AUSTIN: A music festivus for the rest of us.
This is why Austin is cooler than your city. Graham, the booker for Emo’s (Austin’s version of CBGBs) along with Austin’s best movie theatre chain the Alamo Drafthouse has put together a music festival called Fun Fun Fun. This promises to be the ACL of underground music. None of that wussy K-Geezer (KGSR) crap here. It takes place December 1st in Waterloo Park
and will have 3 stages showcasing some of the best under the radar music in indie, punk, and electronica.
Waterloo Park
on Friday, December 1st.
Doors at 1pm and show at 2pm.
It’s 3 stages and around 25 bands and djs.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Oct. 27th at 2pm.
For more info on the bands or details of the fest, check out their website or myspace page below:
click below to see the line-up!
Here’s the line up:
Indie stage:
Spoon 8:50-10:00 Austin’s indie powerhouse. Still going strong after over a decade. They might be your new favorite band…
Black Angels 6:30-7:15
Lucero 5:30-6:15 A country version of the Replacements and recently on Rolling Stone magazine’s “Hot List”
Dead Meadow 4:30-5:15 On tour with Wolf Mother right now. Psychedelic stoner rock ala Hendrix and Sabbath.
Octopus Project 3:30-4:15
The Oranges Band 2:45-3:15
Drag The River 2-2:30
Punk stage:
Circle Jerks 8:55-10 Seminal punkrock group with members who have also been in Bad Religion, Black Flag and The Weirdos.
Negative Approach 7:55-8:40 Pioneering hardcore from the 80s. Extremely influential and not to be missed.
Riverboat Gamblers 6:55-7:40 Austin’s drrrty south punk rock. Warped Tour and Rolling Stone are making them famous. See’em now!
Electric Frankenstein 5:55-6:40
Lower Class Brats 5-5:40 Clockwork Orange themed street punk.
Applicators 4:15-4:45 All female punk rawk extravaganza.
Krumbums 3:30-4 Texican crusty street punk with bandanas.
Iron Age 2:45-3:15
ADHD 2-2:30
Dance Party stage/tent:
Prefuse 73 9-10
DJ Mel 7:50-8:50
Quintron and Miss Pussycat 6:50-7:35 eccentric drum machine driven organ dance music and puppet show.
Ghostland Observatory DJ set (Thomas Turner) 5:35-6:35 Electro-Dance Soul Rock Music
Learning Secrets 4:25-5:25
Dirty South Ravers 3:15-4:15
Whitey 2:30-3
DJ Ceeplus 2:00-2:45
Fun Fun Fun Fest is sponsored in part by:
AT&T, 101X, METV, Austinist, The Onion, Ticketweb, Alamo Drafthouse and Emos
Why had I never heard of this? This is awesome!! I’m very out-of-the-loop apparently. Joel, will your band be there?
No. no, my band will sadly not be there this year. We are supposed to fly up to NYC soon to shuck and jive for the bigwhigs at Capitol, Warner Bros. and all those types and then there is of course SXSW but we are not doing the FUNFUNFUN unfortunately. =(
I am pretty excited about this though! Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat are awesome as all get out and Negative Approach should be terrific.
Just thought I’d let you know....I think this event is going to be HUGE!! I overheard at least 5 people talking about it this weekend...not to mention all the advertisements I saw for it on every restroom door ;)
yeah, they really got the buzz going on about this. I hope they make it an annual event.
Next entry: AUSTIN: Where's Borat?
Previous entry: AUSTIN: FREE BEER/CUPCAKES/FAMOUS PEOPLE