User:Spuderman/The Big Ticket

The Big Ticket is an annual single-day alternative rock music festival held in Jacksonville, Florida at Metropolitan Park. The festival is presented and hosted by Jacksonville's X102.9FM. The Big Ticket is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, the organization that produces other major rock concerts and festivals around the United States including Rock on the Range, Monster Energy's Welcome to Rockville, Monster Energy's Aftershock, Louder than Life and others.

2011 Lineup
The Big Ticket lineup in 2011 featured three different stages. MetroPCS and Jacksonville X102.9 presented The Big Ticket in 2011. The gates opened on Sunday, December 4, 2011, and the final act performed at 9:50PM. The lineup included the following bands:


 * Sublime with Rome
 * A Day To Remember
 * Taking Back Sunday
 * Manchester Orchestra
 * Switchfoot
 * Young The Giant
 * Joy Formidable
 * Surfer Blood
 * MC Rut
 * Grouplove
 * Sleeper Agent
 * Fun

Bubba Burger Main Stage
1:10PM Hard Target

2:20PM Joy Formidable

3:30PM Young The Giant

4:40PM Switchfoot

5:50PM Manchester Orchestra

7PM Taking Back Sunday

8:25PM A Day To Remember

9:50PM Sublime with Rome

Jagermeister Stage
12:40PM Fun

1:45PM Drive A

2:55PM Sleeper Agent

4:05PM Grouplove

5:15PM Middle Class Rut

6:25PM Surfer Blood

6:50PM Everlast

JaxLive Stage (Local Acts)
11:30AM T Minus 9

12:30PM Get Out Driver

1:40PM Wayley

2:50PM Mindslip

4PM Bleeding in Stereo

5:10PM Son of a Bad Man

6:30PM Opiate Eyes

7:50PM Greenhouse Lounge

2012 Lineup
The Big Ticket returned again in 2012 on Sunday, December 2 at Metropolitan Park. The gates opened at 11AM and the final performance started at 9:45PM. The lineup included the following bands:


 * Rise Against
 * Bush
 * Fun
 * Silversun Pickups
 * Of Monsters And Men
 * Anberlin


 * Flogging Molly
 * Grouplove
 * Imagine Dragons
 * Paper Tongues
 * The Joy Formidable
 * Twenty One Pilots