Krazy Fest

Krazy Fest was the brain child of Initial Records President Andy Rich. It was a weekend long music and lifestyle festival that ran annually for six years from 1998 through 2003. Over the years Krazy Fest would help introduce music fans to such bands as Dashboard Confessional, AFI, Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio, The Dillinger Escape Plan and several other artists that would go on to platinum selling status.

Krazy Fest 2003

The sixth annual installment of this Krazy Fest took place in Lousville, KY August 1st-3rd, 2003 at the Louisville Waterfront Park, a 72-acre (291,000 m²) municipal park adjacent to the downtown area of Louisville, Kentucky and the Ohio River. Specifically, it is adjacent to Louisville's wharf and Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere, which are situated to the west of the park. This would be the final year for Krazy Fest.

2003 Krazy Fest Line Up

* Reggie and the Full Effect
* Midtown
*Elliott
*Andrew WK
*Hatebreed
*The Locust
*The Blood Brothers
*Ultimate Fakebook
*A Static Lullaby
*This Day Forward
*Blue Sky Mile
*Throwdown
*Mastodon
*Atreyu
*The Hope Conspiracy
*Black Cross
*Burnt By The Sun
*Hopesfall
*Planes Mistaken For Stars
*Every Time I Die
*Terror
*Anodyne
*Playing Enemy
*The Suicide File
*With Honor
*Bouncing Souls
*Dillinger Four
*Cave In
*The Explosion
*Paint It Black
*Recover
*Hey Mercedes
*Fairweather
*Sensefield
*Rye Coalition
*The Reputation
*The Jazz June
* Helicopter Helicopter
*Christiansen
*Armor For Sleep
*Roy
* Bear vs Shark

Krazy Fest 2002

The fifth annual installment of this dynamic entertainment experience took place in Lousville, KY, at the Louisville Waterfront Park.

2002 Krazy Fest Line Up

* Thursday
*Sick Of It All
*Snapcase
*Bane
*Stretch Arm Strong
*Reach The Sky
*The Hope Conspiracy
*Drowningman
*AFI
*Tiger Army
*The Dillinger Escape Plan
*Converge
*From Autumn to Ashes
*Most Precious Blood
* Black Widows
*As Friends Rust
*Nora
*Blood Red
*Corn On Macabre
*Glasspack
*Elliott
*Ultimate Fakebook
*Milemarker
* Onelinedrawing
*Small Brown Bike
*The Reputation
*Christiansen
* Rocking Horse Winner
* Cadillac Blindside

Krazy Fest 2001

The fourth annual installment of this dynamic entertainment experience took place in Louisville, KY July 27-29, 2001 at the Historic Louisville Water Tower. The Water Tower of Louisville, Kentucky, is the oldest ornamental water tower in the world, having been built before the more famous Chicago Water Tower. [http://www.lwcky.com/about_us/towerhist.htm] This would be the most well attended of the 6 Festivals driven by a once in a lifetime performance of The Dillinger Escape Planfeaturing Sean Ingram from Coalesce on vocals for the entire set. This would also be the Midwest’s introduction to the soon to be multi-platinum selling Dashboard Confessional. A torrential downpour on Day 2 would have absolutely no effect on attendance.

2001 Krazy Fest Line Up

*Avail
*Boy Sets Fire
*Saves the Day
*Hot Water Music
*The Dillinger Escape Plan
*Alkaline Trio
*Elliott
* Botch
*Converge
*Dashboard Confessional
*Planes Mistaken For Stars
* Poison The Well
* Small Brown Bike
*Hot Rod Circuit
*Ensign
*Hey Mercedes
*Bane
*The Jazz June
*Stretch Arm Strong
* The White Octave
*Story So Far
*The Hope Conspiracy
*Further Seems Forever
* American Nightmare
*Burnt By The Sun
*Holy Angels
*Harkonen
* Christiansen
*Blood Red
*Fairweather
*Pflanz

Krazy Fest 2000

The third annual installment of this dynamic entertainment experience took place in downtown, KY May 19-21, 2000 at the Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere. Tickets for the weekend long event were only $30 and this time around the festival would go by the shorthand nickname of “K2K.” It would be highlighted by a headlining set from soon to be goth punk torchbearers AFI on Saturday night. In June 2006, AFI’s newest album, "Decemberunderground", was released on Interscope Records and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. [cite news
author = Hasty, Katy--
title = AFI burns brightly with #1 debut
work = Billboard
date = 2006-06-14
url = http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002687993|accessdate = 2006-07-08]

2000 Krazy Fest Line Up

* AFI
*The Suicide Machines
*Boy Sets Fire
*Buried Alive
*Elliott
*The Dillinger Escape Plan
* Grade
*Saves The Day
*The Enkindels
*Cave In
* Good Clean Fun
*Burn It Down
*Brothers Keeper
*The Jazz June
* The Juliana Theory
*One King Down
* Hot Rod Circuit
*Reach The Sky
*Stretch Arm Strong
*As Friends Rust
* King For A Day
*Time In Malta
*Drowning Man
*Moods For Moderns
* The Movielife
*The National Acrobat
*River City High
*Skam Impaired

Krazy Fest 1999

The second annual installment of this rock and roll juggernaut took place in downtown, KY May 19-21, 1999 at the Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere. It would be highlighted by a late Sunday night set from future rock superstars Jimmy Eat World. On July 24, 2001, Jimmy Eat World would release the album, Bleed American. The album became self-titled following the September 11, 2001 attacks, next reverting back to its original name for a Deluxe Edition re-release in 2008. It has sold over 1,500,000 copies to date.

1999 Krazy Fest Line Up

* H₂O
* The Get Up Kids
* The Enkindels
* Saves The Day
* Kill Your Idols
* Out
* Sick of It All
* Snapcase
* Braid
* Jejune
* Zao
* Shai Hulud
* Cave In
* My Own Victim
* Silent Majority
* Fastbreak
* Buried Alive
* Burn It Down
* Jimmy Eat World
* Elliott
* Shipping News
* Metroschifter
* Sarge
* The Jazz June
* Le Shok
* Victory At Sea
* Red Sun

Krazy Fest 1998

The first annual installment of this dynamic entertainment experience took place in Louisville, KY May 29th-31st, 1998 at the Louisville Brewery Thunderdome. A 3-day pass was only $25, and with a capacity of only 1,400 all three days were sold out. Due to a sweeping electrical storm and a subsequent power outage on Sunday evening headlining band Superchunk was not able to perform.

1998 Krazy Fest Line Up

*Superchunk
*Shipping News
*Elliott
*Metroschifter
*King For A Day
*Uzeda
*Jejune
*Snapcase
*Boy Sets Fire
*Ten Yard Fight
*Coalesce
*Today Is The Day
*Automatic
*Buried Alive
* Converge
*Torn Apart
*Speak 714
*Suicide Machines
*The Enkindels
*Silent Majority
*Grade
*Apocalypse Hoboken

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