Warped Tour 2016 Festival • Page 76

The dudes from Head North were walking around the Buffalo date, saw them chilling with Broadside before their set. Super cool seeing bands go out and interact with each other

 

anybody going to Shakopee tomorrow from the North Saint Paul, White Bear Lake, Maplewood area? I have a ride to Canterbury Park but my ride home backed out.

 

does the schedule leak out early at all or does no one really know until about 1030?

 

I'll do my write up a little later today. It was very nice meeting you. Cool dude!

 

Was it blue? I saw someone in the NFG pit with a blue one. I don't remember watching Sykes.

 

Anyone going to Milwaukee on Tuesday? I'm debating it.

 

I pretty sure it was white? I just remember being in the ampitheater taking a breather then headed over to GC.

 

It might have been me! You should have come over and said hi!

 

Next time! I didn't even realize till later on haha

 

3OH!3 are looking pretty old. Haha. Its been a while since I've seen/listened to them.

Crown the Empire have been my favorite so far but it seemed like Andy had a lot of help from a backing track

 

Looked it up and the dudes from 3OH!3 are only 30 and 32. That's crazy hahaha

 

Rather than do a recap I figured I'd just stick to a couple of bullet points.

- It was hot! This is the first year I can remember where I wasn't able to be as active as I wanted to be because of the heat.

- The crowds at the main stages seemed to be consistently bigger than the crowds at the Monster Energy stages.

- @Daniel182 is cool.

- The line just to meet Jeffree Star was insane.

- State Champs played until 8:50. I don't ever remember staying at Warped that late.

- Sum 41 and Good Charlotte really seemed to be glad to back playing shows. Sum 41 said they would be back in October. Good Charlotte said they would be back too.

- Sleeping With Sirens had to cut their set short by about 10-15 minutes because something happened to a girl in the crowd. She had to be taken to the hospital.

- Assuming We Survive is terrible. They are about as generic of a band as you will see. The singer kept talking about "welcome to our family" and friendly circle pits. Pretty lame.

- I had to buy merch earlier than I wanted to because all the tents were being taken down around 5 probably because the sky was getting pretty dark.

- I didn't get to check out many bands on the Monster Energy stages but it seemed like it was full of the typical meathead dudes. I didn't mind keeping them away from the rest of the bands on the other stages.

- I did see to notice a lot more older people (people my age) in the crowds. I'm glad bands like Yellowcard, Sum 41, and Good Charlotte got some of the older fans back out to Warped.

- The wrestling ring was also in Chicago but I didn't get a chance to see anything fight.

 

There was a decent size crowd everytime I walked past the wrestling ring to get water. Didn't stay long enough to watch more than a few seconds of a fight.

 

Bradley Whalen from Emarosa just jumped off stage midsong, and dragged his microphone all the way to a cotton candy stand.

 

I also liked how Less Than Jake's intro was specific to Chicago. Something about how Chicago is the hometown if Al Capone and Al Bundy.

 

Michigan's was about Bob Seger and Kid Rock, haha.

 

I really want to go to Milwaukee on Tuesday but I'd probably end up going alone. The weather is supposed to be perfect. What do I do?!

 

You'll regret not going twice this year once you see next year's lineup

 

Oh no! Not good? I didn't know next year's lineup was already finalized.

 

I think next year will likely have much less focus on older bands mainly because all the usual go to acts played this year haha, but if some of my predictions end up being right (The Devil Wears Prada, Beartooth, Moose Blood, Architects, Trash Boat, Letlive) I'll still have plenty to be excited about.

 

Personally don't see them topping or even coming close to this year's lineup so we'll just have to wait and see!

 

The only bands I like that I could see playing next year would be Forever Came Calling, Hawthorne Heights, Senses Fail, Simple Plan, Silverstein, Taking Back Sunday, The Summer Set, and We Came As Romans. Not a bad lineup but nowhere near as good as this year's.

 

So just your opinion? You haven't seen the lineup?

 

Have been counting who has closed what stage and how many times do far. Here it is

Left Foot- Sum 41(7)Falling in Reverse(7)Yellowcard(4)New Found Glory(3)Pepper(2) Reel Big Fish(1) We the Kings(1) Less than Jake(1) Set It Off(1)

Right Foot- State Champs(6)Mayday Parade(5)Sleeping with Sirens(4) The Story So Far(4) Issues(4) Real Friends(2)Pepper(1) Tonight Alive(1)

Poseidon-Roam(6) Secrets(5) I See Stars(4)Emarosa(3) Knuckle Puck(2) The Interupters (2) Masked Intruder(2) The Heirs(2) Broadside (1)

Cyclops- Waterparks(5)Ghost Town(5)Chunk No Captain Chunk(4)Too Close to Touch(3) Assuming we Survive(3)Teenage Bottlerocket(3)Ballyhoo(2) Against The Current(1)

Monster North- Motionless in White(6)Whitechapel(5) Crown the Empire(4) Volumes(3) Every Time I Die(3) The Color Morale(2) Ice Nine Kills(2) Bullet For My Valentine(1) The Word Alive(1)

Monster South- Oceans Ate Alaska(5) From Ashes to New(4) Chelsea Grin(4)In Hearts Wake(3) Gideon(3)Veil of Maya(2) Coldrain(2)Cruel Hand(2)Vanna(1)

Full Sail-Avion Roe(4)With Confidence (4) Silent Planet(3)Broadside(3) Like Pacific(3) Bad Seed Rising(3).Capsize(2) Palaye Royale(1) Hail the Sun(1) Cane Hill(1) Reckless Serenade (1) Saywecanfly(1)

Just from those patterns Avion Roe,Silent Planet,Broadside. Seem like bands to back, SP on Monster. Other two on the mid level stages.