Warped Tour
Warped Tour is a touring music and extreme sports festival. The skateboarding shoe manufacturer Vans has sponsored the tour every year since 1995, so it is often referred to as the Vans Warped Tour.
In recent years, The Warped Tour has featured over 100 bands per show. The bands play for around 30 minutes over approximately ten different stages. Although starting as a punk and Ska tour, it has branched out showcasing Emo, and some Heavy Metal, and Rap.
History
The Warped Tour was created in 1994 by Kevin Lyman. Lyman got the idea while working on skateboarding shows such as the Vision Skate Escape and Holiday Havoc, which included music with skateboarding contests. The Warped name comes from the short-lived Warp Magazine published by Transworld. It tried to combine surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and music into one glossy package.
In 1998, the tour went international including venues in Australia, Japan and Europe as well as the United States.
The 1999 tour started off in New Zealand and Australia in the New Year. Then starting up again in the USA for the northern hemisphere summer before ending up in Europe.
As well as music, this tour brings many attractions including half pipes and ramps for skating and bikers. The tour also features many booths creating a flea-market like atmosphere, with a tent from each band (to sell their own merchandise) along with independent record labels, non-profit organizations, and sponsors looking to market their products and brands to the tour's audience.
Sponsors are a vital part of the Vans Warped Tour as the cash infusion they provide subsidizes many of the tours expenses, allowing ticket prices to be kept relatively low when compared to similar tours.
As one of the most successful North American concert tours, The Vans Warped Tour continues to prosper, selling over 500,000 tickets a year and out-performing similar tours like the Ozzfest.
Bands on the 2006 Warped Tour
 The Academy Is...
AFI
Against Me!
Aiden
Amber Pacific
Anti-Flag
Armor For Sleep
The Audition
Billy Talent
Bouncing Souls
boysetsfire
Bullet For My Valentine
Buzzcocks
The Casualties
Chiodos
The Classic Crime
Comeback Kid
The Confession
Early November
Eighteen Visions
Emery
Every Time I Die
From Autumn To Ashes
From First To Last
The Fully Down
Gatsby's American Dream
The Germs
Greeley Estates
Gym Class Heroes
He Is Legend
hellogoodbye
I Am The Avalanche
It Dies Today
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
June
Less Than Jake
The Living End
Misery Signals
Moneen
Motion City Soundtrack
Mute Math
NOFX
Over It (band)
Panic! At the Disco - THEY WILL NOT BE ON THIS! Rumors are FALSE, They will be HEADLINING their own summer tour. See: http://www.panicinthenetwork.net/sdinterview.php
Paramore
The Pink Spiders
Pistolita
Plain White T's
Reggie and the Full Effect
Remembering Never
Rise Against
Riverboat Gamblers
Saves The Day
Saosin
Senses Fail
Silverstein
So They Say
The Sounds
The Stiletto Formal
Thursday
Underoath
Valient Thorr
See also
List of bands previously on the Warped Tour
List of bands on the 2005 Warped Tour
Further reference
Warped Book: Tales of Freedom & Psychotic Ambition by Heidi Siegmund Cuda ISBN 0972112707
External links
Warped Tour
Warped Tour Guide, Comprehensive guide to the Warped tour. Also known as Warped2006.com
Unofficial Warped Tour Page
Unofficial Parent's Guide to Warped Tour
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