r/OutbreakFest

Selling my Count Your Blessings ticket because im too skint to go :(

Im willing to sell this below the original price (£106). Around £90, but open to offers. Please give me a message if interested! :))

Hi all. As the tees all flew out long before I could get one this year, I'll be one of the many buying merch online. I just wondered whether anyone who copped a tee could let me know the sizing for either the L or XL. The website says that the t shirts for this year are "roughly -5cm shorter than our a standard tshirt" but that doesn't really help me as I have nothing to compare that against. Any help you guys might be able to give would be ace. Thanks!

hey guys, i’m really sorry if this seems like a silly thing to ask about in here but i need honest answers!!!
i’ll be seeing bring me the horizon, my all time favourite band, for the first time at this concert.
i enjoy the whole no barricade idea for it, and am in no way against it.
but, this is my FIRST time seeing them. i don’t really get involved in pits or anything.
i’d like to have a good view and be close enough to the stage, but want to steer clear of action (i’ll be too emotional LMFAO)

where is the best place for me to try be?
i hope i don’t sound silly or annoy anyone with this, thank you😭😭

Hi guys,

No times listed for BMTH set for Outbreak Fest.

At gigs, it’s usually 20:30pm / 21:00pm, but what time do the headliners usually come on at Outbreak Fest’s?

This is for the one in Manchester. Friday 10th July.

Thanks in advance!

Hey guys, maybe a juvenile question but does anyone know what stages/set were recorded, if not all?

I ask because daitan and co weren't there this year and im really hoping INITIATES set was recorded on the 3rd stage, but didnt see anyone recording unfortunately on the sidelines.

Hi there, had a blast at my first Outbreak this year, and me and my mates were discussing who we think would end up on the 2027 lineup. We’ve got a list of bands that could potentially make it on there, please call me out if they’re severely unrealistic and let me know you think will play next year. It’s essentially just a big wish list for us. Here’s what we’ve got:

Drain, Rolo Tomassi, Malevolence, Citizen, Being As An Ocean, Long Goodbye, Speed, The Story So Far, Final Resting Place, The Fall of Troy, Texas is the Reason, Origami Angel, Vein and/or Fleshwater, Underoath, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Crippling Alcoholism, Crowquil (need them back again!), Guilt Trip, Missing Link, Incendiary, Dead Butterflies, Pain of Truth, Whispers, Counterparts, Big Ass Truck, One Step Closer, Gorilla Biscuits, The Smith Street Band, Datura.

Obviously, not all of them will end up on the lineup but hopefully a few do. Desperate for Gorilla Biscuits and Rolo Tomassi to be there next year.

If anyone still wants to buy two tickets to outbreak London, I have two which I am happy to do a cheaper deal for! I am heavily pregnant and will be about to pop so sadly can’t attend, but the insurance won’t give me a refund!

I did not make it early enough on either day to get one of the red transparent bags from RFC records, on the off chance anyone picked one up and is willing to part with it, hit me up. Will pay!

Any bands you were less familiar with that put on such a great set that you have been won over? Mine = Bodyweb & Knives.

Hi all - just putting a blanket message out there just for the generally amazing people who were at the gig on Saturday at BEC. I'm a bit older and disabled, I struggle with my mobility. We all saw just how chocker it was at times and getting about was slow going for everyone.

I was worried about having to navigate dense crowds to get about but honestly people were so cool letting me through etc. Didn't have one issue which I often do with people reluctant to let me past to get to loos, bar, etc.

Lost count of the number of times people made way for me, asked if I was OK, asked others to clear the way when they could see me making my way through etc and it really meant a lot. Not just to me but my partner who worries about me in those situations.

I stopped going to gigs for the longest time as my condition has worsened due to feeling like a bit of a static obstacle for others and worrying about getting knocked over but going on Saturday has really given me a bit of a boost for going to more shows in future so I just wanted to send this. The bands were fantastic - many of them totally new to me - but I said to my better half the thing that really made it was just the people!

My days getting into the pit etc are long gone but just being able to go to a gig, feeling safe and not like I was in everyone's way has really given me a boost. I was at pains to thanks everyone and apologise on the day out of courtesy but if you made way for me, or anyone else in the same situation, you are a top human. We need more of this.

So first of all this was only my third year attending and I'm not from UK so ofc I lack a lot of history of this festival. But as an 40y old as fuck dude that has been active in different scenes since my teenage times and that has seen shit from the early 2000's to TikTok era, I think I have enough HardcoreCreds™ to give some reflections here.

So yes this will be long and sorry for my broken english (I refuse to use ChatGPT)

What Outbreak has done right

You can't make everyone happy, that's for sure. Everyone will have their opinions and preferences, but I often see a lot of complains about how "not so heavy/hardcore" has this festival has become. Issue is, there is always room to look for the most "trve" form of hardcore and ditch whatever doesn't fits there. Everytime I see beatdown-metalish hardcore dudes complaining about whatever genre it's soft and "not so hardcore", I do remember how in the early 2000's you would get called a posser for considering Death Before Dishonor a "Boston Hardcore band" cause that was shitty rap-numetal stuff, unlike the true "Boston Hardcore" like SSD.

Gatekeeping has never been cool and it's time for some to realize that Hardcore as a scene can and should be inclussive, as long as bands align with some principles that are more important than how do you sound; there is where we should Gatekeep, not in how they sound. I do for example can't give a shit about rap and experimental stuff but I think it's nice those artists have room as long as the DIY, community values are shared.

And I think Outbreak does a fucking amazing job at booking bands that are hardcore-adjacent. No matter if they are hip hop, alternative rock, shoegazy, proof that those bands fit there if the fact that some of them share members with other hardcore bands.

And with all respect to my metalhead dudes, my biggest fear regarding Outbreak it's not that it becomes a "too soft" festival but that it goes exactly the same direction as Hellfest and Resurrection Fest, which were fucking amazing hardcore fests but metal took over it (people don't realize how profitable is that genre) and god damn I don't want to see Outbreak among divorced dads cosplaying as satanists waiting for Sleep Token or whatever dadrock shit (sorry for the rant :D)

So in short I think Outbreak has kept their hardcore values intact, and that's not easy at all. They send the right message about taking care of each others, they always have nice local hardcore bands playing (even if it's in Stage 3, lets be realistic and assume you can't put xWarhorsEx from Fordwich playing in Main Stage)

Minor things about the visuals (kudos for them on Alexisonfire), Staff being generally quite nice (and I think working there specially on Friday with that heat must have been terrible) are also things to appreciate.

What Outbreak could've done better

Hatebreed on stage 2. Like, why? Literally my reason to come this year was Trapped Under Ice but even them had more reasons to go indoors than Hatebreed. I wasn't able to check them out cause both entries were blocked. And maybe it's because I am still living in 2009 but can't think who thought Basement, TUI or Snail Mail would get more crowd than Hatebreed.

And again as most of people said, it just felt overcrowded. Closing the stand bathrooms (whatever english name that place to pee with your weiner standing has) at the end on Saturday or those fences separating the bathroom and the ONLY corridor that connects stages and the exit felt also not the smartest decision but I'm no logistic expert.

This is pure theory but not seeing Daitan or Hoodsoulja Security felt like something is changing there. Specially with Stage Security, it felt like a step back, indeed (kudos for the videographer btw, nothing against them). I have no idea about this SPS company, and as said staff was generally nice and friendly, which is good, but they did not seemed really vigilant on the stage. Some dude literally thrown himself somewhere to the floor in I Promised the World and the security guys were totally confused.

And this takes me to Saturday with 2 incidents that forced the bands to stop playing. And it's fucking Loathe and Alexisonfire, not End It. Something failed, whatever it was. And shit happens, considering I've literally broken my bones and lips in different gigs among my life, I get it's part of the deal. But if this happens with not so "moshable" bands, it means something didin't worked. And as said, someone also got hurt at I Promised the World so I'm sure more injuries happened around. Which again is part of the deal but that was too many for a day, and not the most aggressive day at all.

In short, logistics failed here. And it's too early to know if it's due greed or just something getting bigger than expected. Only time will tell but I would be heartbroken if this becomes another massive rock festival with barriers and big companies instead a "for the kids by the kids" fest.

And yeah sorry I might be too punk to support the adidas collab. Nice looking thou, but corpos are corpos.

What we as a scene have sucked

Being fucking old farts. I am tired of gatekeepers shitting on kids for being kids. Do I like stage invasion in American Football? No. Do I like cute people sharing stories of how nice they look before the pit and how they looked after? No fucking way. But I don't like either grown ass "music content creators" way past 30's sharing similar stuff but with some aura of knowledge, but in the end, same shit; using hardcore for attention.

We live in a shitty economy of attention and that's a fact and not necessarily generational. My feed on IG it's full of these "content creators" doing the same thing everyone complains about the kiddos, but the difference is they are not kids anymore. I guess the algorythm know I'm older than the forest so not a single kiddo has popped out in all my Outbreak related content, but dozens and dozens of people monetizing their content using the festival. And that will ruin the scene more than a kid not naming 3 songs.

Social Media has turned everything in a niche market and hardcore it's sadly becoming one already. And has nothing to do with age or generations, and can't blame the fest itself. That's on us.

Yes, most of the folk doing stage invasion, getting hurt and so on were kids. But cause they physically can do it. And that's great and fine and it's also ok they might not name three songs, but we all were like that at some time. People come and go in this scene, and even the most cultured, vegan, straight edge that was gatekeeping 10 years ago can just become some christian tattoo influencer. Hardcore will not survive only with +40 dudes naming 90 songs and collecting vinyls. But it will die if it starts to be something cool to share on socials.

Let the kids have fun and before judging them for finding their identity the same way we did, maybe think twice before following some content creator that will recommend you 5 bands if you like "Crowquil". And trust me, most of those would also jump on the stage and take selfies with Pat Flynn if they could.

I feel like 2027 is the year outbreak bring back vein we can only hope

Have Heart (Headline Revolution Rising Fest in April)

Title Fight (of course)

Turnstile

Magnitude

Koyo

Being as an ocean

Speed

Agnostic Front

The Story So Far

Citizen

H2O

Drain

Thrice

Spanish Love Songs

Did anybody have any issues with contactless card payments being processed over the weekend?
I had a couple of occasions where I had to try multiple times for a payment to go through at the bar…just been looking over my bank account and a couple of payments went through multiple times.

I’m not suggesting there is anything suspicious, but check your statements, kids!

Anyone else have a really nice time? 😄
Isn't it great that we can watch bands from all over the world, have the freedom to jump around on stage with them and our mates and strangers and make friends and scream along to the lyrics and buy merch and meet new people?

I had a lovely time! I thought the crowd was very polite - there were points yes where it was busy/pinch points but most people were just queueing/ shuffling along so it was fine. I thought the security were vigilant, calm and controlled, must be a mad job watching people just fling themselves at other people off the stage! I didnt think queues for food/bars were that bad, as long as you didnt go at peak times. I think the festival organisers did a great job learning from things as they happened - eg opening the fire exits in the big room due to the heat, implementing the one way system outside etc.
So yeah, thanks Outbreak and all attendees and bands 😄

I got to see everyone i wanted to expect haywire.
My favourite was the end it set

Personal opinion, of course, but maybe one that resonates with others out there.

The line-up on the second stage on Sunday was incredible, but I still can't help but feel that the hardcore/heavy element is an afterthought at this point. The energy just continued to build and build on the Sunday and then it was Monday before you know it. Having Sanction drop off the line-up was a big loss but Trash Talk followed by Hatebreed was solid.

The consensus between the group I was with was that if there was a similar line-up on the Saturday, it would have been a different and much better festival entirely. This isn't to say there weren't some incredible sets by some incredible bands, but the vibe and the energy wasn't there. If the Saturday had a similar heavy component leading into the Sunday, it would have been good to walk away with a feeling of "I can't wait to experience more of this tomorrow".

The festival is obviously changing: Different sounding artists, younger crowd etc. Not sure it's going to be something I'll be into moving forward if there's only a handful of heavy artists performing which is making it difficult to justify spending so much money on.