The Annual Gathering of the Juggalos Infomercial Has Arrived!

This year’s annual Gathering of the Juggalos will be the Insane Clown Posse-hosted event’s 20th. While it’d be easy to say, “Holy crap, already?? I feel old,” as undoubtedly many have, my reaction was the opposite: “That’s all?” It feels as if these yearly Juggalo hoedowns have been around since the beginning of time — before the year 2000, in any case — and I can’t believe this is only the 20th one given how quickly they reached Cultural Institution status. I’m not being facetious!

With the lineup announcement comes an infomercial, the unveiling of which has become a celebratory event even for those of us not attending the festival. This year’s cinematic delight delivers once again with cheesy green-screen effects, intentionally exaggerated acting and a ham-fisted plot, once again summoning that very special feel of a public access TV show. I only watched about five minutes and that was plenty, but congratulations are in order if you can make it through the entire half hour.

Have a gander below. Full lineup posted underneath the embed with tickets and more info available here. This year’s lineup will again feature some metal and metal-adjacent acts including Gwar, Butcher Babies, Mushroomhead and Mac Sabbath, although the band I’d be most stoked to see is C+C Music Factory (!).

Soopa Stage:

Anybody Killa
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Big Hoodoo
Butcher Babies
C+C Music Factory
Dropout Kings
Esham
Geto Boys
Ghostemane
Gwar
Insane Clown Posse
Jedi Mind Tricks
Lyte
Morris Day & The Time
Mushroomhead
Ouija Macc
Rehab
Rittz
Soopa Villains
$uicideboy$
Sylar
Tech N9ne
Token
Whitney Peyton

Shazam Stage:

Astronautalis
Blahzay Roze
Brokencyde
City Morgue
C-Mob
The Cybertronic Spree
DJ Clay
Eazy Mac
GFM
Hav Knots
Kingspade
KRS-One
Kung Fu Vampire
Like A Villain
Mac Sabbath
Madchild
Mike Busey & The Busey Beauties
MoneySide Musica
Myzery
Oddsquad Family
P.R.E.A.C.H.
September Mourning
Shakewell
ICP’s Strums And Drums Acoustic Performance
Twisted Insane
Zug Izland (performing “Cracked Tiles“)

Cannibal’s House:

Night performances:

American Slang
Deviant
Grlwood
J Payne
J. Irja The Sexy Psycho
Jumpsteady
Riddy K
Summoner’s Circle
Super RO Ft. Wiley F.L.E.W. Tribute
The Jasons
Trouble Loc
Xtra Overdoze

Day performances:

A Feasting Beast
Abstrakt
Alex Jonestown Massacre
Bulletproof & The Fool
Demented Naychir
Discord Curse
Flock To Murder
Illest Uminati
Infamous
Insidious Flow
J Biz R w/ Da Sniper 614
Knowledge Da MC
Madopelli Music
Mark Bone
Mereness
Meth
My Own Will
Problemattik
Scattered Hamlet
Skitzo
Trip God

[via The PRP]