Hats off to Chicago’s Riot Fest, they’ve gone and pulled the greatest April Fools Day stunt, possibly ever.
Promoters of the annual rock bash waited til April 1st to drop their 2017 lineup, climactically revealing that they’ve booked all of the greatest fictional bands in cinematic history for this year’s bill.
Wyld Stallyns from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure/Bogus Journey are the obvious headliners:
Alongside Crucial Taunt from Wayne’s World:
Plus there’s Stillwater from Almost Famous:
The Lone Rangers from Airheads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lR8e0f-Bx8
Sexy Rexy from Empire Records:
That Thing You Do! dudes The Oneders
Aldus Snow’s band Infant Sorrow from Get Him To The Greek:
Steel Dragon from Rock Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmV7vnZnNg0
The inimitable Dewey Cox from Walk Hard:
And of course, Marvin and the Starlighters (AKA the band whose set Marty McFly crashed in Back To the Future)
There’s even The Be Sharps!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWbW1jtFQUo
And Mouse Rat!
WE’RE NOT WORTHY! WE’RE NOT WORTHY!
Bummer they couldn’t nail down The School Of Rock, though. Maybe next year.
Anyway, even though this awesome prank essentially duped no one, its true April Fools power lies in the inevitable realisation that we all have to keep living in a bleak reality where none of these kickass bands exist.
Check out Riot Fest’s incredible fake 2017 lineup below, then cheer yourself up by having a LOL at some of the music world’s other best April Fools Day jokes of 2017 right here.
The 2017 Riot Fest Lineup is here. Tickets are ON SALE NOW. You’d be a fool not to get them. https://t.co/UDHqmI8xWI pic.twitter.com/QxTQYPsQB2
— Riot Fest (@RiotFest) April 1, 2017
