Planetfest was a music festival staged yearly by what used to be WPLA Planet Radio 107.3 in Jacksonville, Florida at Metropolitan Park. It was started in 1999 and, with the exception of 2001, has continued every year since then. The show is known for its relatively low ticket prices for the large number of national and local bands. The event featured some of the biggest names in indie rock and attendance has grown each year.
For WPLA's 10th anniversary in 2005, the station held a "Mutha Shuckin' Birthday" in the Spring at the Expo Center of the Jacksonville Fairgrounds instead of Metropolitan Park.
Planetfest is a music festival with two stages for the performing musicians. The Main Stage is where the featured performers play 45-60+ minute sets with 30 minute breaks between acts for stage preparation and breakdown.
A smaller stage, called the JackRabbits Stage, is named after the local venue where a Battle of the Bands competition is held to select the local bands that will play at the festival. In 2008, that contest was scheduled to occur between September 21 and October 12. The top nine acts perform 30-45 minute sets at Planetfest.
In 2010, there was no scheduled concert. The sponsoring radio station, Planet Radio 107.3, switched formats and discontinued sponsorship. There has been talk of starting another music festival with a different station but nothing definitive. However, Planet Radio would be terminated in August thus ending Planetfest forever.
Concert date: November 14, 2009.
Attendance: TBA
Ticket price: $15 deadbeat presale October 2 / $25 in advance / $35 at the gate
Main Acts: Papa Roach, Chevelle, Jet, Framing Hanley, Skindred, Halestorm, Shawn Fisher & The Jukebox Gypsies (Jax band recently signed to Universal Republic), Adelitas Way, Name:Bran
Local Acts: The Embraced, Love Lies & Therapy, Down Theory, Sumthin Else, Supercollide, Broken Trust, Society Red, None Like Us, A Fall to Rise
Originally scheduled to appear: TBA
Concert date: November 8, 2008.
Attendance: 10,000 (sold out)
Ticket price: $15 deadbeat presale / $25 in advance / $35 at the gate
Main Acts: Hinder, Shinedown, Puddle of Mudd, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Rehab, His Name Was Iron, Red
Local Acts: Ten West, Hollowpoint Militia, Harloe, Blistur, Penny 4 Your Thought, Shawn Fisher and the Jukebox Gypsies (Now Son Of A Badman), JoEveritt, The Embraced, Name: Bran
Originally scheduled to appear: N/A
Concert date: November 17, 2007.
Attendance: almost 12,000
Ticket price: $25 prior to the show / $35 at the gate
Main Acts: Breaking Benjamin, Drowning Pool, Finger 11, Seether, Trapt, Amaru
Local Acts: Harloe, Penny for Your Thoughts, Amidine, Secret State, JoEveritt, Hollowpoint Militia, Pliny the Younger, Five Star Failure, Devereux
Originally scheduled to appear: Sum 41. Due to an injury, they canceled their remaining tour appearances, including Planetfest 8.
Concert date: November 18, 2006
Attendance: 10,000+
Ticket price: $20 in advance, $30 at the gate
Main Acts: Buckcherry, Crossfade, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Hinder, 18 Visions, Hoobastank, Candlebox, Bound
Local Acts: Dummo, Decidedly, Feedback, Amidine, Fidelity Crisis, Harloe, Down Theory, Dang and Embraced.
Originally scheduled to appear: Blue October—Not there due to Injury
Notes: Lex and Terry presented Red Jumpsuit with a "Best of Jax" award for best local band. The city put a limit of 10,000 tickets for the event, resulting in a sell-out crowd. It was the first sell-out since 2003 when Staind headlined the festival.
Concert date: November 20, 2005
Attendance:
Ticket price: $20 in advance; $30 day of show.
Main Acts: Allele, Shinedown, Cold, P.O.D., Silvertide
Local Acts: NonPoint, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Concert date: May 8, 2005
Attendance:
Ticket price: $25 in advance/$35 day of show
Main Acts: 3 Doors Down, Sum 41, Breaking Benjamin, Unwritten Law, Alterbridge, Skindred, No Address, The Exies, Thirty Seconds to Mars
Notes: Mutha Shuckin' Birthday celebrated the ten-year anniversary of WPLA in Jacksonville. While Planetfest takes place in the fall at Jacksonville's Metropolitan Park, Mutha Shuckin' Birthday took place in the spring at the Jacksonville Expo Center Fairgrounds.
Concert date: October 24, 2004
Attendance: 8,000+
Ticket price: $18
Main Acts: Papa Roach, Chevelle, Saliva, Authority Zero, Skindred, Future Leaders Of the World
Concert date: October 19, 2003
Attendance:
Ticket price: $15 Advanced $22 Day of Show
Main Acts: Staind, Sevendust, Shinedown, Unloco, Authority Zero
Local Acts: Allele, Burn Season, Yellowcard
Concert date: September 22, 2002
Attendance:
Ticket price: $13 in advance, $20 day at the gate
Main Acts: Sevendust, Shinedown, Earshot, Audiovent, The Used, The Kidney Thieves, Off By One, unwritten law
Local Acts: Weekend
Concert date: September 2000
Attendance:
Ticket price:
Main Acts: Battery, Fuel, Nickelback, Lifehouse 8 Stops 7, Dexter Freebish, 3 Doors Down
Concert date: October 24, 1999
Attendance:
Ticket price:
Main Acts: Days of the New, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, JoyDrop, Eve 6, Stroke 9, Shades Apart, Splender, Lifehouse
Local Acts: Tether's End, Big Sky
Notes: Lifehouse (recorded video for their 2001 hit single "Hanging By A Moment", though the footage from the concert was never used for the music video)
