.
Friday: Can’t Swim, The Garden, Yours Truly, Caroline Rose, IDKHBTFM, Mat Kerekes, Senses Fail, Neck Deep, Hot Mulligan, Violent Femmes, Dashboard Confessional, The Flaming Lips OR Glassjaw?????, Blink-182, and the PVRIS Late Night show. Saturday: Monarchy Over Monday, Masked Intruder, Cleopatrick, Lando Chill, Cherry Glazerr, Prof, Surfer Blood, Elder Brother, Cursive, The Damned Things, Turnover, Microwave, The Story So Far, PVRIS, Manchester Orchestra, Rise Against, Slayer/Bloc Party, and then either the AM! or TBS Late Night show. Sunday: Dead Swords, Save Ferris, Kali Masi, Frank Iero, Village People, Less than Jake, Against Me!, Bob Mould, American Football, Patti Smith, The Starting Line, The Raconteurs, Taking Back Sunday There’s definitely some partial sets in there that I’ll probably end up skipping for food breaks.
I really truly can't think of a better way to kick off riot fest than seeing Pkew and I hope you're all there too
Friday 11:55 - 12:35 Pkew Pkew Pkew 1:30 - 2:15 Anti-Flag 2:20 -3:05 Hot Water Music 3:10 - 4:00 Senses Fail (leave early) 4:00 - 4:40 Angel Du$t 4:40 - 5:00 The Get Up Kids (arrive late) *maybe hop around and see some Cock Sparrer, Hot Mulligan, Neck Deep,Violent Femmes, Lucero & Pennywise 6:20 - 7:00 H2O *maybe a little of Dashboard* 7:15 - 8:15 Descendents 8:15 - 8:40 Rancid (arrive late) 8:45 - 10:00 Blink 182 Saturday 12:15 - 1:00 Masked Intruder 1:55 - 2:40 Turnstile 2:45 - 3:30 GWAR *maybe leave Gwar early a see some Edler Brother* 3:35 - 4:20 Avail 4:20 - 4:35 The Damned Things (arrive late) 4:45 - 5:05 Turnover (leave early) 5:05 - 5:30 Microwave (leave early) 5:30 - 6:15 The Story So Far (arrive late) 6:15 - 6:45 PVRIS (arrive late) 6:45 - 7:00 Senses Fail (arrive late) 7:15 - 7:30 Manchester Orchestra (leave early) 7:30-8:00 Wu Tang Clan (leave early) 8:00 - 8:15 Rise Against (arrive late/leave early) 8:15 - 8:30 - Andrew WK (arrive late) 8:30 - 8:45 - Slayer (leave early) 8:45 - 10:00 Bloc Party (probably leave early) Sunday 12:30 - 1:00 Ramona 1:00-1:15 Save Ferris (arrive late) 1:40 - 2:20 White Reaper 2:35 - 3:00 Village People (leave early) 3:00 - 3:45 Less Than Jake 3:40 - 3:55 - Sincere Engineer (leave early) 3:55 - 4:15 - Against Me! (leave after Axl Rose) 4:15 - 5:00 Streetlight Manifesto (most likely arrive late) 5:00 - 5:10 Against Me! (catch the end) 5:15 - 5:30 The B-52s (leave early) 5:30 - 6:00 American Football (leave early) 6:00-6:45 Teenage Bottlerocket (leave early) 6:45 - 7:45 The Starting Line 7:45 - 8:00 The Ergs! (arrive late/leave early) 8:00 - 8:15 The Raconteurs (arrive late/leave early) 8:15 - 9:45 Taking Back Sunday Bummed about: - The partial Senses Fail/Angel Du$t crossover & Angel Du$t/Get Up Kids crossover - Descendents / Rancid / Glassjaw crossover - Jawbreaker / Blink crossover - Avail/ Damned Things crossover - Turnover / Microwave / TSSF crossover - TSSF / PVRIS / Senses Fail crossover - Manchester / Rise Against / Wu Tang / Andrew WK crossover - Sincere Engineer / Against Me! / Streetlight Manifesto crossover (worst conflict of the fest for me)
I know everyone's schedule changes a bit once they get to the fest but y'all need to fit in time for food (and even potentially downtime).
Makes sense! It's just...interesting seeing some peoples schedules where they have artists/bands they want to see back to back to back right from doors to the end of the day. You're going to burn out day one if all you're doing is rushing from one stage to the next, especially if you are splitting sets. Take some time to rest, get enough food without having to wolf it down, don't stress about missing a few acts. Just some general tips!
A lot of times Riot Fest sets feel longer to me. Like, I'll show up thinking 'oh man I gotta see all of band xyz's 45 min set they're great and I can't wait to see them, it sucks I have to miss band zyx but that's the way it is' and then I see band xyz play for twenty minutes and I'm like 'ok that's enough lets see band zyx now' does this make sense
Ya my breaks typically come where I’m planning to check out just a partial set of someone, or someone like Village People is a good example cus it sounds fun and all but I’ll really just be hanging around in ear shot doing whatever I need to do. I also used to follow my schedule much more rigorously but Ive been more chill lately
I would love if Cant Swim were on the Enter Shikari show and I hope I’m wrong, they have just said multiple times on their Facebook and in the tour poster that CS aren’t on the show because of Riot Fest. But as mentioned above maybe they just have to say that until after the festival?
Friday I’m not sure when I’ll blow off work but for sure Blink. Saturday: turnstile -> cursive -> turnover -> Manchester -> bloc party -> get up kids -> TBS
Jesus, there's a whole mess of conflicts in there on Saturday. Including a few that are super head scratchy.