all 3 cities will do well. Theyre not big spaces so 20,000 or so each place will indeed do well. The lineup is slowly going to be rolled out. They say 70-100 per city. Incredible value for $150 on 2 days. The final 2019 edition was 2 day format in 3 cities and lineups were like this. Well worth it. Most are Mid level bands but stacked to the gills.
Thats life. Try doing that for 17 years and not knowing the schedule til you walked into the festival. That was Warped Tour. And only £25 for most of the time. Worth the hassle/stress.
RAR getting Linkin Park, Nova Rock not getting them is my guess. It's not unheard of though for a festival the next day to follow suit and just kinda of grab their 'own' announcement but it has always seemed kinda you knew what was coming. Happened with SOAD years ago.
Yes
They definitely should be and one I missed, they only get booked for 4th down Download for example and didn't pull a mad crowd last time either I don't believe...I was quite far forward. It was actually quite disappointing compared to their own tour. The fact they've only booked Manchester Victoria Warehouse so far in England in February which actually seems to be inaccessible after appearing before.
It's not going to be Detones or The Offspring and I think Gallows would sub.
I reckon you're looking at AOF, AFI, Rise Against, Amyl and one other. I'm not sure what makes Kneecap suddenly big enough but I'll go with them. I think AOF as one of the best bookings he's made. I think only Shikari and B4MV would be classed as bookings the festival have made that would be 3rd down bookings at Download as a similar style of music. I'm surprised AOF made 3rd and reckon they probably were the act to bring to cost down and little. Some acts especially over 4 days have to maybe play thag slot high as long as it's not into the very too slots and I think this was a case but given they did it puts them in this. You can see though that booking Bullet for them did cause in my view them to booking a weaker undercard for it that day. To be honest just generally been better Trees lineups than 2023.
Rise Against+AFI
Amyl + Knee Cap
AOF
I think Amyl selling out Ally Pally well will stop them needing of of the above. I'm not overall your main trees attendee but if they booked that top two I'll definitely going even if just for the evening as for the usual around £36/40 that would be mad value, though I don't see how they'll justify less than £45/50 even for evening entry this year. Would expect day tickets to be around £80/90 but an undercard for that Thursday to suffer a bit. I wasn't even charged parking last time I went either which was a bonus and hung in the car until early hours to leave.