Florida’s annual punk festival The FEST is back for FEST 18, featuring a stellar lineup of bands in the punk, rock, hardcore, and pop-punk genres.
Headlining the festival this year is Jawbreaker, Less Than Jake, a reunited Jawbox, Dag Nasty, Mariachi El Bronx, Off With Their Heads, AJJ, Iron Reagan, Joyce Manor, and Teenage Bottlerocket.
Others scheduled to perform include Brendan Kelly of The Lawrence Arms, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Tsunami Bomb Dikembe, Calicoco, Heartsounds, Go Betty Go, Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires, Tim Barry, and The Copyrights.
International acts that are scheduled to play compromise of Überyou from Switzerland, S.M.N. from Japan, Sorry! We Are Silly from Italy, Good Friend from Ireland, Billy Liar from Scotland, DFMK from Mexico, Lone Wolf from the Netherlands, Forever Unclean from Denmark, Captain Asshole from Germany, and Eat Defeat from the UK.
The current lineup can be found at The FEST’s website. More acts will be announced on May 11.
This year’s FEST will take place from Friday, Novermber 1, to Sunday, November 3, in Gainesville, Fla..
Tickets for FEST 18 are available now, but get them before they sell out!
Check out the poster for the festival below.
The FEST began in 2002 and was created by Tony Weinbender, formerly of No Idea Records. Since then, bands like Against Me!, Big D And The Kids Table, Code Orange, Diarrhea Planet, The Ergs!, The Front Bottoms, The Gaslight Anthem, Hot Water Music, Into It. Over It., Jeff Rosenstock, Knapsack, La Dispute, Matt And Kim, Naked Raygun, Only Crime, PUP, Red City Radio, Snapcase, Tigers Jaw, United Nations, Valient Thorr, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, and You Blew It!, have performed.
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