Pointfest is a large outdoor rock music festival held annually by radio station KPNT in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre (formerly known as Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, UMB Bank Pavilion, and Riverport Amphitheater). Local music favorites the Urge, Gravity Kills, Story of the Year, Ludo, and Greek Fire have made several appearances as well.
Traditionally, there is a main stage where the larger acts and headliners perform, and two or more stages off to the sides of the lawn for other bands (one of them usually reserved for local bands). The side stages will play from the start of the concert (generally around 10 am) to when the main stage will start playing (generally around 6 pm).
Pointfest 1 Held on September 11, 1993
Matthew Sweet They Might Be Giants Hothouse Flowers Aimee Mann Midnight Oil Dramarama
Pointfest 2 Known as Pointfest '94, it was held on Saturday, August 20, 1994.List of Smithereens gigs. Retrieved May 8, 2007.
311 The Urge Lisa Loeb MC 900 Ft. Jesus The Smithereens Material Issue They Might Be Giants Violent Femmes The SKoubies
Pointfest 3 Originally known as Pointfest '95, it ended up being the first of two Pointfests in 1995. It was held on May 26, 1995.
Toad the Wet Sprocket Bush Faith No More Blues Traveler Sponge Collective Soul The Stone Roses
Pointfest 4 This Pointfest was known as Pointfest 4, the first numbering of Pointfests, it was the second festival in 1995, held on August 19, 1995
Ramones Everclear The Urge They Might Be Giants Big Audio Dynamite Matthew Sweet Better Than Ezra The Nixons Ben Folds Five Gren Jewel- played a short acoustic set Blink-182 The Dambuilders New World Spirits Great Big Everything Phunk Junkeez Dishwalla Stir
Pointfest 5 Held on May 27, 1996
Candlebox Gravity Kills Garbage Cracker No Doubt Jars of Clay Everclear Love & Rockets Seven Mary Three Luster God Lives Underwater Pulp Poe Triplefast Action Goldfinger
Pointfest 6 Held on September 8, 1996
311 The Urge Soul Asylum Cheap Trick Descendents Stir The Nixons They Might Be Giants Dishwalla Nada Surf The Refreshments Reacharound I Mother Earth New World Spirits Primitive Radio Gods
Pointfest 7 Held on May 17, 1997, the first of two festivals in 1997
Matchbox Twenty Bloodhound Gang L7 Soul Kiss Stir Social Distortion The Offspring Reel Big Fish Jungle Dogs Red Five That Dog AFI Ultrafink Recliners Radio Iodine
Pointfest 8 Held on May 26, 1997 (show #2)
Third Eye Blind The Verve Pipe Beck Rollins Band Orbit Cunninghams K's Choice Local H Echo & the Bunnymen Better Than Ezra The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Pave the Rocket Skunk Anansie Cowboy Junkies Cowboy Mouth
Pointfest 9 Held on May 24, 1998
Hosted by Matt Pinfield of MTV.
Foo Fighters Green Day Creed Deftones Semisonic Econoline Crush Big Wreck The Reverend Horton Heat Soul Kiss Gravity Kills Rocket from the Crypt Atomic Fireballs Wank Anthenaeum God Lives Underwater
Pointfest 10 Held on September 5, 1998
Candlebox The Urge Seven Mary Three Fuel Reel Big Fish Local H K's Choice They Might Be Giants Fragile Porcelain Mice Smash Mouth Stabbing Westward Feeder Stella Soleil Monster Magnet
Pointfest 11
Held on May 23, 1999 (all times St. Louis local)
Main Stage
Red Hot Chili Peppers at 9:30 p.m. Hole at 8:00 p.m. Silverchair at 6:45 p.m Blink-182 at 5:35 p.m Orgy at 4:25 p.m 2 Skinnee J's at 3:15 p.m. Modern Day Zero (performing as Mesh) at 2:05 p.m
Front Stage
Lit at 7:30 p.m. Econoline Crush at 6:15 p.m. Bellyfeel at 4:55 p.m. Citizen King at 3:55 p.m. Die Symphony at 2:35 p.m. Thisway at 1:05 p.m.
Pointfest 12 Held on May 21, 2000
Slipknot and Mudvayne were scheduled to perform at Pointfest 12 but canceled on the day of the show for unknown reasons.
311 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Everclear Our Lady Peace Goldfinger The Nixons Stir MxPx Die Symphony Toadies Mesh Blue October 8stops7 Colony
Pointfest 13 Held on May 20, 2001
Weezer Run-D.M.C. Staind Fuel Our Lady Peace Toadies Alien Ant Farm Mesh Hed PE Lucky Boys Confusion Puddle of Mudd Tantric Cold Saliva Monster Magnet
Pointfest 14 Held on May 19, 2002 Big Blue Monkey won the contest for the opening slot on the bill at Pointfest 14, and managed to get one of their videos onto the tour bus of Goldfinger. The video immediately grabbed the attention of vocalist John Feldmann, which paid off in a spot touring with Goldfinger, a major record deal, and a name change to Story of the Year.
Main Stage
Sevendust Our Lady Peace The X-Ecutioners Mesh STL Hoobastank Reel Big Fish Tenacious D Local H
Second Stage
Goldfinger Unwritten Law The Apex Theory Dashboard Confessional Quarashi Trik Turner Lostprophets
Third Stage
3rd Strike Ash Greenwheel Headstrong Moth Pressure 4-5 Big Blue Monkey
Pointfest 15 Held on June 8, 2003
New Empire was the local band contest winner, which earned them a spot in the lineup.
Main Stage
Staind Hed PE Breaking Benjamin Cold The Used The All-American Rejects Seether Socialburn
Second Stage
Trapt Finch Ra Smile Empty Soul Cavo New Empire Ripd
Pointfest 16 Held on June 5, 2004,
The Von Bondies were scheduled to perform but failed to arrive due to problems with their tour bus.
Main Stage The Urge Breaking Benjamin Papa Roach
Side Stages
Story of the Year Lit Sugarcult Flaw Thornley The Adored Auf de Maur Crossfade Apartment 26 Modern Day Zero Shaman's Harvest Adair
Pointfest 17 Held on May 15, 2005
The Exies were scheduled to perform but did not play due to an illness. TRUSTcompany was also scheduled but canceled their performance amid personal issues with band members and issues with their record label. They officially announced their breakup a couple months later.
Breaking Benjamin Mudvayne Story of the Year Modern Day Zero Sum 41 Unwritten Law Life of Agony American Head Charge Mudworm Bloodsimple No Address Mourningside Ultra Blue Hed PE Apartment 26
Pointfest 18 Held on May 6, 2006. Blue October was scheduled to play. However, as a result of lead singer Justin Furstenfeld's broken leg, the band did not play.
Coheed and Cambria Avenged Sevenfold Shinedown Trapt 10 Years Hurt People in Planes Bril Autovein Rock Kills Kid Bullets and Octane Eighteen Visions Damone ThreeSixtySmile
Pointfest 19 Held on August 5, 2006.
Staind Breaking Benjamin Hurt Blue October Three Days Grace Buckcherry Evans Blue Black Stone Cherry Inimical Drive
Pointfest 20 Held on Saturday, May 12, 2007, at the newly renamed amphitheater Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis
Mainstage
Lye (mainstage winner) Red Romance The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Wolfmother The Killers
Side Stages
Bullet for My Valentine Say Anything Modern Day Zero Papa Roach The Exies Flyleaf Smile Empty Soul Dropping Daylight Autovein Madina Lake Blackpool Lights Straylight Run Operator DeFunkt In Fear and Faith
Local bands
Ava, Wait The New Embrace In Fear & Faith Lye (main stage winner) Dead By Tuesday Bi-Level Murder in a Tuxedo Cavo Shaman's Harvest Sonic Reducer 360 Smile Arythma
Pointfest 21
September 30, 2007 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Hed PE was originally scheduled to play but they were removed from the lineup. The band cited issues getting one of their members a passport to make it back from their European dates. Reported issues were linked to the member's past encounters with law enforcement officials. Pointfest was to be the first date of their US tour.
Main Stage
Breaking Benjamin Three Days Grace Seether Finger Eleven was originally scheduled to play but the lead singer lost his voice. 13 Days (mainstage winner)
Iron Age Studios Stage
Copperview The Daybreak Boys 12 Stones Evans Blue Hurt Saliva Chevelle
Main Street Bistro Stage
Shaman's Harvest Lapush Sick Puppies The Starting Line Mutemath Sum 41
Pop's Local Stage
Behind the Blindfold Brookroyal D-railed Blinded Black Allusive Soul Descenders Social Slave Leo eclectic fusion
Pointfest 22
Sunday, May 18, 2008- Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Atreyu was scheduled to play the main stage, but they were forced to cancel, because the band's flight from Los Angeles was grounded. Sick Puppies canceled due to a death in the family. Blind Melon was scheduled to play the Jägermeister Stage, but the band canceled. Rogers Stevens of Blind Melon explained the cancellation on the band's website by stating "There are some political things afoot that it's best for me not to go into. In addition, we were mistakenly booked for 5 shows in a row, which we didn't know about until last week." Local band Severed Ties also had to cancel due to their drummer sustaining an injury from a car accident.Blind Melon - Pointfest Show cxl why? Glen
Main Stage
Serj Tankian Shinedown Killswitch Engage Filter
New Amsterdam Stage
Coheed & Cambria Hurt Ludo 10 Years RED SafetySuit Cavo
Jägermeister Stage
Finger Eleven Copperview Cavo Theory of a Deadman Scary Kids Scaring Kids LucaBrasi
Pop's Local Stage
Iron Fist Dillusion The New Translation Soul Descenders Sunday but Summer Course of Nature Strych 9 Hollow Bare Knuckle Conflict Feed the Flame Inimical Drive Severed Ties (canceled due to injury of the drummer) Never My Silence Fivefold
Pointfest 23 Saturday, September 20, 2008, at 10:00 am - Verizon Wireless Amphitheaterhttp://www.kpnt.com/Concerts/Details.aspx?ID=10519
Avenged Sevenfold was scheduled but canceled citing vocalist M. Shadows (Matt Sanders) needed to rest his ailing voice. The band would resume its tour dates on October 15. Toryn Green, the lead singer for Fuel, sang for Apocalyptica. This was the first Pointfest to feature the two side stages to be next to each other. So after a band on the Black Stage would get done, then a band on the White stage would start almost immediately.
Main Stage
Seether Shinedown Puddle of Mudd Bullet for My Valentine Apocalyptica
Black Stage
The Upright Animals Ava, Wait Miser Copperview Sick Puppies Local H Story of the Year
White Stage
Red Line Chemistry Brookroyal Black Tide Saving Abel Ludo
Pops Stage
Ready the Cannons Tell Tale Heart 12 Summers Old Soul Descenders Minutes to Midnight Everyday Drive
Pointfest 24
May 23, 2009 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
The New Translation was the Pop's local show winner to open up on the side stages.
Main Stage
The Offspring Chevelle Taking Back Sunday Sick Puppies The Used
White Stage
The New Translation Inimical Drive The Parlor Mob Hed PE Cavo Anberlin Ludo
Black Stage
Street Dogs Greek Fire Framing Hanley Shiny Toy Guns Hurt Blue October
Local Stage
Isabella Killer Me Killer You Sunday But Summer Arythma Opposites Attack All Fall Down Fer De Lance Stone Dog Diaries Defiance Pointe Amorath The Gorge
Pointfest 25
Pointfest 25 was on August 23, 2009, and boasted "35 bands for $35.00." Killer Me Killer You won the Pop's Battle to Open Pointfest and greeted the crowd at 10 am by showering them with Pop Tarts for breakfast.
Main Stage Start
Our Lady Peace 5:30 pm Atreyu 6:25 pm Chevelle 7:30 pm Shinedown 8:30 pm Staind 9:45 pm
Energy Side Stage Start
Killer Me Killer You 10:00 am Burn Halo 11:00 am Billy Boy on Poison 12:10 pm Brookroyal 1:20 pm Living Things 1:20 pm Trapt 3:40 pm Hollywood Undead 5:00 pm
Buckle Up Arrive Alive Stage Start
Copperview 10:25 am The Veer Union 11:35 am Halestorm 12:45 am Evans Blue 1:55 pm All That Remains 3:05 pm Street Sweeper Social Club 4:15 pm
Best Buy Musical Instruments Stage Start
Aranda 11:00 am Janus 12:00 pm Red Line Chemistry 1:00 pm Lucabrasi 2:00 pm Shaman's Harvest 3:00 pm Messe 4:00 pm
Pop's Stage Start
Allusive 10:10 am Iron Fist Dillusion 11:10 am Make Me Break Me 11:30 am