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The story of the first ever Australian Warped Tour

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"There was really no barrier between the kids and the artists.

"There was no backstage. There was no VIP. There was no exclusivity.

"It was an event for the kids, by the kids. It was a glorious thing to behold."

AJ Maddah was a punk rock fan coming off an internship with Frontier Touring, the massive company founded by Michael Gudinski and Michael Chugg in the late 1970s.

Having witnessed the explosion of punk rock and its crossover appeal in the US, he urged his bosses to take a punt on this fledgling event that had captured the hearts and minds of kids Stateside. 

“I'm fairly sure I was the first to go to Michael Chugg and say, 'Hey, you need to do this',” Maddah says.

“Because, previous to that, the mainstream promoters in Australia at the time had completely missed the new West Coast punk phenomenon. Offspring, Pennywise, NOFX and Rancid, most of those bands ended up being snared by indie promoters."

It was an uphill battle to convince them that this was a worthwhile thing to go after. I remember having conversations with one person at the time who said I was an idiot. That they could do a couple of RSL shows with Dragon and make more money.”

But the idea had legs and Frontier took the punt. In January 1998, Warped would hit Australia for the first time, dragging a motley crew of punk rock bands and extreme sportspeople around the country for nine haphazard shows in cities and towns of varying sizes.

“Chuggy approached me, AJ was working for him at that point, so [I thought] what the heck? I was always open to doing new things,” Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman says.

“It had never really been done. No one had camped around Australia and done a tour with international bands.”

Perhaps there was reason for that. The travelling Warped roadshow had worked so well in America for a couple of key logistical reasons. Firstly, each of the cities on the run were a mere couple of hours apart. Secondly, bands were able to use sleeper buses filled with bunk beds.

In Australia, the distances were a little longer. And those buses were illegal. When you're building an entire festival from the ground up every morning, these snags have real consequences.

“It was a bit of a shock to [the Americans] when they turned up and we were all sitting up in a rigid bus, driving seven or eight hours, getting off the bus and trying to build a venue,” Maddah says.

“We're literally talking about rolling up in the middle of the night, setting up skate ramps, stages, PAs, lighting etc. and opening the gates at 11 o'clock in the morning with a bunch of super enthusiastic kids going really, really hard.

“Then, packing up and rolling out at midnight or one o'clock in the morning to the next destination.”

“The Australian production guys thought we were all crazy,” Lyman recalls. “They were so used to dealing with other American bands and how they did things. We were all, 'Don't worry, we'll make it work! We'll share! We'll figure it out!'”

Besides, who needs a sleeper bus when you can just pitch a tent?

“I convinced everyone that they would sleep in tents and tour,” Lyman says. "And we did. The agents and managers didn't get it, [but] the bands were cool.”

“I just remember people not sleeping enough,” Frenzal Rhomb guitarist Lindsay McDougall , who was on that first Warped Tour,   says.

“There was just this filthy little sea of two-person tents. There was no shelter from the sun or the weather or the noise or people kicking your tent as they came past.”

McDougall has equally fond recollections of the catering at the shows.

“We wrote a song which we named 'Tapeworms and Grass in a Piss-Based Sauce', which was named after one of the salads that was prepared for the vegetarians,” he says.

“We were horribly unhygienic and dirty people at the time, but even for us the standards of the Warped Tour were a little bit low.”

“Frenzal Rhomb were the expert drinkers on that tour,” Lyman says.

In 1998, the line up was pretty big. In hindsight, 20 years on, it looks enormous. Pennywise and 311 sat atop the bill, with a bunch of scrappy youngsters called Blink-182  one of the promising up-and-coming acts often playing in the afternoon, as were local newcomers  The Living End .

“Blink-182 weren't what they are now back then,” Maddah says. “They were still in the ascendency. I think they were fourth on the bill.”

“Back in those days Blink-182 just wanted a bottle of Captain Morgan and some hair gel,” McDougall quips.

“Pennywise basically became synonymous with the Warped Tour in Australia,” Maddah says. “I think they did all but one Warped Tour here. I think the focus was mainly on them. The Living End hadn't quite broken yet to commercial success, but they were a great band for people in the know.”

The fact that the line up skewed a little obscure was part of its appeal to the young audience.

“The kids had more ownership of these bands because they weren't commercially massive,” Maddah says. “You kind of felt in the know if you knew these bands.”

Even though alternative music was booming at this point in time, the punk end of the spectrum was still flying somewhat under the radar.

“These weren't the type of bands who were being put on Big Day Out or anything like that at that point,” Lyman says.

“The kids who were really in the know were excited, but it wasn't a groundswell,” Maddah says. “The Offspring were doing well, but [punk] wasn't at a level where you were sure that a festival was gonna be a sure-fire hit.”

A travelling roadshow of punk rockers meant plenty of hijinks. After over 20 years and countless Warped Tours around the world, the stories from that first tour are pretty blurry.

“It was such a weird vibe back then,” McDougall says. “The amazing friendships that exist between Australian bands now didn't really exist. It was much more competitive, for some stupid reason.

“We were competing with Bodyjar and The Porkers and whoever else was on the line up. The Living End were streets ahead of everyone.

“I vaguely remember sleeping in a tent next to Pete Porker's tent and we heard snoring, so Jason and I started talking some nonsense about Pete Porker. I don't remember what we were saying, probably making jokes about ska, which as a punk band is a law that we have to do.

“The next morning he comes up to us and goes 'Oh man, did you hear that guy snoring last night? That was really loud!'. So we realised he was awake the whole time.

"There wasn't much camaraderie in the world of Australian loud music in the late-90s.”

The competitiveness took a different form in other parts of the camp.

“We were all just friends, sitting sround, taking all the money off the singer of 311 [Nick Hexum], who was such a bad poker player,” Lyman says.

“Fletcher [Dragge, Pennywise guitarist] renamed him Baby Ostrich Head. We saw some emus at a zoo one day and the baby ones looked like the singer of 311. So, he named him Baby Ostrich Head.”

Sometimes the rivalries were a little less friendly.

“A big fight broke out between our crew and the skaters at Manly Beach for some reason,” Lyman recalls.

“A pro-skater hit me over the head with her skateboard. I'll never forget that. I became friends with her later and we had a good laugh about that.”

And there was at least one minor disaster.

“We all learned how to play cricket. Chad [Sexton, drummer] from 311 had his wrist broken learning how to play cricket, so Josh Freese [drummer for The Vandals] literally learned the whole 311 set in an hour and finished the tour playing drums for them.

One of the key aspects of Warped was the location of the events themselves.

Sure, there were dates at Sydney's Manly Beach and the Melbourne Showgrounds, but Warped went to places no other festival would dare. Places like Coffs Harbour, Ulladulla and even Byron Bay hadn't ever hosted an event like this.

"To be perfectly honest, there was a good reason for that," Maddah laughs. "Some of those locations actually did end up pulling the tour down financially.”

But Lyman was adamant that Warped would not be like other festivals currently on the Australian circuit.

“We wanted to do places other people hadn't done,” he says. “This was the first skate-punk thing that had happened in Byron Bay. It was just a great adventure. We had a lot of fun.”

The regional shows meant a great deal to young punks living in regional areas. Ash Mustchin was a 13-year-old living in Canberra in 1998, and made the trip east to be a part of the Warped crowd in Ulladulla.

“There was such a buzz and excitement, mainly around the logistics of getting there, making shortlists of which bands you wanted to see and what you wanted them to sign,” he remembers.

“I remember it was really freakin' hot but, given the 90s fashion at the time, everyone insisted on keeping on their cargo pants or huge jeans. I also remember in hindsight the festival was pretty DIY and low key. The stage was tiny by today's standards, with no signage or anything like that. It felt just like a huge backyard.”

The dates for the Australian 1998 Warped Tour

Of course, the internet was a different beast in 1998. While it's now a powerful tool for disseminating information about events, two decades ago you were better off doing it face-to-face.

“I remember spending four or five days on the road, going around New South Wales meeting kids at skate parks and recruiting them to spread the word,” Maddah says. “Giving them flyers and posters and things like that.”

As far as the performances themselves go, some recall them better than others.

“We were very good at not caring about stuff at that time,” McDougall recalls. “We were very good at taking things for granted.

“For people who went to see it and saw all of those bands, I can only imagine how stoked they would have been. It was the Punk-O-Rama times, the Survival of the Fattest times, all together in one venue.

“The stages were great, the stages sounded awesome. And we got to play rad gigs. The Vandals and Pennywise were there - it was definitely fun hanging out with those bands.”

The young Canberran was far more engaged.

“Blink-182 were great, really scrappy and young,” Mustchin says.

“I remember really liking The Living End and thinking it was so unique for them to have that huge double bass.

“I was really into Frenzal Rhomb at the time – I think Meet the Family had just come out – and had a lot of fun in their set.

“I was only 13 years old so even just being in a mosh pit was a novelty at the time. I had no idea how to 'mosh' or do anything.”

The final ever Warped Tour in the US wrapped up just last month, bringing an end to Lyman's brainchild after 23 years. When asked if anything like Warped could happen again, there's a pretty strong consensus.

“I don't think our insurance companies would insure for something like that today that they did 20 years ago,” Maddah says.

“The insurance premiums would be ridiculous, with all the motocross and skaters.

"The amount of OH&S that would go into an event like that now – and the amount of barriers you'd have to have to keep any idiot from potentially walking onto a skate ramp or a motocross ramp at the time it was happening – it would just make it prohibitive.

“It's really sad to lose that culture, where you could go out there and have some fun.”

McDougall expresses a similar view.

“I think the problems would come down to insurance,” he says. “I think everything costs so much more to do now. To have a touring festival, where every single venue has to lock down its public liability insurance and all of that kind of stuff, we live in a more litigious society now, and I don't know if people come out in those numbers anymore to make something like that viable.”

He also thinks that bands would be less inclined to roll with the slapdash nature of the festival's rough and ready production.

“At Warped Tour, you got up, you plugged into the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier that was still there from when 311 played, and you just played,” he says.

“It probably didn't sound very good, but it just didn't matter at the time. I think bands are probably a little bit more particular with all that stuff now.”

Lyman agrees that the appeal for Warped isn't as strong among musicians as it once was.

“I don't think people are as adventurous,” he says. “I think back then bands were open to new ideas and open to trying things. Touring was not the sole thing to do back then. Back then, you put out records and make money because you'd sell records.

“But now touring is a bit of a grind for most people. You're on the road all the time trying to make a living. So that sense of adventure has been taken out. 

“One of the reasons I'm not doing Warped Tour anymore is that it's not as much fun as it used to be. Maybe it's not as fun because I'm older, but it's not as fun. It was just a good time.”

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TAKING IT DOWN UNDER

The tour first expanded internationally in 1998 with tours of Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. Lyman has called touring Australia one of his “top five Warped moments”.

Warped Tour production manager/site coordinator and native Aussie Kerry Nicholson was instrumental in bringing the tour Down Under. In 1996, Lyman was managing a tour for alt-rockers Porno For Pyros, who were headed to Australia to open for Rage Against The Machine. In search of someone with an Australian bus permit to transport the band from city to city, Nicholson was referred to Lyman by Aussie concert promoters who’d previously worked with him.

Lyman and Nicholson quickly formed a bond and started discussing the global potential of the then-1-year-old Warped Tour. The two conceived the notion of bringing it to Australia and Nicholson soon joined Lyman in America to scope out the logistics of the tour and start drafting plans for an Australian Warped. The tour has been to Australia three times since then, with Nicholson still an active staffer on the US tour.

During its first visit to Australia, Warped kicked off on the Gold Coast on 11th January, 1998 with the aforementioned punk/ska lineup, making its way through Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Sydney, Ulladulla, Newcastle and Melbourne, all in the space of 13 days. That year Warped left Australia for the summer festival season in the States and finishing up in Europe.

The Warped Tour last touched Aussie shores in 2002. Australian touring luminary Michael Chugg and his company Chugg Entertainment served as the local partners for the ’02 tour. During a performance in Manly, American band Unwritten Law ended up on the front page of the local news after inciting a massive food fight. Frontman Scott Russo told Music Feeds:

“It was one of the last days of the…Tour in Australia and we were the last band on for the day….’Food Fight!’ I yelled over the microphone, ‘Let’s see it!’ It wasn’t a green light for everyone to go nuts, but that’s kinda what happened.

“People were taking stuff out of the bins…people started ripping up the stage, then the rugby field and, yeah, the whole place kind of exploded and it looked like something from Woodstock; the whole stage was covered in mud and grass and trash.

“The stage manager at the time came and smashed our guitars and slapped our guitar player, who ended up getting into a fight with him on stage… Then we got asked to leave the tour.”

“It was pretty ironic…we were in the newspapers saying ‘Punk Band Gets Kicked Off Punk Tour For Being Too Punk’.”

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Vans Warped Tour 25th Anniversary Shows to Feature Blink-182, 311, Bad Religion, Good Charlotte & Many More

The lineups for the Vans Warped Tour 25th anniversary show were released on Friday (March 1) and they feature an all-star list of classic acts and fresh faces.

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After weeks of anticipation, the lineups for the 25th anniversary editions of the Vans Warped Tour were finally unveiled on Friday (March 1) and they feature a who’s who of classic Warped tour veterans and current punk upstarts. The line-ups for the large-scale special events in Cleveland, OH, on June 8; Atlantic City, NJ, on June 29 – 30 and Mountain View, CA, on July 20 – 21, are all toplined by Warped legends such as Blink-182, 311, Bad Religion, The All-American Rejects, Andrew W.K., Anti-Flag, Good Charlotte, Gym Class Heroes, The Offspring, Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Taking Back Sunday, Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake and Good Charlotte.

Other acts slated to play the shows include: Andy Black, We the Kings, Thrice, Dirty Heads, CKY, Lagwagon, NOFX, Ozomatli, The Starting Line, Silent Planet, Ariana and the Rose, Go Betty Go, Juliet Simms, Quicksand and Silverstein.

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“Through the years the Vans Warped tour has always tried to bring you something extra, this year we have gone through the past archives and dug up many of our old friends to join us for these special events,” producer Kevin Lyman said in a statement. “The curated art experience will showcase our favorite moments over the last 25 years. So, dust off the old Vans and lace em’ up since you won’t want to miss a thing!”

Tickets for the events are on sale now here.

Check out the full line-ups for each show below.

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How 23 Years of Warped Tour Changed America

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After almost a quarter of a century, and having showcased upwards of 1700 bands, Warped Tour as we know it will come to an end when summer 2018 does. For the most mainstream of Americans who never attended, the tour always looked like an outlier -- a noisy summertime day out for the same kids that shopped at Hot Topic, wore too much eyeliner, and learned HTML by editing their MySpace profiles. Truthfully though, Warped Tour's impact on mainstream pop culture was enormous.

Warped Tour started out scrappy. It was 1995, pop punk was just starting to explode out of the underground -- thanks to Green Day's major label debut, Dookie -- and founder Kevin Lyman , having spent three years working on the Lollapalooza tour, recognized a gap in the festival market. That first Warped was 25 dates -- a breeze for bands and crews who later got used to the jaunt going on for twice as long. No one could foresee back then just how big -- or long-running -- this juggernaut would become.

While Warped's biggest impact has been taking underground culture and smearing it across America in broad daylight every summer, what is so often forgotten is that this was also the venue used by the likes of Katy Perry and Eminem to launch their careers to wider audiences. It's where Sonny Moore started out (in a band named From First to Last ) before he metamorphosed into EDM megastar, Skrillex . It's where No Doubt spent their summer the year before they exploded on a global scale.

Dominic Davi , Oakland-based bassist of  Tsunami Bomb , has been attending Warped since 1995 and playing it since 2001. "It's so easy to forget now," he says, "but when it started, and for a long time into it, the bands Warped Tour was assembling did not get played on the radio. They were not featured on festival lineups. Kevin Lyman helped shine a light onto all these bands that were drawing various amounts on their own, but together could fill a festival. That took a lot of vision."

"In the end," Davi continues, "Warped launched all these careers and was directly responsible for the punk rock explosion that happened in the early 2000s. That's quite a feat."

Warped Tour, especially in its earliest years, acted this way, year upon year, launching artists out of obscurity and into the eyeline of the mainstream. Blink 182, a band that was long considered too crude and provocative for mainstream success, appeared on three out of the four Warpeds between 1996 and 1999. It's no coincidence that by 2000, they were one of the biggest bands in the country.

Not only did Warped change how punk rock was treated by mainstream music culture, it had an indelible impact on the lives of the thousands of people who lived and worked on the tour over the years, some of whom came back annually, without fail. Along the way, it also helped to further unify a nationwide community of punks, rebels, and renegades.

Dominic Davi compares spending a summer on the tour to "running away with the circus." Photographer Lisa Johnson , whose work documenting Warped Tour has been featured on the covers of several official compilations, as well as in the book, Misfit Summer Camp: 20 Years on the Road With Vans , elaborates: "Warped Tour is a place where seemingly anything is possible. Utopia. Hard work and happiness, plus some fun in the sun. There is just always something magic in the air."

The unique spirit of Warped is precisely why hundreds of people have stepped up, year after year, to work in unbearably high temperatures, notoriously dusty environs, facing parking lot after parking lot with few views of the outside world (unless you count the occasional midnight trip to Wal-Mart) for weeks on end.

It's difficult to fathom why anybody would want to spend an entire summer in those conditions -- until you actually do it. In 2006, I joined Warped Tour for five days to write a story for a British rock magazine. Somehow, five days turned into seven weeks. I skipped my flight home to sell merch for one of the bands I had met along the way, and had zero regrets about hitting 'pause' on the rest of my life to do so.

For thousands of us, Warped has always been that way -- once you get caught in its vortex, it's hard to extricate yourself from it. "It's this huge production," Davi says, "with so many moving parts. It's hard work. You are moving all day. I think you have to be a particular personality to love that life. I always did."

The video below that Lisa Johnson took at a backstage party in 2014, effectively sums up the hilarity, unified chaos, and good-natured anarchy of Warped Tour (and also why the nightly after-show barbecues have become the stuff of legend). Take into account that the people you see in this clip are the people working the tour -- crew members, band members, merch people, stage hands. Work days may be long and conditions may sometimes be hard, but on the best nights, this is what happens once the ticket-buying public leaves:

There's no doubting that in recent years Warped Tour has, to some degree at least, lost its niche, while also weathering some damaging storms. "In many ways," Davi notes, "I think when the bands on the tour became bands that the radio and MTV embraced, it became harder to preserve that core exclusivity and unique feeling that Warped Tour had. At first it made the tour bigger, but having to chase the trends and adapt to bands with more exposure, I think made it more difficult to make the tour a special experience. By trying to please everyone they had a harder time pleasing anyone."

The summer tour's time might be drawing to a close, but Warped promises to live on in other capacities: there will be some sort of 25th anniversary celebration, and the first Warped Rewind at Sea cruise just happened last month. More than that though, the tour leaves behind a legacy. It impacted a couple of generations of punk, emo and hardcore bands, as well as their fans. Warped brought a newfound acceptance of alternative culture to all corners of the country. It was a confidence builder for teens who felt alienated in their suburban high schools; it was a training camp for small bands, and a springboard for larger ones; and, for a long while there, it fundamentally changed the fabric of alternative music in America.

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