As you’d expect, the final ‘Vans Warped Tour‘ stops of the year in Orlando, FL this weekend were negatively impacted by yesterday’s nationwide ground stop in the United States. With many artists flying in for the festival, the situation did however present a unique opportunity. Some fans were treated to an impromptu set from a number of the artists scheduled to perform. Among them were Hoobastank, Simple Plan, The Used and LØLØ.
While those artists made the best out of a bad situation, the resulting scheduling chaos has wreaked some havoc on the festival’s plans this weekend. ‘Warped Tour‘ founder Kevin Lyman hit social media this morning, November 14th, to admit that cancelations and rescheduling were unavoidable given the rare travel incident. Lyman said in the below video [transcribed by theprp.com]:
“Wow, I never thought I’d have to deal with a complete shutdown of airports. In my entire life, for 47 years in the music business, and 32 years bringing you the Warped Tour: never happened. So what’s going on is we will have a few bands canceling, and we will be updating you on that. Not as many as we thought, because the bands are working hard to change their flights. Some bands have jumped in vans and driving from as far away as Chicago and Houston.
We’re going to push some bands that we’re playing today, will [now] be playing on Sunday. We’ve extended the sets out and giving bands more time to play. Bear with us. We’re all working hard, just like yourselves. We really appreciate you, and I hope many of you had a great time down on Wall Street last night, and we’re going to bring you a great weekend. Thanks for bearing with us.”
