Warped Tour 7/18/08

[Kämpfer]

This is the next one we're definitely going to and you guys are welcome to come. This would be a good choice for those who can and probably can't go to Bonnaroo. If you're interested you should think about getting tickets soon...
Tickets $28.50
Comerica Park, Detroit, MI

////Bands/////
3OH!3
A Day to Remember
Against Me!
The Aggrolites
The Academy Is...
The Audition
Alesana
Anberlin
Angels and Airwaves
As I Lay Dying
Automatic Love Letter
Beat Union
Between the Trees
Blake
Bouncing Souls
The Briggs
Broadway Calls
The Bronx
Charlotte Sometimes
Cobra Starship
The Color Fred
The Devil Wears Prada
Evergreen Terrace
Every Avenue
Everytime I Die
The Fabulous Rudies
Forever the Sickest Kids
From First to Last
Greeley Estates
Gym Class Heroes
The Higher
Horrorpops
Jack's Mannequin
Just Surrender
Katy Perry
The Lordz
Madina Lake
Mayday Parade
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
MC Chris
Norma Jean
ORESKABAND
Pennywise
Pierce the Veil
The Pink Spiders
Protest the Hero
Reel Big Fish
Relient K
The Saint Alvia Cartel
Say Anything
Set Your Goals
Shwayze
Story of the Year
Street Dogs
Tat
We the Kings

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As of the mid-2000s, the Warped Tour has featured as many as 100 bands per show. The bands play for up to 30 minutes over approximately 10 different stages, although the biggest bands generally play the two "Main" stages. A typical day would have bands starting at 11:00am and end at 9:00 p.m. with several bands playing at once. The individual band times and stages where each band play is marked on a large board usually centered in the middle of the venue. The full area is set up to prevent music from one stage disrupting other active stages. One band, by fan vote, is allowed to play ten extra minutes at each show.

Every year there is a "BBQ Band," which, in exchange for the privilege of playing on the tour, must prepare food for the bands and crew for the barbecue which is held most evenings. Past "BBQ Bands" have included Dropkick Murphys and "The Fabulous Rudies".[1] Similarly, one band, Animo (formerly DORK) has been permitted for the past four years to play on the tour in exchange for work on the setup crew.

The tour started as a skate punk, and third wave ska tour, but later began to feature mostly post-hardcore, pop punk, and metalcore acts, but there are also some hardcore punk and street punk bands, such as the Casualties, the Unseen and Anti-Flag, that still play Warped Tour, as well as older bands that have played the tour numerous times since its inception (Bad Religion, NOFX, etc.)

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warped_Tour

[derf87]

Ya, that lineup doesn't really appeal to me. i think i've heard of maybe 3 of those bands.lol

[Kämpfer]

If you go to Bonnaroo I'll accept that, but you do know you miss all the good concerts...

I only know 3-4 bands myself but its a national tour, in the right genre, has over 50 bands, and only cost $30. I didn't think I'd like Taste of Chaos but that ended up being the best concert so far this year (the only band I really knew was Avenged Sevenfold and I wouldn't consider myself a fan). With 50 of them, there is bound to be some good music even if you don't know the band and if you look at previous lineups the Warped Tour tends to feature artists before they make it big. Just because you don't know them yet doesn't mean you wont. Besides, if Kelly and Leslie end up going even the heckling will be entertaining.

[derf87]

OOo, that makes it interesting,.lol well see.