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Warped Tour 2008

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Warped Tour 2008 was the 2008 installment of the annual Summer Warped Tour music festival . Vans Shoes was again the tour's primary sponsor.

• 1.1 Route 66 Stage
• 1.2 Highway 1 Stage
• 1.3 Hurley Stage
• 1.4 Hurley.com Stage
• 1.5 Smartpunk.com Stage
• 1.6.1 Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands 12 Winners
• 1.7 Kevin Says Stage
• 1.8.1 Code of tha Cutz Bands
• 1.9 Skate Ramp Stage
• 1.10 Famly Clothing Stage
• 1.11 Shiragirl Stage
• 1.12 East Coast Indie Stage
• 1.13 Old Skool Stage
• 1.14 Union Stage
• 1.15 Jersey Stage
• 2 Tour dates
• 3 References

Warped Tour 2008 Bands [ ]

All bands confirmed for the entire tour unless otherwise noted.

Route 66 Stage [ ]

• The Academy Is...
• The Aggrolites (Played 8/1)
• Anberlin (Played 6/20-7/17 and 7/19-8/17)
• As I Lay Dying (Played 6/20-7/3 and 7/6-7/18)
• Beat Union (Played 7/31)
• The Bouncing Souls (Played 7/16-7/25)
• Chiodos (Played 7/18)
• Dillinger Escape Plan (Played 7/9-7/15)
• Dr. Manhattan (Played 7/27)
• Evergreen Terrace (Played 7/30)
• Every Avenue (Played 7/23)
• From First to Last
• Greeley Estates (Played 7/26)
• Gym Class Heroes
• Horrorpops (Played 8/3)
• The Lordz (Played 7/23)
• Matisyahu (Played 7/9-7/11 and 7/13)
• Motion City Soundtrack (Played 7/29-8/17)
• Paramore (Played 7/1-7/6)
• Pennywise (Played 6/20-6/29 and 7/15-7/31)
• Pierce the Veil (Played 7/28 and 8/5)
• Reel Big Fish
• Rise Against (Played 8/6-8/17)
• Shwayze (Played 8/2)
• The Vandals (Played 8/6-8/17)

Highway 1 Stage [ ]

• Against Me! (Played 6/20-8/3 and 8/13-8/17)
• The Aggrolites (Played 8/9)
• All That Remains (Played 7/23-8/10)
• Angels & Airwaves
• Cobra Starship
• Every Time I Die
• Fear (Played 6/22)
• GBH (Played 8/5-8/17)
• Jack's Mannequin (Played 7/1-7/20)
• Just Surrender (Played 7/23)
• Say Anything
• Story of the Year
• Street Dogs

Hurley Stage [ ]

• All Time Low (Played 7/23-7/31 and 8/2-8/17)
• All That Remains (Played 8/14-8/17)
• Automatic Loveletter (Played 7/28-8/17)
• The Briggs (Played 6/20-7/23 and 7/25-7/27)
• Broadway Calls
• The Color Fred
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Dr. Manhattan (Played 7/25-7/26 and 7/28-8/17)
• Family Force 5 (except 6/20, 6/26, 7/2, 7/12, and 8/8)
• Greeley Estates (Played 6/20-7/25 and 7/27-8/17)
• Jeffree Star (Played 6/20-6/29)
• Just Surrender (Played 7/19-7/20 and 7/24)
• The Lordz (Played 6/21-7/20 and 7/24-7/28)
• Mayday Parade
• Pierce the Veil (Played 6/20-7/27, 7/29-8/3 and 8/6-8/17)
• The Pink Spiders (Played 7/1-7/20)
• We the Kings

Hurley.com Stage [ ]

• 3OH!3 (Played 6/20-7/24 and 7/26-8/17)
• The Aggrolites (Played 6/20-7/31, 8/2-8/8, 8/10-8/17)
• Anberlin (Played 7/18)
• Beat Union (Played 6/20-7/30, 8/1-8/3 and 8/13-8/17)
• Bedouin Soundclash (Played 7/3-7/5)
• The Briggs (Played 7/24 and 7/28-8/17)
• The Dead Songwriters (Played 7/10-7/11)
• Evergreen Terrace (Played 6/20-7/29 and 7/31-8/17)
• HorrorPops (Played 6/20-7/23, 7/25-8/2 and 8/5-8/17)
• Katy Perry (Played 6/20-7/9 and 7/12-8/17)
• Longway (Played 7/15)
• Ludo (Played 7/22-8/17)
• Maylene and the Sons of Disaster (Played 6/20-7/18)
• Ore Ska Band
• Shwayze (Played 6/20-7/14, 7/16-8/1 and 8/3-8/17)

Smartpunk.com Stage [ ]

Ernie ball stage [ ], ernie ball battle of the bands 12 winners [ ], kevin says stage [ ], skullcandy mix tent [ ].

• Culture Shock Camp
• Dante LaSalle
• Dr. Madd Vibe (Played 7/1-7/10)
• Gil Mantera's Party Dream (Played 6/20-7/24 on Skullcandy Mix Tent, 7/25-8/17 on Skate Ramp Stage)
• Ivens (Played 7/27-8/17)
• Massive Monkees
• Megaphone (Played 7/23-7/29)
• Now On (Played 6/20-6/22, 6/28-/6/29, 8/9-8/17)
• Pato (Played 7/10-7/26)
• The Pinker Tones (Played 6/25-8/17) [1]
• The Pirate Signal
• Piotta (Played 6/20-7/9)

Code of tha Cutz Bands [ ]

Skate ramp stage [ ], famly clothing stage [ ], shiragirl stage [ ].

• A Pretty Mess (Played 6/20)
• All or Nothing HC (Played 6/22)
• Barnicle (Played 7/23)
• Blameshift (Played 6/20-6/22 and 7/26-7/28)
• Civet (Played 6/20-6/22)
• Kelsey and the Chaos (Played 7/23-7/25 and 7/27)
• Lia Fall (Played 6/22)
• Me Talk Pretty (Played 7/25-7/26 and 7/28)
• Shiragirl (Played 6/20-6/22, 7/23, 7/25-7/28 on Shiragirl Stage and 6/25-6/29 on Skate Ramp Stage)
• Von Iva (Played 6/21)

East Coast Indie Stage [ ]

Old skool stage [ ].

• Agent Orange (Played 8/15-8/16)
• Big Drill Car (Played 8/14 and 8/17)
• D.I. (Played 8/14-8/15 and 8/17)
• The Dickies (Played 8/15-8/17)
• Fear (Played 8/14 and 8/16)
• The Germs (Played 8/14-8/17)
• H 2 O (Played 8/14-8/17)
• M.I.A. (Played 8/14 and 8/17)
• Mike Watt and The Missingmen (Played 8/14-8/15 and 8/17)
• T.S.O.L. (Played 8/14-8/17)

Union Stage [ ]

• Ceremonial Snips (Played 7/19-7/20)
• Creepshow (Played 7/19-7/20)
• The Flatliners (Played 7/19-7/20)
• The Johnstones (Played 7/19-7/20)
• One Night Band (Played 7/19-7/20)
• The Planet Smashers (Played 7/19-7/20)
• The Real Deal (Played 7/19-7/20)
• The Riptides (Played 7/19-7/20)
• The Saint Alvia Cartel (Played 7/19-7/20)
• Subb (Played 7/19-7/20)

Jersey Stage [ ]

• A Clear Blurr [5] (Played 7/28)
• Avenida [5] (Played 7/28)
• East Coast Addiction [5] (Played 7/28)
• Jade [5] (Played 7/28)
• Lux Astra [5] (Played 7/28)
• Sounds Like Words [5] (Played 7/28)
• Sunrise Atlantic [5] (Played 7/28)
• Vaeda [5] (Played 7/28)
• The Victory Drive [5] (Played 7/28)

Tour dates [ ]

References [ ].

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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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Full 2008 Warped Tour Lineup Announced

February 20, 2008 By Bryce Jacobson 108 Comments

The full lineup for the 2008 Warped Tour has been announced. Check out the bands and the dates they will be playing below.

3OH!3 whole tour A Day to Remember jun 20 – jul 20 Against Me! whole tour Aggrolites whole tour Alesana whole tour All That Remains jul 22 – aug 17 All Time Low jul 22 – aug 17 Anberlin jun 21 – aug 17 Angels and Airwaves whole tour As I Lay Dying jun 20 – jul 18 August Burns Red jun 20 – july 6 Automatic Love Letter jul 17 – july 27 Beat Union whole tour Bedouin Soundclash jul 3 – jul 17 Between the Trees jun 20 – jul 8, aug 4 – 12 Bouncing Souls jul 16 – jul 25 Bring Me the Horizon jul 22 – aug 17 Broadway Calls whole tour Charlotte Sometimes whole tour Cinematic Sunrise jul 10 – jul 16 Classic Crime jul 27 – aug 17 Cobra Starship whole tour Confide jul 22 – aug 17 Danger Radio jul 19 – aug 8 / aug 9 – aug 18 Dr. Manhattan jul 22 – aug 17 Evergreen Terrace whole tour Every Avenue jul 9 – jul 26 Everytime I Die whole tour Family Force 5 whole tour except 6/19, 6/20, 6/26, 7/2, 7/12, 8/8 Forever the Sickest Kids jun 20 – jul 6 / jul 7 – aug 17 Four Year Strong jul 19 – aug 17 From First to Last whole tour GBH aug 6 – aug 17 Greeley Estates whole tour Gym Class Heroes whole tour Horrorpops whole tour Jack’s Mannequin jul 1 – jul 20 Just Surrender jul 9 – jul 26 Katy Perry whole tour Ludo jul 22 – aug 17 Madina Lake jul 9 – jul 25 Mayday Parade whole tour Maylene and the Sons of Disaster jun 20 – jul 18 MC Chris whole tour MURS whole tour Norma Jean whole tour Oreska whole tour Paramore jul 1 – jul 6 Pennywise jul 15 – aug 3, jul 15, jul 17- jul 20, jul 24, jul 27, jul 29- aug 3 Pierce the Veil whole tour Pinkertones whole tour Protest the Hero whole tour Reel Big Fish whole tour Relient K whole tour Rise Against aug 6 – aug 17 Say Anything whole tour Set Your Goals whole tour Shwayze whole tour Sick City jul 19 – jul 20, aug 6 Sky Eats Airplane jul 27 – aug 17 Stick to Your Guns jun 20 – jul 6 Story of the Year whole tour Street Dogs whole tour The Academy Is… whole tour The All-American Rejects jun 20 – jun 29 The Audition jun 20 – jun 29 / jun 30 – aug 17 The Briggs whole tour The Bronx whole tour The Color Fred whole tour The Devil Wears Prada whole tour The Dillinger Escape Plan jul 9 – jul 15 The Fabulous Rudies whole tour The Higher jun 20 – jul 20 The Human Abstract jul 22 – aug 17 The Lordz whole tour The Maine jun 20 – jul 18 / aug 9 – aug 17 The Morning Light jul 28 – aug 6 The Pink Spiders jun 20 – jul 20 The Saint Alvia Cartel jul 9 – aug 3, aug 13 on The Secret Handshake jun 30 – jul 9 The Vandals aug 6 – aug 17 We the Kings whole tour

February 21, 2008 at 12:40 am

STORY OF THE YEAR…..YAYA!!!!

February 21, 2008 at 12:03 pm

omg this is the BEST lineup ever!!!! ALL TIME LOWW ROCKS MY WORLD!

February 22, 2008 at 8:54 am

YEAH! TDWP,PARAMORE I WANNA GO SO BAD

February 22, 2008 at 3:17 pm

OMG! I can’t wait to see Norma Jean and The Horrorpops!!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!! My favorites!!!!!!

February 27, 2008 at 1:08 am

Eh, there are about 4 bands I would actually pay to see this year. Oh well, its Warped Tour. Fun no matter what

February 27, 2008 at 8:30 am

SKY EATS AIRPLANE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

March 1, 2008 at 8:26 pm

yay! alesana is going to be there again this year! and gym class heroes and the academy is…!!! it sucks that i won’t be able to see paramore though. they were really great last year.

March 4, 2008 at 5:03 pm

OMG this is gonn abe my first Warped tour ever. I’m so excited. I can’t wait to see Paramore again. They are an awesome band to see live. Say Anything is gonna ROCK! It suck I’ll miss AAR. The Rejects are the best. At least i’ll get to see Paramore again. Can’t wait till July 2.

March 8, 2008 at 1:11 pm

holy f*** i cant wait! forever the sickest kids. story of the year. norma jean. all time low. and such. 😀 😀 😀

March 10, 2008 at 12:54 am

This lineup is kind of weak. but there are some decent bands.

wish killswitch engage was playing :\

March 10, 2008 at 7:21 am

as i lay dying+all that remains+august burns red=THEE SHIT CANT WAIT TILL JULY

March 10, 2008 at 2:04 pm

wow…this fuckin lineup sucks ass all the bands that are going are sooo overrated now…but still good but come on…. all american rejects? you have got to be fuckin kidding me…. where is all the good metal, screamo, and mostly the good old school punk rock…. o well it will still be fun… I still be excited….just could get some better bands….. everything seems to be too mellow for Warped Tour its a bummer

March 10, 2008 at 6:25 pm

well this is a pretty shitty line up but i have to go see sky eats airplane and cobra starship. I really think saosin, sksk, trs, and kill hannah should have gone though…

but yeah Gch sucks so much dick it’s not even funny

March 11, 2008 at 2:29 pm

this lineup sucks ass. 2004, 2005, those were good years. every year its a couple of good new bands, but then a bunch of other random crap. whatever happened to this being a punk show? not that im complaining, because i love some of these new bands a lot. its just sad that the real good bands arent there and some random emo shits are on the list.

March 13, 2008 at 4:47 am

OMFG!i’ve been dying to go to Warped Tour since like 2005.I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE COBRA STARSHIP AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!i saw them on their recent tour and I Love them so much!!!it’s gonna be so fucking rad!i’m dying to see The Academy Is… too!

March 13, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Story Of the Year!!!! The Classic Crime!!! thats pretty awesome.

March 13, 2008 at 4:06 pm

Yeah this line up kinda sucks, except for a few

March 13, 2008 at 6:41 pm

OMG i want to go so badly MADINA LAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alesansa The Academy Is… and so many god damn more that i want to see. And my lil Above All Else boys are so getting in. But i have to live in Australia =[ =[ =[

March 14, 2008 at 7:19 am

Three Bands worth my time. BMTH The Human Abstract DEP

Not a bad lineup, however, PTW and Throwdown should have been on this years also. Always next year Woot.

March 14, 2008 at 7:22 am

EVERGREEN FUCKIN’ TERRACE!!!! They should be headlining. Woot!!

March 14, 2008 at 7:52 am

Evergreen Terrace!!! Stoked about it Woot

March 14, 2008 at 10:05 am

yay im excited!! its not the best, but warped tour is always gonna have a variety and every year kevin’s not gonna put the same bands on.he has to ask them, and sometimes other bands are on their own tour…….but i love paramore!!!!!!!! <3

March 16, 2008 at 11:25 pm

ATREYU. get atreyu on there. they should totally be there. because they are beyond amazing. get them. NOW. thanks much :]

March 22, 2008 at 5:18 am

Not a bad lineup. I’m pretty stoked about protest the hero and As I lay Dying!!! August Burns Red is the shit.. Absolutely the best on the lineup. ABR representin Lancaster County baby!!!!

March 23, 2008 at 12:21 am

wtf?!?! no spill canvas? this is the worst line up in the history of warped tour. seriously. I’m more than disappointed!

March 23, 2008 at 3:24 am

Damn, Warped Tour gets shittier every year. Thanks for the massive amount of emo bands, Vans.

March 23, 2008 at 8:30 pm

uhh. im kinda disappointed by this line-up. last years was SO AMAZING! i mean get like circa survive, chiodos, killswitch, our last night, and like coheed again and ill be fine..

please add some more bands. if circa plays i’ll go JUST to see them.

this is disappointing=[

March 24, 2008 at 10:42 pm

OK so what’s with all these emo bands? Warped tour sucks this year!!! there should be more punk! only a few bands are good but for the most part it’s an emo fest =( c’mon Vans!

March 25, 2008 at 3:45 am

This line-up is shit compared to 98-02 line-ups. Emo bands as far as the eye can see. Only bands up there I would pay to see are Reel Big Fish Pennywise and Bouncing Souls, and two of them aren’t making Miami show appearances. Damn, why did I have to miss than NOFX show in Orlando =/.

March 25, 2008 at 8:34 am

This has got to be the worst warped line up yet. Only good bands are

As I Lay Dying jun 20 August Burns Red Between the Trees Bring Me the Horizon Everytime I Die Family Force 5 whole Forever the Sickest Kids From First to Last Horrorpops Mayday Parade Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Norma Jean Rise Against Sky Eats Airplane Story of the Year The Academy Is… The Devil Wears Prada The Maine

March 25, 2008 at 2:00 pm

this is the worst fuckin lineup ever!

March 25, 2008 at 9:45 pm

Omg. This is the WORST lineup EVER!!! Last years line up was amazing. (: I rather spend the 32$ on something else, ugh. I’m so disappointed. :/

-Monica<3

March 26, 2008 at 7:22 pm

But there’s Paramore </33333 zomgg Paramore (L)

March 27, 2008 at 9:55 am

WTF happened to Warped??? I haven’t gone in a couple of years and now I see why!! Look at this GARBAGE line up, yes GARBAGE. Maybe 4 decent acts and the rest is commercialized, cookie cutter, bubble gum GARBAGE!!!!!! Agree or disagree it’s your right. Paramore sux – we are broken – Cry me a river. Please bring back some real punk bands or how about some Ska. At least they brought in some Psycho-Billy, Horrorpops for you retards who don’t know. Good luck at the show you sheep – Save your money and by some real music.

March 28, 2008 at 10:47 am

what the hell happened to warped tour? they need to change the name, seriously. What happened to the punk bands?

March 28, 2008 at 6:45 pm

so upset. paramores not commnig to mass. =X and theres some other pretty great bands tho hope i can go it’d be my first warped tour =] does anyone know how much tickets are going for ?

March 28, 2008 at 6:50 pm

this lineup absolutely sucks last year’s was SOOOOO much better and where the hell is New Found Glory? don’t they come every year? what happened to that?

March 28, 2008 at 7:23 pm

awww. i wanted the spill canvas bad. :[ and escape the fate and panic! and you me and everyone we know grr! thank freaking God mayday parade is going to be there. im excited for them :]

March 30, 2008 at 8:03 pm

personally, i think this lineup kick major ass. but, i can see why some wouldnt like it. true, there arent many old-school punk bands on the list, but you have to take into account that as the years start to shift, there are more newer bands jumping on the emo/screamo/metalcore/indie bandwagons than the hardcore punk one.

March 31, 2008 at 10:39 am

warped tour is going to be so much fun this year no matter what anyone feels what they have to say is important enough to post up.

oh yea you punk bastards that think your all tight and right, so gay..

like cock in my ass gay…

get over yourselves you smelly dirty scumm. There is punk influence in everything, why cant you stop being stubborn and open your mind a little. you guys are parasites.Cock breathed and analy leaking. im glad your not going to these warped tours. so i dont have to see or smell you assholes ever. youre the garbage. :] just discover some new music and learn to love the shit these bands work hard on, its worth hearing… judgmental assholes.

yay A Day To Remember, Angels and Airwaves, Classic Crime, Confide, All Time Low, Angels And Airwaves, August Burns Red, Bring Me The Horizon, Classic Crime, Confide, Everytime I Die, Four Year Strong, Jack’s Mannequin, Just Surrender, Mayday Parade, Paramore, Set Your Goals, Sky Eats Airplane, Stick To Your Guns, The Audition, The Color Fred, The Devil Wears Prada, The Higher, The Maine, We The Kings, and whatever else i discover…

:]]] funn funn :]]]

March 31, 2008 at 2:14 pm

(shakes head) FUCK!

March 31, 2008 at 3:40 pm

what’s happening to warped tour?

March 31, 2008 at 10:32 pm

REEL BIG FIIIISSHHHHHH AGAINST ME!

April 1, 2008 at 8:11 am

Anyone Who says The Line-Up Sucks Is A Dumb-Fuck. It’s the Best Line-Up Yet

April 1, 2008 at 12:47 pm

ill be in the beer tent till all that remains and every time i die go on, have fun with the boy bands kids

April 1, 2008 at 7:59 pm

OMFG amazing line up for all those saying it sucks cuz its all emo bands you are an autistic down syndrome infant the line up is fucking amazing

April 2, 2008 at 6:53 am

wtf?? wheres underoath on this llist???

April 3, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Weak. The bands get worse and worse every year!

April 3, 2008 at 2:27 pm

It’s not supposed to be a punk show ???

Where are the Nofx, Anti-flag, millencolin, mxpx and all those great band like in the 2004-2005-2006 edition ????

April 4, 2008 at 12:49 pm

this is quite possibly the worst warped list, ever. the last few years were good, but ’08 is just throughly disappointing. don’t get me wrong, they are all at least decent bands, i would have just liked to seen some of the “usual” bands come back, such as underoath, chiodos, escape the fate, the spill canvas, and killswitch. but, it will be a good time anyway.

to other haters: at least give these bands you presume are shitty a chance, they may surprise you. :]]

April 4, 2008 at 8:46 pm

rise against and against me fo sho

April 5, 2008 at 1:01 pm

Okay, so maybe the bands this year are more ’emo’ than punk, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any good bands playing.

All Time Low Anberlin FF5 Forever the Sickest Kids Jack’s Mannequin Madina Lake Mayday Parade Norma Jean Paramore Relient K Say Anything Story of the Year The Academy Is… The Audition The Maine We the Kings

They are all awesome, plus some other are pretty good, at least in my opinion.

I am just fucking pissed that All Time Low and Paramore won’t be playing at the Atlanta show. I mean, i plan on driving all the way from around Nashville to go to my first Warped Tour, and two of my favorite bands won’t be playing. But hopefully seeing FF5,Mayday Parade,the Maine,Story of the Year,Relient K, and Forever the Sickest Kids will make it worth it.

But I would also love it if bands like Silverstein,Underoath,Chiodos,the Spill Canvas,etc. were going to be there. That would make it even better, though.

April 5, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Alesana! All Time Low Bring Me the Horizon Cinematic Sunrise Cobra Starship Every Avenue Forever the Sickest Kids From First to Last Madina Lake Norma Jean Sky Eats Airplane The Devil Wears Prada

i wish Drop dead gorgeous was there and underoath.

April 6, 2008 at 2:40 pm

AGAINST ME! bestt lineup evaa(:

April 7, 2008 at 7:14 am

I’m pretty sure this lineup is the weakest piece of shit that Vans Warped Tour has ever put on..

Mayhem Fest > Vans Warped tour

P.S. You hXc dance and i hate you.

April 7, 2008 at 7:21 am

This line up sucks. ETID, AILD, Evergreen Terrence, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Norma Jean, and PTH are the only bands worth seeing; however When the show comes around to my town half of them will not be on anymore. So i get suck with shitty bands like all time low. The only good thing is paramore wont be in my town-needless to say they suck ass. When did warped tour start allowing shitty power pop bands on? They just waste space for better bands.

April 7, 2008 at 4:58 pm

WTF atreyu iznt going, they like HAVE to go, HAVE TO GO!!!!! they like so better get’em

April 7, 2008 at 11:07 pm

What a horrible lineup. Vans Warped Tour used to be a festival celebrating the music that accompanied the extreme sports that Vans sponsored(i.e. skate punk, punk, ska, etc) and now it’s turned into an overload of emo, pop punk crap. Pennywise, Rise Against, Bouncing Souls, Reel Big Fish, then game over.

Even last year(which I thought was a lacking lineup) they were able to get Bad Religion, Agent Orange, Sum 41, Flogging Molly, Pepper, Buck-o-Nine, Mustard Plug, The Toasters, Big D and the Kids table, Real McKenzies, along with Pennywise, who returns this year.

Come on Vans, stick to your roots, and pick it up next year.

April 8, 2008 at 11:40 am

This Warped will be amazing but i do agree what happend to the punk bands??? I do wish there were goiing to be some there to even out the emo!! lol

April 9, 2008 at 3:34 pm

what a terrible terrible line up not very many good bands…. ya’ll could have had a much much better line up… im not even gonna waste my time and money maybe next year will be better… sorry but you people need to open your eyes this is a terrible lineup

April 9, 2008 at 5:28 pm

this lineup sucks major ass! last year was way fucking better! wat happened to all the hardcore bands! UHHH dumb as hell

April 9, 2008 at 6:35 pm

im gonna miss friggen bouncing souls, bedouin soundclash, and pennywise. at least i get me some reel big fish. aggrolites, against me, beat union, family force 5, street dogs, horrorpops, and oreskaband are good to.

April 9, 2008 at 6:39 pm

aggrolites were even on yo gabba gabba! http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=18298220

April 11, 2008 at 11:28 pm

GREAT bands! i wish i could go. i love like half of them. oh and JET LAG GEMINI will be touring also but only for certain dates. I love them :]

April 12, 2008 at 4:13 pm

This line up isnt that bad. Im goinnggg. Should be funn.

and all you guys who are saying”this line up sucks” Shut up. If it sucks so bad, then dont go. okayy.

April 14, 2008 at 10:18 am

i dont know why atr, norma jean, as i lay dying, everytime i die would even waste their time with this shit…pathedic

April 15, 2008 at 8:29 pm

I love all american rejects and Angels and airwaves and Story of the Year!!1 Heck Ya!!!!!!!!!!!!

April 16, 2008 at 3:10 pm

ehh… i liked last years a lot better, i’lle go anyways though to see: Against me! (dropping “!” next album i heard) AVA Reel big fish academy is SAY ANYTHING (idc if hes bipolar and not my religion 😛 ) Sky eats airplane

but w/e happened to some of the guys last year: TIGER ARMY BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE CHIODOS BAD RELIGION FLOGGING MOLLY THE MATCHES (YEA :P)

put up “Stars” and i’lle go no matter what 😛

and i’m sorry but some of the people on there just dont deserve it. stop sucking up to all the pop bands and make the list yourself instead of listening to little kids. DIY man, DIY forever.

April 16, 2008 at 8:25 pm

wow…. not one of the bands i watched last year is returning not underoath, HH, sksk, etc..

it will be fun no matter what so idc really

April 21, 2008 at 5:09 pm

THIS LINEUP FUCKING BLOWS >:(

April 25, 2008 at 11:06 am

OMG OMG OMG THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!!! I CAN’T WAIT!!! I still wish The Medic Droid were Coming, but thats fine…

April 27, 2008 at 9:18 am

warped tour has always booked bands they thought were mainstream, and that’s all they’re trying to do. but it’s not going to be a good year for them, definatly not.

save 160 more dollars and find a lalapalooza near you! 🙂

April 30, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Reel Big Fish! Haha, bet most of you dont care for them, but their my favorite band on there. Suck it bitches.

May 2, 2008 at 9:53 pm

Wow this year isn’t very solid. Last year seemed like a last gasp of Vans former glory. I’d love for bands like Hot Water Music, Bouncing Souls, Bad Religion, Propagandhi, Good Riddance, Lagwagon, etc… to play again. Don’t get me wrong there are some good bands but not to many. I totally understand progressing from the Punk of the old days but at least progress to good indie bands like Minus the Bear, Circa (who was great last year), Coheed (also great last year), me without You, As Cities Burn, Alexisonfire, Thrice, Thursday, Sparta, Chiodos, The Fall of Troy… just to name a few!

May 3, 2008 at 10:53 am

Omg.. Wheres atreyu & a7x?

May 5, 2008 at 12:56 pm

why dont you guys have ICP(INSANE CLOWN POSSE) playing this year? i am sooooo sad. they are my fav.

May 5, 2008 at 8:01 pm

Lame, no bands want to cross the border to toronto, so they all just start in buffalo. i wish bmth and ABR were playing in TO. Not to mention THA, ATR, and AILD. good lineup, just no good bands going to TO

May 5, 2008 at 8:06 pm

devil wears prada is the shiznit..

its pretty raw dis year!

May 8, 2008 at 11:58 am

UGHHH! not too many good bands here besides rise against, the academy is…, relient k, fftl, and paramore, who btw is only coming for a frickin week! seriously? come on. i want bands like aiden, the used, and underoath. where’s New Found Glory??? Bad Religion??? total let down but i’m still gonna go because it’s always a good time and i would buy way more expensive tickets to go see all the bands i like at a real concert anyways… really disappointed though… please go back to punk and leave these emo sissys behind!

May 8, 2008 at 5:57 pm

gay gay gayest gayer i miss the 90’s line ups these publishest really are killing me, if a band sucks u can not make them better just by throwing them on the warped tour, also that seems to be all the reqirements u need these days suck balls and hey u got yourself a record deal, gag for those of u who can’t wait to see this garbage if u where a little older im sure u would c it my way

May 8, 2008 at 8:19 pm

no anti-flag? the fuck is that shit

May 13, 2008 at 6:13 pm

yess!!! Story of the year and angels and airwaves!!!! + anberlin<33 awesomeeee

May 17, 2008 at 1:32 am

ADTR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im sooo there i just bought my ticket “]]

May 19, 2008 at 8:40 am

damnn this is the best lineup ive seen in a couple of years!!! im so fucking excited. norma jean, rise against, bring me the horizon. ftw 2008

May 19, 2008 at 4:41 pm

fuck warped tour, it fucking blow, its all emo bullshit when it WAS and STILL should be punk, there are only 3 or 4 good bands and they are leaving warped tour cause of the gay emo, screamo, metal faggot ass shit that make warped gay as hell

June 2, 2008 at 5:55 pm

HELL YA!!!!!!!!!!!! BRING ME THE HORIZON!!!!!!!!!! AND ALESANA!!!!!!!!

June 20, 2008 at 9:36 am

dude Angels & Airwaves! The Higher! All Time Low! this lineup kicks ass i wanna go soo bad, sucks that im broke

June 21, 2008 at 7:16 pm

duddeee. i want to go so bad :/ too bad gas is freakin too high.

June 22, 2008 at 1:55 pm

millencolin no,bad religion no,anti-flag no,NOFX no,MxPx no,Lagwagon no,Less than Jake no….hmm next year they’re gonna tell us that madonna will sing….

June 29, 2008 at 1:11 pm

whats the deal with this lineup. …warped ’08, definitely NOT worth the gas money.

what a disappointment.

June 30, 2008 at 7:58 pm

AGAINST ME! rest are shitty

July 2, 2008 at 10:57 am

I could have gone but it’s really not worth it. -.- To be listening to shitty bands the whole time and only really enjoying 3 of them.

July 4, 2008 at 11:53 am

im pretty sure no one knows how fucking pissed i am that i cant go… cuz im gonna be in fucking pennsylvania… and living in stupid fucking upstate ny there are hardly any shows because i live in the middle of fucking nowhere and GRRR…. i mean, i guess it is kind of a sucky lineup. To the person who wanted Anti-Flag… im seriously standing by your side. But still… I just wish I could go… grrr. enough complaining. to all the people that im envious of… dont tell me how it was when you get back… i just might end up kicking you in the face. =]]

July 4, 2008 at 11:58 am

oh and one more thing… NOFX IS PRETTY MUCH THE GREATEST BAND EVERRRR… but no, people dont know that these days cuz all they listen to now is pop-rock which is pretty much PUSSY BANDS. so there. [but i still wish i could go… cuz even if everything sucks [descendents song] warped tour is warped tour and its gonna be fun either way…. ahhhhhhhh this is so fucking annoying]

July 4, 2008 at 12:33 pm

and another thing… there are punks and wish-they-could-be-punks. now it’s a pretty simple answer if i asked the question of “what would seven eighths of these bands classify as?” here’s a small list of the bands i was hoping for::: nofx bad religion silverstein lagwagon millencolin mxpx underoath good riddance rise against [thanks for them, at least] the casualties anti-flag bouncing souls [thanks for them, too] the beatsteaks strike anywhere tiger army tilt screw 32 strung out

and i know people are all “everything has a little bit of punk in it…” and whatever… but really… warped should be the real stuff… true Punx Unite [the casualies song]. it shouldn’t be some make-believe shit that just TRIES to sum up and be everything that real punk is… and its hard for them to do that because they dont have it in their hearts, their minds, their souls, their vocal chords, their beats, their strums. [very poetic, i know] bands cant just automatically change to that sort of genre, i guess i could call it… but it isn’t really a genre. its a way of life. its a style, a culture. maybe it could even be classified as a religion. hmmm… i dont know. anyway… bands cant just change to it like THAT with a snap of their fingers. they have to believe in it… have to really become what they want to be…

and sense im sounding like a preacher now… that’s my opinion. you can agree or disagree, i dont really give a shit. you just need to understand, thats all.

July 7, 2008 at 11:01 pm

omigeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. this sucks ass. i missed paramore. i havent seen them since warped ’05. but still. i guess this could be a worse line up… no panic? no ETF? grr.

July 10, 2008 at 2:02 am

Warped Tour Officially Sux. Only one good band; Rise Against. All others are stupid emo/screamo shit… Bring back the Rock FUCKERS!

July 12, 2008 at 9:39 pm

Dude. I wish underoath would be going but at least chiodos and Greeley estates are there for detroit! I’m satisfied!! <33333 (mmm…..greeley estates lead singer!!!!!!!hot stuff)

July 14, 2008 at 12:52 am

i forgot the warped our date canyou buy tickets at the door or are they more i need to now like right now

July 21, 2008 at 10:17 am

wtf! like half the good bands r leaving before warped gets here!

July 21, 2008 at 8:24 pm

okayyy. so 3oh!3 is gunna be there which means its officially going to KICK ASS!!!! [[punkbitch]] yeah!

I CANNT WAAIIIIIT!! SOO EXCITED, THIS LINE UP IS THEE BEST!

July 21, 2008 at 8:26 pm

I CANNT WAAIIIIIT!! SOO EXCITED, THIS LINE UP IS THEE BEST! AND ANGELS&AIRWAVES!!!!!!!!!

July 22, 2008 at 5:54 am

oreska rocks my world!

July 26, 2008 at 7:18 pm

AGAINST ME!

July 26, 2008 at 8:39 pm

Eh, this year’s lineup is okay I guess. I won’t be able to see paramore (which sucks a bit), but there are still some really awesome bands here.

By the way, I was backreading some of theose comments before me and this is starting to sound like a riot. Music is expression (and yes I know how cliche that sounds). You assholes just don’t realize that the only reason that you’re on this page is because you love music just like every other person that is here too.

August 8, 2008 at 8:06 pm

The lineups as good as its gonna get for now abd we can’t change it so stop complaining and enjoy the good bands. Mxpx is at tomfest btw

December 20, 2008 at 12:06 pm

OMG this is going to be the BESTT ive never been to one but this one im going to definetly i live in michigan and i will see ALL TIME LOW and all the others THERE all GREAT BANDS i cant wait!!=]]

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Warped Tour 2008

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Warped Tour 2008 is the 2008 installment of the annual Summer Warped Tour music festival. Vans Shoes is again the tour's primary sponsor.

• 1.1 Bands confirmed by warpedtour.com
• 1.2 Bands confirmed by battleofthebands.com
• 1.3 Bands confirmed by kevinsaysstage.com
• 1.4 Bands confirmed by eastcoastindiestage.com
• 1.5 Bands confirmed by d-tox.com
• 1.6 Bands not yet officially confirmed, but sourced to other websites
• 2 Tour Dates
• 3 References

Warped Tour 2008 Bands [ ]

Bands confirmed by warpedtour.com [ ].

All bands confirmed for the entire tour unless otherwise noted.

• 1997 (Playing 6/20-7/3)
• A Cursive Memory (Playing 7/11-7/26)
• A Day to Remember (Playing 6/20-7/20 and 8/8-8/17)
• The Academy Is...
• The Action Design (Playing 6/20-6/28 and 8/13-8/17)
• Against Me! (Playing 6/20-8/3 and 8/13-8/17)
• Agent Orange (Playing 8/15-8/16)
• The Aggrolites
• The A.K.A.'s (Playing 7/23-8/3 and 8/8-8/10)
• Alamance (Playing 7/9-7/18 and 7/23-8/2)
• All That Remains (Playing 7/23-8/17)
• All Time Low (Playing 7/23-8/17)
• Angels & Airwaves
• Anarbor (Playing 8/13, 8/15-8/17)
• Architects (Playing 7/1-7/2)
• As I Lay Dying (Playing 6/20-7/18)
• The Audition
• August Burns Red (Playing 6/20-7/6)
• Authority Zero (Playing 8/10-8/13 and 8/15-8/17)
• Automatic Loveletter (Playing 7/17-7/26)
• Beat Union (Playing 6/20-8/3 and 8/13-8/17)
• Bedouin Soundclash (Playing 7/3-7/17)
• Between the Trees
• Big Drill Car (Playing 8/14 and 8/17)
• Black President (Playing 8/10-8/13 and 8/15-8/17)
• Blasé Debris (Playing 7/24-7/30)
• The Bleeding Irish (Playing 6/20-6/21)
• The Bouncing Souls (Playing 7/16-7/25)
• Bring Me the Horizon (Playing 7/23-8/17)
• Broadway Calls
• Buffalo Casket (Playing 7/24-7/30)
• Casket Architects (Playing 7/31-8/3)
• Charlotte Sometimes
• Chiodos (Playing 7/18)
• Cinder Road (Playing 7/9-7/28)
• Cinematic Sunrise (Playing 7/10-7/16)
• The Classic Crime (Playing 7/27-8/17)
• Cobra Starship
• The Color Fred
• Confide (Playing 7/23-8/17)
• CrashCarBurn (Playing 7/9-7/28)
• Culture Shock Camp
• Dead Legend (Playing 7/9-7/15 and 7/25-8/2)
• Defy Everything (Playing 6/22-6/29, 8/13-8/15 and 8/17)
• The Devil Wears Prada
• D.I. (Playing 8/14-8/15 and 8/17)
• The Dickies (Playing 8/15-8/17)
• Dillinger Escape Plan (Playing 7/9-7/15)
• Disco Ensemble (Playing 7/9-7/16 and 7/23-7/30)
• Dodger (Playing 7/19-7/20)
• Does It Offend You, Yeah? (Playing 7/23-7/31)
• Drive A (Playing 7/9-7/15, 7/25-8/2)
• Dr. Manhattan (Playing 7/23-8/17)
• Entice (Playing 6/20-7/6)
• Evergreen Terrace
• Every Avenue (Playing 7/9-7/26)
• Every Time I Die
• Fall from Grace (Playing 8/9-8/13 and 8/15-8/17)
• Family Force 5 (Except 6/20, 6/26, 7/2, 7/12, and 8/8)
• Farewell (Playing 6/20-7/20)
• Fear (Playing 6/22, 8/14 and 8/16)
• Fear Nuttin' Band (Playing 7/24-8/13 and 8/15-8/17}
• Fight! Fight! Fight! (Playing 7/1-7/6)
• Forever the Sickest Kids
• Four Year Strong (Playing 7/9-8/17)
• From First to Last
• The Gaslight Anthem (Playing 7/9-7/16)
• GBH (Playing 8/6-8/17)
• The Germs (Playing 8/14-8/17)
• Gil Mantera's Party Dream
• Greeley Estates
• Gym Class Heroes
• [[H 2 O]] (Playing 8/14-8/17)
• Hi-Fi Hand Grenades (Playing 8/5-8/10)
• The Higher (Playing 6/20-7/20)
• The Hoons (Playing 8/8-8/10)
• HORSE the Band (Playing 8/17)
• The Human Abstract (Playing 7/23-8/17)
• Hunter Revenge (Playing 6/20 and 8/17)
• Ivens (Playing 7/27-8/17)
• Jack's Mannequin (Playing 7/1-7/20)
• Jeffree Star (Playing 6/20-6/29)
• Jet Lag Gemini (Playing 6/25-7/9 and 7/25-8/2)
• Just Surrender (Playing 7/9-7/26)
• Katy Perry (Playing 6/20-7/9 and 7/12-8/17) [1]
• Last Great Assault (Playing 7/1-7/6)
• Lost Point (Playing 6/28-6/29)
• Love Equals Death (Playing 6/20-6/29)
• Ludo (Playing 7/22-8/17)
• Madina Lake (Playing 7/9-7/25)
• The Maine (Playing 6/20-7/3)
• Massive Monkees
• Matisyahu (Playing 7/9-7/11 and 7/13)
• Mayday Parade
• Maylene and the Sons of Disaster (Playing 6/20-7/18)
• Medium Troy (Playing 8/9-8/10)
• Megaphone (Playing 7/23-7/29)
• M.I.A. (Playing 8/14 and 8/17)
• Midnight to Twelve (Playing 6/25-7/1)
• Mike Watt and The Missingmen (Playing 8/14-8/15 and 8/17)
• Miracle Dolls (Playing 6/20-6/22)
• Mo Bigsley (Playing 8/17)
• Motion City Soundtrack (Playing 7/29-8/17)
• Motionless in White (Playing 7/9-7/16, 7/25, 7/27 and 7/29-7/31)
• Now On (Playing 6/20-6/22, 6/28-/6/29, 8/9-8/17)
• Oceana (Playing 8/13-8/17)
• On the Surface (Playing 8/13 and 8/16)
• Ore Ska Band
• Paramore (Playing 7/1-7/6)
• Patent Pending (Playing 7/17-7/18 and 7/26)
• Pato (Playing 7/10-7/26)
• Pennywise (Playing 6/20-6/29 and 7/15-8/3)
• Peter DiStefano (Playing 6/21-6/22)
• Phathom (Playing 6/20-6/29)
• Pierce the Veil
• The Pink Spiders (Playing 7/1-7/20)
• The Pinker Tones (Playing 6/25-8/17) [2]
• Piotta (Playing 6/20-7/9)
• Protest the Hero
• Pull the Pin (Playing 7/15-7/16, 7/23 and 7/25-7/29)
• The Randies (Playing 7/24-8/13 and 8/15-8/17)
• The Recovering (Playing 7/9-7/18 and 7/23-8/2)
• Reel Big Fish
• Revolution Mother (Playing 8/13-8/17) [3]
• Rise Against (Playing 8/6-8/17)
• The Saint Alvia Cartel (Playing 7/9-8/3 and 8/13-8/17)
• Say Anything
• Say No More (Playing 6/20-6/21)
• The Secret Handshake (Playing 7/1-7/9)
• Set Your Goals
• Settings (Playing 7/14-7/28)
• Sick City (Playing 7/19-7/20 and 8/5-8/6)
• Single File (Playing 7/28-8/13 and 8/15-8/17)
• Skeet Skeet
• Sky Eats Airplane (Playing 7/27-8/17)
• Spitshine (Playing (8/15-8/17)
• Staylefish (Playing 7/19-8/24 and 8/26)
• Steve Steadham /Citizen X
• Stick to Your Guns (Playing 6/20-7/6)
• Story of the Year
• Street Drum Corps presents BANG!
• Street Dogs
• Tat (Playing 6/20-8/3)
• Treaty of Paris (Playing 6/20-6/29)
• TSOL (Playing 8/14-8/17)
• Valencia (Playing 6/20-7/10)
• The Vandals (Playing 8/6-8/17)
• We the Kings
• You, Me, Everyone We Know (Playing 7/1-7/2)
• Your Highness Electric (Playing 6/20-6/21)

Bands confirmed by battleofthebands.com [ ]

• 3AM (Playing 6/29)
• 5 Second Rule (Playing 8/16)
• 12 Summers Old (Playing 7/1)
• A Bird a Sparrow (Playing 7/3)
• A Farewell Rescue (Playing 7/27)
• A Golden Era (Playing 7/27)
• A Hope For Home (Playing 8/10)
• A NewBorn Thriller (Playing 7/15)
• Above All Else (Playing 7/20)
• Action Item (Playing 7/28)
• Adalie (Playing 7/25)
• All That's Left (Playing 8/10)
• Aloretta! (Playing 7/14)
• The Alumni Club (Playing 8/1)
• Amaradio (Playing 6/20)
• The Amend (Playing 7/9)
• Ameratta (Playing 8/9)
• Amity (Playing 8/6)
• And Then There Was You (Playing 7/12)
• The Arma Mirage (Playing 7/6)
• Asiago (Playing 8/13)
• Backseat LoveStory (Playing 7/29)
• Behold the Flood (Playing 7/16)
• Beyond the Citadel of Coup de Grace (Playing 6/25)
• Box the Stars (Playing 7/17)
• The Boy and His Machine (Playing 7/24)
• Bravo Romeo Bravo (Playing 7/16)
• Bring it Home (Playing 6/21)
• Burning Tree (Playing 7/11)
• Callahan (Playing 7/30)
• Casari (Playing 7/26)
• Chances Are High (Playing 7/29)
• Chasing Thrill (playing 7/10)
• Chelsea Grin (Playing 6/28)
• Cipes & The People (Playing 6/22)
• Code Anchor (Playing 7/26)
• Cold War Veterans (Playing 8/8)
• The Coming Weak (Playing 7/20)
• Crookedhook (Playing 7/19)
• Cry to the Blind (Playing 7/24)
• Culdera (Playing 7/15)
• Days Off Screen (Playing 7/14)
• Del Asher (Playing 7/19)
• Demi the Daredevil (Playing 6/26)
• The Dialed (Playing 8/15)
• Dice in the Icebox (Playing 8/15)
• Dirty Rooster Lollipops (Playing 8/8)
• Down for the Count (Playing 6/20)
• Dressed to Kill (Playing 8/9)
• Dust & Blood (Playing 6/25)
• The Embraced (Playing 7/13)
• Echoes of Us (Playing 7/16)
• Emery Drive (Playing 7/6)
• The Epilogues (Playing 6/29)
• The Eternal Affect (Playing 7/28)
• The Evermore Escape (Playing 8/3)
• Eyes on the Prize (Playing 7/25)
• The Failsafe (Playing 7/29)
• Farwell (Playing 7/18)
• The Fast Track (Playing 8/3)
• Fighting the Villain (Playing 6/21)
• Fire at Will (Playing 7/10)
• First Class Fever (Playing 7/3)
• For All Those Sleeping (Playing 8/3)
• For Word Cause (Playing 7/2)
• For Yesterday (Playing 6/21)
• FreaknMissy (Playing 6/22)
• From Man in Ghost (Playing 7/19)
• Furthest from the Star (Playing 7/5)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Playing 8/6)
• Girl on Fire (Playing 8/10)
• Go Radio (Playing 7/13)
• Godzilla (See: wikipedia:Godzilla or w:c:godzilla:Godzilla ) (Playing 6/20)
• Gonna Get Got (Playing 7/26)
• The Great Escape (Playing 7/16)
• H is For Hero (Playing 7/15)
• Hail Archer (Playing 8/1)
• Haneda (Playing 7/10-7/13)
• Hedged (Playing 8/5)
• Hello Marquee (Playing 8/14)
• Her Fatal Flaw (Playing 6/25)
• Here's Looking At You Kid (Playing 7/14)
• Honest to Empire (Playing 8/10)
• Honor Bright (Playing 7/24)
• Honorthefallen (Playing 6/28)
• Idea of Beauty (Playing 7/9)
• In the Wake (Playing 7/29)
• In Times of Distress (Playing 8/13)
• Indosurf (Playing 8/13)
• Innocence Betrays (Playing 8/8)
• Jacob's Ladder (Playing 7/12)
• Jay and the Lovebirds (Playing 8/6)
• The Jealousy Game (Playing 7/14)
• Kevin Goes 2 College (Playing 7/5)
• Kill a Mockingbird (Playing 8/17)
• La Circa (Playing 6/21)
• Langus (Playing 7/30)
• Larusso (Playing 6/28)
• Last Try (Playing 7/25)
• The Lasting Effect (Playing 6/29)
• Legacy Falls (Playing 7/6)
• Let Lions (Playing 7/2)
• Letters Burning (Playing 6/22)
• Life Between Sleep (Playing 7/26)
• Lone Star Drive By (Playing 7/5)
• Loren Battle (Playing 6/26)
• Lost Deliveries (Playing 7/20)
• Lost in Prague (Playing 8/3)
• Love Me Electric (Playing 8/2)
• Love You Long Time (Playing 8/17)
• Lovers Make Liars (Playing 8/17)
• Madison Drive (Playing 8/9)
• The Malheruex (Playing 6/20)
• Mankind is Obsolete (Playing 8/9)
• MARADONA (Playing 7/13)
• Melodramus (Playing 6/28)
• Mercury Bullet (Playing 8/13)
• The Mission Veo (Playing 7/12)
• Moments of Brilliance (Playing 8/5)
• Mondays Alibi (Playing 8/14)
• My Last Entry (Playing 7/3)
• Nine Life Fire (Playing 7/1)
• The Nominees Are... (Playing 8/2)
• Novella (Playing 7/1)
• Novista (Playing 7/6)
• One Star City (Playing 8/6)
• Oregon Falls (Playing 8/1)
• Our Film Star (Playing 7/18)
• The Perfect Mistake (Playing 7/28)
• Perfect on Paper (Playing 6/26)
• Poetica (Playing 6/28)
• Pomeroy (Playing 7/2)
• Porcelain Smile (Playing 7/15)
• Prom Night in Black and White (Playing 8/5)
• Promise Me Scarlet (Playing 7/17)
• The Prospect (Playing 7/11)
• Red Car Wire (Playing 7/3)
• Red October (Playing 7/20)
• Relapse (Playing 8/15)
• Remember Tomorrow (Playing 7/24)
• Rising 4 (Playing 8/5)
• The Riot (Playing 7/27)
• The Rival Year (Playing 7/12)
• The Rooftops (Playing 7/27)
• Say Goodbye (playing 7/1)
• The Scenic (Playing 7/25)
• Seasons After (Playing 7/2)
• The Shoreline (Playing 7/10)
• Shotgun Rules (Playing 7/19)
• Silas (Playing 7/11)
• Silence of a Silhouette (Playing 7/17)
• Silence the Messenger (Playing 7/3)
• Silent Soul (Playing 7/20)
• Snake Eater (Playing 7/2)
• Some Never Sleep (Playing 6/25)
• Something For Nothing (Playing 7/23)
• Sounds of Surrender (Playing 8/14)
• Stages and Stereos (Playing 7/13)
• The State Affair (Playing 8/2)
• Stay (Playing 7/23)
• Storms in May (Playing 7/18)
• The Story Changes (Playing 7/30)
• Streets of Rage (Playing 6/20)
• T13C (Playing 7/10)
• Terra Terra Terra (Playing 7/11)
• Thanks to You (Playing 6/29)
• Tigers in Transit (Playing 6/22)
• Tinj (Playing 7/3)
• To Sleep With Angels (Playing 8/8)
• Tonight the Prom (Playing 8/2)
• Tragedy of Me (Playing 6/26)
• Transmit Now (Playing 7/10)
• Transit Studio (Playing 8/17)
• Tropidelic (Playing 7/17)
• Undefyed (Playing 7/23)
• Undergone (Playing 8/15)
• Van Atta High (Playing 7/28)
• Veramadia (Playing 7/6)
• Vices I Admire (Playing 6/29)
• View From Ida (Playing 7/18)
• Vonnegutt (Playing 7/9)
• Wayward (Playing 8/16)
• We Spell Disaster (Playing 6/22)
• We're Not Friends Anymore (Playing 8/16)
• Westside Story (Playing 8/14)
• Winner Takes All (Playing 8/1)
• With Grace We Fall (Playing 8/16)
• Your Greatest Mistake (Playing 7/5)

Bands confirmed by kevinsaysstage.com [ ]

• A Blinding Spyre (Playing 8/8)
• Ahisma Sunrise (Playing 7/29)
• AJAX (Playing 7/24)
• All Left Out (Playing 7/12, 7/14-7/23, 7/30-7/31 and 8/14)
• Allison (Playing 7/3-7/6)
• Amelia (Playing 7/19)
• American Hero (Playing 8/9)
• Angry Panda (Playing 8/8)
• Animo (Playing 6/29)
• The Anti (Playing 7/31)
• Asian Cafe (Playing 7/14)
• The Asthmatics (Playing 7/23)
• Audio Spaghetti (Playing 7/2)
• Aurora Falls (Playing 6/28)
• The Awakening Orchestra (Playing 7/26)
• Awesome and the Ass Kickers (Playing 7/10)
• The Banana Convention (Playing 7/29)
• The Big Spank (Playing 6/29)
• The Black Doves (Playing 7/5)
• Born As Ghost (Playing 7/18-8/8)
• Brave Citizens (Playing 6/20-6/25)
• Breva (Playing 6/28-7/6)
• Brooklyn Zoo (Playing 8/5)
• Cerebral Vortex (Playing 7/31)
• Cobra Kisses (Playing 7/16)
• The Concerta Circus (Playing 7/6)
• Conversation (Playing 8/6)
• Curmudgeon (Playing 8/17)
• Cute Lepers (Playing 8/9-8/10)
• Cyanide City (Playing 7/1)
• Damn Valentines (Playing 8/3)
• Danger Is My Middle Name (Playing 8/1-8/3)
• Danger Mic (Playing 6/28)
• Deep Sleep Empire (Playing 7/17 and 7/29)
• The Departed (Playing 6/21)
• The Dollyrots (Playing 6/22, 7/10-7/13 and 8/14)
• Downline (Playing 7/20)
• Draco and the Malfoys (Playing 7/23)
• Escaping Gravity (Playing 7/3)
• The Expatriots (Playing 7/15)
• Flowers for Dorian (Playing 8/2)
• Good Guys in Black (Playing 6/20-7/9)
• Great Scott! (Playing 7/15)
• Hairdoo (Playing 6/21)
• Hectic Watermelon (Playing 8/14)
• Hired Geeks (Playing 8/1)
• The Hooks (Playing 6/21)
• The Host (Playing 7/17)
• Hovercraft Pirates (Playing 7/11)
• The Japanese War Machine (Playing 7/24)
• Josephine Collective (Playing 7/10-7/13)
• Juice Lee (Playing 7/17 and 7/30)
• LA5 (Playing 8/14)
• Letallis (Playing 7/28)
• Lost Point (Playing 6/29)
• Madison Fadeout (Playing 7/9)
• Makeshift Hero (Playing 8/14)
• Main Street Minority (Playing 8/2)
• Mean Tangerine (Playing 7/19)
• Mike Borgia (Playing 7/26)
• The Mint (Playing 7/25)
• Mulatto (Playing 6/20)
• My Anomaly (Playing 7/13)
• My Latex Brain (Playing 7/30)
• Paper Street Soap Company (Playing 7/10)
• Paths 2 Glory (Playing 7/25)
• Peanuthead (Playing 7/12)
• The Percocettes (Playing 7/25)
• Permanent Holiday (Playing 7/23)
• The Photo Atlas (Playing 6/29)
• Pivot (Playing 7/14)
• Planes Crash (Playing 6/20)
• Plastick (Playing 6/22)
• The Pleasures of Merely Circulating (Playing 6/26)
• PointDexter (Playing 8/16)
• The Projection (Playing 7/31)
• The Remus Lupins (Playing 6/20-6/22)
• Riots of Eighty (Playing 6/28)
• Rotbottyrot (Playing 8/6)
• Set Off (Playing 8/15 and 8/17)
• Shanti (Playing 7/16-7/25)
• Shapes of Racecars (Playing 6/25-6/26)
• Smart Pants (Playing 7/28)
• Stasis (Playing 7/27)
• State and Madison (Playing 8/1-8/3)
• Supe (Playing 6/20-6/21, 6/25-6/26, 7/3 and 7/6)
• Tabitha (Playing 8/6)
• There for Tomorrow (Playing 7/31-8/3)
• Tickle Me Pink (Playing 6/25-6/29)
• Time of Plague (Playing 7/18)
• Touch My Rash (Playing 8/15)
• We Ride at Dawn (Playing 8/10)
• We Shot the Moon (Playing 7/1-7/2)
• The Western Civilization (Playing 7/6)
• What About Pluto? (Playing 6/25)
• The Wideawakes (Playing 7/31)
• WINSLOW (Playing 7/20)
• Yall Street (Playing 7/9)
• Zaragoza (Playing 8/11)

Bands confirmed by eastcoastindiestage.com [ ]

• A Loss for Words (Playing 7/23-7/24 and 8/1)
• A Utopian Skyline (Playing 7/27)
• Bedlight for Blue Eyes (Playing 7/25 and 7/29-7/31)
• Crooked Looks (Playing 7/23-7/27)
• Don't Panic (Playing 7/27)
• Driving East (Playing 7/29-7/31)
• Heart Set Self Destruct (Playing 8/1-8/2)
• Hiccup Helen (Playing 7/25)
• I Am the Pilot (Playing 7/14-7/16 and 7/23-7/28)
• Kelsey and the Chaos (Playing 7/23-7/28) (East Coast Indie and Shiragirl Stage)
• Kevin Elliot and the Broken (Playing 7/9-7/16)
• Lights (Playing 7/17-7/18)
• Love You Maid the Butcher (Playing 7/28)
• Reflective Insight (Playing 7/31-8/2)
• Sound the Alarm (Playing 7/25-7/27 and 8/1-8/2)
• Vanattica (Playing 8/1-8/2)
• Vice Grip (Playing 7/17-718)
• The Weakend (Playing 7/18)

Bands confirmed by d-tox.com [ ]

• Ceremonial Snips
• The Flatliners
• The Johnstones
• One Night Band
• The Planet Smashers
• The Real Deal
• The Riptides

Bands not yet officially confirmed, but sourced to other websites [ ]

• A Clear Blurr [4] (Playing 7/28)
• Avenida [4] (Playing 7/2
• Braille [5] (Playing 6/20-7/18)
• East Coast Addiction [4] (Playing 7/28)
• The Expendables [6] (Playing 6/28)
• The Frantic [7] (Playing 8/1-8/3)
• Jade [4] (Playing 7/28)
• Lux Astra [4] (Playing 7/28)
• Sounds Like Words [4] (Playing 7/28)
• Sunrise Atlantic [4] (Playing 7/28)
• Vaeda [4] (Playing 7/28)
• Victim Effect [8] (Playing 6/28)
• The Victory Drive [4] (Playing 7/28)

Tour Dates [ ]

• 06/20 Pomona, CA at Pomona Fairgrounds
• 06/21 San Francisco, CA at Pier 30/32
• 06/22 Ventura, CA at Seaside Park
• 06/25 Phoenix, AZ at Cricket Wireless Pavilion
• 06/26 Las Cruces, NM at NMSU Practice Field
• 06/28 Salt Lake City, UT at Utah State Fairpark
• 06/29 Denver, CO at Invesco Field
• 07/01 Maryland Heights, MO at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
• 07/02 Bonner Springs, KS at Sandstone Amphitheater
• 07/03 Dallas, TX at SuperPages.com Center
• 07/05 Selma, TX at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
• 07/06 Houston, TX at Sam Houston Race Park
• 07/09 Atlanta, GA at Lakewood Amphitheatre
• 07/10 Orlando, FL at Central Florida Fairgrounds
• 07/11 St. Petersburg, FL at Vinoy Park
• 07/12 Miami, FL at Bicentennial Park
• 07/13 Elkton, FL at St. Johns County Fairgrounds
• 07/14 Charlotte, NC at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
• 07/15 Virginia Beach, VA at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
• 07/16 Columbia, MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion
• 07/17 Cleveland, OH at Time Warner Cable Amphitheater
• 07/18 Detroit, MI at Comerica Park
• 07/19 Mississauga, ON at The Flats at Arrow Hall
• 07/20 Montreal, QC at Parc Jean-Drapeau
• 07/23 Mansfield, MA at Comcast Center for the Performing Arts
• 07/24 Darien, NY at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
• 07/25 Camden, NJ at Susquehanna Bank Center
• 07/26 Uniondale, NY at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
• 07/27 Scranton, PA at Toyota Pavilion
• 07/28 Englishtown, NJ at Raceway Park
• 07/29 Pittsburgh, PA at Post-Gazette Pavilion
• 07/30 Cincinnati, OH at Riverbend Music Center
• 07/31 Noblesville, IN at Verizon Wireless Music Center
• 08/01 Milwaukee, WI at Marcus Amphitheater
• 08/02 Tinley Park, IL at First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
• 08/03 Shakopee, MN at Canterbury Park
• 08/05 Saskatoon, SK at Credit Union Centre
• 08/06 Calgary, AB at Race City Speedway
• 08/08 Nampa, ID at Idaho Center
• 08/09 George, WA at Gorge Amphitheater
• 08/10 St. Helens, OR at Columbia Meadows
• 08/13 Fresno, CA at Save Mart Center
• 08/14 Chula Vista, CA at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
• 08/15 Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre
• 08/16 Marysville, CA at Sleep Train Amphitheater
• 08/17 Carson, CA at Home Depot Center

References [ ]

• ↑ KATY PERRY :: One Of The Boys
• ↑ The Pinker Tones
• ↑ Revolution Mother
• ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 War For The Warped Tour 2008 Information
• ↑ Rapzilla.com - Braille confirmed for Vans Warped Tour this Summer
• ↑ The Expendables - Shows
• ↑ The Frantic on purevolume™
• ↑ Victim Effect - Tour Dates

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The Warped Tour has announced the final lineup for the 2008 edition of the tour. The list includes every band scheduled to perform on the tour and the dates they will appear. Plan accordingly.

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How the Warped Tour helped artists (and fans) find themselves

Musicians and fans alike are mourning the end of the Vans Warped Tour, whose founder announced last month that the traveling music festival would end in 2018 after 23 years.

Since 1995, the “punk rock summer camp” has been a rite of passage for many big-name artists.

Katy Perry has said she “ got her bearings ” on Warped in 2008. Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman tells a story that The Black Eyed Peas met lead singer Fergie at a barbecue during the festival. Eminem, G-Eazy, and Bebe Rexha all got a kick start from the tour, which attracts an average of 600,000 concertgoers each summer.

Announcing the end “felt like my funeral,” Lyman said. For artists and fans, the buildup to the last tour is a reason to reflect on how much it’s meant to them.

Alex Gaskarth of Baltimore-based pop punk band All Time Low, who played Warped Tour four times, tweeted that without Warped Tour, “I probably would not be where I am today.” Kevin McCallister, drummer for pop rockers Set it Off, wrote on Twitter that the tour was something he looked forward to every summer and was instrumental in shaping his love of music.

Neck Deep, a Welsh pop punk band that built up an American audience on Warped Tour, thanked Lyman for giving them the opportunity to play, tweeting that , “The Warped Tour was something we all grew up dreaming about … some of the best days of our lives.”

In the alternative rock scene, playing the Vans Warped Tour could make careers. Before they played sold-out arenas, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Blink 182, No Doubt and Paramore joined Lyman’s lineup to perform for whomever showed up.

“To play the entire Warped Tour on a bus is very prestigious in the punk rock world,” said Shane Henderson, former frontman of pop punk band Valencia .

Henderson played Warped Tour five times with Valencia. The band slowly worked its way up from a week of dates in 2005 to eventually joining the tour for all of the 28-plus cities. He remembers walking around the festival playing his music through a set of headphones to drum up support. Later, he sold the band’s record for a dollar to get his music out there.

“Warped Tour makes you take a hard look at yourself and your performance. How can we be more entertaining? How can we make people come back and see us?” Henderson, 32, said. “There’s a lot of competition there.”

Warped Tour has no age limit and its core audience skews young — 15 to 25 years old. Lyman credits that to the kind of bands he booked. Seventy percent of his lineup were the bands popular with teens, like Fall Out Boy, Paramore, the All American Rejects and All Time Low. He remembers standing in the pit, watching bands like My Chemical Romance draw in hundreds of kids who couldn’t even drink yet, and immediately booking the band for another stint on the tour.

“[Warped Tour] had the ability, through access to popular bands and brands, to harness a style and sound kids loved,” said Stephen Thompson, writer for NPR Music. “Because the music tended to have a darker, outcast-y edge to it, Warped Tour could bring together lots of kids who felt alienated and frustrated.”

The tour averages 40 dates a summer, and 20,000-plus young fans attend each stop. To keep everyone safe, Lyman admits chaperones free of charge and sets up air-conditioned tents for them, known as “reverse daycare.”

Set times for specific bands are intentionally kept a secret from not only the fans, but from the musicians as well. Lyman said Warped helps musicians learn to tour, part of which means being ready to go at any time, and making an effort to draw an audience. “There’s no elitism on Warped Tour,” Lyman said. “You just have to be a great live performer.”

Caroline Shaw, 19, brought her 51-year-old father to one of the three Warped Tour shows she’s attended, dragging him into the pit so he could feel the energy that she loves so much. “Warped Tour is loud and chaotic,” Shaw said. “But it’s this tiny piece of chaos that makes sense to me.”

At Warped Tour, Shaw, then an engineering major at Iowa State University and hating it, decided to become a music journalist. Today, she’s the music writer for her college newspaper and uses that platform as a way to chase the feeling she first experienced at Warped Tour.

“I don’t even want to think about what would have happened if I hadn’t gone to Warped,” Shaw said. “Warped Tour is, or was, this place where young people could be themselves and not be hidden.”

Warped Tour set itself apart by traveling to the cities that many arena or club tours often ignore. For 17-year-old Natalie Lindsey, seeing bands like Sleeping with Sirens or Pierce the Veil play her tiny Kansas hometown was a huge deal. She’s attended the tour three times now, and considers the festival “a relief” from the conservatism she’s grown up in.

“The bands on Warped Tour talk about things other bands don’t want to talk about, like addiction and mental health and confidence,” Lindsey said. “Warped Tour allows me to find friends who have gone through the same struggles I have. It’s a sense of family.”

Family values are what Lyman had in mind when he chose a sponsor for the tour in 1996. After declining to have Calvin Klein fund the tour, Lyman was approached by Steve Van Doren, whose family founded the California skate shoe company Vans in 1966.

“Music wasn’t my forte — I was a shoe guy,” Van Doren said. “But we had always seen bands with shoes and we wanted to get into that.”

Vans shoes became a quintessential punk rock staple, and Van Doren says it all started on Warped Tour.

The tour has also brought a philanthropic aim to its merchandising, holding blood drives, collecting canned goods and providing support services for substance abuse and mental health, in addition to working with groups devoted to animal rights advocacy and suicide awareness.

“Warped Tour is the kind of place that can change you as a person,” Lindsey said. “It really showed me that you’re more than just yourself, and inspired me to help other people.”

The final Vans Warped Tour will cross the country June 21 – Aug. 5, 2018. Fans have begged for Warped-Tour greats like Fall Out Boy, All Time Low and My Chemical Romance to play the final round. Henderson has offered to reunite Valencia just to play Warped one last time.

And what does the end of the tour mean for the music? “That’s going to be for the next generation to figure out,” Lyman said. “One of those kids out there has to step up and take the scene forward.”

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Chelyabinsk - Overview

Chelyabinsk is one of the largest industrial, economic, cultural, and business centers of Russia, the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast. This city is located on the geological border of the Urals and Siberia, in the Asian part of Russia, on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, on both banks of the Miass River, about 1,800 km east of Moscow.

The population of Chelyabinsk is about 1,179,000 (2022), the area - 500 sq. km.

The phone code - +7 351, the postal codes - 454000-454930.

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15 February, 2013   / Powerful explosion has happened in the sky over Chelyabinsk today morning. According to the officials, it was the result of a meteor rain. About 500 people sought medical attention mostly injured by fragments of broken glass. A bright flash was seen over the entire region, including Ekaterinburg and Tyumen. You can find more info in our blog post about Chelyabinsk meteorite explosion .

History of Chelyabinsk

Foundation of chelyabinsk.

In 1736, the fortress named Chelyaba (most likely, a Bashkir word) was founded on the Miass River. One of the reasons for the construction of this and several other fortresses located nearby was the threat of attacks of the Bashkirs on caravans with supplies. The fortress became part of the Ufa Province.

In 1748, the first stone church was laid in the fortress. In 1781, it received the status of a town called Chelyabinsk. In 1782, the coat of arms of Chelyabinsk was approved by decree of Empress Catherine II. A loaded camel depicted on it meant that trade routes passed through this town located in the Asian part of the Russian Empire. In 1795, the population of Chelyabinsk was about 2,700 people.

By the middle of the 19th century, this town played an important role in trading in the Urals. Until the end of the 19th century, Chelyabinsk remained a small town. In 1882, its population was about 7,700 people. The second birth of Chelyabinsk took place in 1892 - after the completion of the construction of the Samara-Zlatoust Railway, which connected Chelyabinsk with the European part of the Russian Empire.

After 1892, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway continued further to the east of the country. In 1896, the further development of Chelyabinsk was facilitated by the commissioning of the branch of the Ural Mining Railway, which connected Chelyabinsk with Yekaterinburg. In just a few years, the town became one of the leaders in bread, butter, meat, and tea trade in the Russian Empire. Chelyabinsk was unofficially called “The Gateway to Siberia”.

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Chelyabinsk in the first half of the 20th century

In just a decade, the population of the town grew significantly (in 1897 - about 20 thousand people, in 1910 - more than 60 thousand), and the territory increased by one third. For rapid growth at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, similar to American cities, Chelyabinsk was sometimes called “Chicago beyond the Urals”.

The armed rebellion of the Czechoslovak Corps after the events at the Chelyabinsk Railway Station on May 14, 1918 and the capture of the city on the night of May 26 to 27, 1918, led to its participation in the Civil War in Russia on the side of the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly and later on the side of A. V. Kolchak (one of the leaders of the White Armies opposing the Reds (Bolsheviks)). In July 1919, the Reds occupied Chelyabinsk and Bolshevik authorities began to form in the city. In 1923, the population of Chelyabinsk was about 54,300 people.

On September 3, 1919, Chelyabinsk became the center of the Chelyabinsk province. On November 3, 1924, it was transformed into the Chelyabinsk district of Ural Oblast. On January 17, 1934, Ural Oblast was divided into three separate regions - Sverdlovsk Oblast with a center in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast with a center in Chelyabinsk, and Ob-Irtysh Oblast with a center in Tyumen.

In 1937, there were discussions about renaming the city of Chelyabinsk in Kaganovichgrad in honor of Lazar Kaganovich, a Soviet politician and administrator. During the first Soviet five-year plans, Chelyabinsk became one of the largest industrial centers of the USSR. From the beginning of the 1930s, tractor, abrasive, ferroalloy, electrode, machine tool, and zinc plants began to operate. In 1939, the population of Chelyabinsk was about 273,000 people.

Chelyabinsk during the Second World War

During the Second World War, Chelyabinsk played a very important role as a production base. The population of the city grew rapidly from 270 to 650 thousand people. On the basis of more than 200 enterprises evacuated from the western regions of the USSR that merged with local industries, several giant plants were opened: the Chelyabinsk Forge and Press Plant, the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, and the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant.

After combining the capacities of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant with two evacuated enterprises - the Leningrad Kirov Plant and Kharkov Engine-Building Plant, mass production of tanks (KV-1, IS-2, T-34) and self-propelled guns (SU-152 and ISU-152) began. In total, during the war, about 60 thousand tank diesels and 18 thousand fighting vehicles (20% of all Soviet fighting vehicles) were produced in Chelyabinsk. By the end of the war, every third Soviet tank and combat aircraft had Chelyabinsk steel. The city acquired a new unofficial name - Tankograd (The City of Tanks).

During the war years, about 220,000 people were sent from the front to Chelyabinsk for treatment, 78% of them returned to service after healing their wounds. In 1941-1944, the Kiev Medical Institute, evacuated from the capital of Ukraine, was training medical doctors in Chelyabinsk. In 1944, the Chelyabinsk Medical Institute was established on its basis.

Chelyabinsk in the second half of the 20th century and beyond

In the post-war period, Chelyabinsk became a supplier of equipment, machinery, and specialists for the reconstruction of Stalingrad, Donbass, DneproGES, and other industrial centers. In 1947, a new development plan was approved, which provided for multi-storey buildings in the city center and areas adjacent to industrial enterprises. This radically changed the panorama of Chelyabinsk.

By 1960, there were already about 15 thousand students in Chelyabinsk. In 1976, Chelyabinsk State University was founded - the first classical university in the South Urals. By the 1980s, the capital of the South Urals became a major scientific center of the USSR with 7 universities and about 40 research and design institutes.

On October 13, 1976, a millionth resident was born in Chelyabinsk. By 1980, its enterprises produced more than 50% of Soviet stainless steel, 20% of pipes, 30% of ferroalloys. At this time, the new building of the Chelyabinsk Drama Theater with 1,200 seats was opened, the Chelyabinsk Puppet Theater gained all-Russian fame. In 1986, Chelyabinsk celebrated its 250th anniversary. In honor of this, a geological museum, a chamber and organ music hall were opened.

The first half of the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR and the transition to a market economy, was a difficult time for Chelyabinsk and its huge plants. From the second half of the 1990s, industry gradually resumed production, and a lot of plants entered the world market.

In 2004, the pedestrian street of Kirovka was opened. It has become a favorite place for walks of Chelyabinsk residents and guests of the city. In 2006, the new building of the State Historical Museum of the South Urals was opened. In 2009, the ice arena “Tractor” with a capacity of 7,500 spectators was built. In the 2010s, after the recession of the 1990s, construction and commissioning of new housing intensified.

On February 15, 2013, a large meteor with a diameter of about 17 meters and a mass of about 10 thousand tons entered the atmosphere in the vicinity of Chelyabinsk (the Chelyabinsk Meteor). Fortunately, it exploded in the sky relatively high above the city. However, 7,320 buildings were damaged and 1,613 people were wounded as a result. Its debris fell into Lake Chebarkul, from where the largest fragment was later raised and delivered to the Chelyabinsk Museum of Local Lore.

Chelyabinsk views

Winter in a residential area in Chelyabinsk

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Trinity Bridge in the center of Chelyabinsk

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Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Virgin near the Chelyabinsk Railway Station

Author: Aleksey Podbelsky

Chelyabinsk - Features

Chelyabinsk, one of the ten largest cities in Russia, is located almost in the center of the continent of Eurasia (about 1,400 km from its geographical center), east of the Ural Mountains, 216 km south of Yekaterinburg.

This city is located on the border of the Urals and Siberia. That is why it is also informally known as “The Gateway to Siberia”. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, a lot of travelers bought postcards at the railway station of Chelyabinsk and sent them around the world as evidence of their stay in Siberia. Leningrad Bridge connects the Ural and Siberian banks of the Miass River, thus it is a bridge from the Urals to Siberia.

On the coat of arms of Chelyabinsk you can see a loaded camel, as a sign that important trade routes passed through it, and a fortress wall showing that Chelyabinsk was founded as a fortress.

The climate of Chelyabinsk is temperate continental (transitional from temperate continental to sharply continental). Winters are long, moderately cold, and snowy. The average temperature in January is minus 14.1 degrees Celsius. Summers are moderately warm and dry. The average temperature in July is plus 19.3 degrees Celsius.

Due to the fact that Chelyabinsk is an industrial city with a large number of factories, the environmental situation in the city is poor. The level of air pollution is high. The city has an increased level for a number of diseases compared with the average for Russia.

Chelyabinsk is one of the largest industrial centers of Russia. The main industries are metallurgy, manufacture of finished metal products, engineering. Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant is the largest ferroalloy plant in Russia. Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant produces about 2% of the world and 60% of Russian zinc. Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant is the largest producer of stainless steel in Russia.

Through Chelyabinsk, traffic flows from the European part of Russia to Siberia. In particular, this city is the final point of the federal highways M5 Ural (Moscow - Chelyabinsk), R254 Irtysh (Baikal) (Chelyabinsk - Novosibirsk), A310 (Chelyabinsk - Kazakhstan). Public transport is represented by buses, trolleybuses, trams, and minibuses. The international airport “Chelyabinsk” offers flights to several large Russian cities, mainly to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Chelyabinsk has historically developed as a center of several cultures: first of all, the cultures of the indigenous inhabitants of the region - the Bashkirs, Tatars, and Russians. There are Orthodox churches and mosques, a Catholic church, several Protestant churches, and a synagogue in the city.

Main Attractions of Chelyabinsk

Kirovka Pedestrian Street - an analogue of the pedestrian street of Arbat in Moscow. Here you can see a number of interesting monuments (“Zero Milestone”, the monuments to volunteer tankers, Alexander Rosenbaum, the founders of Chelyabinsk), as well as sculptures (“The Boy with the Camels”, “The Artist at the Mirror Easel”, “The Saxophonist”, “The Coquette”, “The Beggar”, “The Merchant”, and others).

Also on this street there are shops, cafes, entertainment facilities, buildings of the early 20th century, and the business center “Chelyabinsk-City”.

Aloye Pole (Scarlet Field) - a park located in the very center of Chelyabinsk, one of its most popular holiday destinations. In the 19th century, it was a square where the city fair was held. In 1905, a demonstration of workers was dispersed by force here. That’s why the place got a new name - “Scarlet Square”. In 2000, the park received the status of a historical place.

Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Yury Gagarin . This park adjacent to the relict pine forest is the most beautiful park in Chelyabinsk with rides, sports grounds and playgrounds, a contact zoo, a summer movie theater. Fresh air, thick crowns of trees, blue expanse of ponds, comfort, and cleanliness attract residents and visitors of the city.

Chelyabinsk Zoo . On an area of 8 hectares, more than 130 species of animals live, of which more than 80 are listed in the Red Book including polar bears, Amur tigers, leopards. There is also a contact zoo on the territory, where children can also feed animals and play with them. Truda Street, 191.

Historical Museum of the Southern Urals . There are three permanent exhibitions dedicated to nature and ancient history, folklife, and history of the 20th century. The museum has old photographs, documents, books, paintings of the 18th-20th centuries, household items and clothing of Russians, nomads, and Tatar-Bashkir tribes, Zlatoust engravings, ancient coins, mineralogical collections, bones of extinct animals, and stuffed animals.

The museum also exhibits the largest (weighing half a ton) of the found fragments of the Chelyabinsk Meteor that exploded in the sky above the city at an altitude of about 15-25 km in 2013. Truda Street, 100.

Museum of Fine Arts . This museum has several thousand exhibits of Western European, Eastern, and Russian art. Here you can see the works of world-famous artists: Aivazovsky, Levitan, Shishkin. Also there is an interesting collection of icons of the 16th-19th centuries. Truda Street, 92a.

Museum of Arts and Crafts of the Urals . Here you can see the whole range of folk art crafts of the Southern Urals: products of the Zlatoust weapons factory, exhibits demonstrating the skill of local carvers and jewelers, hand-painted utensils, porcelain products of the South Ural factory, etc. Revolution Square, 1.

Chelyabinsk Railway Museum . The museum exposition is located in two places: in the building #63 on Tsvillinga Street, where more than 14 thousand exhibits are stored, and at the Chelyabinsk Railway Station (Zheleznodorozhnaya Street, 1/1), where you can see various railway equipment: steam locomotives, electric locomotives, modern trains, military trains, and special equipment. In the exhibition halls, you can see rails, station bells, old tickets, lights, signaling devices, and other items.

Museum of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant - the largest and most popular museum in the region. It is dedicated to the history and activities of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. The museum has several thousand photographs, documents, personal belongings of employees, posters, newspaper clippings. It is better to visit this museum with a thematic tour, during which you can not only learn interesting facts, but also feel the true spirit of the plant and the city of Chelyabinsk. Lenina Avenue, 19.

Holy Trinity Church (1914) - the largest church in Chelyabinsk built of red brick and topped with a green roof. The main feature of this building is a large number of arched windows on all tiers and an abundance of decorative ornaments on the facade. Inside, the walls and ceiling are painted with murals on biblical themes. Kirova, 60?.

Monument to Kurchatov . Igor Kurchatov, the famous Soviet scientist and creator of the first atomic bomb in the USSR, was born in the town of Sim of Chelyabinsk Oblast in 1903. In 1986, in honor of the 250th anniversary of Chelyabinsk, the monument “Split Atom” was erected in his honor on Nauki (Science) Square. It consists of two vertical platforms 27 meters high, which symbolize an elementary particle, and the figure of Kurchatov standing in the middle. Lenina Avenue, 86.

Chelyabinsk city of Russia photos

Sights of chelyabinsk.

Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren in Chelyabinsk

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Circus in Chelyabinsk

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Stele to the Defenders of the Fatherland in Chelyabinsk

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Pictures of Chelyabinsk

Stele at the entrance to Chelyabinsk

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Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows in Chelyabinsk

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The questions of our visitors

The comments of our visitors.

I heard an interview with a woman from Chelyabinsk several days after the meteor exploded over your city on February 15th, 2013. She said "We should use this meteor to bring people to our city. We need our own Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty".

I think the meteor could help your city draw tourists, if the city is willing to invest money to make this happen. Specifically, you could build a museum that would:

Besides the museum, have boat rides on the lake where pieces of the meteor broke through the ice.

To support the museum (and tourists) year-round, would it work to put together ski packages, transporting skiers to the Urals by bus via the M5 highway (or others) during the day and bringing them back to Chelyabinsk at night? Can you improve air connections US-Europe-Moscow-Chelyabinsk? Add a few restaurants? Etc.

A meteor like yours hits the Earth once a century. If you want it, you could make Chelyabinsk a tourist destination. It's worth a try. David Irvin

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Loeisterke Milan overkomt hectische finale en strakke lead-out Van der Poel voor tweede ritzege in Renewi Tour

Jonathan Milan heeft de derde etappe in de Renewi Tour gewonnen. In een biljartvlakke rit van Blankenberge naar Ardooie was hij na 185,5 kilometer de snelste in een massasprint. Hij klopte Jasper Philipsen , die door Mathieu van der Poel nog zo goed was afgezet.

Zonder de gehavende Tim Merlier vertrok het peloton om 11.30 uur aan een lange, vlakke tocht. De vroege vlucht had zodoende alle tijd om in de kijker te rijden en uiteráárd was TDT-Unibet van de partij. Axel Huens en Jordy Bouts kregen gezelschap van Warre Vangheluwe (Soudal-Quick Step), Aaron Van Poucke en Ward Vanhoof (Flanders Baloise).

Het vijftal kreeg maximaal een dikke drie minuten voorgift, met Lidl-Trek, Alpecin-Deceuninck en Lotto-Dstny in de controle in het peloton. Het tempo lag verschroeiend hoog, waardoor Huens richting de laatste honderd kilometer moest lossen. Met vier gingen we voor een eerste keer naar de finish in Ardooie, met nog tachtig kilometer voor de wielen. Na twee lokale rondjes van vijftien kilometer was het gat nog twee minuten.

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We kwamen op het slotcircuit in een status quo terecht. Het peloton sorteerde voor op de onafwendbare massasprint, terwijl de vier leiders steevast bleven doorbeuken. Bij het ingaan van de slotronde stond er nog een half minuutje op de klok. Die kloof was snel gedicht, waardoor er weer aan aanvallen kon worden gedacht richting de laatste tien kilometer. Vangheluwe gaf gas namens Soudal-Quick Step. De jonge Belg reed in no-time twintig seconden weg!

Natuurlijk hield die solo geen stand, in een peloton dat fris was en wilde sprinten. Op vier kilometer van de meet werd Vangheluwe ingerekend en dus kon het grote dringen beginnen. Renners denderden massaal over de stoep en de straten die steeds smaller werden. Van der Poel stuurde er indrukwekkend doorheen en had Philipsen in z'n wiel richting de laatste rechte lijn. Het was echter niet de Belg, maar Milan die er keihard overheen kwam en machtig won.

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