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Warped Tour survives storm, unleashes monster punk mayhem on N.J. beach: Photos, videos

• Updated: Jun. 30, 2019, 10:42 a.m. |
• Published: Jun. 30, 2019, 10:29 a.m.
• Bobby Olivier | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

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It's the risk every outdoor festival takes, especially one as gargantuan as the Vans Warped Tour , which welcomed upward of 30,000 raging punk fans to the Atlantic City beach Saturday.

Even the best-laid plans can be derailed by inclement weather, and early Saturday evening, just as the lineup’s heaviest hitters were gearing up to take the festival’s main stage, the sky opened up and announcements blared over the PA: every last fan had to get the hell off the sand and seek shelter while the thunderstorm passed.

Thousands of sunburnt twenty-somethings spilled onto the boardwalk, hiding under awnings and filing into nearby casinos. Legions of millennials in backward caps, swimsuits and New Found Glory tees rubbed elbows at the craps and roulette tables, annoying the local gamblers and wondering if New Jersey’s largest rock festival of the summer would continue. Gaggles more headed for the parking lots, assuming a washout.

But the first of this two-day celebration — of the punk conglomerate Warped Tour’s 25th anniversary — would not be bested by a few bolts of lightning surging over the horizon. The storm passed, fans were allowed back onto the sprawling festival grounds that spanned well over a half-mile between Playground and Steel Piers, and the music resumed just after 7 p.m.

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A Day To Remember, an incendiary pop-punk and metalcore hybrid from Florida — who have been among the most commercially successful punks band over the last decade — headlined the Saturday lineup and unleashed an explosive 50-minute set to close out the day. Mosh pits the size of maelstroms opened in the expansive crowd as frontman Jeremy McKinnon sang and screamed. As with most of the bands playing this Warped one-off (this was the only East Coast event after more than two-decades of nation-spanning summer tours), ADTR once used the traveling roadshow as a launchpad toward greater fame. McKinnon recalled Saturday night how his band began playing a single Warped date in 2005, on the event’s smallest stage.

“Maybe 15 people watched us that day,” he said.

As the five-piece group tore through fan favorites “The Plot To Bomb The Panhandle” and “Have Faith In Me,” McKinnon tasked fans with a stunt so ridiculous it could only take place at a Warped event — crowd-surfing atop another crowd-surfer, in other words: while one person lays flat on their back, supported by the hands of many fans below them, another person stands up on that person’s torso like a surfboard. A dozen or so people actually achieved this rib-cracking feat. McKinnon seemed genuinely impressed.

Before ADTR, two of the fest’s eldest statesmen in Nebraska reggae-rockers 311 and California stalwarts Bad Religion took the main stage after sunset, to decidedly less fanfare despite their exceeding contributions to the alternative community and influence on many of the younger bands on the lineup.

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As the festival attempted to make up for lost time after the rain, 311 got the short end of the stick, performing barely 30 minutes and to make matters worse, rapper Doug “SA” Martinez’s microphone didn’t function. Yet e had no idea, rhyming passionately on “Come Original” and “Creatures” into the dead mic (it must have sounded fine on stage). Finally, on the set closer “Down,” the band realized the issue and Martinez shared the microphone with frontman Nick Hexum to the crowd’s relief.

Bad Religion, which celebrates 40 years of punk power next year, delivered a blistering set to a crowd that nodded with limited recognition of genre staples “You” and “21st Century (Digital Boy).” Longtime frontman Greg Graffin still rips, as do enduring members Brett Gurewitz, Jay Bentley and Brian Baker.

Other highlights from Saturday, which began as a sweltering sunny day with hundreds of fans finding shade under the pier, included monster dance jams for pop-punk icons Good Charlotte and Simple Plan’s respective radio hits “Lifestyles of The Rich & Famous” and “I’d Do Anything,” plus massive singalongs for ultimate party-rocker Andrew W.K., who rages like no other.

A few New Jersey bands did their thing, too: throwback rockers Hidden in Plain View from Morris County, as well as newcomers The Ones You Forgot and Save Face doled solid sets to sizable crowds in the afternoon.

The fest ramps up again Sunday afternoon, and with no rain in the forecast and pop-punk titans Blink-182 headlining the bill and fan favorites Taking Back Sunday, The Used and The Starting Line on the undercard, Warped is set to reach new heights before the droves of recovering punk kids shlep back to the real world Monday morning.

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Vans Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

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Fans crowd surd during the Good Charlotte show at the Vans Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Warped Tour fans cover up from the rain after evacuating the beach as a storm approaches in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

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Warped Tour fans evacuate the beach as a storm approaches in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

A security guard holds up a phone trying to alert a member of 311 that his microphone isn't working during their performance at the Vans Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

311 performs during the Vans Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Good Charlotte performs during the Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Warped Tour fans cool off in the ocean during the show in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Good Charlotte performs during the Vans Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

311 performs during the Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Simple Plan performs during the Vans Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Bad Religion performs at the Vans Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

A Warped Tour fan is safely carried over the barricade in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

A Day to Remember performs during the Vans Warped Tour in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Warped Tour fans cool of in the ocean in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Vans Warped Tour fans walk along the ocean in Atlantic City, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

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311 Added To Warped Tour Lineup

Groovy reggae-rockers 311 are the latest additions to this year's Vans Warped Tour lineup, according to a source close to the tour.

Singer/guitarist Nick Hexum, singer/rapper S.A. Martinez, guitarist Tim Mahoney, drummer Chad Sexton and bassist P-Nut will join previously announced main-stage acts Rancid, Pennywise, Less Than Jake, Weezer, and others (see [article id="1438573"]"Rancid, Pennywise, More Confirmed For Vans Warped Tour"[/article]) when the annual multi-band tour affectionately known as "Punk Rock Summercamp" kicks off June 22 in Phoenix.

Despite suing their label (see [article id="1434820"]"311 Files Suit Against Record Label"[/article]), the group is working on its as-yet-untitled sixth studio album (see [article id="1438971"]"311 Show Softer Side On Upcoming Album"[/article]) which it hopes to release this summer, so expect to hear new tunes when the band takes the Warped stage.

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After ending Warped Tour as a national touring festival last year, founder Kevin Lyman revealed in December that the festival would return with three events in 2019 to mark its 25th anniversary. More details were unveiled in January, and today (March 1st), the lineups were announced for all three locations.

The first event, taking place at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, is not so much a festival as it is a celebration of the opening of the new exhibit “Forever Warped: 25 Years of the Warped Tour”. That will be a one-day affair on June 8th that will feature performances by Chali 2na & Cut Chemist, Hawthorne Heights, Emery, Simple Plan, and We the Kings.

Later that month, a full-on two-day festival will take place June 29th-30th on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey , where such acts as Blink-182, The Offspring, 311, A Day To Remember, Bad Religion, Taking Back Sunday, Good Charlotte, Less Than Jake, CKY, and dozens more acts will perform.

On July 20th and 21st, a similar two-day fest will be staged at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View, California . Among the big acts playing the West Coast event will be The Offspring, NOFX, Sum 41, The All-American Rejects, Bad Religion, Good Charlotte, Andrew W.K., Jawbreaker, Quicksand, and Fishbone, among many others.

Both lineups concentrate more on the punk rock, pop-punk, and emo that powered Warped throughout its run, as opposed to the heavier bands that were welcomed during its recent years. That said, there are some heavy metalcore acts like We Came As Romans, Memphis May Fire, and others on the lineups.

See the full lineups for each event in the posters below. Tickets for all three 25th anniversary Warped Tour events are available at VansWarpedTour.com , and are also available on StubHub .

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The lineups have officially been unveiled for this year’s 25th anniversary ‘ Vans Warped Tour ‘ events. Having shuttered its previous incarnation as a touring festival, this year will find the the tour taking place across a series of destination festivals.

June, 08th Cleveland, OH – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

Chali 2na & Cut Chemist Emery Hawthorne Heights Simple Plan We The Kings Peter McPoland And The Haps

June, 29th & 30th Atlantic City, NJ – Atlantic City Beach:

311 A Day To Remember Andrew W.K. Andy Black Anti-Flag The Aquabats! Atmosphere Atreyu Bad Religion Big D And The Kids Table Blink-182 Bowling For Soup Chali 2na & Cut Chemist Circa Survive CKY Dem Atlas Dirty Heads The Doped Up Dollies Eyes Set To Kill Four Year Strong Frank Iero & The Future Violents Glassjaw Good Charlotte Gym Class Heroes H2O Hidden In Plain View I The Mighty Juliet Simms Kaleido Less Than Jake Man Overboard Memphis May Fire The Menzingers Not Ur Girlfrenz The Offspring Plague Vendor Quicksand Reel Big Fish Save Ferris Set It Off Set Your Goals Simple Plan The Skatalites Sleeping With Sirens Stacked Like Pancakes The Starting Line Taking Back Sunday Thrice Trophy Eyes Valencia Wage War We The Kings

Further bands for these two dates are still pending.

July, 20th & 21st Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre:

The All-American Rejects Andrew W.K. Andy Black Anti-Flag The Aquabats! Ariana And The Rose Atreyu August Burns Red Bad Cop/Bad Cop Bad Religion Chali 2na & Cut Chemist Circa Survive Confide Dance Gavin Dance The Dollyrots Elder Brother Face To Face Fea Fishbone Four Year Strong Frank Iero & The Future Violents Go Betty Go Good Charlotte Gym Class Heroes I The Mighty Jawbreaker Juliet Simms Lagwagon Less Than Jake Man Overboard Memphis May Fire NOFX Off! The Offspring Ozomatli Plague VEndor Quicksand Save Ferris Set It Off Set Your Goals Shiragirl Silent Planet Silverstein Simple Plan Skating Polly Sleeping With Sirens The Starting Line The Story So Far Street Drum Corps Sum 41 Thrice Tsunami Bomb The Used The Vandals Vigil Of War Wage War We The Kings Whitney Peyton

Further artists for these dates are still pending. Tickets for the festival are also now available, head to vanswarpedtour.com for more info.

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Warped Tour 25th anniversary lineups: Blink-182, The Offspring, 311, Taking Back Sunday, and more

Bad Religion, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, NOFX, and more are also on the bills

After ending Warped Tour as a national touring festival last year, founder Kevin Lyman revealed in December that the festival would return with three events in 2019 to mark its 25th anniversary. More details were unveiled in January, and today (March 1st), the lineups were announced for all three locations.

The first event, taking place at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, is not so much a festival as it is a celebration of the opening of the new exhibit “Forever Warped: 25 Years of the Warped Tour”. That will be a one-day affair on June 8th that will feature performances by Chali 2na & Cut Chemist, Hawthorne Heights, Emery, Simple Plan, and We the Kings.

Later that month, a full-on two-day festival will take place June 29th-30th on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey , where such acts as Blink-182, The Offspring, 311, A Day To Remember, Bad Religion, Taking Back Sunday, Good Charlotte, Less Than Jake, CKY, and dozens more acts will perform.

On July 20th and 21st, a similar two-day fest will be staged at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View, California . Among the big acts playing the West Coast event will be The Offspring, NOFX, Sum 41, The All-American Rejects, Bad Religion, Good Charlotte, Andrew W.K., Jawbreaker, Quicksand, and Fishbone, among many others.

Both lineups concentrate more on the punk rock, pop-punk, and emo that powered Warped throughout its run, as opposed to the heavier bands that were welcomed during its recent years. That said, there are some heavy metalcore acts like We Came As Romans, Memphis May Fire, and others on the lineups.

See the full lineups for each event in the posters below. Tickets for all three 25th anniversary Warped Tour events are available at VansWarpedTour.com , and are also available on StubHub .

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Warped Tour Bands, Dates Confirmed

Rancid, Weezer, 311, Kool Keith, Pennywise, Rollins Band, and the Misfits are some of the bigger artists confirmed to play the annual Vans Warped Tour, set to kick off June 22 in Phoenix. An official…

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Rancid, Weezer, 311, Kool Keith, Pennywise, Rollins Band, and the Misfits are some of the bigger artists confirmed to play the annual Vans Warped Tour, set to kick off June 22 in Phoenix. An official announcement of participating venues and additional acts for the nearly two-month tour is expected within two weeks. Making its Warped Tour debut this year will be Incredibly Strange Wrestling, a hybrid of punk rock and hardcore wrestling. ISW appeared on the San Francisco scene in the mid-’90s, and features such wrestlers as El Pollo Diablo, Macho Sasquatcho, Chupa Suave, and El Homo Loco. Young punks making the trek out to the Warped Tour will be encouraged to throw tortillas at the wrestlers. Here is the complete list of confirmed artists playing the 2001 Warped Tour: 311, Afi, Alien Ant Farm, the Ataris, Big Wig, Distillers, Dub Pistols, Esham, Fear, Fenix TX, Good Charlotte, Grant Theft Auto, Guttermouth, H20, Jepetto, the Juliana Theory, Kill Your Idols, Kool Keith, Less Than Jake, Madcap, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Midtown, the Misfits, Morgan Heritage, New Found Glory, No Motiv, Pennywise, Rancid, River City Rebels, Rollins Band, Saves The Day, Sugarcult, the Vandals, Userfriendly, and Weezer. Launch Media purchased the punk-centered music and sports festival last year from Creative Artists Agency, tour founder Kevin Lyman , and law firm Codikow, Carroll, Guido and Groffman. Here are the Vans Warped Tour dates: June 22: Phoenix June 23: Las Vegas June 24: Fresno, Calif. June 27: Chula Vista, Calif. June 28: Irvine, Calif. June 29: Los Angeles June 30: San Francisco July 1: Soda Springs, Calif. July 2: Nampa, Idaho July 3: Quincy, Wash. July 5: Calgary, Alberta July 6: Bozeman, Mont. July 7: Salt Lake City July 8: Brighton, Colo. July 10: Kansas City, Mo. July 11: St. Louis, Mo. July 12: Indianapolis July 13: Milwaukee July 14: Minneapolis July 15: East Troy, Wis. July 17: Sparta, Ky. July 18: Nashville July 19: Little Rock, Ark. July 20: Dallas July 21: San Antonio, Texas July 22: Houston July 25: Atlanta July 26: Panama City Beach, Fla. July 27: Orlando, Fla. July 28: Miami July 29: Tampa, Fla. July 31: Virginia Beach, Va. Aug. 1: Bristow, Va. Aug. 2: Pittsburgh Aug. 3: Camden, N.J. Aug. 4: New York Aug. 5: Asbury Park, N.J. Aug. 7: Cleveland Aug. 8: Buffalo, N.Y. Aug. 9: Boston Aug. 10: Montreal Aug. 11: Barrie, Ontario Aug. 12: Pontiac, Mich.

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All 25 Warped Tour Lineups, Ranked

Warped Tour is one of the biggest names in the concert canon. Those who haven't gone want to and those who have gone wait for the day they can go again. For a majority of its run, it was the largest traveling music festival in the United States. A number of past Warped Tour lineups have been impressive, but which year was the best? Help decide below! 

Starting as an eclectic alternative rock festival in 1995 and gradually morphing into a punk rock festival by the next year, the tour gained momentum when Vans, the wildly popular shoe manufacturer, was signed on as the tour's main sponsor in 1996. As Warped Tour became increasingly popular with each passing year, more sponsors signed on, slowly growing the tour's scope of influence. Sadly, 2018 proved to be the final year of the famous tour as announced by Warped Tour's founder, Kevin Lyman. 

You'll find every Warped Tour lineup here! Vote below on the best Warped Tour lineups, keeping in mind factors like the bands performing, production value, and overall spectacle. If you're an avid concert-goer, you can also check out this list of the best Coachella lineups ! (Disclaimer - some years certain dates had slightly different lineups). 

Warped Tour 2005

Notable Peformers: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Thrice, Billy Idol, The All-American Rejects, Bowling for Soup, Dropkick Murphys, Hawthorne Heights

Dates: June 18 to August 14

Warped Tour 2004

Notable Performers: NOFX, My Chemical Romance, The Used, Fall Out Boy, Billy Talent, Yellowcard, Motion City Soundtrack, New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, Anti-Flag, Bowling for Soup 

Dates:  June 25 to August 19

Warped Tour 1998

Notable Performers:  Bad Religion, Godsmack, Rancid, Less Than Jake, Blink-182, Beck (some dates), Unwritten Law, Reverend Horton Heat, Incubus 

Date:  July 4 to August 9

Warped Tour 1997

Notable Performers:  Blink-182, Reel Big Fish, Descendants, Less Than Jake, Sugar Ray, Pennywise, Social Distortion, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 

Dates:  July 2 to August 5

Warped Tour 1999

Notable Performers: Cypress Hill, Blink-182, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Black Eyed Peas, Suicidal Tendencies, Less Than Jake, Bouncing Souls

Dates:  June 25 to July 31

Warped Tour 2000

Notable Performers:  Weezer, Flogging Molly, Green Day, Anti-Flag, No Doubt, Papa Roach, The Muffs, Suicide Machines, NOFX, Good Riddance

Dates: June 23 to August 6

Warped Tour 2001

Notable Performers:  Pennywise, New Found Glory, Dropkick Murphys, The Vandals, Sum 41, Rancid, Less Than Jake, The All-American Rejects, Good Charlotte 

Dates:  June 29 to August 12

Warped Tour 1995

Notable Performers:  Sublime, No Doubt, Quicksand, Fluf, Deftones, No Use for a Name, Supernova, CIV, Deftones

Dates: August 4 to September 5

Warped Tour 2007

Notable Performers:  Bad Religion, Pennywise, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Killswitch Engage, Yellowcard, Ambelin, Flogging Molly, Hawthorne Heights

Dates:  June 28 to August 25

Warped Tour 2006

Notable Performers: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts,   Less Than Jake, The Academy Is..., Anti-Flag, Billy Talent, Motion City Soundtrack, Paramore, Rise Against, NOFX

Dates:  June 15 to August 13

Warped Tour 2018

Notable Performers:  Korn, Prophets of Rage, Limp Bizkit, Reel Big Fish, Pennywise, All Time Low, Taking Back Sunday, We The Kings

Dates:  June 21 to August 5

Warped Tour 2011

Notable Performers:  Paramore, Jack's Mannequin, Bowling for Soup, Relient K, MC Lars, Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag, Simple Plan 

Dates:  June 24 to August 14

Warped Tour 2003

Notable Performers:  The Ataris, Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, The Used, Pennywise, Less than Jake, Suicide Machines, Andrew W.K., Yellowcard, Glassjaw 

Dates: June 19 to August 10

Warped Tour 2002

Notable Performers: New Found Glory, Simple Plan, Flogging Molly, Anti-Flag, Reel Big Fish, Yellowcard, Goldfinger, NOFX, Jimmy Eat World, Bad Religion, Good Charlotte

Dates:  June 21 to August 18

Warped Tour 2008

Notable Performers:  Katy Perry, Amberlin, Jack's Mannequin, Angels and Airwaves, Reel Big Fish, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Broadway Calls, The Devil Wears Prada 

Dates:  June 20 to August 17

Warped Tour 1996

Notable Performers:  Fishbone, Pennywise, CIV, Rocket From The Crypt, Dance Hall Crashers, Down By Law, The Figgs, Guttermouth, Blink-182, Fluf, Red 5, Sensefield, Far 

Date:  July 4 to August 8

Warped Tour 2016

Notable Performers:  Falling In Reverse, Less Than Jake, Good Charlotte, Sleeping With Sirens, New Found Glory, Yellowcard, Ghost Town, Bad Seed Rising, We The Kings

Dates:  June 24 to August 13

Warped Tour 2013

Notable Performers: Chiodos, New Beat Fund, Gin Wigmore, MC Lars, Craig Owens, Dia Frampton, Charlotte Sometimes, Big Chocolate, Echosmith, Motion City Soundtrack, Reel Big Fish 

Dates:  July 15 to August 4

Warped Tour 2019

Warped Tour 2010

Notable Performers:  Alkaline Trio, Motion City Soundtrack, Anti-Flag, Dropkick Murphys, Andrew W.K., Penny Wise, Reel Big Fish, The All-American Rejects, Suicide Silence, We The Kings

Dates:  June 25 to August 15

Warped Tour 2012

Notable Performers:  Falling in Reverse, The Used, Yellowcard, Dead Sara, Rise Against, Yellowcard, MC Laws, Machine Gun Kelly, Anti-Flag

Date:  June 16 to August 5

Warped Tour 2009

Notable Performers:  Less Than Jake, Underoath, Bad Religion,  T.S.O.L., The Adolescents, Sing it Loud, TAT

Dates:  June 26 to August 23

Warped Tour 2014

Notable Performers:  Breathe Carolina, Falling in Reverse, Mayday Parade, Less Than Jake, We The Kings, Yellowcard, The Ghost Inside, The Mighty, Finch

Dates:  June 13 to August 3

Warped Tour 2017

Notable Performers:   Andy Black, Beartooth, Dance Gavin Dance, I Prevail, New Years Day, Falling In Reverse, Streetlight Manifesto, Neck Deep

Date: May 27 to November 1

Warped Tour 2015

Notable Performers:  As It Is, Bebe Rexha, New Years Day, Knuckle Puck, Metro Station, Candy Hearts, Motion City Soundtrack, Memphis May Fire 

Dates:  June 19 to October 18

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Warped Tour 2011

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Warped Tour 2011 is the 17th annual Summer Warped Tour festival. Vans Shoes was again the tour's primary sponsor. The tour dates were announced on November 22, 2010, with the first official band announcement on December 8. [1] The Warped Tour 2011 kick off party took place on March 25, 2011 in Brooklyn, New York featuring performances by The Wonder Years , MC Lars , Moving Mountains and Lionize with main stage announcements happening at midnight. [2] Warped Tour 2011 was the first Warped Tour to visit Las Vegas, Nevada in 6 years.

• 1.1 Teggart/Main Stage
• 1.2 Advent Clothing Stage
• 1.3 Tilly's/Alternative Press Stage
• 1.4 Nintendo 3DS Stage
• 1.5 Skullcandy Stage
• 1.6.1 Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands 15 Winning Bands
• 1.7.1 Earn It Yourself Winners
• 1.8 Miscellaneous
• 1.9 Dzambo Stage
• 1.10 Las Cruces Local Stage
• 1.11 XPOZ Local Stage
• 1.12 Detroit Local Stage
• 1.13 Break Thru Stage
• 1.14 Jersey Stage
• 3 References

All bands confirmed for the entire tour unless otherwise noted. Dates and stage placements subject to change. [3]

Teggart/Main Stage [ ]

Advent clothing stage [ ].

• Abandon All Ships [10] [11] (Played 7/21-8/14)
• The Acacia Strain [12]
• Black Veil Brides [8] [13] (Played 7/1-7/20 and 7/22-8/14)
• Dance Gavin Dance (Played 6/24-6/30)
• Enter Shikari [14]
• Falling In Reverse (Played 8/10-8/12 and 8/14)
• Miss May I [15]
• Of Mice & Men [14]
• Set Your Goals [10]
• We Came As Romans [16]
• Winds Of Plague [15]
• Woe, Is Me (Played 6/24-7/20) [3]
• The Word Alive [16]

Tilly's / Alternative Press Stage [ ]

Nintendo 3ds stage [ ], skullcandy stage [ ], ernie ball stage [ ], ernie ball battle of the bands 15 winning bands [ ].

The following bands were chosen to play the Ernie Ball stage in their hometown for the Warped Tour. [38] [39]

Kia Kevin Says Stage [ ]

Earn it yourself winners [ ].

The following bands performed on the Kevin Says stage as chosen by Earn It Yourself.

Miscellaneous [ ]

• Juliet Simms [65] (Acoustic)
• Larry and His Flask [18] (Appearing in various spots around venues doing multiple sets each day)

Dzambo Stage [ ]

[66] [67]

Las Cruces Local Stage [ ]

The following bands performed on June 29 at the Las Cruces, New Mexico stop of Warped Tour. [70]

• The Caskets
• Cloud 9 Murders
• Friday Nights
• Stabbed in Back
• Terror Eyes

XPOZ Local Stage [ ]

The following bands performed on June 30 at the Las Vegas, Nevada stop of the Warped Tour. [71]

• Amarionette
• At Sixes and Sevens
• Inherit the Sky
• Next Generation Rising
• This Romantic Tragedy
• Tuesday After School

Detroit Local Stage [ ]

The following bands performed on July 8 at the Detroit, Michigan stop of Warped Tour. [72]

• Alive in Standby
• All's Quiet
• Aria Aesthetic
• Call it Karma
• Chavis Chandler
• Heroes on Parade
• Living Like Ghosts
• Rocky Loves Emily

Break Thru Stage [ ]

The following bands performed on July 13 at the Mansfield, Massachusetts stop of Warped Tour as spsonsored by MassConcerts and I'm Thirsty Entertainment. [73]

• Armor for the Broken
• The Awakening
• Dead Ellington
• The Greenery
• Last Minute Sedative
• Lions Lions
• Our Last Night
• Rumors of Betrayal

Jersey Stage [ ]

The following bands performed on July 24 at the Oceanport , New Jersey stop of the Warped Tour. Bands for this stage were chosen through Starland Ballroom 's yearly "War For The Warped Tour" Battle of the Bands competitions. [74]

• A Lot Like You
• Jolly Rotten Skeletons
• Kicking Daisies
• Killing the Messenger
• Like The Stars
• The New Royalty
• Time Will Tell
• The Waffle Stompers
• The World Ends With You

Warped Tour 2011 had 42 tour stops in the United States and two dates in Canada. [1]

References [ ]

• ↑ 1.0 1.1 Exclusive: Warped Tour and Mayhem Festival dates, holiday pre-sales revealed
• ↑ 2011 Vans Warped Tour Kick Off Party Details
• ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 WARPEDREPORTER.COM - Journals
• ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 [1]
• ↑ A Day To Remember To Play Warped Tour 2011
• ↑ Template:Cite web
• ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Jack’s Mannequin, Madina Lake, five more added to Warped Tour
• ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 Less Than Jake, Planet Smashers (one date) confirmed for Warped Tour 2011
• ↑ Paramore on The Warped Tour!
• ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Set Your Goals, Foxy Shazam and MC Lars are among the latest in the 2011 Vans Warped Tour Lineup
• ↑ Abandon All Ships Events Page
• ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 Peelander-Z, Relient K and The Acacia Strain are among the latest additions to the Warped Tour lineup
• ↑ Black Veil Brides Will Be Playing the 2011 Vans Warped Tour
• ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Of Mice & Men, Family Force 5, Lucero, more added to Warped Tour
• ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 The Wonder Years, Miss May I, Winds Of Plague, more added to Warped Tour
• ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 The Word Alive, Every Avenue, and more Announced for 2011 Warped Tour lineup
• ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 The Aggrolites, Sharks and the Exposed among the latest additions to the 2011 Vans Warped Tour
• ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7 Black Pacific, Terrible Things and Larry and His Flask are among the latest lineup additions to the Warped Tour
• ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 19.8 Craig Owens' new band D.R.U.G.S. among the nine bands named for the Warped Tour lineup this week
• ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 Template:Cite web
• ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 Unwritten Law and more join Warped Tour
• ↑ Sum 41: Tour Dates
• ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 Vans Warped Tour Facebook Page
• ↑ Suburban Noize Records | Tour Dates & Events
• ↑ Unwritten Law Upcoming Concerts and Events
• ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 27.5 Template:Cite web
• ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 28.5 28.6 28.7 Eyes Set To Kill, Big Chocolate, Etc. Added To “Vans Warped Tour
• ↑ 29.0 29.1 Terrible Things @ The El Rey Plus Interview With Josh Eppard
• ↑ MC Lars >> Tour
• ↑ A Skylit Drive To Play Warped Tour 2011
• ↑ 32.0 32.1 Earn It Yourself >> Blog Archive >> Scene Report: Pomona
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: ST PETERSBURG RECAP OF THE ST PETERSBURG STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: NASHVILLE (LONG-OVERDUE) RECAP OF THE LAST STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ Ernie Ball Crowns the Winner of the 2011 Battle of the Bands!
• ↑ Woe, Is Me Events & Shows
• ↑ Ernie Ball on Facebook
• ↑ Battle of the Bands
• ↑ Shows << The Fold
• ↑ Battle To Warped Tour II
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: CHARLOTTE RECAP OF THE CHARLOTTE STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ We Are Pleased To Announce...
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: MARIETTA, GA RECAP OF THE MARIETTA, GA STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: BALTIMORE RECAP OF THE BALTIMORE STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: LAS VEGAS
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: PITTSBURGH RECAP OF THE PITTSBURGH STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: INDIANAPOLIS RECAP OF THE INDIANAPOLIS STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: SOUTH FLORIDA RECAP OF THE LAKE WORTH STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: CHICAGO RECAP OF THE CHICAGO STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ 53.0 53.1 SCENE REPORT: NEW MEXICO RECAP OF THE ALBUQUERQUE STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: KANSAS RECAP OF THE WICHITA STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: NEW YORK CITY RECAP OF THE NEW YORK STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: NEW JERSEY RECAP OF THE NEW JERSEY STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: CLEVELAND RECAP OF THE CLEVELAND STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: MINNEAPOLIS RECAP OF THE MINNEAPOLIS STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: PHOENIX RECAP OF THE MESA STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: MICHIGAN RECAP OF THE LANSING STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ 61.0 61.1 SCENE REPORT: AUSTIN RECAP OF THE AUSTIN STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: ORLANDO RECAP OF THE ORLANDO STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: VIRGINIA BEACH RECAP OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ SCENE REPORT: DENTON RECAP OF THE DENTON STOP ON THE EIY SPRING (INTO ACTION) TOUR
• ↑ Juliet Simms Is Playing Warped Tour!
• ↑ WARPED TOUR 2011 HERE WE COME!!!!
• ↑ Artists |Dzambo Stage
• ↑ WATERTOWN BOTB WINNER
• ↑ WESTLAND Events
• ↑ update: Lady A, Warped, Street Fest, EPSO, KOT, Primal Filth and more
• ↑ XPOZ Local Stage Info
• ↑ Jersey Stage at the Warped Tour
• 1 Warped Tour 2004
• 2 Warped Tour 2008
• 3 Warped Tour 2014

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Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

Tour Details

Moscow metro tour: architectural styles of the subway.

Duration: 2 hours

Categories: Culture & History, Sightseeing

This metro tour of Russia’s capital and most populous city, Moscow, is your chance to get a unique insight into the beautiful and impressive architecture of the city's underground stations. Admire their marble walls and high ceilings representing Stalin's desire for glory after World War 2, and see first-hand how the interiors change with the rise of new political eras. Your guide will lead you through the complex network, which is one of the most heavily used rapid transit systems worldwide, with over two billion travelers in 2011.

Opened in 1935, Moscow’s underground system, now 190 miles (305 km) long with 185 stations, is today one the largest and most heavily used rapid transit systems in the world. On this Moscow metro tour, discover the impressive architecture of Moscow’s underground stations and learn how they reflect the Soviet era.

Getting around by metro, your local guide will take you through parts of Moscow’s infamous history. Stop at stations built during the time of the USSR (Soviet Union) that are praised as one of the most extravagant architectural projects from Stalin’s time. After World War 2, he was keen on establishing Stalinist architecture to represent his rising regime and a recognized empire. Learn how when his successor started the de-Stalinization of the former Soviet Union in 1953, the extravagancy of the architecture was toned down.

Discover how the unique character of each station reflected several different eras. While stations like Kievskaya and Slavyansky Bulvar have pompous halls and high stucco ceilings brimming with extravagant decorations, those built later, like Volzhskaya, are lightly adorned with sparse furnishings. Architect Alexey Dushkin and painter Alexander Deyneka were just two of the many artists who made these magnificent landmarks possible.

Revel in Moscow's glory days, as well as the years of scarcity, on this fascinating Moscow metro experience. Conclude your tour at one of the central stations in Moscow. If you're lucky, you may even find the secret entrance to the unconfirmed Metro-2, a parallel underground system used by the government -- a mystery which has neither been denied nor confirmed today.

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We have a wide range of tours designed to give you an insight into the destination you're travelling in and there is something for everybody. The culture shock ratings considers the destination visited, transport used, activities undertaken and that "Wow, I'm really not at home now!" factor. While generalisations are always tricky, a summary of our gradings is as follows…

This is the least confronting of our tour range. Transport used on the trip is either private or a very comfortable public option, the activities included are usually iconic sites and locations that are not all too confronting.

The tour can include a mix of private and public transport providing a level of comfort that is slightly below what you would experience at home. Sites visited are usually iconic sites, tours can also include market visits, visits to communities etc that provide the traveller with a fantastic insight into destination.

Expect to rough it for parts of this tour, whether it's a packed public bus where you are forced to stand, a visit to a local market, a local community, you are sure to have an experience that is very different from what you're used to at home.

The comforts of your home town and the environment you are used to are more of a rarity. Expect some challenging transport options, visits to local sites and areas that don't resemble anything at home.

You're out there in the global community! You are likely to be exposed to the elements, travel in whatever means of transport is available and basically take it as it comes, whatever comes! It can be tough.

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Our physical rating gives you an idea of how much huffing and puffing you can expect on the tour. While generalisations are always tricky, a summary of our gradings is as follows…

These tours have very limited physical activity. Usually climbing in and out of the transport provided, walking through sites, markets etc included in the itinerary.

These tours have a bit of physical activity but nothing that should challenge you too much. This could be climbing on and off public transport through to a walk through the destination you're travelling in, they can include walking only tours or a combination of walking and transport.

These tours involve a bit of physical activity from walking up and down hills in the destination you're travelling in or the surrounding areas. Climbing on and off local transport or riding a bike up to 30 kms along predominantly flat terrain or jumping in a kayak for a gentle paddle on flat water.

These Tours will provide you with some solid physical activity. Whether its bike riding, walking, trekking, kayaking or riding on public transport you will need to have a good level of fitness to enjoy this tour.

Be prepared for some serious physical activity. These tours are our most challenging and involve some serious walking, hiking or bike riding. Can involve step climbs by foot or pedal and some challenging public transport options in the destination you are travelling.

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To help you choose the trip that's right for you, we've broken all of our trips down into four service levels. Measuring the comfort level of the accommodation and transport. So whether you're travelling on a budget and want to save money by using public transport, or prefer upgraded accommodation and are happy to pay a little more, then we have a level for you.

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Moscow Metro Underground Small-Group Tour - With Reviews & Ratings

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Key Details

• Mobile Voucher Accepted
• Free Cancellation
• Duration: 3 Hrs
• Language: English
• Departure Time : 10:00 AM
• Departure Details : Karl Marks Monument on Revolution Square, metro stop: Square of Revolution
• Return Details : Metro Smolenskaya
• If you cancel at least 4 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
• If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
• Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.

Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

Local English-speaking guide

Pancake snack and drink

Additional food and drinks

Tickets for public transport

Souvenirs and items of a personal nature

Tips and gratuities for the guide

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Dress standard: Please wear comfortable shoes for walking. For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people

Traveler Reviews

This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

We did the tour with Anna her knowledge and understanding of the History surrounding the metro brought the tour alive. Well done Anna!

This tour was amazing!

Anna was a great tour guide. She gave us heaps of interesting information, was very friendly, and very kindly showed us how to get to our next tour.

Amazing beauty and history.

An excellent tour helped by an absolutely amazing guide. Anna gave a great insight into the history of the metro helped by additional material she had prepared.

great tour and guide - thanks again

great will do it again, Miriam ke was very good as a guide she has lived here all here life so knew every interesting detail.a good day