Warped Tour Tour • Page 75

Its this reason that I think WWWY will start blurring that line of emo nostalgia going forward. No way they stop doing the fest, as its 4 years in with sell outs and second days added; too much of a money maker. But they can't keep recycling acts like they have, like you said its not sustainable.
They're either going to start going 50/50 between new and old acts, or they're going to start incorporating adjacent scenes, like booking more nu metal acts like Deftones & Evanescence or start booking acts of the 2010s like MGK, 21 Pilots and The 1975.

 

I think nowadays a lot of artists/management make negotiations for festival bookings more difficult by incorporating clauses about poster placement in their agreements. Keeping it purely alphabetical alleviates that headache.

I'd imagine the headliners for DC would be MGK, Avril Lavigne, Sublime and All Time Low. But judging by some of the bizarre comments I've seen on Reddit, most fans have absolutely no grasp on that kind of thing.

 

This whole thread is pretty illuminating, but the gist is:

 

Some interesting surprises and some “oh duh why didn’t I think of them?”

Surprised to see Gogol Bordello

I thought Mom Jeans was ruled out, but glad to see I was right about them being on

The Vandals are another “of course they had to do it”

Body Count and and Ice-T solo set absolutely rocks

 

Digging the Long Beach additions. Ice-T in addition to Body Count was an awesome surprise. Hoping to see Bad Religion, Goldfinger, Lagwagon, Sublime, and The Aquabats added through the coming months. And still holding out hope that Reel Big Fish shows up.

Should be a fun couple days.

 

I’m betting BR and The Aquabats get added after that punk fest in OC happens next month. And that Sublime get added after they headline Beach Life in May

 

Long Beach new additions that I can see: Blackbear, Four Year Strong, The All American Rejects, Gogol Bordello, Ice-T, Body Count, Kenny Hoopla, Jxdn, Landon Barker, Mom Jeans, Mariachi El Bronx, Slaughter To Prevail, Stray From The Path, The Wonder Years, Yung Gravy, Zulu.

I'm sure I missed a few. Lots of blurred names still, I assume we get Sublime, Aquabats, Goldfinger in the next few weeks.

 

There's 11 bands on the Long Beach poster who I would see, most of which I have already seen before. I think if it was closer to $100 I would have been content, but the actual ticket price doesn't match up for me personally

 

I’m pretty picky and there’s at least 20-25 on there I’d be very happy to see lol

 

Im surprised Yung Gravy is in there instead of Yellowcard or even Yungblud

 

Given that every show had the same budget and how small DC's lineup is compared to Long Beach, I don't even want to think about how much they're paying Avril and MGK.

 

Tbh 45 plus bands a day seems plenty anyway I’m not sure why they even bothered going so many at the other two dates

 

Could see a lot of the smaller acts agreeing to play for basically free ;/

 

Funny that Mariachi El Bronx is playing but not standard The Bronx

 

Definitely the other half of that; I wonder how little they're paying some of the smaller acts. I imagine a lot of them are going to make their money on merch sales.

 

In the end, the lineup is solid... nothing incredible but definitely not as bad as I thought. The announcement structure ended up being weird and probably causing a lot of pessimism.

Bands that I will try to see/want to see in LB: ADTR, Atmosphere, Blackbear, Bowling for Soup, Bryce Vine, Cartel, Chiodos, Four Year Strong, Hawthorne Heights, Honey Revenge, Hot Milk, Iann Dior, Mom Jeans, Saosin, Silverstein, State Champs, AAR, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Wonder Years, and We the Kings.

Some others that I'd try to see too on that list but those are the primaries.

Hopefully still a couple more that I will want to see as there are still 15 names blurred out for LB.

 

I feel like the standard for a festival, especially ones that are lower cost (relatively speaking), shouldn't be such that you're disappointed if you like a band in the lineup but you have seen them before.

How many bands do you really like that you haven't seen before? Especially people like us in this forum who attend a lot of concerts

 

Just remembered that Goldfinger is playing at the House Of Blues in Anaheim on Friday. So I say it’s likely they’ll be added after that show

 

Yeah I never get those comments or the “they all tour still” comment. I think of it more of seeing so many in one weekend

 

Gogol Bordello isn't particularly surprising to me. They're a great example of a band that really started to get hype because of Warped Tour. They did the tour in '04 and '05. People were talking about them and their live show a lot back in the day.

Their performances on that tour got a lot of attention from people and helped to bolster them to the next level they'd eventually reach.

 

Yeah that's not what I am saying. I didn't say "because I have seen them I don't want to again," I would see them all again, and have seen most many times. I was just pointing it out as an aside

 

I first heard of them on the CD for one of those years and immediately had to catch their set. Can't wait to see a bunch of people singing "Start Wearing Purple" again.

 

I've seen them so many times over the years. And they are always amazing. But the absolute wildest time I've seen them was at Riot Fest in 2022 when they stepped in as a last-minute replacement for Bauhaus. Something about the energy brought that night was epic. And for some reason they went over their allotted time by like, 10 minutes.

That band has grown into an absolute force at festivals.

 

Same. I've seen Four Year Strong a ton of times but am still psyched to see them again