@Jason Tate Do you have any idea what sort of payday a band is getting for a festival like this? Obviously FOB is making more than a band like Mom Jeans, but for ~45 minutes of work, I’m curious.
festival rates are usually a bit higher than a headline show for a band. I remember seeing some stuff a few years back that showed some early tent bands at Bonnaroo getting between 20-30k.
I've never attended this festival because I didn't wanna fly to Vegas to see The Wonder Years/ Mayday Parade/ etc. play a 30 minute greatest hits set, the guarantee of full albums is the entire appeal in spending several thousand dollars on this vacation. If they just let them play a greatest hits set, that would be asking for lawsuits. That's textbook bait & switch
There is definitely some language in the terms of service that probably alludes to the fact that no setlist is guaranteed or something of that sort
This happened with a couple bands at Furnace Fest. Both Emery and Blindside were advertised to play the weak’s end and about a burning fire and neither played the full almost in favor of adding in some fan favorites except emery added in a new song no one gave a shit about that was very bad
Idk maybe it’s just me, but I think it’s lame to promote playing an album in full and then not going through with it
Never forget when Christopher Drew did multiple tours of ‘I’ll play the first three ep’s’ and never once played all the songs he promised
WWWY needs to get its shit together. With Warped Tour returning (in whatever form) next summer, this tour will have actual competition. Bands and fans may very well choose that over this, and a festival built on getting every band you’ve ever loved together may not survive when it’s not the only show in town.
Warped Tour reboot is literally going to be ran by the same company… it’s not going to be a competition, it’s going to be a combination…
I'd be so annoyed if I bought tickets and booked travel and didn't get the album playthrough since most of the bands on the bill are active and tour. I've also been annoyed when bands announce a tour is album playthrough after tickets are sold (Taking Back Sunday with Tidal Wave).
It's kind of weird that AAR was going to play their S/T and not Move Along. It was a more successful album (2x platinum) and is the album they're mainly known for
Welp, now Im even more curious about the schedule. Im starting to feel this will be a shitshow. Since the announcement everybody was wondering how they will fit more bands with longer sets than previous years, I cant get my head around the idea of the organizers just realizing 2 weeks ago that some sets will be too long and now ask bands to condense them.
hard disagree, s/t is absolutely THE album to play at the festival, these are the old scenesters not the casual radio listeners. If you aren't playing the album with Swing Swing at WWWY then you don't know your audience.
Coheed’s record is 70+ minutes and the longest sets last year (with less bands) were 45 minutes other than headliners. Main stages didn’t overlap last year, so they’re probably going to have to add a fifth stage to make it work since they were really only using three at any given time last year.