Riot Fest 2021 (September 17-19, Chicago IL) Tour • Page 283

Hopefully nothing, but I’m sure someone on Reddit has a theory about an early morning drop

 

The "hold up" with shit like this is the likely unnecessary emphasis certain organizations place on the timing of certain social media posts. Haha.

"It has to be right at the top of the hour and posted at a time where the folks in EST and CST are both potentially on lunch breaks and the people on PST will be just starting work for the day but probably still on their phones."

 

A Smith’s reunion was actually a possibility… Johnny Marr said in an interview a few years back when he was promoting his book that apparently he and Morrissey met up sometime in like… 2008? To discuss some Smiths reissues. Then they talked about doing some Smiths shows. Both of them were down, but then Morrissey ghosted Marr when the time came to make it happen…

Needless to say, I think Marr dodged a bullet

 

This is a bit of a sidestep, but there's a pretty fun book I read a few years back by Marc Spitz called "How Soon Is Never?" It's essentially Smiths' fan fiction about a troubled music journalist who tries to convince the Smiths to reunite by interviewing each of the band members individually and laying a trail of bread crumbs down along the way.

It's nothing incredible, but a fun read if you're into the Smiths or the world of the music industry/journalism in general.

 

I read that and remember liking it. My aunt bought it for me and was confused because she thought it was written by the Olympian and was a book about swimming. haha

 

Yeah, it's a fun read. Some of the stereotypical "male music journalist" tropes made me roll my eyes but the aspects of it purely focused on the music, interacting with bands, trying to nail them down, etc. was an absolute blast.

Anyway. Because people are probably super frustrated seeing all these alerts and no schedule: I tweeted at Riot Fest again asking if they were okay and letting them know that I missed their snark. No reply. Apparently lightning only strikes once. But I tried.

 

Well, see you all again in an hour

 

Confirming suspicions RE: the Pop-Punk Pizza Party secret headliner

https://twitter.com/intoitoverit/status/1436358926354862084

 

confirmed in the comment below that they’ll be playing Proper

 

Holy fuck

 

Twitter snark is starting up again. Within the last five minutes they've let people know that the schedule hasn't been announced yet and said "I don't know I just work here" when somebody asked about album plays.

1pm CST is my new guess.

 

Engaging with a tweet about album plays is def the best indicator here. So close!

 

Direct quote from Twitter

“you said next week last week”

Riot Fest: “and it’s still this week. Calm the fuck down”

 

BEE patient

 

Jerry Seinfeld doing a live-reading of "Bee Movie" confirmed.

 

I would say it is pretty obvious coming today.

 

Riot turning into a Jazz festival for 2022

 

You can really tell who the newbies to riot fest are when looking at their Twitter. Like the person saying they are going to lose customers because of this. As if they haven’t done this every single year.

 

Regardless of precedent, I do love the idea of some shmuck deciding that the real problem is the twitter person's miseducation in market forces.

 

And as if there’s another comparable festival that fans of this type of music can just go to instead

 

Good thing that person never went to the warped tour. His head would have exploded.

 

Here we go - and the link leads to a 404 haha

 

WOOOO

 

Interesting that they included Fishbone performing TROMS on the schedule. I wonder if album-plays just aren’t gonna be a thing this year?