Warped Tour 2012 was the eighteenth edition of the Vans Warped Tour. The North American leg of the tour began in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 16, 2012 and ended in Portland, Oregon on August 5, 2012 and spanned 41 dates. The tour’s roster and line-up was revealed at a launch party on March 29, 2012 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. The party featured performances from Yellowcard, Falling in Reverse, The Used and more.
One week after the final show in Portland, a single UK date of November 10, 2012, was announced on the Warped Tour website, with the venue being The Alexandra Palace in London. The full line-up was also listed, and tickets were available to purchase on the same day. 2012 was the first time that the Vans Warped Tour had travelled to the UK since 1999, thirteen years prior.
The tour featured thirteen unique stages, the majority of which were named after sponsors of the year’s tour. Larger bands would play all of their dates on main stages such as the Kia and Monster Energy stages for the whole tour, whereas bands with less of a following played on the smaller stages on select dates of the tour.
Warped Tour 2012 featured over 100 performing bands and artists, the most notable of which included All Time Low, Pierce The Veil, Rise Against and Mayday Parade. In an article for Alternative Press, Rachel Campbell ranked 2012 ninth in her list of top ten Warped Tour line-ups.
Bands
A Loss For Words After The Burial All Time Low Amyst Anthony Raneri Anti Flag Ballyhoo! Bangups Bayside Blessthefall Blood On The Dance Floor Born Of Osiris Breathe Carolina Brian Marquis Captain Capa CatchingYourClouds Champagne Champagne Chelsea Grin Cherri Bomb Chuck Ragan Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Cold Forty Three Danielle Barbe Dead Sara Divided By Friday Dustin Jones And The Rising Tide Echo Movement Emily's Army Every Time I Die Falling In Reverse Fireworks For Today Four Year Strong Funeral Party G-Eazy Hostage Calm Hyro Da Hero I Am The Avalanche I Call Fives I Fight Dragons Impending Doom Into It. Over It. It Boys! Iwrestledabearonce June Divided Justina Koji Living With Lions Lost In Society Lostprophets Machine Gun Kelly Make Do And Mend Man Overboard Matt Toka Mayday Parade Memphis May Fire Mighty Mongo Miss May I Mod Sun Motionless In White Neo Geo New Empire New Found Glory Noise Brigade Of Mice And Men Oh No Fiasco Owen Plant Pierce The Veil Polar Bear Club Railroad To Alaska Rise Against Rise To Remain Senses Fail Sick Of Sarah Skip The Foreplay Sleeping With Sirens Sleepwalker Stepdad Streetlight Manifesto Super Water Sympathy T. Mills Taking Back Sunday Taylor Thrash Ten Second Epic The Constellations The Darlings The Ghost Inside The Green The Jukebox Romantics The Scissors The Silver Comet The Used They All Float Title Fight Tomorrow's Bad Seeds Tonight Alive Tony D'Angelo Transit Twin Atlantic Vampires Everywhere! Vanna Vinnie Caruana Wax We Are The In Crowd We Are The Ocean We The Kings Wick-it The Instigator Yellowcard You Me At Six
Tour dates DateCityCountryVenueNorth AmericaJune 16, 2012Salt Lake CityUnited StatesUtah State FairparkJune 17, 2012DenverSports Authority Field at Mile HighJune 20, 2012Las VegasLuxor Hotel Parking LotJune 21, 2012IrvineOrange County Great ParkJune 22, 2012PomonaPomona FairplexJune 23, 2012San FranciscoAT&T Parking LotJune 24, 2012VenturaVentura County FairJune 27, 2012Chula VistaCricket Wireless AmphitheatreJune 28, 2012GlendaleCamelback RanchJune 29, 2012Las CrucesNMSU Practice FieldJune 30, 2012San AntonioAT&T CenterJuly 1, 2012HoustonReliant Centre Parking LotJuly 3, 2012DallasGexa Energy PavilionJuly 5, 2012Maryland HeightsVerizon Wireless AmphitheatreJuly 6, 2012Auburn HillsThe Palace of Auburn HillsJuly 7, 2012Tinley ParkFirst Midwest Bank AmphitheatreJuly 8, 2012ShakopeeCanterbury ParkJuly 9, 2012Bonner SpringsSandstone AmphitheatreJuly 10, 2012NoblesvilleKlipsch Music CenterJuly 11, 2012Cuyahoga FallsBlossom Music CenterJuly 12, 2012BurgettstownFirst Niagara PavilionJuly 13, 2012HolmdelPNC Bank Arts CenterJuly 14, 2012MontrealCanadaNotre-Dame BasilicaJuly 15, 2012TorontoFlats At Molson Canadian AmphitheatreJuly 17, 2012Darien CenterUnited StatesDarien Lake Performing Arts CenterJuly 18, 2012ScrantonToyota PavilionJuly 19, 2012MansfieldComcast CenterJuly 20, 2012CamdenSusquehanna Bank CenterJuly 21, 2012UniondaleNassau Veterans Memorial ColiseumJuly 22, 2012HartfordComcast TheatreJuly 24, 2012ColumbiaMerriweather Post PavilionJuly 25, 2012Virginia BeachFarm Bureau Live at Virginia BeachJuly 26, 2012AtlantaAaron's Amphitheatre at LakewoodJuly 27, 2012OrlandoCentral Florida FairgroundsJuly 28, 2012West Palm BeachCruzan AmphitheatreJuly 29, 2012St. PetersburgVinoy ParkJuly 30, 2012CharlotteCharlotte Verizon Wireless AmphitheatreJuly 31, 2012CincinnatiRiverbend Music CenterAugust 1, 2012MilwaukeeMarcus AmphitheatreAugust 4, 2012AuburnWhite River AmphitheatreAugust 5, 2012PortlandRose Quarter RiverfrontEuropeNovember 10, 2012LondonEnglandAlexandra Palace
Sponsors
Featured Vans Kia Monster Energy
Other sponsors 1Love Action For Animals Air Force Reserve All Girl Skate Jam American Rag Alternative Press Arby's Foundation Arnette Art Feeds ASCAP Boarding For Breast Cancer BANDHAPPY Buy Green CANVAS Foundation Chicago Custom Percussion Century Media Records Dark Horse Percussion Daisy Rock Digitech Epitaph Records Equal Vision Records Ernie Ball Eventbrite Farm Animal Rights Movements Fat Kid Rules The World Fearless Records Feed Our Children Now f'real Fueled By Ramen Full Sail University Fuse The Gray Haven Project Greenvans The Hands That Rock Hollywood Waste Hopeless Records House Of Marley Invisible Children Jack In The Box John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Keep A Breast Foundation Klean Kanteen Krochet Kids Live Olley Living The Dream Foundation Mackr Magic: The Gathering MATADOR Beef Jerky Mr Broken Place NAMM NARAS Natural High Orange Amps Paradiddles Peta2 Peter Says Denim Project X The Punky Pets Pure Noise Records Renee The Movie Rise Records Rockford Fosgate Sabian Shirts For A Cure SideOneDummy Records SJC Drums Skad Skelanimals So So Happy Snagola Sumerian Records Trojan Tilly's Truth Initiative To Write Love On Her Arms Umbrella Clothing Unite The United Visual Sound The Wishbone Foundation
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