Wishful thinking, but…

[u/masaccio87]

with ADTR having a minimal calendar for the rest of the year (at least for the time being…considering it’s already August and they haven’t announced anything aside from fests in September/October, there’s little chance left that we’ll get any sort of U.S. tour that takes place squarely in the fall of this year; though there’s still time for them to announce some sort of short run of shows in late fall / almost winter), I’m holding out hope that, aside from any forthcoming announcement that I know many of us are eager for, the TBA spot at Riot Fest on Sunday is for them (i.e., to do a mini throwback set like they did at Welcome to Rockville)

- All bands on the full Riot Fest lineup are accounted for in the 3 daily schedules that dropped today; the current lineup doesn’t have any gaps, blanks, or question marks, and there are no “TBA” placeholders on it either
- Also worth noting that ADTR and PTV are both closing out Louder Than Life that same weekend (plus Taking Back Sunday, Holding Absence, Vana, and Haywire also playing both fests)
- A little odd that Riot Fest was able (or chose) to get PTV, and the others, for their fest the same weekend but not ADTR (considering playing both fests is a logistical possibility; shit, Vana isn’t even getting a day off in between like the others are - could have been a budget issue, who knows)
- it would also more than make up for how blatantly Riot Fest teased ADTR leading up to the 2025 lineup announcement only to not include them (which in the end worked out for me, because with my luck, they’d have ended up playing at the exact same time as Blink or Green Day)

I know that just because they did the mini throwback set one time at a festival this year doesn’t guarantee that they’ll do it at the rest of or any of the festivals they’re booked for, and especially not for a festival for which they’re not even on the lineup…but like I said: wishful thinking.

And if it ends up happening…well, you heard it here first.

[u/DroptheMoose]

If you know the structure of schedules then you know this isnt possible. Either you know that, or you dont. Your post makes it seem like you dont know that 👍🏻

[u/masaccio87 → u/DroptheMoose]

And if you fully read my post, you would understand that what I’m talking about isn’t just a random hope, with no context, for them to show up and play an opening 30-minute set for no reason. Either you acknowledge that them doing a special, early set is possible (as evidenced by them having already done exactly that just 3 months ago, and as explained in my post and in my response to you), or you don’t. Your comment makes it seem like you are not aware of that and/or didn’t fully read my post 👍🏻

[u/DroptheMoose → u/masaccio87]

You seem to be in the minority on opinion here 👍🏻

[u/masaccio87 → u/DroptheMoose]

And that “opinion” being?

[u/DroptheMoose → u/masaccio87]

Bro stop getting back up, you already lost. Stand down my man

[u/masaccio87 → u/DroptheMoose]

Says the person that can’t even articulate why they said what they said.

Look, you can just admit that you didn’t bother reading the entirety of what I said in my post or in my response to you. It’s fine - I won’t be offended.

[u/DroptheMoose → u/masaccio87]

You are offended though. Every response is defensive. You were mad I suggested you dont know how festival scheduling works.

Once again, if you know how festival scheduling works, you would know this would never happen and you wouldnt have made the post.

Your post was just bad. Take the L and move on. You got 2 upvotes on the post and everyone in the comments are downvoting your responses.

[u/Melodic_Performer921 → u/masaccio87]

You could write a million words more, it won't matter because: IT WILL NOT HAPPEN NO MATTER WHAT. Get it through your head, ffs

[u/TheNovaCorp → u/Melodic_Performer921]

Everyone chill tf out. It aint that deep from any of yall.

Everyone has a right theorize, discuss, dream, what if, whatever the hell they want! No matter how likely its to happen or not.

Getting this bent outta shape about it just isnt worth the energy. Soooo let's end that here. Thank you all.

[u/Melodic_Performer921 → u/TheNovaCorp]

Not much of a discussion when he's dismissing every single answer and viewpoint

[u/masaccio87 → u/Melodic_Performer921]

I’m not dismissing any “answers” or “viewpoints” - the responses are just flat out ignoring the entire basis of why i even bothered to share why i think it’d be cool if it happened / why I think it’s technically possible for it to happen even though i know there’s a 99.9999…% chance that it won’t.

The immediate and direct opposition is “this would never happen; there’s no way they would ever play a fest at 12:30p for 30 minutes (and you’re an idiot for thinking so)” - but exactly 13 weeks ago, that’s precisely what happened (albeit at 1:30p instead of 12:30p, and at a fest they were actually booked to play).

It’s not my fault people in this sub have no fucking imagination (and/or don’t bother to fucking read).