{"id":348588,"date":"2025-09-29T21:19:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/fu-f1-festival-a-k-a-neon-city-festival-lineup-announced\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:19:31","slug":"fu-f1-festival-a-k-a-neon-city-festival-lineup-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/fu-f1-festival-a-k-a-neon-city-festival-lineup-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"FU F1 Festival (A.K.A. Neon City Festival) Lineup Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The free Neon City Festival, scheduled right on top of this year\u2019s F1 race (intentionally), Nov. 21-23, 2025, has announced its lineup.<\/p>\n

The roster includes Good Charlotte, Deadmau5, Breaking Benjamin, Two Friends, Fitz and the Tantrums, Bowling for Soup, De La Soul and others. Yes, we\u2019ll give you the entire list, mostly because it will then look to search engines like we spent some time researching this despite the fact it was provided in a news release.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, there are those who will complain about the Neon City Festival lineup. Those people skimmed right past the \u201cfree\u201d part, the dopes.<\/p>\n

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Missed shade opportunity, Neon City Festival, but you do you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Neon City Festival was created as counter-programming to the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, November 20-22, 2025, because F1 sucks the economic life out of Las Vegas, forcing everyone but a handful of Strip hotels to suffer through this misguided boondoggle.<\/p>\n

Downtown, tired of being beaten up by the scourge that is the F1 race, decided to take action, creating a festival that features music, food and beverage vendors, scantily-clad young women and art installations.<\/p>\n

The part about \u201cscantily-clad young women\u201d was not in the news release, but we were formerly a professional marketer, the festival should just trust us on this one.<\/p>\n

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How did people advocate positive change before A.I.?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The event is billed as a \u201cfestival without fences.\u201d There are no tickets and bands appear on several stages at Fremont Street Experience and the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center (near The D).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the artwork with all the bands, which we will repeat following the image because we are thorough like that.<\/p>\n

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If you pronounced it \u201cdead-mow-five,\u201d you may not be hip, but you are the perfect casino customer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beyond the headliners previously mentioned, there is a metric ass-ton of \u201csupporting\u201d talent.<\/p>\n

Those bands include: Acraze, Redferrin, Waka Flocka Flame, Skeez, Knuckle Puck, 3OH!3, Halocene, Shaylen, Daring Greatly, Diva Bleach, Ethan Garner, Point North, 12 Volt Sex, Dez Hoston, Heroine Honey, Hoity-Toity, Kings\/Kings, Michael Richter, Moonlght, No Proof, Pure Sport, The Dollheads, The Far Worst and The Out There.<\/p>\n

Download Spotify, gramps!<\/p>\n

The lineup still has some blurry bands, so expect further announcements of talent prior to the event.<\/p>\n

One of the coolest things about the Neon City Festival is how it has brought all the downtown casinos together collaboratively in their open disdain of F1 and the boobs who thought bringing that race to Las Vegas was a good idea.<\/p>\n

Music and contempt for F1\u2019s negative impact on Las Vegas have brought together competing casinos and, while they\u2019ll never say it out loud, lifelong enemies. The glorious drama!<\/p>\n

The festival was created by casino owner Stevens (Circa, The D, Golden Gate), with support from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA).<\/p>\n

The LVCVA\u2019s support wasn\u2019t voluntary, of course. There was a threat of a very public and embarrassing mutiny by downtown casinos who were financially hammered during the months leading up to the first F1 race. Tourism authorities touted the alleged economic windfall while completely ignoring the fact the vast majority of Las Vegas businesses are financially harmed by F1\u2019s race and those losses are conveniently never deducted from the upside numbers because that would spoil the narrative.<\/p>\n

The festival is overseen by Neon City Festival CEO and Circa Hospitality Group V.P. of Operations Jeff Victor. Victor was also our former boss at Fremont Street Experience. Trust us, if he could be our boss, Victor can accomplish anything. We are incorrigible. That sound you hear is everyone at Casino.org nodding. Rude.<\/p>\n

The festival \u201cfounders\u201d are owners or G.M.s of the downtown casinos, including: Derek Stevens (Circa, Golden Gate, the D and Downtown Las Vegas Events Center), LVCVA, Steve Thompson (Fremont, California, Main Street), Terry Caudill (Binion\u2019s, 4 Queens), Chris Latil (Golden Nugget), Jonathan Jossel (Plaza), Blake Sartini Jr. (Strat), Andrew Simon (Fremont Street Experience), Joe Woody (El Cortez) and Eric Buksa (Downtown Grand).<\/p>\n

We would provide a chart of the people who don\u2019t care for each other, but far be it from us to be the one to jerk off the mask of civility. We will let others jerk off that polished exterior. We know and like most of the people mentioned, so we are not going to risk those relationships by jerking off anyone\u2019s veneer of courtesy.<\/p>\n

Please grow up.<\/p>\n

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Fremont Street concerts have a higher concentration of neon than any other venue in the world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Look forward to further news about the Neon City Festival in the weeks to come, and we can\u2019t wait to attend, assuming it\u2019s 20% less loud than last year because free permanent hearing damage is still permanent hearing damage and please get off our lawn.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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