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[overnight celebrity]

Anyone going?!?!?!

[AlexDorweiler08]

Arriving on the 17th at 7pm, staying in Hyatt Regency, going there from Manchester, flying from Heathrow via Houston though.

Yourself?

[overnight celebrity]

AlexDorweiler08, on Feb 18 2010, 02:16 PM, said:

Arriving on the 17th at 7pm, staying in Hyatt Regency, going there from Manchester, flying from Heathrow via Houston though.

Yourself?

Also going Heathrow>Houston....staying in Houston 13th-15th, then Austin (North something Plaza something a bit outta town but on nightbus route) until 21st, then jollying it up in San An for 2 nights, and Houston for 2 more nights, then landing UK 27th March! never been before - you?

[sakura]

I'm going...my third time...and can't wait! Doing a bit of a deep south road trip for the week before and then arrive in Austin on the Monday.

[AlexDorweiler08]

Can't believe the stuff I'm hearing about what big name bands are playing too - Muse, Stone Temple Pilots?

Filter got a pretty good lineup this year as well - god, where would we be without donewaiting.com , showlistaustin.com

[funkymp]

going, staying in the hampton inn downtown this year. 3rd time

muse are at stubbs supposedly

few rumours that soundgarden are gonna play as well at some point

edit: scissor sisters playing is a bit random!

Edited by funkymp, 27 February 2010 - 08:32 AM.

[rideincircles]

I am a Texas local and will be heading to Austin next Wenesday night after watching Muse and Silversun pickups play in Fort worth. Its a 3 hour drive to Austin from Fort Worth.

If you have any questions about anything Texas related feel free to contact me, I hadnt checked this.

If your on twitter I am rideincircles.

For SXSW info check these sites.

http://do512.com/c/sx2010/events/all-music...010/03/12/?time has a custom schedule builder and links to rsvp parties.

http://www.austin360...usic/sxsw-music l

http://www.thepeenscene.com/ posts up to date flyers

http://weshotjr.com/sxsw/ has a map showing parties (not all)

Some parties worth going to:

Fader Fort http://apps.thefader.com/pages/create_rsvp...fader-fort-2010 RSVP quickly.

Carniville - Diplo Major Lazer Gza http://austincarniville.com/

Mess With Texas - Man Man Gwar Andrew WK http://mwtxparty.com/

As of now its 1800+ bands and over 600 unofficial parties. Its really hard to describe or plan your activities at SXSW and you cant always make it into certain shows without badges wristbands or getting there early.

No matter what happens you will walk up on something unexpected and you will be walking alot.

[rideincircles]

SXSW was a blast. I drank for free and saw tons of bands all weekend. It definitely is the best city festival for music in the USA, probably best in the world.

Some random facts and whatnot:

I paid for one show all weekend, all the others were free and had free beer or cheap beer.

100,000 people came from out of town. 13000 people had badges and wristbands.
2000 bands played, there over 700 free parties.

This year I drank too much, mediocre bands blurred together.

My favorite shows of SXSW: SLeigh Bells, The Very Best w Radioclit, Bone Thugs, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Cut Chemist, Surfer Blood, Delorean, We Are Scientists, Neon Indian & Local Natives.

In the midst of my blurry weekend, I did take 1000+ photos.

Most of my photos are here.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Ridei...es/174734597279

SXSW = Awesomeness.

[funkymp]

it was absolutely awesome again this year, have no idea how many band's i saw, but i was probably averaging about 18 a day

definate highlights were 'the middle east',' school of seven bell's at rachael rays day party thing, les savy fav in galaxy room and a lot more (muse were great, just shame they didnt play a bit longer). saw holy f**k 4 times in 23 hours which was bloody awesome.

cant wait till next year, still best fest there is

[rideincircles]

Anyone planning on going in 2011?

I will be there for certain.

[rideincircles]

More international people should check it out since it's our most unique festival. It's a must if you are a band touring the USA.

Edited by rideincircles, 18 October 2010 - 07:40 AM.

[funkymp]

rideincircles, on 22 July 2010 - 06:11 AM, said:

Anyone planning on going in 2011?

I will be there for certain.

yup, 4th year for me

booked flight yesterday, hotel and badge sorted as well - can't fowking wait

should start announcing bands soon (reg closes this friday for bands)
lady gaga and crystal castles both have tour dates in texas the week of sxsw and have dates during sxsw free so as historically bands that have done this in the past, end up playing - e.g. muse / brmc last year. can see them both playing, guess gaga will be in stubbs if she does.

[funkymp]

first lot of bands announced

looks good already

A Place To Bury Strangers (Brooklyn, NY)
Alcoholic Faith Mission (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
Ancestors (Los Angeles, CA)
Apex Manor (Pasadena, CA)
The Appleseed Cast (Lawrence, KS)
Art vs Science (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Asobi Seksu (Brooklyn, NY)
Babe Rainbow (Vancouver, CANADA)
The Bees (Ventnor, ENGLAND)
Beni (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Black Math Horseman (Los Angeles, CA)
Black Spiders (Sheffield, ENGLAND)
Bombay Bicycle Club (London ENGLAND)
Braids (Montreal, CANADA)
Brandt Brauer Frick (Berlin, GERMANY)
Brother (Slough, ENGLAND)
The Cabriolets (Madrid, SPAIN)
Calder Quartet (Los Angeles, CA)
Candy Claws (Ft. Collins, CO)
Capsula (Bilbao, SPAIN)
Cast (Liverpool, ENGLAND)
Chapel Club (London ENGLAND)
Chico Trujillo (Quilpue, CHILE)
Chikita Violenta (Mexico City, MEXICO)
Clock Opera (London ENGLAND)
Cloud Nothings (Cleveland, OH)
Coliseum (Louisville, KY)
Coolrunnings (Knoxville, TN)
Dam Mantle (Glasgow, SCOTLAND)
Designer Drugs (New York, NY)
Doctor Krapula (Bogota, Colombia)
Dredg (San Francisco, CA)
Ebony Bones(London ENGLAND)
Ed Harcourt (London ENGLAND)
El Guincho (Barcelona, SPAIN)
El Hijo de La Cumbia (Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA)
Erland & The Carnival (London ENGLAND)
Erykah Badu (Dallas, TX)
FM Belfast (Reykjavik, ICELAND)
Frankie and the Heartstrings (Sunderland, ENGLAND)
Fujiya & Miyagi (Brighton, ENGLAND)
Get People (London ENGLAND)
Giana Factory (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
Givers (Lafayette, LA)
Go Back To The Zoo (Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS)
Gypsyblood (Chicago, IL)
The Head and the Heart (Seattle, WA)
High Rankin (Brighton, ENGLAND)
The Holidays (Zetland, AUSTRALIA)
In Fear And Faith (San Diego, CA)
Iron Age (Austin, TX)
The Jezabels (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
John Vanderslice (San Francisco, CA)
Jon Fratelli (Glasgow, SCOTLAND)
Jonquil (Oxford, ENGLAND)
Kamp! (Lodz, POLAND)
Kids of 88 (Trenchtown NEW ZEALAND)
Klaxons (London ENGLAND)
L.Stadt (Podz, POLAND)
Le Butcherettes (Mexico City, MEXICO)
Lia Ices (New York, NY)
Liam Finn (Auckland, NEW ZEALAND)
Light Pollution (Chicago, IL)
Luyas, The (Montreal, CANADA)
The Main Street Gospel (Columbus, OH)
Marcus Foster (London ENGLAND)
Mark Eitzel (San Francisco, CA)
MSTRKRFT (Toronto CANADA)
Miami Horror (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)
Micachu and The Shapes (London ENGLAND)
Miss May I (Troy, CA)
Mujeres (Barcelona, SPAIN)
Mustard Pimp (Melun, FRANCE)
Naam (Brooklyn, NY)
The Naked and Famous (Auckland, NEW ZEALAND)
Nite Jewel (Los Angeles, CA)
Parts & Labor (Brooklyn, NY)
Plan B (London ENGLAND)
PS I Love You (Kingston, CANADA)
Pulled Apart By Horses (Leeds, ENGLAND)
Reset! (Milan, ITALY)
Rosie and Me (Curitiba, BRAZIL)
Scars On 45 (leeds, ENGLAND)
Schlachthofbronx (Munich GERMANY)
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers (Brooklyn, NY)
Small Black (Brooklyn, NY)
Sol Pereyra (Cordoba, ARGENTINA)
Spleen United (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
Starf**ker (Portland, OR)
Steve Mason (Fife, SCOTLAND)
Sun Airway (Philadelphia, PA)
Superlitio (Cali, COLOMBIA)
Suuns (Montreal, CANADA)
The Swiss (Adelaide, AUSTRALIA)
Tego Calderon (Carolina, PUERTO RICO)
Telekinesis (Seattle, WA)
Thiago Pethit (Sao Paulo, BRAZIL)
Those Dancing Days (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Tiê (Sao Paulo, BRAZIL)
Toro y Moi (Columbia, SC)
Veronica Falls (London ENGLAND)
Vicente Gayo (Mexico City, MEXICO)
The War on Drugs (Philadelphia, PA)
WhoMadeWho (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
Wild Flag (Portland, OR)
Wye Oak (Baltimore, MD)
Young Legionnaire (London, ENGLAND)
and Yuck (London ENGLAND)

[Bort]

Definitely catch Asobi Seksu. I just saw them on Friday and they killed it.

I really want to do SXSW someday, and was planning on finally doing so next year, but the Pulp reunion changed my plans.

[rideincircles]

Anyone going from overseas? Line-ups and RSVP's for parties are starting to get released along with finalizing the official SXSW showcases. I can post some links to a few if needed.

Officially there are 1900 bands booked, but there are usually tons more, kinda hard to pick a schedule sometimes.

After travelling to Glastonbury I can definitely say that south by southwest is a music festival worth travelling to. Less than a month away and I can't wait.

Here is one of the best sights for organizing a schedule.

http://austin2011.sc...-03-16/overview

[funkymp]

shall be going, 3 weeks on monday can't fowking wait!

[Macca3031]

Can someone please describe to me SXSW. I've been to the Great Escape in Brighton and the Camden Crawl, how similar is it to those two?

Also the tickets are something like $600. Is that right or are those delegate tickets? Couldn't find where normal punter tickets are, if those are them then that seems pretty damn expensive. Also these after parties, do you have to be in the industry to get in?

[funkymp]

Macca3031, on 01 March 2011 - 04:54 PM, said:

Can someone please describe to me SXSW. I've been to the Great Escape in Brighton and the Camden Crawl, how similar is it to those two?

Also the tickets are something like $600. Is that right or are those delegate tickets? Couldn't find where normal punter tickets are, if those are them then that seems pretty damn expensive. Also these after parties, do you have to be in the industry to get in?

Camden crawl / great escape - no way at all similar imo, they aren't even 0.1% as good as SXSW is, only comparision really is that they all involve just hiring out a load of venues and have bands play. SXSW is a completely different beast all together. It's pretty much like no other festival I can think of really, it basically involves closing down the whole of downtown austin (6th street) for the week and just having bands play anywhere that there's room for them to do so

In some ways it's more focused towards the industry - its rammed full of talent spotters / pa's, a&r people, journo's etc and theres talks in the convention center which are good if you work within the music industry (I work in the music industry but have zero interest in doing anything work related out there).

There's a insane amount of music on which is why anyone goes tbh. Official festival has about 1,500, with the unofficial stuff that goes on it's probably closer to 2,500 odd. There's mini festivals in themselves that go on at the same time unofficially.

Price wise - $600 is for the badge if you leave it last minute (it's cheaper if you book it in august, cant remember the price off the top of my head, it goes up every X weeks). You don't need to be in the industry as such (you have to register a company name when you sign up, but you can always just use your blog name or something tbh). You can get wristbands - but you have to be living in austin as far as I know (you can't get them online etc), it basically goes badge people > wristband people to get into venues priority wise. Some official shows (run from 7pm - 2am ) let paying customers in. You could do the whole week without a badge / wristband but it would mean just doing unofficial stuff (which tbh there's more than enough going on...)

Party wise - e.g. http://www.austin360...11-1193791.html there's normally about 400-500 + going on during the music week, the day stuff is free to all the public, likewise with the evening parties. Some stuff you have to rsvp to just so they can strike your name off a list, some stuff is invite only / comp only / limited rsvp only (e.g. spin magazine show), some stuff you have to pick up a free seperate wristband which gets you into X venue all week (e.g fader fort has about 150 or so bands playing over the week, likewise with purevolume).

A lot of bands do the unofficial stuff, but nothing official e.g kanye west is rumoured to be doing the saturday night in a warehouse, foo fighters tuesday evening somewhere, zola jesus is just doing a day party, likewise with tv on the radio doing a day thing for spin magazine.

If you want more info - just ask

Oh yeah, free drink and food in most places if you know where to go and at what times

Edited by funkymp, 02 March 2011 - 04:03 PM.

[rideincircles]

This year was so much fun. It was my fourth time and went from Wednesday-Sunday in Austin.

I will include some random info from my experiences.

I went badgeless which means no wristband or badge, just lots of rsvp's to parties and some cash for shows.

I drank for free at some show everyday i was out at sxsw.

Out in downtown austin all day for 3.5 days in a row eating, drinking and seeing shows only cost me $120. good luck finding any music festival to see as many shows for less than that money. Did I mention I was drinking for free at half of the shows?

Best show of the festival - Trentemoller at La Zona rosa on Saturday night. Shit was insane, best electronic act I have seen.

I spent 2 afternoons at Fader Fort, Friday with Odd Future, Matt and Kim, Smith Westerns and Ellie goulding. They have free drinks all day wed-sat from 2-9pm with bands playing nonstop. Not my favorite line-up they have had but Matt and Kim was super fun.

I saw what may have been Screeching Weasel's last show. Ben Weasel took a few punches at some people that threw stuff at him, unfortunately they were women. Show ended immediately.

I saw Peter Murphy play an acoustic set for $10 in a small club.

Over 2000 bands played and supposedly 200,000 people were there (its spring break weekend also)

One of the local things to do is ride a bike around sxsw, since venues can be 20 blocks away I bring my bike with me to get around. Austin is a fun ass town without sxsw. My bike got stolen on the second day when I was on my friends porch and had it sitting by the stairs. I made it to the strokes show in time thanks to my bike though.

If I would have known my bike would get stolen in austin I still would have gone.

I have a few photo albums from my sxsw experience. Kind of like a documentary. Check them out if you like.

http://www.facebook....id=174734597279

Bands I saw at sxsw:
The Strokes (stupid packed free show)
MAtt and Kim
Odd Future
Trentemoller with live band
Telegraph Canyon
Pharoah Monche
Screeching Weasel
The Smith Westerns
ellie Goulding
Peter Murphy
Moby dj set
Skrillex
Asobi seksu
Esben and the witch
Twin shadow
Foster the people
Toro Y moi
Beardyman
Shit Robot

I go every year because it's close, but I would travel to it if it was far away.

Edited by rideincircles, 29 March 2011 - 03:32 AM.

[funkymp]

^ that's a nice list of bands you saw fader fort was great again (only went there one afternoon, but love the vibe in there). Spent about the same as you did, was a lot more free drink this year than previous years it seemed, god knows how much of that sparks stuff I ended up having.

Was the best year I've been yet - 4th year on the trot defiantely need to try going next year.

DFA 1979 was definately the best show I saw (and in my top 5 gigs ever), Braids were definately the best band I saw all week - caught 5 shows, they were superb every time.

Saw the following bands, caught 3 bands on monday as well - but they were meh.

Quote

tue evening

no joy
weekend
fences
mr heavenly w/ michael cera
ringo deathstarr
totally enormous extinct dinosaurs

wed

anamanaguchi
turbo fruits
a place to bury strangers
megaphonic thrift
james vincent mcmorrow
bewitched hands
1,2,3
class actress
violens
oh land
a place to bury strangers
esben and the witch
the rumour said fire
pepper rabbit
braids
pulled apart by horses
twilight sad

thur

deer tracks
latebirds
harrys gym
sun airway
braids
the head and the heart
harrys gym
unknown band (possibly 'the givers')
unknown rap band
tinie tempah
joy formidable
outasight
ximena sarinana
king creosote
austra
the romany rye
ellie goulding
sacred animals
james vincent mcmorrow

fri

unknown mortal orchestra
cults
black kettle
laura jensen
delorian
john grant with midlake
wye oak
braids
laura jensen
beach fossils
screaming females
joy formidable
pains of being pure at heart
a place to bury strangers

sat
dj yoda
new moods
oh land
austra
!!!
...and you will know us by the trail of dead
suuns
weekend
mount kimbie
ps i love you
braids
frederik
an horse
unkown metal band
ricky lee robinson
electric touch
tres mts (Jeff Ament and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam's side project)
colin stetson - club de ville
braids
death from above 1979