Worst ever festival line up?

yuck

surprising no one i would hell of go to this

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/00/00kvalentine.phtml

Has Avril always been accepted in the emo community, or is this a new development?

idk. She has a new album coming out called Love Sux.

lol one of my friends shared this festival w/ me, but he was excited about it, and he is a big 3OH!3 fan among the other bands

Avril probably gets scene kudos for looking and sounding the exact same as she did when she first broke through. That's dedication.

ie she wasn't faking it after all!!

there's a return-to-form thing happening with the new avril stuff, it's also all produced by travis barker from blink

who also did the machine gun kelly pop-punk record and the willow record and is maybe wholly responsible for the return of warped tour aesthetics to the charts

"Dance Gavin Dance" ???

should've gone with Dance Charles Dance

car seat headrest and wolf alice are comically out of place on that lineup

I share brad's initial opinion

Lol seeing this thread finally ties together the loose threads explaining about three different Twitter meltdowns I saw today, but couldn’t follow without the added context. There’s a handful of bands I wouldn’t mind seeing in a different context, but you could not pay me enough to see them together in a shitty festival in Vegas.

But I do admit to a certain level of enjoying the “real emo” purists losing their goddam minds over this.

feel like back in the day bright eyes wouldn’t be caught dead playing in that lineup, congrats to conor oberst for finally embracing his place in the mall emo canon

Trying to pick the least shitty band underneath the two headliners and ... really have my work cut out for me

Four Year Strong! Best known for their pivotal role in that "help me identify these album covers on this bedroom wall" thread.

I think it was ilxor latebloomer who said on twitter that this festival really highlights a mid-generational drift in millennials because if you're on the other side of a 2 - 3 year divide, a lot of this poster seems seems like kiddie world

Isn't "When We Were Young" the name of one of the more emo Killers songs? Kind of ironic it's the name of this fest in their home town.

Anyway, aside from Paramore I don't think there's a single band here I'd pay more than $15 to see, let alone in 2022. Mostly giving me flashbacks to all the Victory promos I had to get rid of back in the day.

re: least shitty.
la dispute, thursday, glassjaw, jimmy eat world, bright eyes, car seat headrest, and wolf alice all have albums i really like

how did Wolf Alice sneak in there?

I think I'd pay $15 to see Wolf Alice.

I'd pay a bucket of piss (not mine)

brass against isn't playing this one iirc

I think they're streaming their set.

Why are all these festivals in the desert

there's a return-to-form thing happening with the new avril stuff, it's also all produced by travis barker from blink

who also did the machine gun kelly pop-punk record and the willow record and is maybe wholly responsible for the return of warped tour aesthetics to the charts
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 18, 2022 7:56 PM (yesterday)

Barker also did "Survivor's Guilt:The Mixtape//" with KennyHoopla, who I hope has a long career in front of him.

already have seen in the past:
MCR (great, would see again if it was less than $40 in a non festival set, so never probably)
AFI (would see again if i had a time machine for their Black Sails era shows)
The Used (forgot who they opened for, they were awful)
Taking Back Sunday (pretty good, would probably see again in a small show)
Dashboard Confessional (lol no)
Alkaline Trio (saw them multiple times but feel like that's in the past for me)
Jimmy Eat World (saw them twice, would totally see them again)

haven't seen, would check out if forced to go to this thing:
Paramore
Thursday
Wolf Alice
Bright Eyes

((lol I accidentally almost type Wolf Eyes instead of Wolf Alice/Bright Eyes, which would be an inspired addition))

xxp you get a much better chance of consistent weather in the spring/fall in the desert than about anywhere else

goldenvoice presumably has some long-standing deals for coachella, etc. and they feed off of LA's transportation hub. this looks like a live nation/las vegas thing, and vegas is pretty much a transportation hub in itself as far as entertainment goes. also, very easy to get everyone in/out when most of the area is just roads to and from the airport

all speculation on my part of course, etc

Brad, in the future everything will be in the desert, so the concert-promotion industry is just doing its part to get us all acclimated.

Je suis mad max

People are losing their minds over this but this is likely going to be a logistical shit show.

Also I'm not a fan of these pure nostalgia fests. It's like the "Happy Together Tour" that my parents go to.

tip of the hat to Ned for sharing this one on Twitter but, yes DT, it very much sounds to be shaping up to be a tremendous shitshow if this is any indication:

The disaster slow roll after this announcement dropped has been an entertaining watch 🍿🍿🍿 pic.twitter.com/akTqp8GnLA

— Auld Slash Zynes (@jvfriedman) January 19, 2022

Guys, there's a UK version...

oh my pic.twitter.com/QDFFzZih6R

— Aidan JR (@mcandidate) January 19, 2022

lol, no Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong?

thats fake.
yeah !?
if not then given me 3oh!3 over this any day.

Ah, had me fooled. Too plausible.

oh nevermind my stupid joke about the fake poster was also foiled by the nearly illegible text in their logo. oops.

"People are worried about how they're going to fit that many bands into under 12 hours"

People forget that Warped Tour did this for like 15 years. Of course, that means 8 stages, 20-minute sets for the undercard bands, and a princely 45-60 minutes for headliners.

People are losing their minds over this but this is likely going to be a logistical shit show.

― DT, Wednesday, January 19, 2022 3:32 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

The big Once Upon a Time in L.A. package show that LiveNation recently did was apparently a shitshow, but got overshadowed by Drakeo's murder.

People forget that Warped Tour did this for like 15 years. Of course, that means 8 stages, 20-minute sets for the undercard bands, and a princely 45-60 minutes for headliners.

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, January 19, 2022 4:39 PM bookmarkflaglink

there's only going to be three stages

though in that GIF jon shared....I didn't read that All American Rejects post as them actually being shocked that they were on the lineup, it seemed like them cutely bragging about being in the lineup. can't imagine they'd post that for their fans if they legit weren't playing.

they posted the same thing on FB too

Three Stages...oof

Yeah I don't know how true it is about the bands not knowing, I was more struck by the logistics issue as well.

I'd see this if it was every single one of those bands playing at once.

the Charles Ives Festival

More like the Gives You Hives festival (minus the Hives)

starting to side-eye the takedowns of this festival that I've seen off-board. like people suggesting "how can you support a LIVENATION festival", as if they don't have a pretty big monopoly on shows/festivals. pretty much everybody sharing this one viral status criticizing the festival has been to a LiveNation show.

but the weirdest take is IT'S GONNA BE A SUPERSPREADER EVENT. the event is in October 2022. We might be in the throes of another variant wave, we might not. we don't know. should nobody plan any events at all, ever?

I mean, us having moved to the endemic phase by then is not a forgone conclusion, no, but if we're still fighting something like an Omicron wave or worse at that time, chances are it will be cancelled anyway. Now people calling people that are even thinking of attending the event "superspreaders", that's concern trolling at its finest.