With summer approaching, the number of tours and wizard rock shows shoots through the roof for a few months. With that in mind, here’s this week’s question:
What would be your ultimate wizard rock tour lineup?
Let’s keep it between 3-5 bands tops, as we’re talking a DIY wrock tour, not Lollapalooza!
So let’s hear it! What bands would make up your ultimate wrock tour lineup?
Oh where do I start?
Ok, this is just my initial reaction…
The Mudbloods
The Remus Lupins (playing primarily Teenage Werewolf songs)
The Whomping Willows
Draco and the Malfoys
And then finally, Harry and the Potters playing the entirety Power of Love
Love the question. I’ll keep it to four.
Split Seven Ways, who I have long thought to be the best female wrock singer
Seven Potters, the second best female wrock act
Ministry of Magic
The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office
Those four could make a great experience for me, two of the ‘folk’ wrock and two of the best electronic acts.
Oh, tough question.
Harry and the Potters
The Remus Lupins
The Mudbloods
Diagon Alley
The Blibbering Humdingers
I wanted so badly to put Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls, Hawthorn and Holly and Gred and Forge on this list so badly. But you said only 3-5.
And that’s exactly why I said only 3-5 🙂 I wanted everyone to think hard about it – because a tour doesn’t have 12 bands playing. I could just toss out the names of my 10 favorite bands, but there’s no chance in heck they’d all tour in a van together 😀
Nice picks, James!
I’m going to cheat and make two lists – one for a Whompy-style house tour, and one for a more traditional HatP-style libraries-and-venues tour, because I feel both have very different atmospheres and pros/cons.
House tour:
The Seven Potters
The Blibbering Humdingers
Bella’s Love
Split Seven Ways
The Mudbloods
Venue tour:
The Brothers Black
Fawkes
Ministry of Magic
Draco and the Malfoys
The Weasel King
Hmmmmm, maybe I could make an article out of this…
I’ve left out bands I’ve already heard live, partly because a number of them are my friends and partly because variety.
The Hungarian Horntails (DRAGON ROCK RULES)
Let’s Lumos
Tonks and the Aurors
Butterbeer Experience (Ideally one of her musicals. Maybe a Beedle the Bard related set with semi-staged bits and the Tale of Three Brothers?)
Wingardium Leviosa
Swish and Flick
I get six because HH songs last about ten seconds.
P.S. Does anyone remember the name of that band who sang a bit like Cornish pirates? It was folky, possibly dragon related and sounded like raucous, well accompanied drinking songs. I think they were on WZRD at one point.
My list is different because it’s more about who I’d want to perform with and be on a 3 week road-trip with. My fantasy is that we’d all morph into one gigantic mega-wrock band switching around instruments and performing one another’s songs as one band. Since I’m hand picking individuals for my dream team, I think I deserve a few extra people in my line up, though it is still a difficult exercise to whittle this list down to people who will fit into a tour van.
The Blibbering Humdingers (duh)
Bryce Cone (Neville’s Diary fame)
Grace Kendall (Snidget fame)
Ashley Hamel (Bella and LeStrangers fame)
Matt Maggiacomo (the Whomping Willows)
Lauren Fairweather (Lauren Fairweather)
Bethany Parker (Kwikspell)
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