Warped Tour Tour • Page 48

I'm gonna give it at least another week of announcements before I'll start to "worry". We're not even halfway through the lineups yet.

 

There will be big bands, but the rollout has been insanely bad so far. At the very least, they're leaving this thing on autopilot and not adjusting when the audience has very publicly tired of them announcing nobodies for dozens of acts in a row.

 

I still like the general idea of this approach. But at a certain point it definitely starts to feel like it has the opposite effect... I think doing this over a 30 day span was maybe a bad idea and it all could have been condensed into clusters 2-3 times per week.

What could have been a nice way to make sure that smaller artists have a way to shine is that, when those artists get announced? You share a "RIYL" and a "fun fact" about them. Give people a reason to check them out. That would do them more service than what is currently happening, I think.

 

You have to mix well-known artists in there, not just endless strings of bands called Anaconda Hot Dog, whatchamacallitz, 5ever, louise and the TIGER, and GubbleButt.

In theory, every day should have a headline/large artist and then a handful of smaller ones.

 

Don't you dare slander GubbleButt.

 

Anaconda Hot Dog are my hometown hommies, give them a chance they put an insane live show

 

Good bands.

 

Yeah. This should’ve been the way

 

And tbh i expected a "bigger name" to be dropped at least once a day too. It's gotten to the point where I stopped checking...and people are now less likely to check these new bands out because people are souring hard.

I was very into the roll out but agree with you. Now...not so much

 

they rock

 

This was my thought as well. People were excited about discovering Chandler Leighton (I think it was her) but the same day they announced Simple Plan, Bowling For Soup and Pennywise. But when in a single day you announce 5 acts no one has ever heard about, most people wont care enough to give them a listen.

 

5ever is an actual band from MA. They aren't terrible. LOL

 

DEATHBYROMY playing Orlando

 

lol

 

No LB announces so far today

 

I'm sorry but everyone in here memeing about all of these absolutely random ass bands getting announced with the (very much on point) ridiculous name trend pointed out by @cricketandclover, only for the very next band announced to be called DEATHBYROMY is just too funny.

 

At least I've heard of deathbyromy she was the opener on the used pierce the veil tour haha

 

A lot of these have been consistent openers for the bands you do know haha

 

You're likely not wrong.. I just hope some of the bands I do know are added to the show soon, rather than just their openers :)

We'll see!

 

Yeah the long waves of lesser known bands is a puzzling strategy. I feel like announcing a quarter of the lineup every Monday for a month would have been more effective and led to less negativity since you’d have bigger bands in every announcement.

 

If all the best bands playing so far were playing all three shows i'd be a pretty decent lineup so far but instead it is a scattered mess with a bunch of returning bands I don't care about

 

If they announced 15 big/well known bands as Warped Tour 2025, people would probably be stoked. So think of it as that, and these smaller bands are just sprinkles on the cake.

They’re obviously (hopefully) saving all the bigger ones for last.

 

I hope so. I know they're purposely announcing the small bands on weekends

 

It’s more a “hopefully” than “obviously” for me currently. If that’s the case then this will be fine. If not, yikes