Riot Fest 2023 Tour • Page 148

Not to be that guy, but...

 

Yeah, obviously not front rows, just hoping to get somewhere where i won't have to watch the screen the whole time.
With the Cure running unopposed, probably most of the festival will go there...

 

Clashfinder for anyone who wants it: https://clashfinder.com/s/rf23projected

 

Unless you skip (most of) Gaslight, get super lucky, or push through the crowd aggressively (not recommended), you'll likely be watching the screen for The Cure.

 

Looking like a bunch of partial sets and running around for me (but that's nothing new).

Friday: Pinkshift, Parliament Funkadelic, Code Orange, Silverstein (partial), The Interrupters (partial), dinner and whatever the people I’m with at the time want to see in that block, Braid, Tegan and Sara, Foo Fighters

Saturday: Pool Kids, Drain, Warpaint, Bowling For Soup, Corey Feldman (partial, for the lols), White Reaper, Spitalfield, Head Automatica (or maybe split with Frank Turner), dinner, Pup, Death Cab For Cutie (partial), 100 Gecs (partial), ICP (partial), The Postal Service

Sunday: Thursday, Earth Crisis (partial), Balance and Composure, The Bronx, AFI, dinner/Finch, Gorilla Biscuits (partial), The Mars Volta (partial), Godspeed! (partial), The Cure

I might miss the first few bands on Friday and most of the Cure for childcare reasons, but I'm still very excited for this year.

 

I already made a schedule for myself but I forgot to add time for getting food, eating it and making sure there's no show afterwards that I will have to get physical for

 

I feel like they had more artists play longer sets in past years.

Edit: not upset, just observing

 

Yeah, Microwave played 40 minutes a few years ago and now it's reduced to 30. At least they are getting a stage upgrade.

 

Sleep Token playing the small stage is so funny, like people care everywhere but here.

 

Rebel on Saturday is hilariously uncurated. What a weird mix of artists.

 

same for saturday radical - the whole stage is whiplash but really culminates at The exploited directly into 070 shake, hahaha

edit - there are two different versions of the schedule, the only difference I see is a 3 way rotation of the exploited, nothing nowhere, and rival schools. I’ll assume whatever is currently on their site is correct.

 

Makes sense set times are a little shorter cus they have all the headliners playing two hours or more (counting DCFC and Postal Service as one headliner split into two parts)

And Foo Fighters and the Cure get practically no opposition during those 2 hour sets (I mean I realize there's someone playing during FF, but usually there is someone headlining Rise and/or Radical during the headliner)

 

Probably looking at some split sets (surprise, surprise), but overall pretty happy with this schedule.

Friday
Aquadolls/FEA
Origami Angel
P-Funk
Just Friends
The Interrupters
Bayside
Say Anything/Braid
Turnstile
Fake Names

Saturday
Total Chaos
Cassyette
Plosivs
Bowling for Soup (heavy day drinking required)
Rival Schools
Spitalfield
Frank Turner/Crass
PUP
Pennywise
Queens of the Stone Age
Mr. Bungle

Sunday
Hotline TNT
The Smoking Popes
Empire State Bastard
The Black Angels
The Bronx
H2O
Flogging Molly
Gorilla Biscuits
The Mars Volta/The Gaslight Anthem
The Cure


Realistically won't make it to more than 70% of those and finding times to eat may prove challenging, but I think this is shaping up to be a solid year.

 

Saw the posts about getting close for The Cure. If the setup is like last year, which I think it is, you can get a good spot during a headliner set on the main stages by going to the side that isn't being played on.

 

Pretty not fun that I can no longer go and the vip tickets are not transferable so I can’t try to sell the weekend pass

 

Wow. I'm glad I'm not going. Sunday would be such a killer.

Afi, h2o, fogging Molly, finch.... all essentially the same time. Those are my favorites of the day lol.

And then used v Mars volta

Major yikes

 

It's crazy to me that the only "big deal" bands I'm missing are Tegan and Sara, LS Dunes, Finch, and Flogging Molly. Schedule was practically catering to me otherwise.

 

Payment Plan payed off. Tickets on my phone! 2 weeks away!

 

Not gonna lie, Sunday would probably feel less conflicted if bands were playing during The Cure

 

Not going but...

Friday: The Aquadolls, Origami Angel, Parliament Funkadelic, Oso Oso, Just Friends (first ~15), the Interrupters, Quicksand, Braid, Turnstile, Foo Fighters (with a 30-minute Sludgeworth break)

Saturday: Pool Kids, Drain, Snapcase, Corey Feldman, White Reaper/Rival Schools/High Vis, Head Automatica (first ~30), Frank Turner, Pup, Death Cab For Cutie (first ~30), Pennywise (first ~30), Queens of the Stone Age, Insane Clown Posse (last ~30)

Sunday: Free Throw, Smoking Pops, Thursday, Fleshwater, the Bronx, H2O (first ~15), AFI, Gorilla Biscuits, Gaslight Anthem, the Cure

Interesting how most of the stages aren't really all that "curated" this year except for the Root/Riots stages on Sunday which are clearly Cure-focused. Haha. I'm also pretty convinced that AFI were supposed to have that Dresden Dolls slot but didn't want to play the same time as Gorilla Biscuits.

 

Listened to nothing but High Vis last night and now I desperately want to go Saturday

 

make sure you are looking at the right version of the schedule , ive seen both of these out there. riotfest.org currently has the top one with exploited on Rise, so im going with that one.

 

Nice catch! Exploited -> Enter Shikari makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE than Exploited -> 070 Shake lmao

 

Related to Saturday schedule. Yesterday Enter Shikari posted that Cassyette ia no longer coming to the USA with them, so probably she will drop from Riot too

 

The cluster of Yard Act, Oso, Code Orange, Silverstein, Just Friends and The Interrupters for me on Friday is the worst part of the schedule. But I should at least get to see a little of all of them

White Reaper vs High Vis is brutal as hell and bummed about Pup vs. Eshu Tune but since I'm going to Pup aftershow I'll watch Eshu. Going to watch as much ICP as I can before Postal Service as that just feels like something you have to see

Balance and Fleshwater is also brutal and makes no sense. Feel bad for Fleshwater as I'm sure mostly everyone will watch Balance.

AFI vs. H2O also a bummer but going to hit the H2O show Saturday night so that's not as bad I guess.

Gaslight vs. Used sucks, seeing Gaslight 2 days after and just saw them but will still probably watch them\

I definitely want to watch The Cure but I would have taken a little more of a spread out and watched their last half if anyone was playing during them