A brief foray into Google Maps reveals that the town of Ringle, Wisconsin appears to be in the middle of fucking nowhere, about 25 minutes east of the bustling metropolis of Wausau.

Ringle is the site of an upcoming music festival featuring a handful of crappy nu-metal bands, and there was some CONTROVERSY recently when Powerman 5000 frontman “Spider One” shamed Nonpoint into pulling out of the gig.

From Metal Injection:

Remember the insane story we posted yesterday about a festival planning to run in Wisconsin next month, that’s billing itself as the Herd Immunity Fest? The fest is scheduled to take place July 16-18 at The Q&Z Expo Center in Ringle, WI and was to feature three nights of big name headliners like Static-X, Dope and Nonpoint. Except there is a problem. Nonpoint are no longer playing the fest.

It began with criticism from Powerman 5000‘s Spider One, who wrote on Twitter: “A bunch of bands that I consider peers and some friends are partaking in a show called “herd immunity fest”, which by that title is basically saying to their fans, come see us and we hope you get sick. What the actual fuck??”

Nonpoint’s official account responded saying “Hey brother. Nonpoint is not playing because of the way the festival is named. We have dropped off.”

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The Q&Z Expo Center have deleted their initial announcement, and posted new flyers where the term “Herd Immunity Fest” is no longer featured.

Promoters say this is an outdoor event and they are only going to sell 2,000 tickets despite the venue being able to hold 10,000. That’s 20% to encourage social distancing. They also say the festival is not called ‘Herd Immunity’ and that “the name is no longer tied to any of our social media or promotion.”

Interestingly enough, there appears to be absolutely nothing around the festival site, based on this satellite pic from Google:

Place appears to be in bumble F Wisconsin. Makes Berks County look like Tokyo.

Anyway, the real question here is whether you would go to a music festival at this period in time, and perhaps develop herd immunity, if that’s even a thing. Kyle has been reading up on it, so he would know better than me.

Will the show even take place? We’ll set the odds at +110 and monitor the situation. If Static-X pulls out, the gig might be kaput.

Meantime, let’s throw it back to the year 2000: