FEST Announces Second Wave of Bands

FEST in Gainesville, Fla., is kicking off their 15th anniversary festival on Oct. 28 to 30, with a pre-FEST in Ybor, Fla., from Oct. 26 to 27, 2016. Check out the second wave of bands announced below, including New Brunswick, N.J., punks The Ergs! back for a reunion show.

When asked why the band is playing FEST 15, The Ergs! said:

“We thought it would be a good idea to play one more time while people still vaguely remember our dumb band, and before we are too old and decrepit to justify having an exclamation point for a logo.”

FEST 15 “second wave” of bands announced:

Dillinger Four, The Ergs! (reunion), Boysetsfire, F.Y.P (Final Show), Lemuria, Masked Intruder,  Mean Jeans, Big D and the Kids Table, Torche, Tenement, Cheap Girls, Elway, RADON, Save Ends, Slingshot Dakota, Dowsing, Gunmoll (reunion),Timeshares, Somos, Free Throw, Broadway Calls, ‘Pink Razors (reunion), Vacation, PUP, RVIVR, The Copyrights, Iron Chic, Twelve Hour Turn (reunion), Sundials

Chris Cresswell, Erica Freas (RVIVR), Microwave, Wet Nurse,Signals Midwest, Meridian, Steve Adamyk Band, Post Teens, Antarctigo Vespucci, Frameworks, Digger (reunion),Tired from Now On (reunion), Lifted Bells, Broadcaster, Hospital Job, Such Gold, Pretty Boy Thorson and the Fallen Angles (final show), Hold Tight! (Final Show), Aspiga, (FR), Dan Webb & the Spiders, Empty Vessels, Dog and Wolf, Boardroom Heroes, Recreational Drugs, Remainders, Nervous Triggers, World’s Scariest Police Chases

FUTURO (BR), Hodera, Billy Liar (UK), Traverse (FR), Not Half Bad, Awkward Age, Cicada Radio, Long Knives, Late Bloomer, Bodyfather, Alright, Mean Girls, Cement Matters (UK), TENS, Campaign, Adult Dude, Woozy, Veery, King Friday, Sleeptalker, Amygdala, Dryjacket, The Obsessives, Resonants, You Vandal, ROBES, Ratboys, Dead Tropics, The Otis Wolves, Brightr (UK), Jeff Shepherd, Jon Creeden and the Flying Hellfish, STUPID DAIKINI, What Gives, Russian Girlfriends, Lauris Vidal, Kid Not You, New Junk City, Pictures of Vernon, Boyfriend Material, Better Now, Old Vices, The Swindlin’ Hearts,

Insignificant Other, Flat Stanley, Island of Misfit Toys, La Peche, Ian Graham (Cheap Girls), House of Llightning, Ceramic Cats, Nightmares for a Week, Katie Ellen, Wolf-face, Whiskey & Co., Teen Agers, Hiccup, Divorce, Roger Harvey, Heat Rash, SODA, Amanda X, Widow and Children, Army Of Ponch, Thunderclap, Family Friend, I Came From Earth, Museum Mouth, Divided Heaven (Full Band), Totally Slow, Mac Sabbath, FLOOR, Against All Authority (Reunion), Creepoid, Direct Hit, Success, Somnia, Salvatore Fiteni, Sports,

Irish Handcuffs, Andrew Paley, City Mouse, Protagonist, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Blacklist Royals, The Handsome Scoundrels, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Ornaments, The Decline, Coffee Project, Laura Palmer, UV-TV, The Duppies, Night Witch, Dredger, The Winter Passing, No More, Lonesome Town Drifters, Alaska, Youth in Bloom, Sunshine State, The Gunshy, Bobby’s Oar , Sonic Avenues, Brian McGee, Young and Heartless, Get Dead, Mannequin Pussy, Stressface, Assholeparade, DOC (FR), Die Choking, Hot Knife, Chris Stowe, Walter Etc., Almost People