There are 4 more days on the warped tour. Not including the 2 days off i am currently enjoying.
Here is a very basic breakdown of what a day of warped is like.
You will usually wake up around 7 am when you get to the new venue. if you lucky you will fall back asleep for a little while, maybe outside the van in a patch of shady grass if your lucky, although it is usually 90 some degrees and when the sun comes up it's miserable.
Then you get your stuff together and take off to look for the warped tour. Sometimes you have to park a half a mile away. Usually I will first look for the showers, if your early enough you may not have to wait in line for too long. Then i usually head over to the catering tent and get breakfast. This is crucial, if you want to last 1 day on this tour you need breakfast.
Then you head over to where James is setting up the merch tent.
You pretty much wait here for a while, until you get your set times for the day.
The Sims set is always between 1 and 3, but the P.O.S set could between 11am or 7pm, you never know. Then after hanging at the merch tent for a while it's time to go get the Dj gear.
This can take up to an hour, and since you have to be at the stage a half hour before your set time, you need to be on top of this. Sometimes you have to push a cart across big gravel parking lots in 100 degree heat, and it can really be shitty.
Then you play a show, get lunch maybe, do merch, get dinner, play another show, outside all day, in the heat, the crowds, the very loud shitty bands.
Bus call is when you need to leave to get to the next city. This is anytime between 9pm and 2 am. If the bus call is later, there will be a BBQ at night in the parking lot, just for the bands.
Every once in a while there will be kickball, and other parties to go to. I have DJed 2 of these parties so far. Its very rare that you get to actually leave the warped tour and go into the city.
The tour is always at least an hour from the city that your near, and there just isn't time.
Then you get in the van and fall asleep while driving to the next city.
So yes its very much like i have been in a parking lot for weeks.
I don't mean to make it sound so shitty, I having a great time.
There are a few bands on the tour that are actually good, most notably...
Gallows and Evaline. They are amazing.
but only 4 more, then we start the club dates.
here are a few more pics.
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