August 30, 2007
Fun Fun Fun Fest Looks Hot Hot Hot
What a difference a year makes—certainly in the case of this fledgling music festival.
Last December's inaugural Fun Fun Fun Fest featured over two dozen bands and DJs, and showcased a good variety of indie rock, punk, and electronic music.
This year, they've grown even bigger, better, and bolder: the second annual installment will span two days and has been pushed ahead by a month, to November 3rd and 4th. Staying true to their Red River roots—the festival's main organizer, Graham Williams, booked at Emo's for ages, and now co-owns Transmission Entertainment—Fun Fun Fun will again take place at Waterloo Park. Thanks to the earlier date, this year's festival shouldn't suffer from last year's bitter cold front; more importantly, it won't be ridiculously hot like September's ACL Fest.
Some of the Austinist staff's favorites among this action-packed lineup include Girl Talk, Cat Power, Of Montreal, and, in an impressive booking coup, Seattle garage rockers Murder City Devils, long believed to have disbanded and whose last studio effort came out over six years ago. With the festival growing to rival Chicago's Pitchfork Music Fest and drawing more and more out-of-town attendees, we're also pleased to see that there's still a strong contingent of Austin artists, like Okkervil River, Iron Age, and DJ Jester.
Part of the lineup was leaked by Pitchfork earlier this month, but we wanted to wait until the full lineup was released to give you the run-down.
Two-day festival passes are $54 and will go on sale through TicketWeb this Saturday at 11 a.m.
The full lineup is below; a tentative daily schedule appears after the jump.
[Fun Fun Fun Fest Official Site]
[Fun Fun Fun Fest on Myspace]
[Fun Fun Fun Fest Tickets]
The Lineup
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 |
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Explosions in the Sky (Austin, TX) Cat Power and the Dirty Delta Blues (NY) New Pornographers (Vancouver, Canada) Of Montreal (Athens, GA) Okkervil River (Austin, TX) Battles (NY) Mates of State (SF, CA) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (NJ) ILYBI...Chosen Darkness (Austin, TX) Final Fantasy (Toronto, Canada) White Denim (Austin, TX) Brothers and Sisters (Austin) Zykos (Austin, TX) Emma Pollock (of the Delgados) (Scotland) Headlights (IL) Cave Singers (Seattle) Celebration (Baltimore) The Cribs (UK) Birds of Avalon (Raleigh, NC) |
Murder City Devils (Seattle, WA) Neurosis (Oakland, CA) The Sword (Austin, TX) Battalion of Saints (CA) Sick of It All (NY) Madball (NY) Angry Samoans (CA) Against Me! (Gainesville, FL) Lifetime (NJ) Riverboat Gamblers (Austin, TX) Poison Idea (Portland, OR) CH3 (CA) The Saints (Australia) Youth Brigade (CA) Complete Control (Austin, TX) Suntrash (CA) Witchcraft (Sweden) Saviours (Oakland) Modern Life Is War (Iowa) Iron Age (Austin, TX) Viva Hate (CA) Sinking Ships (Seattle, WA) The Heart Attacks (Atlanta, GA) |
Girl Talk (Pittsburgh, PA) Cadence Weapon (CA) Busdriver (CA) Diplo (Philadelphia, PA) Car Stereo Wars (Austin, TX) Grand Buffet (Pittsburgh, PA ) DJ Jester (Austin, TX) Prince Klassen (Austin, TX) MGMT (NY) MC Chris (NY) Ocelot (Austin and UK) Brownout! (Austin, TX) Small Sin (Canada) Clap! Clap! (Austin, TX) |
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007
Saturday, November 3rd
Sunday, November 4th
Waterloo Park
Top photo of Lucero from last year's festival, taken by Shelley Hiam.
Day 1
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 |
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Explosions in the Sky New Pornographers Of Montreal Okkervil River Final Fantasy White Denim Brothers and Sisters Zykos Emma Pollock (of The Delgados) |
Neurosis The Sword Battalion of Saints Sick of it All Madball Angry Samoans Witchcraft Saviours Iron Age Viva Hate Sinking Ships |
Girl Talk Cadence Weapon Busdriver Grand Buffet DJ Jester Prince Klassen MGMT |
Day 2
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 |
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Cat Power and the Dirty Delta Blues Battles Mates of State Ted Leo and the Pharmacists I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Headlights Cave Singers Celebration The Cribs |
Murder City Devils Against Me! Lifetime Riverboat Gamblers Poison Idea (Portland, OR) CH3 The Saints Youth Brigade Complete Control Sun Trash |
Diplo Brownout! Car Stereo Wars Ocelot Small Sins Clap! Clap! |
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Wow. I mean, wow. And one day ACL passes are $80?
oh, awesomeness.
spoon is in texas that weekend too. any chance their name will be added after the ACL shows are done?
i'd think it's possible. they have been advertising 75 bands, so some more should be added.
Happy Birthday, LB!
my ear just got a boner. thank you strange transmission people.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Fest. CH3, Youth Brigade, and Angry Samoans?!? I'm absolutely there. I'm bringing my friends, too.
Seth
and in November, it won't be guaranteed to be at least bone-melting hot (stupid stupid ACL). More winter festivals, please!
You don't understand a word we say
You don't listen to us anyway
All of this it's just for fun
We're not out to hurt no one
Fun, Fun, Fun that's what we play
Fun, Fun, Fun that's what we say
Fun, Fun, Fun no matter what they say
Fun, Fun, Fun we'll have some anyway
I'm a punk and I like SHAM
COCKNEY REJECTS are the world's greatest band
But I like JOY DIVISION, PUBLIC IMAGE too
Even though that's not what I'm supposed to do
Fun, Fun, Fun that's what we play
Fun, Fun, Fun that's what we say
Fun, Fun, Fun no matter what they say
Fun, Fun, Fun we'll have some anyway
-The Big Boys
Honestly, I'd rather see the Smashing Pumpkins in Dallas on November 3.
Smashing Pumpkins will BLOW compared to that first day. Shit! I can't wait for this. Now if they could only get Dylan and Wilco and White Stripes and ACL would mean nothing.
Guest 10, are you serious? I love sarcasm...but if you are serious, please take your medicine. for the love of god, that shit stopped at gish.
3 bands stand out here; Sick Of It All topping the list. Murder City Devils and Grand Buffet. I think I'll actually go this year.
this was announced a looooooooooooooooong time ago, guys. And not by Pitchfork. Pull your heads...
hopefully they will stagger the bands a little bit...the headliners for Day 1 are pretty tough to choose from.
And don't forget to check out the FUN FUN FUN
"FUCK EMOS"
SHOW at the Scoot Inn on Friday August 31st..........
10 pm til Midnight......show ends at MIDNIGHT......
cya there!!!!
I was psyched to read this morning that Attack Formation is playing on Sunday at 1pm. I caught them by chance at the Mohawk last night opening for Numbers and they were great.