it's a Festival. it's a Musical. It's a True Story.
The Festival
Sladestock is an annual Music Festival that defines Experiential Adult Escapism.
It is a 4-day, 3-night immersion into the most exquisite Music, Food, Activity and Libations that Western New York has to offer.
Nestled deep in the Finger Lakes, every aspect of this Entertainment Extravaganza exists in Pure Harmony with the Serene Scenery of the Peaceful Valley.
If you are lucky enough to be invited or, even better, stumble upon it on a warm summer's day... Your life will be forever changed for the better.
The Musical
Originally conceived as a Concept Album, it is now in negotiations to be optioned as a Broadway Musical.
Stemming from a simultaneous hallucination by the founding members of the band, The 2 Pump Chumps, the story unfolds during a Mythical Night that takes place at a College Reunion being held at Sladestock.
When the music created by the Greatest Real Band of 2022 opens up a wormhole to the past and the only way it can be closed is by getting the Greatest Fake Band of 1998 to emerge through the time portal... Just in time to blow the minds of their still adoring fans and save the World through the power of Rock-n-Roll.
The True Story
There is a Collection of Friends, Teammates, Brothers, and Lovers that holds their College Reunion every year at Sladestock. All are alumni of Shenandoah University, but only one of them is a Founding Member of the Greatest Band of 2022: The 2 Pump Chumps.
Coincidentally, he was also a Founding Member of the Greatest Fake Band of 1998...
No...
The Greatest Fake Band of All Time:
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NEWS FEED - June 2021
The Festival
On June 8th, Festival Organizers Released a statement on the acquisition of a new site for Sladestock 2022 and beyond:
To all of our Current Fans and Future Festival Goers, rest easy... Sladestock will be back and better than ever in 2022!
Today is a momentous day and giant leap forward for the future of our Festival.
We are proud to announce a new property venture with Presitge Worldwide.
They have graciously agreed to lease the land to us indefinitely, which means Sladestock will now have a permanent address for as long as the Festival is in existence!
We have many more amazing announcements to make in the days, weeks and months to come, but today is about one thing and one thing only, saying thank you to the great people of Prestige Worldwide:
So please join us in giving the warmest welcome and heartiest thanks to this wonderful organization for this unbelievable gift.
THANK YOU PRESTIGE WORLDWIDE!!
Love,
The Whole Sladestock Family!!
-Breaking Line Up News- Meadow Downs, Strange Poon give Verbal Confirmation
This just in:
It's official...almost!
Although the particulars of the contracts are still being hammered out... We have received verbal confirmation that the Long Island Powerhouse Meadow Downs and Upstate's own Strange Poon has agreed to play Sladestock 2022.
More Details to follow, as they become available...
The Concept Album
The 2 Pump Chumps are currently eyeballs deep into the writing and recording process of the most grandiose concept album the world has ever known: The Legend of Sladestock.
Here is an excerpt from an Interview conducted with members: DJ Delta-8 and Kray Tom about their unique approach to finding inspiration for this endeavor:
D8: "There are Spiritual Guides you seek and there are others that seek you. This situation was the latter."
KT: "Exactly, when we walked through that door, we weren't expecting to come face to face with the infinite abyss."
D8: "But that is what happened. And what we saw when we looked into it... What is reflected back at us was nothing short of...divine."
KT: "Universal Truth... The Akashic Record... The secrets of the Universe. Call it what you want, but the entire narrative for this journey was unfurled before us like a long red veil slipping over the edge of a waterfall. It came all at once, but not at all. It cascaded over us in the blink of an eye but it took several lifetimes for that eye to finish blinking."
D8: "Time and space didn't exist, but they were our only tethers to this reality. And that is what we try to recreate every single second we are in the studio. A reliving of that infinitesimal eternity."
KT: "Wow... DMT Rules!!"
D8: "Hell Yeah!!"
*High FIves all around*
The Musical
Upon the release of 2 Lyric Videos to announce the kickoff of the studio sessions, The 2 Pump Chumps were contacted by a number of Producers begging for the Rights to adapt this still unfinished masterpiece into a full blown Broadway Musical.
A bidding war has ensued, but the band has no plans to commit to anything in the near future.
According to their representation, "treatments and offers are pouring in at such a rate, it will take months to vet all of the options that are currently on the table."
No further particulars are available at the moment. Keep checking our socials for more info as the situation evolves.
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About Us
Sladestock
The 2 Pump Chumps
The 2 Pump Chumps
Born from the Bonds of Brotherhood. A collective of former Collegiate Lacrosse Teammates expanded their yearly Reunion into a full-fledged Music and Arts festival called Sladestock. Which has steadily grown to become an annual celebration of all things great about long-lasting Friendships and Western New York.
The 2 Pump Chumps
The 2 Pump Chumps
The 2 Pump Chumps
A Musical Project that is more apty defined as Melodic Skitzophrenia, than an actual band. Consisting of an ever-evolving and constantly revolving cast of characters. Some of which are real, others are imagined and some defy explanation altogether. Yet, one thing is certain: If you like to Thump, You'll love the 2 Pump Chumps.
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The 2 Pump Chumps
Hotter Than 900
During the latter half of the 1990's, there was a trio of musicians so powerful, so revolutionary and so ahead of their time.. They were too hot for TV.
They were too hot for Radio.
They were even too hot for the ads in the back of adult magazines. They were...
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