Taste of Chaos
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Taste of Chaos is a post-hardcore tour that was started in the winter of 2004 by Kevin Lyman, the creator of the successful Warped Tour. The Taste of Chaos tour was designed to bring in bands outside the usual punk, emo and metal format that the Warped Tour usually caters to. That philosophy has evolved: In 2007, each of the seven bands playing the entire tour was a Warped Tour veteran; five had played the 2006 Warped Tour and Four (The Used, Senses Fail, Saosin and Aiden (One Show)) had played previously.
Taste of Chaos serves fans of alternative music as the "Winter Warped Tour" since dates run from October through April of the next year. The headlining bands in 2005 were The Used, My Chemical Romance, and Killswitch Engage. During the tour Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance left due to family illness and Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage left due to an illness; Frank was replaced for the remainder of the tour and Killswitch Engage trekked on as a 4-piece. Just after Sophomore finished their final date of their stint on the tour (St. Louis), they wrecked the tour van.
The tour was highly successful in 2005 for many of the same reasons as its summer counterpart, including cheap tickets and major bands of the genres. In the fall of 2005, the tour became international with The Used, Story of the Year, and Rise Against playing in Australia, Europe, and Asia. The 2006 lineup included Deftones and Thrice headlining. Just prior to the Canadian switch, Funeral for a Friend dropped the tour and The Receiving End Of Sirens was replaced by Dredg. When the tour reached Canada, Thursday took over for Story of the Year, and Silverstein joined the tour. Thursday singer Geoff Rickly became very ill just a couple days into their stint on tour and could not sing anymore, forcing the band to drop out of the remaining dates. The band Broke took over for The Confession about this time as well.
In 2007 the RTOC bands are: The Used, 30 Seconds To Mars, Senses Fail, Saosin, Chiodos, Aiden, and Evaline. Also playing will be the Ernie Ball International Battle of The Bands Winners. There is no second stage this year because Kevin Lyman couldn't get any of his Warcon Records bands to play for him.
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[edit] Ernie Ball International Battle Of The Bands Winners
Ernie Ball International Battle Of The Bands started in 2006, to get popular upcoming small and unsigned bands to play the Taste of Chaos shows in their local towns across many of the tour dates. Fans determine which band is able to win by voting for all bands though the Ernie Ball International Battle Of The Bands Website. The Top 20 Bands in each city, by way of votes will be reviewed by a panel of judges who will select One band out of the top 20 to play live in their hometown on Taste of Chaos Tour.
Judging Criteria
The Top 20 vote getting bands in each city will be reviewed by the judges. One band will be selected based on the following indicators:
1. Musicianship
2. Ability to Draw in a Live Setting
The Judges
Cara Williams - World Renowned Lawn Bowling Champion, creator of the Lawn Ball 3000, Manager of The Beatles
Christine Lamarre - Asian acrobat, currently in law school at Harvard, Manager of Simon and Garfunkle
Kevin Lyman - Founder of the Vans Warped Tour, Co-Founder of the Rockstar Taste of Chaos Tour.
John Reese, Co-Founder of the Rockstar Taste of Chaos, Manager of The Used, Story of the Year.
Sterling Ball - CEO of Ernie Ball Inc.
Brian Ball - Marketing and Artist Relations for Ernie Ball Inc.
Dustin Hinz - Promotions / Marketing for Guitar Center Inc.
Brett Woitunski - CEO and Founder of purevolume.com
John Oakes - Vice President of Freeze Artist Management and Co-Founder of Chaos Mobile
Mike Kelso - Music Marketing Director for Rockstar Energy Drink.
Steve Evetts - Producer, Engineer, Mixer Extraordinaire
[edit] 2005 Line Up
- A Static Lullaby
- Atreyu
- Bleed the Dream
- Gratitude
- Funeral for a Friend
- Killswitch Engage
- Like Yesterday
- My American Heart
- My Chemical Romance
- Nicky P.
- Opiate for the Masses
- Saosin
- Senses Fail
- Sophomore
- The Used
- Underoath
- Unearth
- Firstborn, Templeton Pek - Doncaster, UK
[edit] 2005 Local Band Winners Line Up
- 3/4 Toronto, ON - Dear Jane, I
- 3/5 London, ON - Seconds To Go
- 3/8 Toledo, OH - Reserved
- 3/9 Chicago, IL - Affections Else
- 3/10 Cleveland, OH - Loko Phylum
- 3/11 Detroit, MI - Before I Go
- 3/12 Milwaukee, WI - The Felix Culpa
- 3/13 St. Louis - Walk It Off
- 3/14 St. Louis - Scarlet May
- 3/16 Des Moines - Sweet Afton
- 3/17 Omaha, NE - Asking Abby
- 3/18 Denver, CO - Otenki
- 3/19 Kansas City, KS - With No Remorse
- 3/20 Minneapolis, MN - Four Letter Lie
- 3/22 Saskatoon, SK - Tombstone Diaries
- 3/23 Calgary - Safe on a Satellite
- 3/25 Vancouver - Starless Nights
- 3/26 Seattle, WA - Aiden
- 3/28 San Jose, CA - Story Told
- 3/29 Sacramento, CA - Downshift
- 3/30 Fresno, CA - Flight 409
- 3/31 Los Angeles, CA - Anias
- 4/1 San Diego, CA - A Dead Giveaway
- 4/2 Phoenix, AZ - A Change of Pace
[edit] 2006 Line Up
- Adair
- American Eyes
- As I Lay Dying
- Atreyu
- Broke
- The Confession
- Deftones
- dredg
- Funeral for a Friend
- Greeley Estates
- Millionaire
- Pelican
- The Receiving End of Sirens
- Silverstein
- The Smashup
- Story of the Year
- Street Drum Corps
- Thrice
- Thursday
- The Heist
- For Felix
[edit] Winter 2006 Line Up
Main Stage
- Taking Back Sunday
- Anti-Flag
- Underoath
- Thursday - AUS/NZ dates only
- Alexisonfire - UK dates only
- Senses Fail
- Saosin
- Fire In The Attic - DE dates only
- Parkway Drive - AUS dates only
- Cold By Winter - NZ dates only
Second Stage
- Fast Reaction - Birmingham, UK
- Cancer Bats - Newcastle, UK, Nottingham, UK and Cardiff, UK
- Templeton Pek - Birmingham, UK, Manchester, UK
- Bagster - Sydney, AUS
- Tonight Is Goodbye - London, UK
[edit] International Battle Of The Bands Winners 2006
Australia/New Zealand
- Quarter 2 - Auckland, NZ
- Anime Fire - Perth,AU
- Blow Up Betty - Adelalde, AU
- 21 Summers - Melbourne, AU
- As Silence Breaks - Sydney, AU
- DrawCard - Brisbane, AU
Japan
- Lost - Osaka, JP
- Starboard - Nagoya, JP
- New Starting Over - Tokyo, JP
Europe
- Remember the Nights - Graz, AT
- Aquefrigide - Bologna, IT
- Coffee Shower - Winterhur, CH
- Sparkle of Hope - Brussels, BE
- Aimecho - Paris, FR
- Jesus Project - Tilburg, NL
Germany
- Talk Radio Talk - Bremen, DE
- Passadenna - Berlin, DE
- Parrachutes - Munich, DE
- The Needless - Neu-Isenberg, DE
- Ashes of Pompeii - Bielefeld, DE
- Eternal Tango - Cologne, DE
United Kingdom
- Fast Reaction - Birmingham, UK
- PMX - Glasgow, UK
- My Mind's Weapon - Glasgow, UK
- PenKnifeLoveLife - Leeds, UK
- Thoughts Collide - Brighton, UK
- The Upgrades - Dublin, IR
- The Honeymoon Suites - Newcastle, UK
- Tonight is Goodbye - London, UK
- Tripped and Falling - Nottingham, UK
- SaidMike - Cardiff, UK
[edit] 2007 Lineup
(all bands scheduled for all shows. Unscheduled cancellations were Saosin, February 14 in Everett; The Used, March 7 in Pensacola; the entire show, March 8 in Jacksonville; Chiodos, March 29 in Kitchener.)
[edit] Reviews
- Live Review of April 2006 Calgary, AB, Canada Concert by Chris Andrade for kMNR...Music News Weekly
[edit] External link
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