Riot Fest 2023 Tour • Page 78

they're doing louder than life the week after, does that keep them in play for riot?

 

Yes. If anything, an LTL appearance typically *slightly* increases the likelihood of a band playing riot.

 

Superchunk?



I know all the dates are East Coast, but...maybe? It at least indicates they will be on the road in September.

 

Booked for NY on Friday & Saturday, so they'd have to drive to Chicago on Sunday

 

Could see it. The last time they played was 2018, and they’ve flown out to shows on tours before.

If not, I could also see them playing next year and doing a Foolish album play

(Side note, damn I’m bummed no West Coast dates. Still sad I missed their LA show last summer)

 

soooo what do we think it means that Riot fest guy on reddit went back in and deleted all of those informative comments from yesterday? say a thing or 2 he wasnt supposed to?

 

Probably exactly this. Riot's general M.O. around everything is to stay silent or reply sarcastically. And you can't really respond to things like this sarcastically. I think it was well-intentioned, and probably a good move to be sure those specific people felt heard, but I would think they don't want anything out there that points to what things may or may not definitively happen.

Those posts were worded very well in that they weren't framed definitively... But there is a 100% chance that somebody could (or already did) take those and state them all as fact elsewhere. I can just see somebody on one of the Riot Fest FB groups posting the same screenshots that were happening here and saying "WHATEVER THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS SEEEE?!! PROOF!" And that's not very helpful.

 

Because I missed it all.
Unddit

 

And it felt very defensive. Better to allow this to be discussed through official channels rather than with people posting to Reddit.

 

I didn't take it as defensive when I read it. But I can definitely see that in hindsight.

I do think part of the issue, though, is that the "RiotFestPerson" Twitter account technically is an official channel. That coupled with how "loose" the conversation was could probably have been an issue too. Good point.

 

True, I’d keep all community discussions off of social media entirely.

 

FUUUUUUUCK

Wheat us are out

 

I’d say that’s a done deal.

 

I would have never pegged that band as a possibility for Riot (although I don't know them much), but that is as close to a lock as can be.

 

Fuck yes! Sleep Token!

 

RIYL for sleep token?

 

shit

 

Everything and nothing

 

But seriously, just listen to 2-3 of their songs, it's one of those bands that you either really like or really dislike.

 

Sparta’s out (as expected since they played last year)

 

Okayyyyyyy, I'm into this. What does Geoff play, aside from Thursday songs?

 

that was my exact reaction too cuz im not sure how well thursday songs translate to acoustic, so i looked on set list fm. for the workforce drowning would be interesting to hear without the ferocity of the whole band:

 

I figured "This song..." would be in there, along with "This side of Brightness." A Bruce cover would be cool too.

 

He’s also got a solo EP to pull from. I’ve seen him play it before, it’s decent.

 

Sleep Token is very fringe, like I can't really think of a similar band, as far as a Riot booking so I wouldn't be jumping to conclusions they are a lock yet.. but whatever, we'll know in a month (I HOPE)