Warped Tour made its long-awaited return to Orlando this past weekend, taking over the Camping World Stadium grounds November 15–16 for a sold out weekend. For it’s 30th anniversary, a total of 8 stages stretched across the festival grounds, an upgrade from the 6 stages stages the festival hosted before it’s retirement in 2018.
With the classic Vans Left Foot and Vans Right Foot stages acting as the headlining sister stages, each one firing off a set as the other reset, the stages were joined with 3 other pairs of sister-stages, Ghost and Beatbox stages, Club Wyndham and Trojan stages, and Owen’s Mixers and Geico stages. Following the campgrounds being used for EDC Orlando the prior weekend, the Van’s team came in and turned the grounds into a emo kid’s dream with artists for all ages, crowd surfers from corner to corner, and of course (the beloved) dust-kicked circle pits.
For fans who couldn’t attend the event, Amazon Music’s live stream added a whole new way to experience Warped Tour Orlando. Throughout the weekend, select sets were broadcast and viewers at home could hop between performances, catch standout moments in (close to) real time. It didn’t replace the feeling of being in the pit or screaming along in the Florida heat, but it came pretty close.. and gave fans across the country a front-row view of Warped’s return.
For those attending the festival, when entering the campgrounds, fans were greeted with food vendors, stages, and the beloved Warped Tour Inflatable. This year, with a curtain drop style reveal, fans were eager to see who would be playing at which stages and which times, debating which overlaps were worth sprinting between stages for.
Day 1 leaned into the heart of Warped’s identity. Over on the Vans Left and Right Foot Stages, the lineups felt like a love letter to Warped kids past and present with artists such as Black Veil Brides, The Maine, Plain White T’s, Yellowcard, 3OH!3, mgk and Falling In Reverse closing out the Left Foot side with one of the most chaotic and high-energy sets of the day, with lead singer Radke’s an unmistakable “main character” energy.
The Ghost stages brought sets from Movements, From Ashes to New, and The Devil Wears Prada, while it’s sister stage, the Beatbox Stage, brought sets from Point North, The Home Team, Yung Gravy, and State Champs. Both stages will with performances that had fans screaming along to every word.
The Club Wyndham and Trojan stages showcased some of the most exciting genre-blurring and on the rise artists of the weekend. At Club Wyndham, People R Ugly kicked things off, followed by Oxymorrons, Games We Play, and GWAR. On the Trojan Stage, HOLYWATR set the tone with a darker edge, nothing,nowhere., I See Stars followed before the stage ended with Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Owen’s Mixers and Geico stages gave emerging artists plenty of room to shine with performances by Scene Queen, Not Enough Space, Sophie Powers, Royal & The Serpent, Boundaries, Arrows in Action, and Lacey Sturm.
Day 2 kept the momentum rolling and leaned even harder into the balance of nostalgia and the new wave of alternative music. On the Vans Left and Right Foot Stages, fans were treated to a steady stream of scene favorites with artists such as girlfriends, Mayday Parade, Magnolia Park, We The Kings, Bowling For Soup, I Prevail, All Time Low, Motionless In White, and A Day To Remember. A Day To Remember closed out the Left Foot side with a hometown-adjacent performance that the crowd had been waiting for since it’s announcement.
The Ghost Stage brought sets from sace6, Atilla, Memphis May Fire, Gym Class Heroes, and Boys Like Girls, while its sister stage, the Beatbox Stage, hosted Sueco, The Word Alive, Of Mice & Men, and Less Than Jake.
The Club Wyndham and Trojan stages once again spotlighted some of the most exciting and rising names of the weekend. At Club Wyndham, performances from Jutes, BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUT and Honey Revenge, leaned into emotional yet high-energy performances that felt tailor-made for Warped. On the Trojan Stage, Holding Absence, As It Is and Zero 9:36, brought their own blend of intensity to the festival.
Meanwhile, the Owen’s Mixers and Geico stages continued to give emerging artists room to shine, with performances by Johnnie Gilbert, iDKHOW, Charlotte Sands, Caskets, Taylor Acorn, Huddy, and Chandler Leighton.
By the end of the weekend, Orlando’s Warped crowd had sprinted between stages, lost their voices, and rediscovered just how special a multi-stage, all-day festival like this can be (despite it only being 3 cities this year). From nostalgic singalongs to new favorite artists being discovered, the two-day run felt like a reunion and a reset all at once.
Yesterday, November 17, Warped Tour Orlando officially announced its 2026 dates, giving fans barely a day to recover before circling next year on their calendars. The announcement of Orlando 2026 joins the previously announced 2026 stops in D.C. and Long Beach.
Presale begins this Friday, 11/21 at 9am over on the Warped Tour Website.
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