A look back at Warped Tour 2007

March 20, 2017

For 23 years, Warped Tour has been the scene’s Christmas in July—its punk rock summer camp, if you will. Each lineup is a snapshot of that year’s best in alternative music.

As we sit (im)patiently for the 2017 lineup (coming March 22!), we’re taking you back 10 years—to Warped Tour 2007—when the traveling festival was celebrating its 13th year.

Read more: 4 bands confirmed for Warped Tour 2017

Lucky 13
A smirking Hayley Williams graces the cover of AP 229.1, the 2007 Warped Tour issue. To her left is As I Lay Dying’s Tim Lambesis. Mark Unseen sits in between Williams and Lambesis while Tiger Army’s Nick 13 rounds things out on the right.
AP 229.2 features Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin, Straylight Run’s Michelle DaRosa and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ Ronnie Winter all surrounding Bayside’s Anthony Raneri.

Kicking off June 28 in San Diego, Calif. and ending Aug. 25 in Los Angeles, the tour’s routing was quite similar to today’s. Internet presale tickets for Warped community members were available April 1. The package included a ticket and a copy of the double-disc compilation for $19.99.

The Stages
Keeping with the Lucky 13 theme, Warped Tour 2007’s Lucky Stage featured the likes of Alkaline Trio, Yellowcard, Sum 41 and New Found Glory. The 13 stage featured Coheed & Cambria, Circa Survive, the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and more.

Avenged Sevenfold were the secret special guests on the Lucky Stage.

Other stages included the Smartpunk Stage, Hurley Stage, Hurley.com Stage and the Ernie Ball stage.

The Storm
One of the most storied tales of Warped 2007 comes from an epic storm that interrupted Cleveland’s stop. Partway through the day a torrential downpour paired with quite a bit of lightening put a pause on the day’s festivities and threatened to end them all together. Luckily things eventually cleared up and the show went on, but as you will see in the videos below, there was quite a bit of damage and the event went down in Warped history. Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba even got a tattoo commemorating the day, which you can read about here.

Debuts

2007 was jam-packed with many scene celebrities’ Warped debuts. On the full lineup (see next page), bands making their first Warped Tour are starred.

[See full lineup and compilation tracklisting on next page.]

Full 2007 lineup:

Alkaline Trio
MxPx
Agent Orange*
Alesana*
All Time Low*
The Almost*
Anberlin*
As I Lay Dying*
The Automatic*
Big D and the Kids Table
Blessthefall*
Mayday Parade*
Boys Like Girls*
Paramore
Amber Pacific
As Cities Burn   *
The Audition*
Avenged Sevenfold
Bad Religion
Bayside
Biffy Clyro*
Blacklist Royals
Bleed the Dream
The Briggs*
Buck-O-Nine
The Chariot*
Chiodos
Cinematic Sunrise*
Circa Survive
Circle Jerks*
Coheed and Cambria
The Confession*
Crowned King   *
Cute Is What We Aim For*
The Dear & Departed   *
Desperation Squad*
The Dickies*
Double XL*
Drop Dead, Gorgeous*
Envy On The Coast*
Escape The Fate
Evaline*
Evergreen Terrace*
The Fabulous Rudies
Family Force 5*
Fear
Fishbone
The Flatliners
Flogging Molly
The Fold*
Forever The Sickest Kids*
Funeral for a Friend
Gallows*
Go Crash Audio*
The Gufs*
Haste the Day*
Hawthorne Heights
Hot Rod Circuit*
The Human Abstract*
I Am Ghost*
illScarlett*
It Dies Today*
The Johnstones
K-os*
Kaddisfly*
Karate High School
Killswitch Engage*
Look What I Did*
Ludo
The Maine*
Manic Hispanic
Manic Sewing Circle
The Matches
Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster*
MC Chris*
Meg & Dia*
Monty are I*
Motionless in White
My American Heart
New Found Glory
New Years Day*
Norma Jean*
Nothington*
Only Crime*
Parkway Drive*
Pendleton*
Pennywise
Pepper
Phathom
The Photo Atlas*
Pistolita
PlayRadioPlay*
Poison the Well
Protest The Hero
Real McKenzies*
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Remsa 'n Event*
Revolution Mother*
The Rocket Summer*
The Salads
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Secret Broadcast*
Set Your Goals*
So They Say
The Spill Canvas
The Starting Line
Still Remains*
Straylight Run   *
Street Drum Corps*
Sum 41
Supernova
Thirty Seconds to Mars*
Throwdown*
Throw The Fight*
Tiger Army
Title Fight*
Total Chaos*
The Unseen
The Used
Valencia
The Vandals
The Vincent Black Shadow
weatherPROOF*
Yellowcard
You Me Everyone We Know*
You Win Anyways

Compilation tracklisting:

Disc 1
1. “Fire Down Below” (Japanese bonus track from Agony & Irony) – Alkaline Trio
2. “Requiem for Dissent” (from New Maps of Hell) – Bad Religion
3. “The Arms of Sorrow” (from As Daylight Dies) – Howard Jones, Killswitch Engage
4. “Confined” (from Shadows Are Security) – As I Lay Dying
5. “Lyrical Lies (Electric)” (from The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch) – Cute Is What We Aim For
6. “Steady Riot” (from Strictly Rude) – Big D and the Kids Table
7. “Afterworld” (from Music from Regions Beyond) – Tiger Army
8. “Our Friend Lazarus Sleeps” (from Lovers' Requiem) – I Am Ghost
9. “Songs Sound Much Sadder” (from Redeemer) – Norma Jean
10. “Little Maggots” (from Decomposer) – The Matches
11. “Take Me” (from Virulence) – Only Crime
12. “Amity” (from White Lies) – LoveHateHero
13. “Summer (In B)” (from Truth in Sincerity) – Amber Pacific
14. “I'm Not Dead” (from “Sustain) – Buck-O-Nine
15. “Fading American Dream” (from Fading American Dream) – Street Dogs
16. “Song of Babylon” (from Back to Higher Ground) – The Briggs
17. “Reverse This Curse” (from Dying Is Your Latest Fashion) – Escape the Fate
18. “Rolling with the Punches” (from Orchestra of Wolves) – Gallows
19. “House of Cards” (from “From Them, Through Us, to You”) – Madina Lake
20. “Akeldema” (from Pressure the Hinges) – Haste the Day
21. “Could Tell a Love” (from His Last Walk) – Blessthefall
22. “Sympathy of Voices” – Guff
23. “This Song Is Definitely Not About a Girl” (from “Mutiny!) – Set Your Goals
24. “The Shake (Awful Feeling)” (from Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather) – My American Heart
25. “Black Cat” (from A Lesson in Romantics) – Mayday Parade

Disc 2
1. “The Ripper” (from Lies for the Liars) – The Used
2. “Letter Thing” (from Versions) – The Well
3. “To Trixie and Reptile, Thanks for Everything” (from All's Well That Ends Well) – Chiodos
4. “Duality” (from The Walking Wounded) – Bayside
5. “This Circle” (from The Summer Tic) – Paramore
6. “60 Revolutions” (from Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike) – Gogol Bordello
7. “We Sleep Forever” (from Rain in Hell) – Aiden
8. “The Things He Carried” (from Curses) – Vanna
9. “Mea Culpa” (from Nocturne) – The Human Abstract
10. “Killing Through Song” (from Apocalypse in Increments) – Ryan's Hope
11. “Monster” (from Something Real) – Meg & Dia
12. “Until We Burn in the Sun (The Kids Just Want a Love Song)” (from Street Gospels) – Bedouin Soundclash
13. “The Patty Hearst Syndrome” (from This Sinking Ship) – Smoke or Fire
14. “In It For Life (Live)” (from Under Attack (The Casualties album) – The Casualties
15. “You're Gonna Pay” (from One More Bullet) – The Toasters
16. “Insurance?” (from On Fire) – The Higher
17. “Oh, the Congestion” (from Accidental Gentleman) – Piebald
18. “Under the Sunrise” (from Under the Sunrise) – Blinded Black
19. “The End of All We Know” (from Far from the Lies) – Greeley Estates
20. “Calling” (from Blackhawks Over Los Angeles) – Strung Out
21. “Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em” (from Killing with a Smile) – Parkway Drive
22. “At Point Break” (from Internal Salvation) – The Unseen
23. “M-80” (from Emergencies) – Olympia
24. “A Pound Of Silver Is Worth Its Weight In Blood” (from The Promise in Compromise) – Tokyo Rose
25. “State Of Mind” (from Keep It Going”) – Mad Caddies