Riot Fest 2018 - September 14-16 - Douglas Park, Chicago Tour • Page 240

You definitely should be adamant about seeing Blondie. They're amazing live. Debbie Harry hasn't lost a step.

...that being said, I've seen Blondie 3 times in the 2 years and have never seen TWY.

 

They moved Paramore up a tiny bit last year, which I suspect was maybe Hayley & co. pulling some strings so they could see as much of Jawbreaker as possible.

 

Yeah it's not realistic at all but I will continue with my hopes!

Or let's get even more unrealistic and say TWY are the pizza party headliner

 

Haha yea I saw them in 2013 at Riot Fest and loved it, and now I'm a little more familiar with them besides One Way Or Another and Call Me. I honestly think I'd choose them over TWY (who I've seen something like 7 times, once in like May of this year)

 

Now we are talking!! Could you imagine if TWY just walked out on stage?

 

Frankly, there's no way the Wonder Years' set time gets moved that I'd see them instead of the other band(s) they're playing against haha.

That whole section of the day is a clusterfuck for me, but somebody in this thread may have just given me the bright idea to watch 30 minutes of the Souls and then all of Superchunk... I'm seeing the Bouncing Souls that night, anyway.

 

Yeah, you both are right! They bumped them up like, 15 minutes. A slight change! I forgot about that.

 

I think that venue would explode. Pepperoni for miles.

 

I've definitely seen several festivals move schedules around b/c of conflict complaining, your voice matters (sometimes)

 

Doubt they'd play some of their 'deeper cuts', but songs like 11:59 and Rifle Range are so amazing and would fit in so well at Riot.

 

I'm sure no matter what times whichever bands were put at there would be people complaining about conflicts but I do feel like as far as fan bases go, the Alkaline Trio/Wonder Years overlap would have the most outcry.

 

It's annoying but festivals have conflicts ya know.

 

wouldnt be shocked at all if Wonder Years & Superchunk are switched by Sunday.

 

Superchunk are playing Cleveland the day after I get home so I wouldn't be mad at all lol

Not going to happen though

 

Why? 90% of comments on facebook, reddit, & twitter are on Alkaline Trio & Wonder Years playing at the same time.. it makes sense, but nothing has made sense with this festival the last 3 months so.. who the fuck knows

 

same but opposite, the schedule as is works for me because superchunk and Alk3 are 2 of my main 3 Sunday (+rtj of course)

 

Superchunk and the Wonder Years switching would make my Alkaline Trio conflict hurt even more, but my D4 conflict hurt even less. All the fucking same to me. Haha.

 

I'm surprised more people just aren't doing 40 minutes of Alkaline and The Wonder Years.

 

Honestly, that's what I might wind up doing... Depends on how I'm enjoying Alkaline Trio. Their set lists on this recent tour have been perfect, though so I'm not sure what the odds are I'll wind up doing that. Haha.

I find that on the day of a festival like this, I wind up seeing different bands than my initial plan (and catching a song or two of bands I didn't plan on seeing).

 

I hateeeeee the TWY/Alk3 conflict, but I feel like if the festival gives in and switches it, it'll be one of those things where people are gonna starting complaining about every conflict in hopes of a switch. Slippery slope, sort of.

 

Agreed. TWY and ALK3 sucks pretty hard. im going to do TWY personally.

unrelated, seems like there needs to be more toilets after examining the map just now

 

I'm doing Underoath, run to Alk3, over to Incubus, then Bad Religion before I go see Bouncing Souls. Unless things change of course.

 

It's the same as last year. I thought toilet situation was good las year.

 

Yeah, I’ve never had a problem with the toilet placement. They do really need to add a second water station on the east side of the park though.

 

sweet, that's good to know. seemed light on the map but ill take your word!