The 2011 Austin City Limits Festival Line Up

[KevinFromTexas]

http://www.austin360.com/music/acl/w...l-1479695.html

Wondrous lineup for ACL festival

By Michael Corcoran
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 12:09 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Published: 12:07 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The hottest ticket in town just got hotter. The lineup for the 10th annual Austin City Limits Music Festival was released today, and with such superstar acts as Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, Arcade Fire and Coldplay co-headlining, the top tier of this year's schedule is the best yet.

The undercard includes such diverse talent as Randy Newman, Santigold, My Morning Jacket, Nas & Damien Marley, Cee Lo Green, TV on the Radio, Ryan Bingham, Cold War Kids and Gillian Welch.

Three-day passes to the fest, Sept. 16-18 at Zilker Park, sold out in about an hour last month at $185 each. Single-day tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today at $90 each.

[KevinFromTexas]

http://www.austin360.com/music/acl/t...inglePage=true

The best 'gets' of 2011 ACL Fest

Updated: 12:07 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Published: 12:05 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The full lineup for the Austin City Limits Music Festival was released just after midnight, so now all the folks hoping the rumors that Stevie Wonder and/or Kanye West will be playing can rejoice. In the festival booking biz, those are known as "good gets," acts that promise not only entertaining sets but also expand the parameters of the lineup from previous years. That's why Stevie and Kanye are better gets than Arcade Fire and Coldplay, who've already left their sonic footprints on the Great Lawn of Zilker Park.

[KevinFromTexas]

Here's the list:

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/statesman/...1_aclfinal.pdf

[BevoLJ]

What a killer line-up. They really out did themselves this year. It still blows my mind that they are able to sell out in one hour two weeks before they even announced the line-up. That is a crapload of tickets on pure blind faith. Aren't we supposed to be in some sort of a recession? =)


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[migol24]

wow that is quite a lineup. stevie wonder, kanye, coldplay and arcade fire just to start. twin shadow and cut copy would be my favorites though. can't wait to get back to austin for this!

[KevinFromTexas]

I also heard on KLBJ that Neil Diamond will be playing at the ACL Moody Theatre at the W.

[BevoLJ]

ACL Live has had a ton of huge shows already. I'm really looking forward to the Buddy Guy show in September. I've seen him close to a dozen times already, but he is always just such a character on stage, and one of the best guitarist I've ever seen, his shows never ever disappoint. Will be a real treat to see him in that amazing new venue, Moody Theater.

Also saw some other news about C3 that they are taking over the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival. It is going to now be called the Austin Food & Wine Festival and will still be partnered with Food & Wine Magazine.

[KevinFromTexas]

Buddy Guy is awesome. My brother and I and his wife have gone a few times to see him. He's great. I love how he gets out into the crowd and interacts with it. The last time we went he came down off stage and walked out in front of the crowd while playing.

[BevoLJ]

Fun Fun Fun Fest released their line up. I know this is an ACL thread, but figured it as good a place as any to post the line up. It will be held on Audtitorium Shores on November 4-6.

http://funfunfunfest.com/

ORANGE STAGE

Passion Pit • Lykke Li • M83 • Blonde Redhead • GIRLS • HUM •
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah • Okkervil River • Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears •
Architecture in Helsinki • Ted Leo & The Pharmacists • Heartless Bastards • Tune‐Yards • Ra Ra Riot • Tinariwen • Radio Dept •
Cold Cave • We Were Promised Jetpacks •
Mates of State • The Joy Formidable • Cloud Nothings • The Boxer Rebellion •
Asobi Seksu • Keep Shelly In Athens • Le Butcherettes •
Jim Ward (Sparta/At The Drive‐In) • Joe Lally (Fugazi) • Future Islands • Crooks •
Lemuria • TV Torso • Manejo Beto

BLACK STAGE

Slayer • Danzig Legacy (Danzig/Samhain/Danzig & Doyle Perform Misfits) • The Damned • Hot Snakes • Murder City Devils •
Kid Dynamite• Boris • Cave In • Negative Approach • D‐Generation • Eyehategod •
Russian Circles • Thee Oh Sees • Zero Boys • Paint It Black • Trash Talk •
Youth Brigade • No Bunny • Davilla 666 • Bane • Earth Crisis • Graveyard •
Doomriders • Ceremony • From Ashes to Rise •
World Inferno/Friendship Society • Total Control (Member of Eddie
Current Suppression Ring) • Death Grips • Touche Amore • Defeater •
Mind Spiders • OBN III • Shapes Have Fangs • Schmillion • Thieves

BLUE STAGE

Public Enemy • Major Lazer • Odd Future (OFWGKTA) • Diplo • Flying Lotus • Neon Indian • Four Tet • Spank Rock • Dan Deacon •
Cecil Otter & Swiss Andy present: WUGAZI • Childish Gambino • Budos Band • Rakim • Del The Funky Homosapien •
Big Freedia • YACHT • Baths • MNDR • Austra • Dengue Fever • Black Milk •
DJ Franki Chan • Ocote Soul Sounds • Auto Body • Bird Peterson •
Brandt Brauer Fricke • Picture Plane • T-Bird and The Breaks •
Cecil Otter (Doomtree) • G‐side • Speak • Purity Ring • DJ Car Stereo (Wars)
• B.L.A.C.K.I.E. • Fat Tony

YELLOW STAGE

Henry Rollins • Reggie Watts • Brian Posehn • Upright Citizens Brigade •
Turquoise Jeep • Donald Glover • Ali Wong • Anarchy Championship Wrestling •
Neal Brennan (Co-‐creator of Chappelle Show/Half Baked) • Best Fwends •
Matt Bearden • Brody Stevens • Captured By Robots • Kenny “K-­‐Strass” Strasser •
Yo Yo Extravaganza • Whamcity Comedy Set • Louis Katz • Chris Trew •
Veggie Hot Dog Eating Contest • JT Habersaat + the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour

[BevoLJ]

This is ACL the show, not the Fest, but I wanted to post a little thing on who is playing the free tapings this September.

By the way if you don't know all of these shows are free. The tickets (bands) are very easy to get. They do it by lottery and even for the biggest shows you have a good chance to get chosen (usually well over 50%). The only drawback, and why you will have such a good chance, is that the tapings are usually right in the middle of the work day afternoons. So you may need to ask for the afternoon off from the office, or call in sick. =P

Thurs., Sept. 15th - COLDPLAY
Fri., Sept. 16th - THE HEAD AND THE HEART
Sat., Sept. 17th - ARCADE FIRE
Mon., Sept. 19th - GOMEZ [afternoon] & RANDY NEWMAN [evening]

The new season will start airing in October. This is one of the best seasons I can remember.

The October shows will air on...

Mumford & Sons/Flogging Molly Oct. 1
Raphael Saadiq/Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears Oct. 8
Widespread Panic Oct. 15
The Decemberists/Gillian Welch Oct. 22
The Steve Miller Band/Preservation Hall Jazz Band Oct. 29

Here is a little taste of the Mumford & Sons show...

http://vimeo.com/23858453

The video has some great shots of Austin and the new stage, as well as some fun train shots.

Another good video:

http://vimeo.com/27535428

[KevinFromTexas]

I wouldn't mind seeing the Steve Miller Band again. They were in Austin back in 2003 for Lance Armstrong's first Tour De France win. Sheryl Crow played, too. I remember they had all the streets blocked from the capitol to about 6th Street with the traffic lights flashing yellow. They even had the capitol dome lit with yellow lights. Oh, and it would be cool to see the Decemberists also.

[BevoLJ]

Sadly Kevin those two shows have already been taped. The Decemberists played last week and the Steve Miller Band were the first ones taped back in late February.

[KevinFromTexas]

Ah, that's a bummer. I am planning to go to Blues on the Green tomorrow night. Los Lonely Boys is playing. It's the last show of the season.

http://www.facebook.com/KGSRBLUES?sk=info

[BevoLJ]

Aww I am envious! They are always fantastic. And carry on the good old Austin tradition of emphasizing some good guitar. =)

And don't get me wrong, I love all the newish type of indy, alt and electric music in Austin, but Los Lonely Boys have so much real Austin flavor to their music I just love them.

Here is a video I like of theirs that you may enjoy and to get you warmed up for their Blues on the Green. I love seeing shows on the lake with the city as the background. It is about the only spot I enjoy more than Zilker. FFF Fest is going to be amazing this year on the shores.

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[KevinFromTexas]

They're great. Their live shows are so energetic, and they really love Austin. I went to their concert back in 2004 when they did a taping for their DVD. The concert video has Austin's skyline in the background. I remember being at the show (at Auditorium Shores). This was shortly after the Frost Bank Tower was completed. I had a blast. Some great music and the skyline for a backdrop.

I've seen them a few more times since then.

Here's a few photos I took of them at Blues on the Green at Zilker park a while back.

Ringo sitting in the front and Jojo in the back. Henry was in the other cart.


Henry


Henry and Jojo


Ringo - yes, their drummer's name is Ringo.

[BevoLJ]

Kevin you can now re-watch last nights Los Lonely Boys show in its entirety. lol

=)

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[KevinFromTexas]

Cool. I was actually way back in the crowd up on the slope overlooking the park and skyline. I set up my camera and tripod for some skyline shots. Blues on the Green keeps getting bigger and bigger. It would have been difficult to get closer on a bike and have a tripod set up, too.

[BevoLJ]

I'll put a recap of today in here tomorrow also.

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[BevoLJ]

Oh, here is a fun little look back at the first one 10 years ago. It is odd how there is no skyline at all. It was in 2002 and Frost was not built yet and there really was no skyline over the trees except from up on the road or near the island. But from the main stage where you see most of the current skyline none of the old sky line was tall enough to be visible back then. Just the tops of a few buildings poking up over the trees. If you take this below video an stop it around the 18 second mark you can see the little bit of old sky line behind the stage. A huge hole where Frost would fill the following year.

I've always found it facinating because I moved back to Austin from LA in 2002 just before the first ACL fest and that first fest was kinda my coming home so to speak. So for me watching the skyline grown behind the years of ACL has kinda been my way of watching Austin grow since I moved back here. Kinda how I mark it. =) I have yet to find a good photo of the skyline from that first show which is a huge shame, but the video is pretty cool.

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[BevoLJ]

Here is the yesterday's recap.

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