South By Southwest

[overnight celebrity]

Anyone going?!?!?!

[AlexDorweiler08]

Arriving on the 17th at 7pm, staying in Hyatt Regency, going there from Manchester, flying from Heathrow via Houston though.

Yourself?

[overnight celebrity]

Arriving on the 17th at 7pm, staying in Hyatt Regency, going there from Manchester, flying from Heathrow via Houston though.

Yourself?

[sakura]

I'm going...my third time...and can't wait! Doing a bit of a deep south road trip for the week before and then arrive in Austin on the Monday.

[AlexDorweiler08]

Can't believe the stuff I'm hearing about what big name bands are playing too - Muse, Stone Temple Pilots?

Filter got a pretty good lineup this year as well - god, where would we be without donewaiting.com , showlistaustin.com

[funkymp]

going, staying in the hampton inn downtown this year. 3rd time

muse are at stubbs supposedly

few rumours that soundgarden are gonna play as well at some point

edit: scissor sisters playing is a bit random!

Edited February 27, 2010 by funkymp

[rideincircles]

I am a Texas local and will be heading to Austin next Wenesday night after watching Muse and Silversun pickups play in Fort worth. Its a 3 hour drive to Austin from Fort Worth.

If you have any questions about anything Texas related feel free to contact me, I hadnt checked this.

If your on twitter I am rideincircles.

For SXSW info check these sites.

http://do512.com/c/sx2010/events/all-music...010/03/12/?time has a custom schedule builder and links to rsvp parties.

http://www.austin360.com/music/sxsw-music l

http://www.thepeenscene.com/ posts up to date flyers

http://weshotjr.com/sxsw/ has a map showing parties (not all)

Some parties worth going to:

Fader Fort http://apps.thefader.com/pages/create_rsvp...fader-fort-2010 RSVP quickly.

Carniville - Diplo Major Lazer Gza http://austincarniville.com/

Mess With Texas - Man Man Gwar Andrew WK http://mwtxparty.com/

As of now its 1800+ bands and over 600 unofficial parties. Its really hard to describe or plan your activities at SXSW and you cant always make it into certain shows without badges wristbands or getting there early.

No matter what happens you will walk up on something unexpected and you will be walking alot.

[rideincircles]

SXSW was a blast. I drank for free and saw tons of bands all weekend. It definitely is the best city festival for music in the USA, probably best in the world.

Some random facts and whatnot:

I paid for one show all weekend, all the others were free and had free beer or cheap beer.

100,000 people came from out of town. 13000 people had badges and wristbands.

2000 bands played, there over 700 free parties.

This year I drank too much, mediocre bands blurred together.

My favorite shows of SXSW: SLeigh Bells, The Very Best w Radioclit, Bone Thugs, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Cut Chemist, Surfer Blood, Delorean, We Are Scientists, Neon Indian & Local Natives.

In the midst of my blurry weekend, I did take 1000+ photos.

Most of my photos are here.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Ridei...es/174734597279

SXSW = Awesomeness.

[funkymp]

it was absolutely awesome again this year, have no idea how many band's i saw, but i was probably averaging about 18 a day

definate highlights were 'the middle east',' school of seven bell's at rachael rays day party thing, les savy fav in galaxy room and a lot more (muse were great, just shame they didnt play a bit longer). saw holy f**k 4 times in 23 hours which was bloody awesome.

cant wait till next year, still best fest there is

[rideincircles]

Anyone planning on going in 2011?

I will be there for certain.

[rideincircles]

More international people should check it out since it's our most unique festival. It's a must if you are a band touring the USA.

Edited October 18, 2010 by rideincircles

[funkymp]

Anyone planning on going in 2011?

I will be there for certain.

[funkymp]

first lot of bands announced

looks good already

A Place To Bury Strangers (Brooklyn, NY)

Alcoholic Faith Mission (Copenhagen, DENMARK)

Ancestors (Los Angeles, CA)

Apex Manor (Pasadena, CA)

The Appleseed Cast (Lawrence, KS)

Art vs Science (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Asobi Seksu (Brooklyn, NY)

Babe Rainbow (Vancouver, CANADA)

The Bees (Ventnor, ENGLAND)

Beni (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Black Math Horseman (Los Angeles, CA)

Black Spiders (Sheffield, ENGLAND)

Bombay Bicycle Club (London ENGLAND)

Braids (Montreal, CANADA)

Brandt Brauer Frick (Berlin, GERMANY)

Brother (Slough, ENGLAND)

The Cabriolets (Madrid, SPAIN)

Calder Quartet (Los Angeles, CA)

Candy Claws (Ft. Collins, CO)

Capsula (Bilbao, SPAIN)

Cast (Liverpool, ENGLAND)

Chapel Club (London ENGLAND)

Chico Trujillo (Quilpue, CHILE)

Chikita Violenta (Mexico City, MEXICO)

Clock Opera (London ENGLAND)

Cloud Nothings (Cleveland, OH)

Coliseum (Louisville, KY)

Coolrunnings (Knoxville, TN)

Dam Mantle (Glasgow, SCOTLAND)

Designer Drugs (New York, NY)

Doctor Krapula (Bogota, Colombia)

Dredg (San Francisco, CA)

Ebony Bones(London ENGLAND)

Ed Harcourt (London ENGLAND)

El Guincho (Barcelona, SPAIN)

El Hijo de La Cumbia (Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA)

Erland & The Carnival (London ENGLAND)

Erykah Badu (Dallas, TX)

FM Belfast (Reykjavik, ICELAND)

Frankie and the Heartstrings (Sunderland, ENGLAND)

Fujiya & Miyagi (Brighton, ENGLAND)

Get People (London ENGLAND)

Giana Factory (Copenhagen, DENMARK)

Givers (Lafayette, LA)

Go Back To The Zoo (Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS)

Gypsyblood (Chicago, IL)

The Head and the Heart (Seattle, WA)

High Rankin (Brighton, ENGLAND)

The Holidays (Zetland, AUSTRALIA)

In Fear And Faith (San Diego, CA)

Iron Age (Austin, TX)

The Jezabels (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

John Vanderslice (San Francisco, CA)

Jon Fratelli (Glasgow, SCOTLAND)

Jonquil (Oxford, ENGLAND)

Kamp! (Lodz, POLAND)

Kids of 88 (Trenchtown NEW ZEALAND)

Klaxons (London ENGLAND)

L.Stadt (Podz, POLAND)

Le Butcherettes (Mexico City, MEXICO)

Lia Ices (New York, NY)

Liam Finn (Auckland, NEW ZEALAND)

Light Pollution (Chicago, IL)

Luyas, The (Montreal, CANADA)

The Main Street Gospel (Columbus, OH)

Marcus Foster (London ENGLAND)

Mark Eitzel (San Francisco, CA)

MSTRKRFT (Toronto CANADA)

Miami Horror (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)

Micachu and The Shapes (London ENGLAND)

Miss May I (Troy, CA)

Mujeres (Barcelona, SPAIN)

Mustard Pimp (Melun, FRANCE)

Naam (Brooklyn, NY)

The Naked and Famous (Auckland, NEW ZEALAND)

Nite Jewel (Los Angeles, CA)

Parts & Labor (Brooklyn, NY)

Plan B (London ENGLAND)

PS I Love You (Kingston, CANADA)

Pulled Apart By Horses (Leeds, ENGLAND)

Reset! (Milan, ITALY)

Rosie and Me (Curitiba, BRAZIL)

Scars On 45 (leeds, ENGLAND)

Schlachthofbronx (Munich GERMANY)

Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers (Brooklyn, NY)

Small Black (Brooklyn, NY)

Sol Pereyra (Cordoba, ARGENTINA)

Spleen United (Copenhagen, DENMARK)

Starf**ker (Portland, OR)

Steve Mason (Fife, SCOTLAND)

Sun Airway (Philadelphia, PA)

Superlitio (Cali, COLOMBIA)

Suuns (Montreal, CANADA)

The Swiss (Adelaide, AUSTRALIA)

Tego Calderon (Carolina, PUERTO RICO)

Telekinesis (Seattle, WA)

Thiago Pethit (Sao Paulo, BRAZIL)

Those Dancing Days (Stockholm SWEDEN)

Tiê (Sao Paulo, BRAZIL)

Toro y Moi (Columbia, SC)

Veronica Falls (London ENGLAND)

Vicente Gayo (Mexico City, MEXICO)

The War on Drugs (Philadelphia, PA)

WhoMadeWho (Copenhagen, DENMARK)

Wild Flag (Portland, OR)

Wye Oak (Baltimore, MD)

Young Legionnaire (London, ENGLAND)

and Yuck (London ENGLAND)

[Bort]

Definitely catch Asobi Seksu. I just saw them on Friday and they killed it.

I really want to do SXSW someday, and was planning on finally doing so next year, but the Pulp reunion changed my plans.

[rideincircles]

Anyone going from overseas? Line-ups and RSVP's for parties are starting to get released along with finalizing the official SXSW showcases. I can post some links to a few if needed.

Officially there are 1900 bands booked, but there are usually tons more, kinda hard to pick a schedule sometimes.

After travelling to Glastonbury I can definitely say that south by southwest is a music festival worth travelling to. Less than a month away and I can't wait.

Here is one of the best sights for organizing a schedule.

http://austin2011.sched.org/2011-03-16/overview

[funkymp]

shall be going, 3 weeks on monday can't fowking wait!

[Macca3031]

Can someone please describe to me SXSW. I've been to the Great Escape in Brighton and the Camden Crawl, how similar is it to those two?

Also the tickets are something like $600. Is that right or are those delegate tickets? Couldn't find where normal punter tickets are, if those are them then that seems pretty damn expensive. Also these after parties, do you have to be in the industry to get in?

[funkymp]

Can someone please describe to me SXSW. I've been to the Great Escape in Brighton and the Camden Crawl, how similar is it to those two?

Also the tickets are something like $600. Is that right or are those delegate tickets? Couldn't find where normal punter tickets are, if those are them then that seems pretty damn expensive. Also these after parties, do you have to be in the industry to get in?

Edited March 2, 2011 by funkymp

[rideincircles]

This year was so much fun. It was my fourth time and went from Wednesday-Sunday in Austin.

I will include some random info from my experiences.

I went badgeless which means no wristband or badge, just lots of rsvp's to parties and some cash for shows.

I drank for free at some show everyday i was out at sxsw.

Out in downtown austin all day for 3.5 days in a row eating, drinking and seeing shows only cost me $120. good luck finding any music festival to see as many shows for less than that money. Did I mention I was drinking for free at half of the shows?

Best show of the festival - Trentemoller at La Zona rosa on Saturday night. Shit was insane, best electronic act I have seen.

I spent 2 afternoons at Fader Fort, Friday with Odd Future, Matt and Kim, Smith Westerns and Ellie goulding. They have free drinks all day wed-sat from 2-9pm with bands playing nonstop. Not my favorite line-up they have had but Matt and Kim was super fun.

I saw what may have been Screeching Weasel's last show. Ben Weasel took a few punches at some people that threw stuff at him, unfortunately they were women. Show ended immediately.

I saw Peter Murphy play an acoustic set for $10 in a small club.

Over 2000 bands played and supposedly 200,000 people were there (its spring break weekend also)

One of the local things to do is ride a bike around sxsw, since venues can be 20 blocks away I bring my bike with me to get around. Austin is a fun ass town without sxsw. My bike got stolen on the second day when I was on my friends porch and had it sitting by the stairs. I made it to the strokes show in time thanks to my bike though.

If I would have known my bike would get stolen in austin I still would have gone.

I have a few photo albums from my sxsw experience. Kind of like a documentary. Check them out if you like.

http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=174734597279

Bands I saw at sxsw:

The Strokes (stupid packed free show)

MAtt and Kim

Odd Future

Trentemoller with live band

Telegraph Canyon

Pharoah Monche

Screeching Weasel

The Smith Westerns

ellie Goulding

Peter Murphy

Moby dj set

Skrillex

Asobi seksu

Esben and the witch

Twin shadow

Foster the people

Toro Y moi

Beardyman

Shit Robot

I go every year because it's close, but I would travel to it if it was far away.

Edited March 29, 2011 by rideincircles

[funkymp]

^ that's a nice list of bands you saw fader fort was great again (only went there one afternoon, but love the vibe in there). Spent about the same as you did, was a lot more free drink this year than previous years it seemed, god knows how much of that sparks stuff I ended up having.

Was the best year I've been yet - 4th year on the trot defiantely need to try going next year.

DFA 1979 was definately the best show I saw (and in my top 5 gigs ever), Braids were definately the best band I saw all week - caught 5 shows, they were superb every time.

Saw the following bands, caught 3 bands on monday as well - but they were meh.

tue evening

no joy

weekend

fences

mr heavenly w/ michael cera

ringo deathstarr

totally enormous extinct dinosaurs

wed

anamanaguchi

turbo fruits

a place to bury strangers

megaphonic thrift

james vincent mcmorrow

bewitched hands

1,2,3

class actress

violens

oh land

a place to bury strangers

esben and the witch

the rumour said fire

pepper rabbit

braids

pulled apart by horses

twilight sad

thur

deer tracks

latebirds

harrys gym

sun airway

braids

the head and the heart

harrys gym

unknown band (possibly 'the givers')

unknown rap band

tinie tempah

joy formidable

outasight

ximena sarinana

king creosote

austra

the romany rye

ellie goulding

sacred animals

james vincent mcmorrow

fri

unknown mortal orchestra

cults

black kettle

laura jensen

delorian

john grant with midlake

wye oak

braids

laura jensen

beach fossils

screaming females

joy formidable

pains of being pure at heart

a place to bury strangers

sat

dj yoda

new moods

oh land

austra

!!!

...and you will know us by the trail of dead

suuns

weekend

mount kimbie

ps i love you

braids

frederik

an horse

unkown metal band

ricky lee robinson

electric touch

tres mts (Jeff Ament and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam's side project)

colin stetson - club de ville

braids

death from above 1979

[mamoo_51]

Sounds like you guys had a great time this year. As there's no Glastonbury next year I was looking at heading to SXSW to investigate for myself but I have a few questions as it's obviously not your typical festival that us Brits are used to so:

- Am I right in thinking it's perfectly acceptable to turn up without a wristband and either stick to seeing free shows (which there are plenty of) or pay on the door for others?

- Is it only the unofficial stuff I can get into without a wristband or is the official stuff an option too but at a price on the door?

- Camping is obviously not an option but are there plenty of Hotels nearby or is booking a hotel likely to be the equivalent of the Glastonbury ticket day scramble?

- The RSVP events are made pretty much just to control numbers coming in, correct? As long as I get my name down for them I'll be allowed in. Is that right or are some of them only available for wristband owners to RSVP to?

I think that's me all questioned out for the moment. As I'm sure you can tell I can't quite get used to the idea that some of you are saying you had the best festival ever but didnt actually buy a ticket!!! Any other info you guys think might be handy would be appreciated too as despite my trying I can't find much info online about the festival side of SXSW, their website promotes it as more of an industry conference thing which I guess is what its primarily intended to be.