Riot Fest 2023 Tour • Page 15

Rad! That Adjacent line-up is pretty tasty, but it's a hard sell for the partner given that we've already seen roughly 1/3 of those artists at Riot Fest (and other places) in the last year or so. If she were into some of the more indie-leaning acts on there, it might be a different story... We're thinking this year we might do Punk Rock Bowling or Supernova International Ska Festival, depending on the full line-ups.

I've never been to Pouzza, but my understanding is that it's pretty similar to Fest (albeit on a smaller scale). Not quite sure how close the venues are but whenever I look at the schedule it makes me feel like you wouldn't be able to hit up more than 2 venues in a night so I've never looked more into it beyond that. Always seems like a good time, though!

 

I saw Bring Me The Horizon yesterday and I've been thinking, could they be headliners at Riot?

 

I think just under headlining, but maybe I'm wrong & they could now

 

They have closed a side stage before. If they play again they might be the last band that closes the 2nd main stage before the main headliners on the first main stage

 

Placebo announced rescheduled tour dates and there is a TBD Chicago show April 21. I’d count them out for next year

 

That's the 2nd TBD date I've seen for spring. Is there a new venue opening or something? Or maybe indoors at Salt Shed?

 

Indoors at the Salt Shed makes sense. They did TBD for the outdoor shows earlier this year too. Double Door is the only other pending venue I know about but they're obviously too big for that.

 

Is the “new” double door open yet?

 

Not that I know of. I saw some pictures a few months ago that still looked very unfinished. Their website still says "in 2022."

 

Ya that would make sense, the other show was Tove Lo and that seems on a similar level as this. And both too big for Double Door

 

when are they gonna announce dates for next year

 

Have you been reading the rest of this thread lately? For now it looks like they might not even have a venue set in place

 

i know, i just wasn't sure if anything had changed yet.

 

I have a date on Saturday night with my partner of 4+_ years! We're going to a Halloween party at a local bar. She is dressing as John Cusack from Say Anything and I'm gonna be dressed as a boombox. We both went to Riot Fest this past year and the year prior.

There we go. A Riot Fest date announcement.

 

based

 

It was a fun set at Riot Fest 2018

 

Excuse me? This is incredibly surprising.

 

is it?

 

that really aren't very cool

 

Definitely not surprising.

 

I'm in the not surprising camp. I like a handful of BFS songs, but at this point they're in the same realm as Eve 6, Smashmouth, etc - bands that may have once been (or might still be) serious but are remembered mostly for one meme/joke song or online presence. Riot Fest has shown zero interest in booking those bands for the festival in recent years.

 

I've always admired that Bowling for Soup holds their own and embraces their corniness, but openly venting about not being asked to play festivals is uncool as shit. I don't know, if you desperately seek validation from punk circles...make more punk focused music?

 

With the exception of Riot, they’d probably be heavily booed if they played any of the other festivals. The NOFX crowd would shit all over them at PID and Punk Rock Bowling is aimed at the old punk crowd would could care less about main stream music.

BFS are thought of as a joke band by a lot of people and don’t have much connection to this scene outside of a few random Warped appearances and recent tours with RBF/LTJ. I think they’d do well at riot, but don’t fit in with the other festivals at all. I’m honestly surprised BFS is as relevant as they are given they haven’t released any hits in a long time lol

 

The only festival they’d fit in on that he listed is Riot. Every other fest he listed are far more punk-leaning. I mean… BFS playing Punk In Drublic? BFS playing The Fest? You gotta be kidding me…

 

If their show will be more banters and jokes than actual music as it was in their last tour, Im fine with their spot being used by someone else.