In terms of headlining shows, I agree. They have a great older fanbase that's willing to shell out money to see them. Warped Tour, however, they wouldn't draw as much as those other bands. They'd have a similar crowd size to CKY.
Yeah, I know an older guy who loves Social D, but has no interest in any other Punk band. He's into The Rolling Stones, The Black Keys, The Black Crowes, etc.
Maybe not CKY. Maybe Sick of it All type of crowds. I can see 4-500 for Social D each stop at Warped. I'd say CKY had about 2-300 at the NJ date.
I doubt declining ticket sales will have bigger acts coming next year. Tour is slowly but surely dying.
It didn't seem to me that their was a decline in attendance for Hartford and Massachusetts. Orlando had awful weather this year, didn't it?
Here's numbers from last year Earnings & Attendance From 'Vans Warped Tour', Blink-182, Disturbed, Etc. Shows | Theprp.com
Here's who are the most prominent bands featured on the past five years of Warped Tour that make the most sense to play Main Stage, with what I think the percentage of likelihood of them playing is. Main Stage Asking Alexandria (80) August Burns Red (70) Black Veil Brides (70) Bowling for Soup (80) The Devil Wears Prada (70) Enter Shikari (70) Falling in Reverse (100) Family Force 5 (60) Four Year Strong (85) The Ghost Inside (50) Goldfinger (70) Good Charlotte (70) Issues (80) Knuckle Puck (90) Less Than Jake (70) The Maine (75) Mayday Parade (85) Moose Blood (80) Never Shout Never (65) New Found Glory (80) Of Mice & Men (80) Parkway Drive (60) Pepper (70) Pierce the Veil (60) PVRIS (70) Real Friends (85) Reel Big Fish (80) Set It Off (90) Simple Plan (75) Sleeping with Sirens (60) State Champs (90) The Story So Far (80) Streetlight Manifesto (65) Sum 41 (80) Taking Back Sunday (65) Tonight Alive (80) The Used (70) Waka Flocka Flame (75) We the Kings (80) The Wonder Years (60) 3OH!3 (80)
Um, this?SUICIDE SILENCE To Embark On 'The Cleansing' 10th-Anniversary Tour Later This Year unless he's refering to warped in other countries. Suprise spot on remaining dates this year?
Also Auburn Hills, last year's most well-attended date, was noticably less packed this year - by at least 1/3. Someone told me the space this year was about half of what last year's was.
Marking FIR 100 percent makes it seem like there was confirmation either I missed or don't know about. Is there something I missed? Probably Mexico.