Austinist Giveaway: FunFunFun Fest on December 1st

This winter, Alamo Drafthouse and some of the folks at Emo's are teaming up to throw an enormous single-day music festival at Waterloo Park. Sponsored by yours truly, METV, 101x, The Onion, AT&T, Mickey's, and Waterloo Records, the FunFunFun Fest features three stages of nonstop indie rock, punk, and electronic bands, including several bigger acts like Peaches, Spoon, Prefuse 73 and Circle Jerks.

From November 8 to November 22, we're giving away a pair of tickets every weekday! The daily raffles will be held at various times each day, and will run for only an hour each.

~~Enter today's giveaway~~ Congrats, Grant Piper!

You can otherwise get your own tickets online for a mere $20 each, plus service charges.

Indie Stage:
Spoon (Austin), Peaches (Berlin), Black Angels (Austin), Lucero (Memphis), Dead Meadow (Washington, DC), Octopus Project (Austin), The Oranges Band (Baltimore), Drag the River (Ft. Collins, CO)

Punk Stage:
Circle Jerks (Los Angeles), Negative Approach (Detroit), Riverboat Gamblers (Austin), Electric Frankenstein (New York City), Lower Class Brats (Austin), Applicators (Austin), Krumbums (Austin), Iron Age (Austin), ADHD (Los Angeles)

AT&T Austin Fuzion Stage/Tent:
Prefuse 73 (Barcelona), DJ Mel (Austin), Quintron and Miss Pussycat (New Orleans), DJ Set featuring Thomas Turner of Ghostland Observatory (Austin), Learning Secrets (Austin), Dirty South Ravers (San Antonio), Whitey (London), DJ Ceeplus (Houston)

Other details: FunFunFun Fest is an all-ages event. No pets are allowed. Food, beer, and non-alcoholic refreshments will be available inside; no outside food or drinks are permitted. Parking is available on the street and at the Capitol Visitor's Parking Garage. Rain or Shine!

FunFunFun Fest
December 1st
Waterloo Park
Doors at 1pm, Bands from 2pm-10pm
[tickets]

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By Allen Y Chen in Arts & Entertainment, Other on November 15, 2006 2:16 PM 0 Comments

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cb

I "won" my official Austinist girlie ringer T

August 11, 2006 at 16:24 CDT,

so I am, as the cool cats like to say,

"good to go."

Jeff

What I'd REALLY like to see for this contest is some sort of acknowledgement as to what time the daily contest posting is made. If you're claiming that the elgibility period is for just one hour each day after the post is made, it's not exactly helpful to readers who don't check this site every single hour to simply throw the post up and leave it up for hours at a time prior to announcing a winner, rather than just collecting more reader email addresses of contest entrants who assume they still have a chance of winning that day. I'd appreciate it if you would simply state the timeframe for entry each day when you make that day's post, i.e. "posted at 1:30 pm, you have one hour to enter, good luck" or something to that effect. Thanks.

Declan McManus

If there aren't corndogs at this, I'm going to be pissed.

odam

i'll buy you a corndog, declan. unless you hide from me like at sufjan. or something.

Declan McManus

"maybe just the contests they actually really want to attend"

A vast swath of Austinist readers are music fanatics (and not just the type who listen to Bob Schneider or Loxsly exclusively). To exclude them from this contest, in particular, seems a bit arbitrary if they've won tickets for any number of prior events in the past few months.

It's your site and your rules (or lack thereof). I just found it kind of weird.

I already bought my ticket, so it doesn't matter to me. I'm still confused as to how bands with 6 fans made it onto the bill, but $20 to see the Oranges Band and Circle Jerks seems about right.

odam

Declan, we just figure it is fair to spread the wealth a little bit. there are obviously no rules. this is the internet. enter as many contests as you'd like. all's fair in love & war & giveaways.

but to your point: "Anyone who has won something in the past 90 days and is still entering in this kind of stuff is clearly a dedicated reader of this website"...true, as are the people who read the site everyday and don't enter EVERY contest, or maybe just the contests they actually really want to attend - as opposed to just wanting to win shit. so, while your point has some merit, well...you know...

Declan McManus

Odam said on yesterday's contest posting:

"to all: if you have won an austinist contest in the past 90 days, don't expect to win."

I say:

Anyone who has won something in the past 90 days and is still entering in this kind of stuff is clearly a dedicated reader of this website. Why would you want to exclude people who actually come back to the website within a 90 day time frame? You're going to punish people who participate in the site events and who happened to have some good luck previously?