NASHVILLE |DATE: FEBRUARY 9, 2004
FROM: KRISTINE ASHTON-MAGNUSON/LIBBY
HENRY/AMANDA HALE
VANS WARPED TOUR 2004
INTERNET PRE-SALE TICKETS AVAILABLE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 AT 6:00 PM EASTERN/3:00 PM PACIFIC;
EIGHT-WEEK TREK KICKS OFF JUNE 25 IN HOUSTON;
LINE-UP INCLUDES BAD RELIGION, NEW FOUND GLORY, THE VANDALS, THURSDAY, NOFX, GOOD CHARLOTTE, LARS FREDERIKSEN AND THE BASTARDS,
SIMPLE PLAN, BOUNCING SOULS, TAKING BACK SUNDAY,
THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY, COHEED AND CAMBRIA, ATMOSPHERE AND MORE;
FUSE SIGNS ON WITH TOUR
AS EXCLUSIVE NATIONAL BROADCAST PARTNER AND PRESENTER
With summer around the corner, the tenth annual VANS WARPED TOUR ®–America’s longest-running touring festival–is gearing up for a discounted Internet pre-sale for this year’s trek. Beginning Tuesday, February 10 at 6:00 PM EST/3:00 PM PST, pre-sale tickets will be available for purchase at www.warpedtour.com.
Some of the bands confirmed for this year’s summer trek which kicks off June 25 include: Bad Religion, Good Charlotte, NOFX, Thursday, New Found Glory, Simple Plan, The Vandals, Taking Back Sunday, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, Story Of The Year, International Noise Conspiracy, Coheed and Cambria, Bouncing Souls, Flogging Molly, Atmosphere, Anti-Flag, Rise Against, The Casualties and Yellowcard. A full line-up follows below.
The tour has again partnered with Musictoday and Fanscape, the official marketing company of Vans Warped Tour, to offer discounted presale tickets. In order to purchase pre-sale tickets, fans simply log on to www.warpedtour.com and join the tour’s mailing list. Beginning February 9, everyone on the VANS WARPED TOUR email list will get a password emailed to them so they can access the ticketing page. Each ticket purchased via the Internet pre-sale will be accompanied by a copy of the Vans Warped Tour double-CD compilation on SideOneDummy Records featuring bands from the 2003 tour.
Internet pre-sale tickets are only $23.74, which includes $19.99 for a ticket, $3.50 for this year’s Vans Warped Tour compilation CD, a $3.50 convenience fee and 25 cents to be contributed to Hollywood Heart.* After the limited presale tickets are sold out or when tickets officially go on sale in a market, the early-bird special will expire and tickets will return to their regular price of approximately $25.00, plus applicable Ticketmaster charges.
In other news, the VANS WARPED TOUR has partnered with Fuse–the nation’s only all-music, viewer-influenced television network–to help promote this year’s trek. Fuse has signed on to the VANS WARPED TOUR as the exclusive national broadcast partner and presenter. The foundation of the Fuse agreement is to break the traditional rules of branding by creating unique strategic partnerships that support all initiatives of established and emerging bands. Fuse, now available in more than 35 million households, is the new music television destination. The VANS WARPED TOUR and Fuse partnership was initiated, developed and negotiated by leading music marketing company, Fanscape.
Fuse will support the tour with on-air programming tie-ins featuring tour promotional spots and tour date announcements, kicking off its broadcast partnership by officially unveiling the festival’s roster of acts on IMX: Interactive Music Xchange, during the live daily telecast. Fuse will also develop weekly programming tied around VANS WARPED TOUR headlining artists throughout the tour. The partnership will culminate with a two-hour 10th Anniversary VANS WARPED TOUR concert special which will air exclusively on Fuse in September.
Following is a list of bands confirmed for this year’s tour listed alphabetically.
20 X
A Thorn For Every Heart
Alexisonfire
Alkaline Trio
All Rights Reserved
Allister
Amber Pacific
Anatomy of a Ghost
Anti-Flag
As I Lay Down
Atmosphere
Audio Karate
Autopilot Off
Avenged Sevenfold
Bad Religion
Billy Talent
Black Fury’s
Bleed The Dream
Bouncing Souls
Boys Night Out
Brazil
Break Dance Vietnam
Break The Silence
Chronic Future
Codie
Coheed and Cambria
Crowned King
Die Hunns
Don't Look Down
Dynamite Boy
Early November
Eight Fingers Down
Eighteen Visions
Fall Out Boy
Fear Before the March of Flames
Fighting Jacks
Flogging Molly
From Autumn to Ashes
From First to Last
Go Betty Go
Good Charlotte
Guttermouth
Happy Campers
Hazen Street
Hidden in Plain View
His Orange
Holden
IMA Robot
Jackson
Jersey
Juliette & the Licks
Kill Radio
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
Left Alone
Letter Kills
Lennon
Lillix
Lylha
Madison
Mae
Matchbook Romance
Melee
Monty’s Fan Club
Motion City Soundtrack
Much The Same
My Chemical Romance
New Found Glory
NOFX
Northstar
Opiate For The Masses
Over It
Pepper
Piebald
Pipedown
Planetsmashers
Plans for Revenge
Pot Luck
Pulley
Rise Against
Rose Hill Drive
Rufio
Saosin
Senses Fail
Silverstein
Simple Plan
Slowdance
Stars Hide Fire
Stole Your Woman
Story of the Year
Strait Outta Junior High
Suffocate
Sugarcult
Taking Back Sunday
Texas Terri Bomb
The Beautiful Mistake
The Briggs
The Casualties
The Code
The Early November
The Eyeliners
The F Ups
The God Awfuls
The Hurt Process
The (International) Noise Conspiracy
The Kinison
The Matches
The Q
The Red West
The Revolution Smile
The Silance
The Snakes, The Cross, The Crown
The Sounds
The Swear
The Tossers
The Vandals
Thought Riot
Thursday
Tiger Army
Trophy Scars
Truth In Fiction
Underminded
Unit F
Wanted Dead
Washington Social Club
Windsor
Yellowcard
Yesterday’s Rising
Tour dates are as follows:
Date City Venue
Fri 6/25 Houston, TX Reliant Center
Sat 6/26 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Music Center Lot
Sun 6/27 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
Tue 6/29 Las Cruces, NM N.M.S.U. Practice Field
Wed 6/30 Phoenix, AZ Peoria Sports Complex
Thur 7/1 Fullerton, CA Cal State Fullerton
Fri 7/2 Fullerton, CA Cal State Fullerton
Sat 7/3 San Francisco, CA Pier 30/32
Sun 7/4 Las Vegas, NV Desert Breeze Skate Park
Tue 7/6 San Diego, CA Coors Amphitheatre
Wed 7/7 Ventura, CA Seaside Park
Thur 7/8 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre Lot
Fri 7/9 Boise, ID Idaho Center Amphitheatre Lot
Sat 7/10 Seattle, WA Gorge Amphitheatre Lot
Sun 7/11 Portland, OR Columbia Meadows
Tue 7/13 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium
Thur 7/15 Calgary, AB Race City Speedway
Fri 7/16 Bozeman, MT Gallatin County Fairgrounds
Sat 7/17 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairgrounds
Sun 7/18 Denver, CO Invesco Field
Tue 7/20 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
Wed 7/21 St. Louis, MO UMB Bank Pavilion
Thur 7/22 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
Fri 7/23 Cleveland, OH Tower City Amphitheatre Lot
Sat 7/24 Chicago, IL Tweeter Center
Sun 7/25 Minneapolis, MN Metrodome Lot
Mon 7/26 Kansas City, KS Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
Wed 7/28 Atlanta, GA Hi Fi Buys Amphitheatre Lot
Thur 7/29 Orlando, FL Central Florida Fairgrounds
Fri 7/30 Tampa, FL Vinoy Park
Sat 7/31 Miami, FL Pompano Beach Amphitheatre Lot
Sun 8/1 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Fairgrounds
Mon 8/2 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
Tue 8/3 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
Wed 8/4 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion Lot
Thur 8/5 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
Fri 8/6 Philadelphia, PA Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
Sat 8/7 New York, NY Randall's Island
Sun 8/8 Englishtown, NJ Englishtown Raceway
Tue 8/10 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Pavilion
Thur 8/12 Quebec City, PQ Colisee Pepsi Parking Lot
Fri 8/13 Montreal, QB Parc Jean Drapeau
Sat 8/14 Toronto, ON Molson Park
Sun 8/15 Detroit, MI Pontiac Silverdome
Mon 8/16 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center Lot
Tue 8/17 Columbus, OH Germain Amphitheatre
Wed 8/18 Buffalo, NY Darien Lakes PAC
Thu 8/19 Boston, MA Gillette Stadium Parking Lot
The Vans Warped Tour is made possible through the support of Vans, title sponsors–Samsung Telecommunications America and Cingular Wireless, Fuse, PlayStation®2, Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink, Wrigley’s Winterfresh, AOL, Hot Topic, truth, Monster Energy and Hansen’s Sodas, Alternative Press and SPIN magazine.
* Hollywood Heart (www.camppacificheartland.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing recreational opportunities through a summer camping program for children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Check out www.warpedtour.com and sign up for the VANS WARPED TOUR email list to receive updates about the tour and stay tuned as tour attractions will be revealed soon.
For more information contact: MSO 818-380-0400
Kristine Ashton-Magnuson (national press, LA and NY shows) ext. 233 kashton@msopr.com
Libby Henry (national press, LA and NY shows) ext. 224 lhenry@msopr.com
Amanda Hale (dailies, weeklies, regional print and TV) ext. 238 ahale@msopr.com
Shazila Mohammed (fanzines, college, online outlets) ext. 231 shazila@msopr.com
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