Austin City Limits Music Festival 2008
 

Any other Texans going?

The line up is insane:

Foo Fighters, Beck, Iron & Wine, Gnarls Barkley, The Mars Volta, Tegan and Sara, Manu Chao, Stars, Hot Chip, José González, The Raconteurs, N*E*R*D, MGMT, Band of Horses, Erykah Badu, Okkervil River, Duffy, M. Ward, CSS, The Kills, Vampire Weekend, Mates of State, Flyleaf, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Neko Case, Silversun Pickups, Louis XIV, Spiritualized, Alison Krauss, David Byrne, Jamie Lidell, Ingrid Michaelson, G. Love & Special Sauce, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Slightly Stoopid, Robert Plant, Patty Griffin, Mason Jennings, City and Colour, Drive-By Truckers, Xavier Rudd, Yeasayer, Man Man, John Fogerty, Tristan Prettyman, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, The Octopus Project, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, School of Rock, Galactic, Alejandro Escovedo, Shooter Jennings, Yonder Mountain String Band, Jenny Lewis, Colour Revolt, Roky Erickson, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Joe Bonamassa, Heartless Bastards, Langhorne Slim, Five Times August, Robert Earl Keen, White Denim, Asleep at the Wheel, Delta Spirit, Bobby Bare Jr., Sybris, Ryan Bingham, AA Bondy, Mike Farris, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Ben Sollee, Car Stereo (Wars), The Swell Season, Autamata, South Austin Jug Band, The Strange Boys, Electric Touch, Christopher Denny, Nicole Atkins & The Sea, Sunny Sweeney, Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears, Bavu Blakes, Mr. Ray, Elizabeth Wills, Scott Biram, The Jimmies, Jambo, The Lee Boys, Band Of Heathens, Bonnie Bishop, Buck Howdy, Freddy Jones, Belleville Outfit, American Band, Uncle Rock, Eli Reed, Q Brothers, The Jones Family Singers, Backdoor Slam, Massacoustics, We Go To 11, The Concert Supremes, Big Don, Shields of Faith, Brotherly Luv, The Nachito Herrera All-Stars, The Hensley Ensemble, Nakia and his Southern Cousins, River City Christionettes, Ben Cylus and Ben Solee

Austin City Limits Music Festival : September 26-28, 2008 : Austin, TX : Zilker Park


I srsly can't wait, it's going to be an epic weekend.The ones i'm really looking forward to seeing are Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Jenny Lewis, Conor Oberst, and Vampire Weekend. This is my first festival so anything I should expect?

you smoke right?

expect a lot of that

are you going to be staying in town a couple of days or just in and out?

my son does marley fest every year in austin so i will ask him about what to do and where to go for you

im not sure if he does the music fest

Not me! I'm pretty sure I don't care for any of those bands, oh well. And Foo Fighters ... boo-urns. I will be hitting up Fun Fun Fun Fest this year though! Stage 3 is hot sex.

I'll be staying with some friends that entire weekend. But I dont smoke alot, well depends.

:rofl:

thats what they all say

with a friend that lives in town you should be set

my son says that south-by-south-west (SXSW) happens around marley fest time and that its a better scene but i expect you plan to do that next april anyway

Of course I went to last years SXSW and I've never had more fun.

I live in canada but my sister emma lives out in Austin

I'm so jealous.

Is she going?
Who wouldnt be?

I try to go to as many festivals as I can and I was pleasantly surprised with ACL this year. Top three shows: Vampire Weekend, Alejandro Escovedo, and m. ward. I am going down to South Padre at the end of next month to see Alejandro again. If you have never been to the SPI Fest check it out. Its like SXSW but with better weather and no dust!

hot damn

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...p3-smaller.jpg

another killer line-up

i went to acl this year as i have the past 4-5 years and i have to say i was (as expected) a little disappointed. dont get me wrong, i liked the bands i saw, and i still love acl weekend. i was only able to make it on saturday this year which was unfortunate, and although i would have loved to see some of the others (nerd)... i already have seen most of the people i would goto on friday or sunday.

beck didnt even encore and he was the last on that stage of the night.... weak sauce (although the performance of 'hell yeah' was awesome).

i enjoyed man man alright but everyone built them up so much i actually expected a little more. maybe it was the austin heat

mgmt was pretty good, but i cant begin to sit down and enjoy them without some fanboy telling me they are the best thing on the face of the earth.

this was by in large my least favorite acl, but i am sure they will make it up next year with a badass lineup, kinda hard not to beat foo fighters...

Can we get a head count on all the Texans on the forum?
SXSW + Bill Hicks + battle of the Alamo = somewhere I wanna live

SXSW is ****ing awesome

sothern hospitility + small towns + big cities + nasa + the houston rockets + the dallas cowboys + university of texas longhorns + austin texas + acl + black gold + RON PAUL + best looking women in the south (argueably the country) + the republic = somewhere i wanna live

people hate on texas because of george ****ing bush. i dont understand because everyone knows cheney is at the helm and nobody gives nebraska ****. texas pwnz USA!

i just dig anywhere that's hot and dry but low on humidity (i assume?)... when we get a good summers in the UK it's often just sticky and unpleasant...

That almost made me proud to be Texan :o: Austin really does have a great music scene.

Probably because he got up to most of his tomfoolery in Wyoming.

<-- texan