SXSW Lineup

[grotty]

Anybody know anything about this British band called Athlete? I've got a friend from over that way who is recommending them & I see they've been added to the schedule.

[ggw]

Originally posted by grotty:
  Anybody know anything about this British band called Athlete? I've got a friend from over that way who is recommending them & I see they've been added to the schedule.

A lot of comparisons to Beta Band.
 
 http://www.uk-fusion.com/albums/athlete_vehicles.html
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/rockandalt/reviews/athlete_animals.shtml

[ggw]

From the Austin Chronicle
 
 The First List
 Besides Tears for Fears, here's the complete list of who's invited to SXSW 04:
 
 Against Me! (Gainesville FL)
 alias (Oakland CA)
 Alkaline Trio (Chicago IL)
 An Albatross (Philadelphia PA)
 Athlete (London UK)
 Beangrowers (St. Julians MALTA)
 Scott H. Biram (Austin TX)
 Blurt (London UK)
 Cory Branan (Memphis TN)
 Buck 65 (Halifax NS)
 Henry Butler (New Orleans LA)
 Cartel de Santa (Monterrey MEXICO)
 Comets on Fire (San Francisco CA)
 Carmen Consoli (Catania ITALY)
 consonant (Boston MA)
 The Crystal Method (Las Vegas NV)
 the Deadly Snakes (Toronto ON)
 The Decemberists (Portland WA)
 The Delgados (Glasgow UK)
 Dengue Fever (Los Angeles CA)
 Dillinger Escape Plan (Randolph NJ)
 Dirt Bike Annie (New York NY)
 Estradasphere (Santa Cruz CA)
 Evening (San Francisco CA)
 Fantasy's Core (Nagasaki-city JAPAN)
 Fatal Flying Guilloteens (Houston TX)
 Melissa Ferrick (Boston MA)
 The Fiery Furnaces (New York NY)
 Ruthie Foster with Cyd Cassone (College Station TX)
 Gin Palace (London UK)
 Gito Gito Hustler (Tokyo JAPAN)
 Adam Green (New York NY)
 Hamell On Trial (New York NY)
 Robbie Hardkiss (Austin TX)
 The Hives (SWEDEN)
 The Holmes Brothers (New York NY)
 Penelope Houston (Oakland CA)
 Danielle Howle and the Tantrums (Columbia SC)
 John Wilkes Booze (Bloomington IN)
 Bernie Leadon Band (Nashville TN)
 Lederhosen Lucil (Montreal QC)
 Legendary Shack*Shakers (Nashville TN)
 Les Baton Rouge (Berlin GERMANY)
 Timothy "Speed" Levitch & the Ongoing Wow (Austin TX)
 Limited Express (has gone?) (Kyoto JAPAN)
 Los Lonely Boys (San Angelo TX)
 Low Flying Owls (Sacramento CA)
 Aimee Mann (Los Angeles CA)
 Metal Urbain (Paris FRANCE)
 Million Dead (London UK)
 Modest Mouse (Issaquah WA)
 Moving Units (Los Angeles CA)
 Mr. Airplane Man (Boston MA)
 Scout Niblett (Nottingham UK)
 Oranger (San Francisco CA)
 Ozomatli (Los Angeles CA)
 Papa Roach (Sacramento CA)
 Patrick Park (Los Angeles CA)
 Michael Penn (Los Angeles CA)
 Pentagram (Mumbai INDIA)
 Petty Booka (Tokyo JAPAN)
 Joel RL Phelps & The Downer Trio (Vancouver BC)
 Plastilina Mosh (Monterrey MEXICO)
 Radio 4 (New York NY)
 Ezra Reich (New York NY)
 Secret Chiefs 3 (San Francisco CA)
 The Singles (Detroit MI)
 The Sleepy Jackson (Perth AUSTRALIA)
 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (Oakland CA)
 The Stills (Montreal QC)
 Telefon Tel Aviv (New Orleans LA)
 Tendril (Dallas TX)
 That 1 Guy (San Francisco CA)
 thee Shams (Cincinnati OH)
 Tv On The Radio (New York NY)
 Uzbegim Taronasi (Tashkent UZBEKISTAN)
 The Walkmen (New York NY)
 Willard Grant Conspiracy (Lancaster CA)
 Zeke (Seattle WA)

[thirsty moore]

Papa Roach is playing?!  Um, aren't they the odd one out?

[Random Citizen]

Maybe they'll do an acoustic angsty-I-hate-my-life-and-it's-your-fault set?  
 
 

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  Papa Roach is playing?!  Um, aren't they the odd one out?

[ggw]

pApA rOAcH not Papa Roach

[thirsty moore]

sOrRY dOOd
 
 

Originally posted by ggw™:
  pApA rOAcH not Papa Roach

[ratioci nation]

I read some good things about Gin Palace elsewhere, anybody here know much about them?

[grotty]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  From the Austin Chronicle
 
 The First List
 Besides Tears for Fears, here's the complete list of who's invited to SXSW 04:
 
 

That's a mighty misleading heading they are using. That's gotta just be a  complete preliminary  list. It doesn't even look like enough bands to fill Wednesday evening. I don't see any New West or Bloodshot bands on there at all.

[MiloGTC]

Originally posted by grotty:
 That's a mighty misleading heading they are using. That's gotta just be a  complete preliminary  list. It doesn't even look like enough bands to fill Wednesday evening. I don't see any New West or Bloodshot bands on there at all.

Even the SXSW page lists a few others (David Cross, Alkaline Trio, NOFX) that the paper did not. I'd bet, also, that the Old 97's will play, seeing as they've just signed to New West.
 
 The inclusion of Against Me! along with NOFX and the Alkaline Trio suggests that the "Rock Against Bush" tour (organized by NOFX's Fat Mike) will be putting in an appearance.

[grotty]

Originally posted by MiloGTC:
 

Even the SXSW page lists a few others (David Cross, Alkaline Trio, NOFX) that the paper did not. I'd bet, also, that the Old 97's will play, seeing as they've just signed to New West.
 
 The inclusion of Against Me! along with NOFX and the Alkaline Trio suggests that the "Rock Against Bush" tour (organized by NOFX's Fat Mike) will be putting in an appearance. [/b][/QUOTE]
 
 Are you going?

[MiloGTC]

Originally posted by grotty:
 Are you going?

Hopefully, finances permitting.

[markie]

So..... there are a few people I would like to see...... anyone know how long each band plays for, how many stages there are, that kind of thing?

[kurosawa-b/w]

I had thought of going this year but finances will not allow it. *sighs* But! I think I will go to Coachella instead -and go to SXSW next year.

[MiloGTC]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  So..... there are a few people I would like to see...... anyone know how long each band plays for, how many stages there are, that kind of thing?

There are something like 50 venues around Austin, with most of them concentrated in about a ten-block radius. Each act plays for 40-45 minutes, five or six bands per show for most shows.