Warped Tour-bound artists Hoobastank and Simple Plan performed a mid-flight concert Friday, a promotional gig that happened to coincide with a nationwide air travel shutdown.
The Used and LØLØ also played a couple songs for passengers aboard Southwest’s
Los Angeles-to-Orlando flight as part of the airline’s Live at 35 series, which “transforms ordinary flights into extraordinary concert experiences, with surprise pop-up performances for passengers at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet,” Southwest said.
What made this Live at 35 concert especially unique is that it occurred amid a full-scale air transit standstill that resulted in hundreds of flights being canceled, postponed, or rerouted, while thousands of passengers were stranded either at airports or on the tarmac.
The Southwest flight ultimately made it to Orlando on Friday, ensuring that the four artists on board will make it to this weekend’s Warped Tour in the Florida city. Other bands, however, weren’t so lucky: Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman said from the Camping World Stadium campus Saturday that the festival lineup would be shuffled in some capacity this weekend, as some artists got stuck in travel hell while others had their arrivals delayed:
Thankfully, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, scheduled for Saturday night in Los Angeles, won’t be impacted by the air travel situation, as all participating artists are already in the city in order to take part in rehearsals.
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