Riot Fest 2018 - September 14-16 - Douglas Park, Chicago Tour • Page 76

There’s like 10 total bands on this I care about. Prob gonna sell my tickets

 

Also yea this definitely didn't pick up a lot of the Open Air acts like people thought. It went pretty much the exact opposite direction.

 

Must sees:
Blink-182
Beck
Father John Misty
Bleachers
The Front Bottoms
The Wonder Years
Liz Phair
Superchunk
Kevin Devine
The Audtiion
Mom Jeans.

I started to list others I was excited/interested in but it was getting too long.

 

gross, hope they get their comeuppance. for me just means 1 more band i dont even have to bother looking into and are on the instantly skippable list.

 

Here was the schedule last year by the way

11/21/16 - early bird 3 day passes go on sale
4/19/17 - First Wave
4/20/17 - Album Announcements (part 1)
6/1/17 - Second Wave
6/19/17 - Daily Lineups (plus Danzig addition)
8/10/17 - Schedule
8/15/17 - After Shows

This year so far:

12/13/17 - early bird 3 day passes
5/30/18 - First Wave
????

 

The young street punk fan in me is pumped to see Lower Class Brats on that undercard.

 

I'm not surprised by that. Open Air was...special in a bad way.

 

Also - Hobo Johnson billed above Bouncing Souls makes me hurt

 

It will be a top 5 set regardless because it's the Souls. The crowd will pop off for them so it won't matter what stage or time they are at.

 

Yeah the last time they played Riot Fest was probably my favorite time ever seeing them

 

Blink, Beck, Elvis Costello, Young the Giant, Interpol, Alkaline Trio, Father John Misty, Atmosphere, Bad Religion, Underoath, The Front Bottoms, The Wonder Years, Clutch, Lagwagon, GWAR, The Aquabats, Bouncing Souls, Piebald, Kevin Devine, The Audition, Spitalfield, and Direct Hit are all good for me.

 

How many bands are still yet to be announced?

 

Really? I guess a large crowd going nuts for them is cool. I've seen them do Warped main stage twice and then at the Agora Theater and Jacobs Pavilion. Those are the largest settings I've seen them perform. The first Warped experience was really cool because it was on the Anchors cycle. Next Warped experience was around the Gold Record period. My favorite time was probably Grog Shop back to back nights with the Loved Ones.

 

If you decide to, let me know!

 

It was a godsend having that last year. I left around 9:30 every day and it was a lifesaver beating the traffic.

 

Leaving before the headliners made it so much easier/cheaper for us to grab a Lyft. Honestly okay with doing that again this year haha.

 

It's weird, I hadn't even thought about YTG in a while until I was talking to a friend of mine about them the other day. Nothing came close to "Cough Syrup" for me, but they must have a lot of pull to be above FJM and Interpol.

 

So I checked out Spitalfield last year out of curiosity and I thought they were pretty bad. Is this like a Chicago nostalgia thing I'm missing?

 

My boss absolutely loves Alkaline Trio and Blink so when I showed him the lineup he started looking up reasons for us to go to Chicago that weekend . Fingers crossed it works and my flight/hotel are covered by work.

 

We bought them at 160 if you want them. Ticketfly is down so idk if I can transfer them or anything

 

First early bird went on sale around Black Friday this past November. I bought my passes on November 22nd.

 

Funny how my friends who do Riot Fest every year hate this lineup. I think it's one of their bests. I'd be stoked to see:

Blink 182
Beck
Young the Giant
Incubus
Alkaline Trio
Blondie
Bleachers
Cypress Hill
The Voidz
The Front Bottoms
Liz Phair
Johnny Mar
SPITALFIELD
Bully

Damn that'd be a fun weekend.

 

Wicker park fest lineup was announced

 

Oh man....HEALTH...

 

Yea wow it's actually amazing. Against Me!, Porches, Snail mail, Rozwell Kid, Remo Drive, Red Fang and more