Check out the full lineup poster below. Despite citing COVID concerns as the reason for canceling the festival last year, it appears there are no formal protocols in place this time around. With the highly transmissible delta variant becoming the dominant strain in the United States, it would be understandable if potential attendees wanted to sit this one out. For Juggalos undeterred by the risk, tickets are currently available at the official website through August 8th. Mosh pit action during the Gathering of the Juggalos in In , an FBI report classified the group's fans, known as Juggalos, as a "loosely organized hybrid gang," noting that "most crimes committed by Juggalos are sporadic, disorganized, individualistic, and often involve simple assault, personal drug use and possession, petty theft and vandalism.
ICP and their fans eventually lost the legal battle. Tuesday, June 1, C-Notes. Photo by Josh Justice Did you pack the Faygo? View this post on Instagram. Jump to comments 0. Cleveland Scene on Social Media. Most Popular Most Read. November , Newsletters Never miss a beat Sign Up Now Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered right to your inbox. Calendar Events. We spent all day and night just throwing Faygo and hanging out.
And we got down to the venue and the line was already 3. As different as we are, we have that common band, and it felt like a family. I remember we took a bunch of those dumpsters on wheels, and we started filling them with empty Faygo bottles, and people started climbing fences and diving off and doing wrestling moves into the dumpsters. There was one kid who climbed on top of the Novi Center somehow and he jumped off the roof into this garbage dumpster full of 2 liters.
We were just out there acting crazy. I remember some guy had a convertible hooptie with some phat speakers and everybody crowded around it, and we all just sat there in silence listening to Violent J on the radio. It was cool because we were at the Gathering waiting for the doors to open, and our hero, Violent J, is on the radio hyping it up, and we were right there about to go in.
But I remember flying back into Detroit and seeing Juggalos at the airport. That was like the first real sign that people are coming in. And then driving to the Novi Expo Center, same thing. We were seeing people in cars the closer we got. It started getting exciting. It was way bigger than any of us thought it was going to be. I remember pulling up and seeing all the cars, it was like holy expletive! We had no idea what to expect, we had never done that before.
We had never put on something of that magnitude by ourselves, taking care of everything and all that. So it was phenomenal. We were dumbfounded. It turned out to be great, it was the the start of something beautiful, obviously.
I kind of thought it would be like a concert, a bunch of Michigan people, right? It was Washington, Texas, Louisiana, Maine. All the license plates were from all over!
Florida, all over the place. It was insane! Right off the bat, I knew this was probably going to go on for a while. They started to look at the crowd, and there was one incident of spray paint on a wall, just a small tag, and they really were upset about that and I had to talk them down. Doors for the first day were set to open at 3 p.
It was a learning process. That year, we were just trying to get through it. We bit off more than we could chew. It was probably two of the hardest days of my life when the events were going on, and probably the hardest four days of my life when you count set-up days.
When it came time to open doors on that first day, there was a line of Juggalos that had to have been at least a couple thousand Juggalos. We got some news back, the people that were running the convention center, they were really nervous about it.
So we needed every last minute. Finally, they just opened the doors. And this is probably about 20 minutes before doors were supposed to open, so none of our workers were in place. We were having a last-minute meeting with everyone, trying to explain everything that was going on. So when they opened doors, a flood of Juggalos came in, and the first thing they hit was merch area, and nobody was there.
And so this looting started, where people were just grabbing stuff. When I came around the corner, I saw it from a distance, and I started running over there, and this group of Juggalos jumped behind the merch booth and they stopped everyone from looting. It was such a show of respect and love. I had it out for her bad. So we hired her at the Gathering to be one of the ring girls to hold the cards up in between matches.
And I remember when I got there, the first person I saw was Spice. I was clearly trying to show this beautiful woman around, and they just were merciless! In four seconds, there were hundreds of them all around us. And I felt like such an idiot, because I always she thought I did that on purpose.
It was really uncomfortable. I just thought we had time, like they would have held doors back for me to finish. We were trying to be very welcoming to people, thanking them for showing up. You have to understand, this is a million years ago, this is before VIPs, this is before Cameos, this is before the artist accessibility age. This was the days when people bought your record and wrote you a letter with a pen.
To really be grassroots and shaking hands, having people tell you how much you mean to them and cry, it was moving. To have someone tell you to your face how much you mean to them and not through a computer screen, it means a lot. It was my first anything as Blaze. The first day I had nothing scheduled, I got to take it all in.
I walked around with Twiztid the entire day. I flew under the radar the entire time and I got to experience the entire convention. I had been out the Novi Expo Center before for different comic book conventions, but seeing it the way they had it set up was extra special.
They had booths with memorabilia, they had convention rooms where you could go and talk to people. It was a real cool set up. It was such an overload of stimulus, it was like whoa. I have a stack of pictures, I brought a disposable camera for each day. I have like 24 pictures, not all of them came out great. It was pretty overwhelming. I went to a few of the seminars, which were absolutely awesome.
Looking back on it, there was so much going on. I guess you could almost call it a mini-comic con.
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