2025.05.10 - Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival

[Stewe]

7 minutes ago, MMM said:

There were a few great proshots from the Pol'and'Rock festival last year. I keep my fingers crossed that Open'er will keep up with the level.

I hope, will be awesome to have a few festivals livestream.

Usually Rock Werchter and Hellfest will do good quality stream.

[blackout]

2 hours ago, MMM said:

There were a few great proshots from the Pol'and'Rock festival last year. I keep my fingers crossed that Open'er will keep up with the level.

 

I've been to Open'er two times and honestly, they've never had many proshots available. I was on Open'er in 2022, when Twenty One Pilots were the headliner, and they didn't even publish a single video from their performance. Sometimes they publish one song from a concert, but that's not always the case. However, this year supposedly they have an official partnership with the Polish national TV so it might be different this time round.

[Stewe]

27 minutes ago, blackout said:

 

I've been to Open'er two times and honestly, they've never had many proshots available. I was on Open'er in 2022, when Twenty One Pilots were the headliner, and they didn't even publish a single video from their performance. Sometimes they publish one song from a concert, but that's not always the case. However, this year supposedly they have an official partnership with the Polish national TV so it might be different this time round.

It's depends also on band management.

At the Idays 2017 Linkin Park and Sum 41 has the whole show broadcasted while Green Day and Blink-182 has nothing broadcated, not a single song 

[Luki98]

5 hours ago, blackout said:

 

I'm attending Open'er too! I hope they'll play the full set, but wouldn't count on that.

Hope dies last.

 

3 hours ago, MMM said:

There were a few great proshots from the Pol'and'Rock festival last year. I keep my fingers crossed that Open'er will keep up with the level.

Unfortunately, Opener doesn't have a tradition of proshots and livestreams like PolAndRock. So I'm not counting on anything from Linkin Park.

[Stewe]

 

[Fleur de Lys]

Show looked absolutely electric from that video. Band is tight af and Emily sounded amazing. The tight festival set might not be bad for a general audience, more bangers and less space in between the heavy stuff.

 

Also, it’s fun to go to the Sonic Temple fb page and Reddit and find the LP posts.

 

So many skeptics turned fans, saying best show of the festival, better than Metallica etc. They’re gonna blow people’s expectations completely on the upcoming festival run.

[LPLStaff]

Wanted to drop in and leave a review of this show. Have had one of the busiest weeks ever, following a week of 3 LP shows last week. Crazy, but grateful.

 

Sonic Temple is one of the most well-run events in music. They do so well with such large crowds; a major benefit is the main stage is inside of the stadium and the outside stages are close, so you can have easy access to everything and see a ton of bands. There were no lines for food, drink, bathrooms, etc. Just for main merch but the LP merch line was non-existent. Hoobastank, Sick Puppies, Jimmy Eat World, Trustcompany, etc were all badass and played great sets. LP brought a massive merch selection to the show and had even exclusive pins and magnets for this festival. A lot of Chester and LP shirts were walking around all day, and LP flags (one of which I took a photo with). Quite a few people had seen them at the 2015 show at Rock on the Range since this festival has a loyal following of thousands that see it every year.

 

They had a mini version of the LP VIP museum there (photos earlier in this thread) for Rockstar VIPs - a super high tier of VIP at the festival. Saw Colin and some LP crew going in there to check it out.

 

We went up in the crowd during I Prevail and because this festival is so relaxed, you can literally get 10 rows back for a headliner if you just go when the band before them ends. There is an hour+ gap between bands so many people want to see the stuff on the other stages at that time... this time it was Bullet For My Valentine which we watched on the big screen - a cool feature.

 

LP showed up and blew that shit up. This was a great show and specifically, I keep pointing to Lying From You in the set but that's a game changer for the energy. People love Mike bouncing around the stage and it's a great song to put as second in the set after the opener. Two Faced early also is good. You want the shows as energetic as possible. And LP delivered on that front - the crowd loved it and they drew a huge crowd as the headliner. Packed it. The setlist itself speaks for itself but the show was quite solid. You can tell they gave it a little extra... something for this one because of the implications of it probably - the first big festival in the USA since the return. They were playing to a way more casual group of fans than a normal LP headline show. And they really delivered. The band looked like they had a blast.

 

Mike came down and laughed when he saw me on In the End - video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJf_1XZtfVY/

 

Overflow instead of something heavier was a surprise but I saw several comments after the show that it was the favorite song of quite a few people.

 

Walking out - lots of comments from people, even folks in Metallica shirts, about how good LP was. Definitely think that's one of the best performances they've had since they returned. The crowd was eating it up. Well done by the band. Also boarded my flight home the next morning (was there less than 24 hours lol) and ran right into Alex on the plane.

 

Randomly saw someone in a Julien-K shirt who knew my name and was on LPLive 10+ years ago - small world. Loved Sonic Temple and would like to return one day for sure. LP could play that thing every 3-4 years and I'd love it. Go check the Sonic Temple Facebook group... people absolutely loved the LP show and it blew a lot of people away. I commented on the Sonic Temple Facebook page itself saying "LP absolutely owned that shit. Great show." and Danny Wimmer (festival creator/CEO) replied to me and said "yes they did"  

 

Ranking the shows in 2025 I've seen:

 

-Raleigh (Emily coming into the pit to us is going to be hard to beat)

-Sonic Temple

-Austin

-Greenville

 

Looking forward to Rockville.

[Chesterchaz]

3 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

Wanted to drop in and leave a review of this show.

 

Always great to read your show comments. What an awesome 'In the End' clip!

Audience audio recording just got posted on DIME // cross-posted to LP-Bits.

[AsphyxiatedShock]

6 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

Randomly saw someone in a Julien-K shirt who knew my name and was on LPLive 10+ years ago - small world.

Hey there, that was me. We actually talked on JKMB, but I have been a lurker on this site for years too.

 

My Sonic Temple experience wasn't so great. The crowd was pretty rude where I was at and the constant crowd surfers had me turned around about 50% of the set. I'm bummed to hear it was one of their best performances, because I didn't get to really appreciate it. I bought a ticket for the Pittsburgh show in August to make up for it, looking forward to it. What I did hear was great though, they sounded at the top of their game. Better even than when I saw them last, in 2007 at Projekt Revolution (where I bought that Julien-K shirt!).