With veteran acts and latter day heroes on the bill, the Vans Warped Tour will bring a full slate of punk rock and action sports to venues across the United States for an 11th time this summer. Although specific dates have not been revealed, organizers are planning a March 15 Internet ticket pre-sale at Warpedtour.com.
At deadline, an initial lineup of 60 acts are confirmed to appear, with more to be added. As previously reported, the Offspring, the Transplants, Thrice, My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy have already acknowledged their participation on the tour.
Among the other acts slated to appear are Motion City Soundtrack, Dropkick Murphys, Senses Fail, Underoath, Atreyu, Tsunami Bomb, Avenged Sevenfold, the Explosion, the Matches, Hawthorne Heights, Strung Out, the Bled, Horrorpops and the Starting Line. The full lineup of confirmed acts is listed below.
Acts will entertain audiences across two main stages, a second stage sponsored by Hurley and eight other branded stages, one of which will be set up just outside each venue. As has become the norm for this outing, not all bands will play all dates.
Tapping myriad sponsors for the tour’s various stages and attractions helps organizers keep ticket prices affordable. One new sponsored music feature is dubbed Energizer Keeps the Music Going, where advance online voting will award one band at each date a 10-minute set extension.
On the sports side, 2005 will bring a daily Amateur Skate Jam, where professionals will judge 20 local skaters at each stop and award prize money. A Punk Junk donation center will benefit local homeless shelters, with needed items listed on the tour Web site and a tour sponsor gift given to those who contribute.
Here is an alphabetical list of confirmed Vans Warped Tour artists:
Academy Is
All American Rejects
Amber Pacific
Atreyu
Avenged Sevenfold
Bedouin Sound Clash
Billy Talent
Bleeding Through
The Bled
The Briefs
Dead 60’s
Dropkick Murphys
The Explosion
Fall Out Boy
The Fight
From First to Last
Funeral For A Friend
Go Betty Go
Gratitude
Gym Class Heroes
Halifax
Hawthorne Heights
Hidden In Plain View
Horrorpops
Hot Rod Circuit
Juliette and the Licks
Kinison
Lost City Angels
Mae
Matchbook Romance
The Matches
My Chemical Romance
Mest
Millencolin
Motion City Soundtrack
MxPx
Near Miss
No Use For A Name
The Offspring
Plain White T’s
Reggie & the Full Effect
Relient K
Rufio
Saosin
Senses Fail
Silverstein
Skindred
Something Corporate
The Starting Line
Street Dogs
Strike Anywhere
Strung Out
Stutterfly
Thrice
Throw Rag
The Transplants
Tsunami Bomb
The Twenty Twos
Underoath
The Unseen
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