Riot Fest 2023 Tour • Page 59

Bad news for one person... Kenny Loggins is out, playing August 19

 

god damnit I was the Kenny Loggins guy!

Oh well. Back to being the Carly Rae Jepsen guy I suppose

 

edit - Amyl & the sniffers are now out :(
But at least they are finally coming to St. Louis :)

 

Thought of you when I saw this announcement in the tour thread! Haha. Glad you finally get to see them!

 

That’s a bummer they woulda been a good get

 

Clutch and Dinosaur Jr. are out - playing Radius 7/29

 

Red Fang too, for that matter

 

Dinosaur were playing Cave Mountain Catskill on the Saturday of Riot with Weezer and Albert Hammond Jr, which doesn't bode well for the Strokes playing this year

 

Is Avenged Sevenfold a possibility for Riot headliners?

Not that I want them to be, but still

 

Depends on their summer tour, but I doubt it. Avenged Sevenfold doesn’t really fit Riot’s aesthetic. Unless they were playing nothing but the stuff from their first two albums lol

 

I would say "probably not." If you look at Riot Fest line-ups over the last 10+ years they really haven't delved much into the active rock/Wimmer fest territory overall. And certainly not with headliners.

The only exceptions are Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, and Slipknot... One of whom was a replacement. And the other two are decidedly a very different beast than what A7X is bringing to the table.

 

I’d add SOAD to that list too

 

Man, it's so wild to see where that band started and where they went to. I remember seeing them in fall 2003 on the Van's Off The Wall Tour and realizing they were probably gonna blow-up. They were the second of four bands on a bill: The Suicide Machines, the Unseen, Avenged Sevenfold and some random SoCal hardcore band I can't remember the name of.

 

I always thought of A7X in the same vein as Bullet For My Valentine (although I havent listened to them actively since 2010) and Im still surprised they played Riot in 2018.

 

A7X took a hard pivot into straight butt-rock territory about 10 years ago. They always had it in 'em, but that is definitely the vibe they fully bring live at this point.

BFMV was definitely a weird/different pivot. But mid-day act versus headliner is a very different thing.

 

Dont remember how much overlap there is between Riot and Aftershock, but lots of acts I would lovento see at Riot (Looking at you AFI, Converge and Sleep Token)

 

Maybe this is the year Riot finally gets Tool

 

That Aftershock line-up is pretty cool. And I can definitely see some crossover. Personally, I'd love to see Incubus, Turnstile, and AFI return to Riot. And I'm still a bit shocked that 311 hasn't closed out Radical/Rise by this point.

 

You Me At Six and Don Broco would be cool at Riot too

 

Same re: 311. I feel like their fanbase would move a pretty good number of tickets too - myself included.

 

Yeah how has 311 not played Riot?

 

Lineups like this always confuse me bc I don’t feel like the fans of the lower billed bands would have any interests whatsoever in the headliner and vice versa.

I could be wrong, but I’ve yet to meet a Pinkshift or Seeyouspacecowboy fan whose gateway band was Pantera

 

You could add them to a few different stage combinations too. A general "hard rock with tight groove" stage. Closing out a hip-hop line-up. Or alongside ska/reggae bands. Lots they could do.

And, while they could close it out on their own... Turnstile into 311 to close out one of those stages would be an undeniable banger.

 

I think festivals like this are primarily driven by the artists in the top line. And then there's a certain segment of people who will go for a combination of one of the "lower-tier" bands at the top (e.g., Turnstile, 311, Incubus, Rancid, QotSA) and a combination of the undercard acts who don't really care bout the main headliner.

There's definitely reason they split-up the "punk" bands on the bill across multiple days.

 

Not related to Riot, but this is the weekend after per usual and I know there are some folks who extend their Riot trip to attend. Lineup just dropped: