THE FINAL, OFFICIAL ROCKLAHOMA 2008 LINEUP
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 2:38pm by Vince Neilstein
Here it is in all its glory, the 2008 Rocklahoma lineup. With the exception of the yet-to-be-named Sunday headliner (we called Motley Crue — the verdict is still out), we did pretty good with our predictions, eh? The full four-day lineup after the jump.
Thursday:
Bret Michaels (headline)
LA Guns (Tracii’s version)
Enuff Z’ Nuff
Jetboy
VAIN
House of Lords
Friday:
Triumph (co-headline)
Extreme (co-headline)
Nightranger
Kingdom Come
Amoured Saint
XYZ
Saturday:
Cinderella (headline)
Warrant (with Jani Lane)
Pretty Boy Floyd
Every Mother’s Nightmare
Tora Tora
Black N Blue
Trixter
Kix
Sunday:
[headliner TBA]
Tesla
Axe
Beautiful Creatures
Zebra
Lynch Mob
-VN
The CRUE will finish it up on Sunday. LULZ
BIG WASTE-O-TIME FEST ‘08!
Is that Armoured Saint with John Bush back on vox? Please say “yes.”
HOLLYWOOD, CA – On Tuesday, March 4th the Catch the Fever Music Festivals announced at its press conference from the historic Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, its lineup for the 2008 festival taking place July 10-13, 2008 in Pryor, Oklahoma. Over 84 bands will be performing on three giant stages throughout the four days.
The press conference was hosted by Eddie Trunk, who can be heard on XM’s Boneyard Channel 41, VH-1 Classic and is syndicated throughout the nation. In attendance was Bret Michaels, front man of Poison, all of Warrant featuring Jani Lane, along with members of Cinderella, LA Guns, Enuf Z Nuff, Beautiful Creatures, Night Ranger, XYZ, Pretty Boy Floyd, Vain, and Lynch Mob.
The Rocklahoma Press Conference was heard live on XM’s Boneyard Channel 41, as well as streamed on Wyldside Radio.
The initial lineup on the main stage is as follows:
Thursday (Pre Party for those who have bought three day tickets) Bret Michaels, LA Guns featuring Tracii Guns, Enuf Z Nuff, Vain, House of Lords and Jet Boy.
Friday: XYZ, Armored Saint, Kingdom Come, Night Ranger, TBA, Triumph and TBA.
Saturday: Pretty Boy Floyd, Every Mother’s Nightmare, Tora Tora, Black N Blue, Trixter, Kix, Warrant featuring Jani Lane and Cinderella
Sunday: Axe, Beautiful Creatures, Zebra, Lynch Mob, TBA, Tesla and TBA
Additional bands on the main stage will be added in the upcoming weeks. Lineup and bands are subject to change.
Two side stages adjacent to the main stage feature over twenty-eight regional artists on each stage.
The Retrospect Records stage includes the following bands: Jester, Sidekixx, Pair-A-Dice, Front Runner, Tommy Had a Vision, Valor, Gypsy Blue, Whitefoxx, Blue Tiger, Wild August, Messang, Paul Shortino, Mariah, Warryor, Bad Candy, Lorraine, Nasty Nasty, Real Steel, Cuttlass, Vyper, Mass, Bad Candy, Oney, Strikeforce, Herazz, Reckless, Heartless, Ron Keel, Warryor and Alibi.
The other stage has Gypsy Pistoleros ( Friday night show closers ), Dirty Penny ( Saturday night show closers ), Crooked X ( Sunday night show closers ), Texas Hippie Coalition, Karnevil featuring Dario Lorina, Sweet FA, Banshee, Gods of Kansas, Lipstick Magazine, Pownd, Shadowside, Mindflow, Warmachine, Asphalt Valentine, Krucible featuring Lance King.
Rocklahoma is the world’s largest Rock Festival of its type featuring bands from the eighties. Rocklahoma has already sold tickets from all fifty states and throughout Canada and Europe.
Armoured Saint is so out of place with this group. Awesome ’80s metal.
A friend of mine and I wrote about the line-up today over at my site.
http://metalmark.blogspot.com/2008/03/good-bad-and-our-big-mouths-rocklahoma.html
I think the line-up is a little better than last year, but not by much.
What about Krokus? I thought they were scheduled to play on Friday evening as the Headliner. No comment about Krokus in the Press Conference……What else lies ahead?
what was the lineup last year? anybody already have hotel room booked for this year 2008 and want someone to help them split the cost? email me and lets talk. im looking to pay for part of room if someone has it avl. email me at rossinfl@hotmail.com. i just need someone who already has non smoking room w/2 double beds to email me so we can work something out ok.
thanks so much
ross rossinfl@hotmail.com
We will be coming from Philly. CINDERELLA on Saturday night, cool. Also, on Friday afternoon July 11th another Philly band, WHITEFOXX will be playing. These guys were one of the better Philly area bands of the 80’s, too bad they never got signed. Retrospect Records recently released an eight song demo of theirs…it sounds ok for what I’m sure was an unfinished demo. If you’ve never heard of WHITEFOXX…Jeff LaBar from Cinderella played guitar for them for a short time, so did Reggie Wu from Heaven’s Edge. Tony Harnell from TNT was their original lead singer. Most of their most stable lineup will be playing…Tipa Sparrs (vocals),Mike Regina (bass), Tucker Michaels (guitar), Rik Anthony (drums)… Dave Lord (guitar) will not be able to make the trip so Danny Danzi will be playing guitar. You can catch some videos of Danny on YOUTUBE…he shreds! We also can’t wait to see EXTREME. Pretty good lineup so far, does anyone know who the TBA’s are gonna be yet?!?
email me at rossinfl@hotmail.com so we could all maybe arrange day and time to meet and hang out some. im in tampa florida and me and my buddy are arriving in tulsa, ok on wed 9 and not leaving till sometime the following monday. if anyone wants to share costs of hotel driving etc. le me know also ok dudes.
ross
rossinfl@hotmail.com