Ramblings on Fun Fun Fun Fest
By April on Nov 10 Filed In Austin, Texas, Live Music 4 Comments
Thanks to my mad-blogging skills and the fact that only 1 other SLT employee wrote a blog post about Fun Fun Fun Fest, I won the coveted PIP (pretty important person) passes for the festival!
Band-wise, FFF Fest is always chock full of hipster (read: indie/new fangled) bands sprinkled with a bit of old-schoolers to help make everyone feel welcome. This year was no different! Since D.R.I. and Danzig were on the Black Stage, Dylan (husband) was excited to share my passes with me. I enjoyed some hipster music and I enjoyed the mosh down memory lane with the hard-core bands I used to listen to. The way the fest was set-up, you could literally move from stage to stage and check out a few songs per band. I loved it! Without the awesome set-up, I would have never been able to see that much music in 2 days, especially since Dylan and I are slow and didn’t get out to the fest until around 3PM both days.
Based on my experience during ACL and Fun Fun Fun Fest, I have devised 3 easy-to-follow rules and would love to share them with you.
New rules for festival-going:
1) Have a 2nd set of socks stashed somewhere dry in case of inclement weather. There is a rule about keeping your feet dry in the military and I think this goes for festivals where it might rain too.
2) Have somewhere cool and close-by to get to when the weather changes and you don’t want to give up the festival fun, but need a break to help adjust your attitude. Our interlude was at Sagra Austin for their Fennel Fest FREE meal. It was wonderful food, shared with wonderful friends during the worst of the rain storm. After dessert Ashley was nice enough to drive Dylan and I back to the fest for round 2 of the last day and just in time for the rain to stop and the hard-core to begin!!
3) Appreciate that we have all of our flavors in plastic bottles now! If Sweet Leaf Tea is sponsoring a festival, I can now drink all of the Lemon & Lime Unsweet tea that I can get my hands on. That way I can save all the calories for ice cream sandwiches made from snickderdoodle cookies by Tiff’s Treats and goodies like that.
Here’s a list of the cool bands that I watched during the festival, (if there is a star next to their name, then they rocked my face off!):
Saturday
1. MC Chris (Had me literally laughing my arse off!)
2. Russian Circles *
3. Shonen Knife (didn’t actually watch, just listened when I walked by, these girls have made me smile since the 90′s!)
4. 7 Seconds
5. Neon Indian *
6. Shearwater
7. Jesus Lizard
8. Ratatat ****
-I was sad that I missed the Pharcyde but couldn’t bear to leave Ratatat, that’s how awesome their show was!
Sunday
1. Atlas Sound (ohmygod-the lead singer’s voice made my knees weak.) **
2. Alaska in Winter
3. DRI *
4. Crystal Castles (Like some of their studio recordings, did not like them live. At all.)
5. Gorilla Biscuits *
6. Of Montreal (while waiting for Danzig to come on since they were 30 min late)
7. Danzig *
Who were YOUR faves?
Cute boys of Ratatat
I personally couldn’t help moving my feet to Foot Patrol! Any band that can put out at least 3 albums of crazy lyrics about feet, include dancers and acrobatic yogis and keep the crowd dancing, is alright with me.
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