Tour Explained!

As of today, there are 78 bands on the Warped playlist. The most recent additions to the list include the following nine bands:

D.R.U.G.S

Demerit

Good Guys In Black

Cold Forty Three

The Sheds

Veara

Vonnegutt

Marchee

Gatsby’s American Dream

(As I was browsing through the list I saw that The Expendables are going to be there which makes me happy because I got into their music last year and love it)

Anyway, moving on, it had never occurred to me that others did not understand how Warped Tour works. I will try and give a brief overview of how the tour travels.

Warped starts June 24 at the Gexa Energy Pavilion in Dallas, Texas and ends August 14 at the Washington County Fairgrounds in Hillsbro Oregon. There are 43 venues that they will appear at total.

Of course, not all 78 bands play at each venue. That would be impossible.

For example, I Set My Friends On Fire plays at each 43 venues. The new band added, D.R.U.G.S., plays from July 7 through the end of the tour.

When you get to the venue, there are stands and stages set up all over the place.

At a normal concert, the main band plays on the huge stage. Well, the main stage at Tinley Park’s First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre is split in two so immediately following the bands performance on one side, the next band on the other side can play.

Also, I would recommend buying a map/time sheet after immediately entering the venue. These generally cost two dollars and are vital to knowing what will be going on during the rest of the day.

On one side of this two dollar treasure is a map of where each stage is and what they are called. On the other side is a list of the stages and underneath shows which bands are playing there and what times.

I’m not exactly sure how many stages there are, but I’m guessing about eight. Bands are playing simultaneously throughout the day and if two bands you like are playing at the same time, you have to chose which one you would rather see.

The shows begin as early as eleven and ends around nine.

Hopefully this helps in explaining how there can be so many bands playing throughout the tour and been seen at so many venues.