Uproar Festival

The Uproar Festival, also called the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival, was an annual hard rock and heavy metal tour inaugurated in 2010 by John Reese and sponsored by Rockstar Energy Drink. The tour was also created by John Oakes, Darryl Eaton and Ryan Harlacher from the Creative Artists Agency, and Perry Lavoisne from Live Nation. Reese is also responsible for creating Mayhem Festival and the Taste of Chaos tour. Uproar Festival is the replacement for Reese's Taste of Chaos tour, as he was "running out of bands that fit within the profile of what Taste of Chaos was."

Reese attempted to have Pantera as headliner for a 2015 show, but those plans fell through. The 2014 festival was the last.

2010 line-up

 * Main Stage
 * Disturbed
 * Avenged Sevenfold
 * Stone Sour
 * Halestorm


 * Jägermeister Stage
 * Hellyeah
 * Airbourne
 * Hail the Villain
 * New Medicine
 * White Cowbell Oklahoma (for all Canadian dates)
 * Jägermeister Battle of the Bands Winner

2011 line-up

 * Main Stage
 * Avenged Sevenfold
 * Three Days Grace
 * Seether
 * Bullet for My Valentine
 * Escape the Fate


 * Best Buy Music Gear Stage
 * Sevendust
 * Black Tide
 * Art of Dying
 * Hell or Highwater
 * Fozzy (Selected Dates)
 * Battle of the Bands Winner

2012 line-up

 * Main Stage:
 * Shinedown
 * Godsmack
 * Staind
 * Papa Roach (cancelled after first five dates due to Jacoby Shaddix vocal chords problems, Rock the Rapids show was also cancelled)
 * Adelitas Way


 * Ernie Ball Stage:
 * P.O.D. (except 8/25, replaced Papa Roach on the main stage on the Rock the Rapids show)
 * Fozzy (except 8/19, 8/29 and 9/18)
 * Mindset Evolution
 * Candlelight Red


 * Jägermeister Stage:
 * Deuce
 * Redlight King (except 9/1 and 9/18)
 * In This Moment (until 9/2)
 * Thousand Foot Krutch (started 9/7, except 9/8, 9/15. 9/29 and 9/30)
 * Greek Fire (select dates only: 8/17, 8/18, 8/19, 8/22, 8/24)
 * Switchpin (select dates only: 8/17, 8/18, 8/19, 8/22, 8/24, 8/25, 8/26, 8/28)
 * Cruz (select dates only: 8/19, 8/25, 8/26, 8/28, 8/31, 9/1, 9/2, 9/7)
 * Silvertung (select dates only: 8/31, 9/1, 9/2)
 * Uncrowned (select dates only: 9/7, 9/8, 9/9, 9/11, 9/12, 9/13, 9/16, 9/19, 9/29, 9/30)
 * Within Reason (select dates only: 9/8, 9/9, 9/11, 9/12, 9/13, 9/16)
 * Attika 7 (select dates only: 9/19, 9/21, 9/22, 9/23, 9/25, 9/29, 9/30)
 * Drown Mary (select dates only: 9/21, 9/22, 9/23)

2013 line-up

 * Main Stage:
 * Alice in Chains
 * Jane's Addiction
 * Coheed and Cambria
 * Circa Survive


 * Festival Stage:
 * Walking Papers
 * Danko Jones
 * Middle Class Rut
 * New Politics
 * The Chuck Shaffer Picture Show


 * COLDCOCK Spirits Showcase Stage:
 * The Dead Daisies
 * Beware of Darkness
 * Charming Liars

2013 tour dates

 * This show was part of KISW 99.9's Pain In The Grass *

2014 line-up

 * Main Stage:
 * Godsmack
 * Seether
 * Skillet
 * Buckcherry


 * Blackstream Stage:
 * Pop Evil
 * Escape the Fate
 * Redlight King
 * These Raven Skies
 * Tattered
 * Sons of Revelry
 * 3 Years Hollow
 * Within Reason
 * New Medicine
 * The Reality Of Yourself (T.R.O.Y)