Warped Tour

So I caught the Red Arrow to Calgary on Thursday morning (6:30 am) to go see the Van’s Warped Tour.  This was my third time to Warped, and it was pretty awesome again.

Bands I liked:

• Pennywise
• Bad Religion
• New Found Glory
• Tiger Army
• Yellowcard
• Panamore
• Cute is What We Aim For
• Ill Scarlet
• Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• The Vincent Black Shadow

Bands I didn’t care for:

• Circa Survive (way too emo, and not in a good way)
• Coheed and Cambria (too metal for me)
• Killswitch Engage (again, too metal)

Other memories:

• Biggest score of swag at any event I’ve ever been to (like 8 sample cds plus a couple fistfuls of stickers and a few other random things)
• Awesome weather (32C, sunny all day) – luckily we got shade for most of the day
• Yellowcard closed and had a circle pit around the sound booth with only 1/10 of the total crowd left
• Should probably eat more than one hot dog all day next time
• Smaller bands are always begging for your attention (Authority Zero)
• Larger bands can now rip you off on clothing (Bad Religion t-shirt = $25)

An awesome trip, I can’t wait for next year.