Yeah I wonder how many back-up bands WWWY have booked. I could easily see a few bands dropping now until then
I went to Soundwave in 2013 which had this lineup jammed it one day and went off without a hitch (join me in wincing at the optics of an Australian festival using a native American theme to promote a festival). Point being, unless there's a colossal fuck up from the organisers' end, it will be fine. There will be clashes, but Soundwave routinely had huge line-ups year in, year out and were able to pull off the one day festival very smoothly.
Didn’t Soundwave have like 6 or 7 stages though? The three stage thing is the only puzzling part of this. There’s like 25 bands I’d want to see and I’d be lucky to see half of them the how crammed the schedule is going to be.
I just can’t get over the fact that a band like Jimmy Eat World will play a 4-6 song set for this thing. The guarantee’s must have been pretty decent for this. I mean on the plus side I can see some pretty sick West Coast tour routings for fall of next year before/after this (lucky bastards).
Why do you think Jimmy Eat World is playing 4-6 songs? They're in the second tier of acts (JEW, Bright Eyes, Avril, BMTH, ADTR) and will 100% get a longer set than the lower tiers.
I think if you listen to well over 25 of the bands on the lineup, you'll have a great time, because there'll virtually always be a band you like playing. If you listen to 5-10 including the headliners, you'll also have a good time, cause you'll get a headline set by one of your favorite bands, plus get to notch some off the bucket list. If you listen to 10-25, you're probably gonna hate it, because odds are there will be so many schedule conflicts you won't get to see all the bands you want, and there will be gaps in the 12 hours where there's nothing to do.
It did indeed, 6-8. Three stages seems wild. Maybe the smaller bands will do mini sets, but yeah that does seem a bit odd.
You can stay at one stage all day and catch 20 acts. That's a hell of a day. Dont understand why people are still questioning the logistics, I posted the schedule for their Once Upon a Time festival above. 3 rotating stages, 20 bands per stage. Acts seem broken down into 4 tiers. 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 60 minutes. Jimmy Eat World will play way more than 4 songs...
100% agree. I'm crunching the numbers right now with that mock schedule you posted and it honestly doesn't look THAT bad. My guess is, if that schedule is similar to what they're doing, it'll be My Chem vs. Bright Eyes vs. I Prevail for that final slot.
Did a mock schedule based on the rap bill @manoverboard365 shared. Tried putting bands together by like genres/flow of a day that would make sense. MAIN STAGE - 19 BANDS 1015 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE 935 PARAMORE 830 BRING ME THE HORIZON 725 A DAY TO REMEMBER 635 AVRIL LAVIGNE 545 THE USED 510 TAKING BACK SUNDAY 435 PIERCE THE VEIL 400 THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS 335 BOYS LIKE GIRLS 310 NECK DEEP 245 THE STARTING LINE 220 THURSDAY 140 ANBERLIN 120 LILHUDDY 100 3OH!3 1240 STATE CHAMPS 1220 WE THE KINGS 1200 MEET ME @ THE ALTAR SECOND STAGE - 21 BANDS 1000 BRIGHT EYES 900 JIMMY EAT WORLD 805 AFI 715 ALKALINE TRIO 640 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL 615 MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA 550 THE STORY SO FAR 525 CAR SEAT HEADREST 500 SENSES FAIL 435 BAYSIDE 410 MAYDAY PARADE 345 THE MAINE 320 MOM JEANS 255 STORY OF THE YEAR 230 PVRIS 205 SAOSIN 140 TV GIRL 115 THE READY SET 1250 HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS 1225 THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS 1200 THE LINDA LINDAS SIDE STAGE - 23 BANDS 1030 I PREVAIL 950 DANCE GAVIN DANCE 910 SLEEPING WITH SIRENS 830 KNOCKED LOOSE 750 JXDN 710 MOTIONLESS IN WHITE 640 BLACK VEIL BRIDES 615 ICE NINE KILLS 550 SILVERSTEIN 530 PAYALE ROYALE 515 POPPY 450 NESSA BARRETT 415 WOLF ALICE 350 ACCEPTANCE 325 ATREYU 305 GLASSJAW 245 LA DISPUTE 155 ARMOR FOR SLEEP 125 FOUR YEAR STRONG 100 THE WONDER YEARS 1240 KITTIE 1220 THE GARDEN 1200 HORRORPOPS
That's a good as I could hope for. I've honestly never heard of I Prevail before, I guess they're popular? It feels inevitable that Bright Eyes will close a stage and counter MCR. I can live with that...love Bright Eyes but this seems like a weird way to end that day. Just hoping another must see like JEW or Avril aren't closing a stage. I'm guessing one stage will be the defacto main stage, 2nd stage focused on metal/heavier acts, and the 3rd for the less aggressive acts (ie Bright Eyes, Dashboard, Car Seat Headrest, Wolf Alice etc.)
Like I said, before, even if we equally distributed 30 minutes to each of the 22 bands on each stage (660 minutes), there'd still be an hour leftover to give to each stage's headliner, or divvy up between them and the direct support. It's not that hard to imagine working.
I don’t think many doubt the feasibility. I think people doubt spending that much on a festival full of super short sets for a lot of bands and tons of conflicts with bands you want to see. It’s definitely weird to for Live Nation to spend that much to book a ton of bands for a one day festival when you could spread it out over a weekend and make more money or book half of the bands and still sell a shit ton of tickets for a one day festival.
BTW I’d love to go to this, but standing for 11 hours sounds like torture and luckily most of these bands still tour pretty regularly. It’s a great lineup for sure and hopefully something they can do regularly. The west coast is definitely lacking when it comes to music festivals in this scene.
Someone brought up a good point earlier that they may be planning on adding a 2nd day of the same lineup if/when it sells out. In fact now that I think about it wasn't there a similar nostalgic 1 day fest recently where they did that? I remember Bahaus and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played it among other big 90s/00s indie rock acts. My biggest gripe is why the hell they booked acts like LilHuddy and Jxdn. They don't really go with the theme of the festival and it just takes time away from other sets. There's a few other acts on here that I actually love but also don't really fit the whole "nostalgic emo" theme the fest is going for. Just eats into set lengths.