I can't believe it's up to me to start this topic again! Serious slackin' going on here.

I'll break mine down into a top 5 of bands I have not seen and bands I've seen...you can do whatever suits you well.

Bands I have not seen:
The Soviettes
Max Levine Ensemble
Ssssnakes
None More Black
Bangers


Bands I have seen:
Off With Their Heads
The Dopamines
Dear Landlord
Dillinger Four
Copyrights

how haven't you seen dear landlord yet? i've seen them at least 5 times and i'm from the uk.

i think i've seen every band i want to see at the Fest before, but i've basically stopped listening to new music. but then again, i haven't done my yearly listen-to-bands-i've-never-heard-of-that-are-playing-the-fest session yet, so maybe there'll be loads of great new bands.

i'm kind of annoyed that none more black, hot water music, against me and lifetime are playing. it means that i'm almost certainly going to have to watch the headliners at the venue each night. other than that it's the usual suspects of banner pilot, tiltwheel, dillinger four, dear landlord, iron chic, good luck, and drinking too many rum rummers cocktails.

How have I not seen Dear Landlord? The past 2 Fests it has nearly been impossible to see them. At Fest 8 there was the power outage at the Venue and everyone went to Common Grounds.... last year they opened at 8 Seconds and everyone was in line there. So I didn't even bother. As far as I know they haven't played anywhere close to me in the mean time. That's how I have not seen them.

I tried to see Dear Landlord at 8 Seconds last year, too. Got in line early and still waited through their set. Boo.

(Not necessarily in this order)
1. Bouncing Souls
2. Coffee Project
3. Greenland is Melting
4. Larry and His Flask (dudes are freakin' NUTZ)
5. Tim Barry
6. Youth Brigade

Larry And His Flask
Tim Barry
Armalite
Franz Nicolay
No Trigger
The Slow Death
The Soviettes
Polar Bear Club
Red City Radio
Screaming Females
Cheap Girls
TV Casualty
Upright Citizens Brigade


There are bands playing that I like way more than those, but I really don't want to go to The Venue if there's anybody playing anywhere else I wanna see.

and I still need to see Hour Of The Wolf added to the lineup.

Bands I've seen
Bomb the Music Industry!
Off With Their Heads
1994!
Touche Amore
Larry and His Flask
Teenage Bottlerocket

Bands I haven't seen
Circle Takes the Square
Dillinger Four
Ampere
Dopamines
Mixtapes
Algernon Cadwallader

I usually use the Fest as a chance to see all the young bands that I never get out to see any more but this year I'm feeling nostalgic so I think I'm going to celebrate Fest 10 by going to see all my old favorites. I hope to squeeze in some young bands but I'll wait to figure out that when the schedule gets announced. For now:

Hot Water Music
None More Black
The Arrivals
The Bouncing Souls
Dillinger Four

subject to change based on the next band announcement but as it stands....

most looking forward too...

already seen:

Hot Water Music
Tigers Jaw
Such Gold
Make Do and Mend
Living With Lions
How Dare You
Less Than Jake
RVIVR

never seen:

Small Brown Bike

With the linup there at the moment i've seen most of the bands i love so hoping for something brand new with the next list of bands, maybe a band that has never been to the uk and also some small up and coming bands.

bands I've seen:
Less Than Jake
Off With Their Heads
We Are The Union

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bands I will be seeing before Fest:
Polar Bear Club
Lemuria
Cheap Girls

main reason I'm going to Fest is for Less Than Jake and Coffee Project (and The Swellers before they pulled out) But I'm also excited to see bands I've only discovered recently, Like Protagonist and Mixtapes.

Dear Landlord
La Dispute
Circle takes the square
the measure (sa)
heartsounds
cobra skulls
defiance,ohio
go rydell
shook ones
paul baribeau
the menzingers
the dopamines
The Wild

and a whole lot more

considering there are 20+ bands that i'd like to see at Fest, this was really hard, but here goes...

have seen before/will see by Fest
Less Than Jake
Coffee Project
Larry and His Flask
The Dopamines
Mikey Erg

haven't seen
Rehasher
Spanish Gamble
The Riot Before
Protagonist
Red City Radio

hopefully this year I can catch the entire Dear Landlord set
also:
Cheap Girls
and Coffee Project who played during Flatliners last year and I went with teh Flats but it was awesome anyway
and Rehasher
Samiam because...well yeah because I want to finally see them hah. Circle Takes the Square for the same reason.
Bouncing Souls o' course
La Dispute, Mixtapes, Dopamines again, can never get enough of the Menzingers, Tigers Jaw

oh god so many I hope my schedule doesn't conflict too much >.<

street eaters
good luck.
max levine ensemble.
defiance ohio
rvivr.
BTMI!
the measure (sa)

Wait... is None More Black playing? Did I miss that?

Samiam
Hot Water Music
Menzingers
RVIVR
Iron Chic
Coliseum
Lemuria
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
Tigers Jaw(still havent seen them)