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

Lucero is pretty big, I'm not sure if they would be playing over Menz if not for the legacy factor but they always sell out Beachland (500 cap) here

 

Fair enough, they are always pricier and not super accessible unless you drive. Both are pretty cool though.

Yea I've heard their name, just don't know much about them. I am a little surprised they're billed over Menz, but i bet they get about the same amount of time.

 

Menz get 30 / Lucero 45 pretty positive (unfortunately)

 

Oof that kind of diminishes my excitement.

I'd definitely go ordinarily, but I kind of wanted to go up to Wisconsin for Dead & Co. that day. Menzingers is almost enough to convince me to stay, but maybe not for a 30 minute set. It's always fun to see Frank though, so I'll have to see.

 

Definitely a bummer but this tour should do really well to push them into the kind of mainstream(ish) following that Frank and Gaslight have

 

Yea true, I get why they're doing it. I'm excited for them. I'd imagine they'll go over really well with Frank's crowd.

 

H20 announced some overseas dates for a 10 year Nothing To Prove tour

Would love to see them play the album at Riot Fest. Pretty surprised they haven't played it the last few years

 

Damn the gaslight news really bummed me out but now I’m truly considering doing two Chicago trips this year.

 

That would be awesome! How the fuck are we at a 10-year tour for that album, though? Holy wow. Time flies...

I'd love to see them at Riot Fest (and I know that myself and domotime always reference them as a band we'd like to see there). Given what that small/side stage is now? I can definitely see them playing that stage anytime between 4-8pm.

The tricky part about bands their size is that they're a legacy act, but you can't really throw them on any of the main stages after like... 1pm EST because the other acts are bigger or whatever. But that side stage has definitely evolved into a "bigger" thing than it used to be during the second half of the day.

 

Yeah I still can't believe Streetlight played there last year, I think H2O would definitely be a great mid day band on that stage

 

That stage had some bigger acts every day last year than they would have had previously. The Hotelier, Nothing More, Streetlight Manifesto, GWAR, Andrew W.K.

I feel like they started using it as a spot to throw bands they would typically put on the main stage in the early afternoon that wanted to play later in the day. Haha.

 

Oh yeah for sure haha I guess eliminating the switch over stage helped with that since a lot of the later sets could have more than 30 minutes

 

Close to 0% chance it happens but I really just wanna see Alexisonfire again

 

What if My Bloody Valentine played this year?

 

they are touring this year so there might be a chance

 

You know what? This is my new dark horse guess for a major headliner.

 

I’m seeing a lot of comments on FB saying that they are leaving Douglas Park. Can anyone confirm if that’s true? I’d be very curious about any change. May need to plan a different hotel...

 

Where else could they have it? Anyone know Chicago that well that could speculate?

 

Back to humblt park possibly

 

I really hope not. I've really liked it at Douglas Park and I'm worried if they change it again it's going to be another disaster year.

 

Douglas Park was great, I hope they don't change that.

 

Please keep Douglas. The previous years I went were such a mess compared to a Douglas

 

It’s Douglas Park or way out in the northwest suburbs at this point. I don’t see it going back to Humboldt after the conflicts with the neighborhood a few years ago. There’s no way it could happen in Grant Park due to the timing. And I don’t think any other city parks work in terms of size and layout.

 

I'm not able to see the visitor posts... Am I dumb, or...?

 

when does amnesia rockfest usually announce their lineup?