So Sara and I went to Warped Tour this year for the first time.. and needless to say we left about an hour or two into the festival. Lets start off with the pros:
1. Convienant location to Saras house.
2. Cool merch tents/merch people/bands who arent preforming just hanging out (I got a CD from an amazing band I met there who weren’t preforming, I will write about them soon, cool dudes as well.)
3. Awesome merch (even for bands who werent there!)
4. A Rocket to the Moon giving a small, acoustic preformance for free (love love love ARTTM)
Now lets list the cons..
1. It was literally 103 degrees there.
2. I was sick.
3. It was so chaotic and unorganized that we couldn’t
A. Find the stages we needed
B. Find the exit
C. Figure out what was going on
4. All the bands we wanted to see were preforming much later then when we got there (hell, we got the VIP pass to get in half an hour early..waste!)
5. The only bands we actually got to see were screamo bands that scared the crap out of us.. and the Pretty Reckless, which has actress turned slut singer, Taylor Momsen. (People actually walked away when she got on, I have video to prove it.) Although she has one good song, she didnt play it. And she didn’t wear real clothes. Sa was shocked when she found out they were about the same age.
6. Alesana (one of the scary bands) scared me. But hey, they have such dedicated fans, it was a nice sight.
7. Did I mention it was 103 degrees?
Water was six bucks, and they wouldnt give you the cap (how swindelous!) so that was gone quick. We sat for two bands that weren’t fantastic, bought a map (another two bucks for a piece of paper that was half faded) Alesana and The Pretty Reckless (how many times can one 16 year old girl say the F word!?) and then finally found the othere tents and stages. So we wandered around the tents, bought some cool merch. The band that gave me their kick ass CD (The Sunstreak) had a cool booth, the whole band was there and they were really sweet. I got a cool shirt for my mom at their booth that says “Streakers Do it with the Lights On.” We both found it amusing, as did she. Needless to say we split before Hey Monday went on (which Sa wanted to see bad, but we couldn’t take it anymore!) and it was hours before the bands we liked went on… We called and got picked up (half an hour later, standing outside in the sun was brutal)
So all in all, we had a not so nice Warped experience and we aren’t going to buy tickets next time.. I think we’ll stay inside.
I have to write about our Rock Yourself to Sleep Tour experience… THAT was PHENOMENAL!
-m
