SXSW-Week Giveaway: DIRECTV SXSW Live Broadcasts with Echo and the Bunnymen, Shiny Toy Guns, The Proclaimers and So Much More
All week long, Austinist is giving away tickets and guestlist spots to some of the hottest private, unofficial parties taking place during the annual SXSW Festival. Contests will be posted throughout the day and run for a few hours apiece, so check back frequently for your best chance to win.
Now Up: The 3rd Annual DIRECTV SXSW Live Broadcast
What: Two VIP tickets to the taping of your choice (artists are listed below)
Who: The Von Bondies, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Proclaimers, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Echo and the Bunnymen and so much more — see the full schedule below
When: Thursday, March 19 through Saturday, March 21
Where: Austin Convention Center
Type of Party: The kind where drinks and hors d'oeuvres are served.
This one's a doozy: for the third year in a row, DIRECTV's setting up shop inside The Bat Bar and Lonestar Lounge at the Austin Convention Center, where they'll be filming and broadcasting live performances by some of the biggest artists playing at SXSW. Winners of this contest will each score a pair of VIP tickets (no lines, no wait!) to the taping of their choice.
If you don’t make it to SXSW, for a third year DIRECTV will bring customers SXSW Live, a live television broadcast of the celebrated music event airing exclusively on DIRECTV’s original entertainment channel, The 101 Network. The special, broadcasting live in HD and 5.1 surround sound, airs March 20-21 beginning at 5 p.m. EST.
The schedule:
THURSDAY, MARCH 19
6pm: The Von Bondies (The Bat Bar)
7pm: The Oak Ridge Boys (The Lonestar Lounge)
8pm: The Airborne Toxic Event (The Bat Bar)
FRIDAY, MARCH 20
1pm: Juliette Lewis and the New Romantiques (The Bat Bar)
2pm: The Proclaimers (The Lonestar Lounge)
4pm: Lenka (The Lonestar Lounge)
5pm: Ben Harper and Relentless7 (The Bat Bar)
6pm: Third Eye Blind (The Lonestar Lounge)
8pm: Shiny Toy Guns (The Bat Bar)
9pm: Carlene Carter (The Lonestar Lounge)
10pm: Solange Presents: Sol-Angel and the Hadley Street Dreams (The Bat Bar)
SATURDAY, MARCH 21
4pm: Forever the Sickest Kids (The Lonestar Lounge)
5pm: Echo and the Bunnymen (The Bat Bar)
6pm: Ed Harcourt (The Lonestar Lounge)
8pm: TBA (The Bat Bar)
9pm: Shwayze (The Lonestar Lounge)
10pm: Tinted Windows (The Bat Bar)
Congrats to our winners, Q. Xu, R. Hobbie
