When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 56

Give me a Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy album play please

 

I’d take a Teens Of Denial play too for that matter

 

one of those “one day, tons of artists” festivals just put out their set times if you want an example of what it might look like

 

Is it typical for a festival to announce set times just a few days in advance like this? I was hoping to get at least a week or two to plan my day out!

 

yeah, it’s pretty common

 

Warped Tour wouldn't tell you the set times until the day of.

 

That really depends on the festival. Some announce them months in a advance, most announce them 1-3 weeks in advance, and others announce them a few days before.

But if there's only two stages do you really need more than a day or two to plan your day?

 

Smoking grooves stage is a wildfire

 

Man….I work in Chinatown and parking was absolutely fucked today because of Smokin Grooves lol

 

I remember seeing other kids run to the giant inflatable with the setlist times with a sharpie in hand so they could write down who they wanted to see and when on their arms. Hours later it’d be smeared all over their clothes from moshing in 90 degree weather.

Ahhhh youth.

 

honestly such a good time lol. And as I got older, they had the print outs?!? We truly didn’t deserve Warped

 

One of my favorite parts of my summer was running up to the inflatable red lineup balloon just to realize Anti Flag is playing at noon, aka 5 minutes

 

My "go-to" Warped Tour memory is 2003. It was just such a perfect cross-section of everything I was into at the time. Skate-punk and ska were still pretty well represented on the main stage, the whole emo/pop-punk thing was just starting to blow-up in a major way, it was the first time I ever remember feeling that the Dropkick Murphys were really growing in popularity, etc.

But the thing that will always stand out to me about that day was all the people I knew, who had never been to Warped Tour before/had no idea how it worked who bought a ticket just to see the Ataris because they had a song on the radio... And showed up at like, 4pm expecting they were the headliner. And they had played at like, 1 in the afternoon immediately after Glassjaw and before the Mad Caddies.

 

Mine was 2005, it was my first Warped Tour and for some reason it was in the fairgrounds a few towns over from me in the Western Mass suburbs rather than near Boston. It had rained beforehand and the entire grounds were soaked with mud but they still let it go on. People were having giant mud fights, there was mud wrestling, it was amazing. That was my moment of like "okay, this fucking rocks and i've found my people", since no one in my high school was really into that music scene at the time.

That's still the last time I saw MCR (until this upcoming tour).

 

Fitchburg! I was there. Haha. It's interesting that was your first one because it was the first year that had me feeling like "Eh, maybe this won't be for me much longer..." It was a blast and there were plenty of bands I was stoked on. It was just jarring to see Strung Out playing the main stage to like 50 people, MxPx play to slightly more, and then for Senses Fail and Atreyu to just... Play to thousands.

I honestly always forget that MCR was part of that tour date too, even though I'm pretty sure I saw them thinking o it now.

 

This was in Northampton unless they had two MA dates that year

 

I was at the Northampton Warped date in 2005, that was my first one too. I think 2005 was the biggest Warped Tour in its life cycle and Northampton fairgrounds could not handle the capacity. I remember being stuck in traffic for hours and there was a minivan ahead of me that every 5 mins 10 kids would hop out and skank circles around the minivan and pile back in. The fairgrounds were a mud pit and they had the 2 main stages side by side, I think I was waiting for the Murphys to start or they had just finished on the right stage and Fall Out Boy (summer of From Under a Cork Tree) started on the left stage and the shrieking was deafening and a bunch of girls started hauling ass over FOB and started face planting in the mud...sandals and flips for days in the mud ruts. I was supposed to see A Wilhelm Scream for the first time but missed them due to traffic, but met the band and picked up Mute Print on CD and listened to it 5 times straight while waiting for the parking lot to free up...all these years later they are pretty much my favorite band

 

The rush of storming the gate and tossing a dollar at the schedule guy for a sheet of computer paper

 

Warped 2003 for life!! Hell yeah man. My favorite year by far. I was 17 too so first time I could drive to warped...went to NJ and NYC show. What a lineup.

 

I'm sure it varied, depending now here you were but the line-up here in MA was wild. It just felt like such a perfect snapshot of the past, present, and future of that tour.

The more traditional Warped Tour punk and ska-type bands (Rancid, Pennywise, Dropkick Murphys, Less Than Jake, the Suicide Machines, Face to Face, Me First, Mad Caddies) and younger bands of that same ilk (Rise Against, Slick Shoes, Tsunami Bomb). A grab bag of pop-punk that was popular at the time (the Ataris, Yellowcard, Starting Line, Mest, Simple Plan). An impressive number of the "emo" or whatever bands just starting to pop in a more mainstream way at the time (Coheed, Thrice, Brand New, All-American Rejects). Heavier bands (Glassjaw, Poisoin the Well, the Used) and hip-hop too (Atmosphere).

I remember absolutely loving it on the day. But in hindsight, it really is the year of the tour that has aged the best for me and is really etched in my mind as an amazing day from start to finish. And it didn't hurt that there were so many people in attendance and the traffic was so bad getting off the highway... That people just straight-up started parking their cars on the side of the highway and walking to get there.

 

2003 was my first Warped Tour. Decided the night before we were going, because it was Taking Back Sunday's live return after John and Shaun left.
I think that day I saw Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Arrogant Sons of Bitches, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, All American Rejects, Tsunami Bomb, The Used and Mest. Made my 16 year old dreams come true lol

 

2003, I saw:

The Ataris, Mest (lol), Yellowcard, Brand New, All-American Rejects, Coheed and Cambria, Rancid, Andrew WK, Thrice, Glassjaw, The Starting Line

 

Ah I totally forgot I saw Rancid too! And Dropkick Murphys.
Holy hell the lineup that year was nuts.

 

Warped Tour 2003 was my first Warped as well. It was the summer before I started high school, and everything was magical.

I went because I really wanted to see Sum 41 and the Used. That day, I ended up watching Poison the Well and Dropkick Murphys, and my life was never the same. I was hooked.

 

Is there a Chorus.fm thread for reselling tickets? I just found out I have a wedding to attend the day of the concert. I have 2 VIP GA tickets to sell. Not looking to make a profit, just looking for what I paid.

Very sad I'll miss this.