Marketing itself as an economy friendly ticket in winter 2009, the fifth annual Taste of Chaos tour has announced its scope and lineup for the New Year. Downsizing from its usual arena scale, the outing will hit more than 40 mid-sized clubs and theaters across North America.
Rock band Thursday headlines with support from Bring Me the Horizon, Four Year Strong, Pierce the Veil, and Cancer Bats. Additionally, a local “Battle of the Bands” winner will be selected to open for the main lineup on each night of the tour.
The Taste of Chaos tour kicks off February 14 at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, CA, and ends its coast-to-coast U.S. circuit on March 29 at the Knitting Factory in Spokane, WA. A block of shows in Canada follows from March 30 at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, BC, through an April 8 gig at Kool Haus in Toronto, ON.
Sometimes dubbed the “Winter Warped Tour,” the extensive outing is styled after the popular summer series and even borrows some of the Warped Tour’s previous acts.
“After listening to what fans had to say during Warped Tour and watching many of these bands with thousands of fans watching them perform, these are the bands rock fans want to see,” tour co-founder Kevin Lyman explained in a statement, adding, “And I believe they’re all on the brink of breakout success.”
Tickets for the tour, sponsored by Rockstar Energy Drinks, are priced at approximately $20 to $25 each. Presales for the outing begin December 12 at 10 a.m. (local time) for each venue featured on the itinerary.
Additional sponsorships come from Peta2, a youth-oriented version of the animal rights group PETA, and Shirts For a Cure, which donates proceeds from all its sales to women who need financial assistance in their fight against breast cancer.
Taste of Chaos itinerary:
(Dates are subject to change.)
| February 14 | Hollywood, CA | Hollywood Palladium |
| February 15 | San Jose, CA | San Jose Civic Auditorium |
| February 16 | Chico, CA | Senator Theatre |
| February 18 | San Diego, CA | House Of Blues |
| February 19 | Tucson, AZ | Rialto Theatre |
| February 20 | Las Vegas, NV | House Of Blues |
| February 21 | Salt Lake City, UT | In The Venue |
| February 22 | Denver, CO | Fillmore Auditorium |
| February 24 | Milwaukee, WI | Eagles Ballroom |
| February 25 | Cincinnati, OH | Bogart’s |
| February 26 | Rochester, NY | The Armory |
| February 27 | Worcester, MA | The Palladium |
| February 28 | Hartford, CT | Webster Theatre |
| March 2 | Providence, RI | Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel |
| March 3 | Clifton Park, NY | Northern Lights |
| March 4 | New York, NY | Nokia Theatre Times Square |
| March 5 | Sayreville, NJ | Starland Ballroom |
| March 6 | Philadelphia, PA | Electric Factory |
| March 7 | Baltimore, MD | Rams Head Live! |
| March 8 | Columbus, OH | Newport Music Hall |
| March 9 | Cleveland, OH | Agora Theatre |
| March 10 | Detroit, MI | The Fillmore Detroit |
| March 11 | Saint Louis, MO | The Pageant |
| March 12 | Chicago, IL | Aragon Ballroom |
| March 13 | Saint Paul, MN | Myth |
| March 14 | Kansas City, MO | Beaumont Club |
| March 17 | Fort Lauderdale, FL | Revolution |
| March 18 | Orlando, FL | Hard Rock Live |
| March 19 | Atlanta, GA | The Tabernacle |
| March 21 | Houston, TX | Verizon Wireless Theater |
| March 22 | San Antonio, TX | Sunset Station Lonestar Pavilion |
| March 23 | Dallas, TX | Palladium Ballroom |
| March 26 | Boise, ID | Knitting Factory |
| March 27 | Portland, OR | Roseland Theater |
| March 28 | Seattle, WA | Showbox at The Market |
| March 29 | Spokane, WA | Knitting Factory |
| March 30 | Vancouver, BC | Commodore Ballroom |
| April 1 | Calgary, AB | MacEwan Conference & Event Centre |
| April 3 | Edmonton, AB | Edmonton Event Centre |
| April 4 | Saskatoon, SK | The Odeon |
| April 5 | Winnipeg, MB | Burton Cummings Theatre |
| April 8 | Toronto, ON | Kool Haus |
| April 9 | Montreal, QC | Metropolis |
