Austin City Limits Fest 2007: Bob Dylan, Bjork, and Yo Mama

Schedule's out.

http://www.austincitylimits.com/schedule/day1.htm

I'm the only person here that gives a fuck, aren't I.

day 2 has Ike Reilly starting at 12:00 and playing for 1/2 hr, RIPOFF

also how bummed will colin meloy be when the crowd disappears after their first 10minute song about chimneysweeps in love to go hear white stripes

> I'm the only person here that gives a fuck, aren't I.

I'd totally give a fuck if I had money for wristbands.

I'm interested too, and attending ACL07. See my thread below.

Help me decide 3 scheduling conflicts at ACL Festival...

good work

I'd totally give a fuck if I had money for wristbands.

Oilyrags 8080 Blood Diamonds etc. This looks like my third year in a row for not going.

Friday, September 14:

3:30-4:30 Blonde Redhead
5:30-6:30 LCD Soundsystem
6:30-7:30 Queens of the Stone Age *and/or* Spoon
8:30-10:00 Björk

I'm glad I didn't buy a wristband now that there have been so many cancellations.

cancellations? the White Stripes, Amy Winehouse, Rodrigo y Gabriela...come on, i couldn't care less about these dudes

I'd totally give a wristband if I had money for fucks.

Common has been added for Sunday.

i couldn't care less about these dudes

I do. *sniff*

My guy and I are going to this. Better lineup for us altogether.

Now, Common I'd like to see. He's doing Stubbs too though. Wonder if it's sold out. . . Can't go anyway. I'll be working all weekend. :(

Stephen we have the same sched, only I may be working in Rev Horton Heat at 7:45.

I am def considering a ticket for Fun Fun Fun also.

Wow, that fun fest looks good. But damnit, I gotta work too.

yeah the Fun Fun Fun Fest has a pretty nice lineup *BUT* i've already seen the New Pornos, Ted Leo, Cat Power, Explosions, Okkervil, Battles, Emma Pollock, Chosen Darkness, Don Cab, Mates of State (ugh!) -- basically, the entire second stage.

I think i may go catch the Smashing Pumpkins in Dallas that weekend...

*ducks*

Yeah FFFFest is a little more geared towards what I want to see. And 65 bands for $54 is my kind of deal.

Well, the New Pornos are doing a show w/Spoon in Houston the Thursday before which I can make.

no one in Austin really needs to see Spoon again -- I've lived here since I was 2 years old, been following Spoon since about 1998, and seen them live at *LEAST* a dozen times, probably more

i try to see them at minimum 1, sometimes 2 times per album release, just to catch the new material live

hence my seeing QOTSA at ACL today

(they are better live anyway)

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Lord have mercy, that Fun Fun Fun list. Poison Idea, Murder City Devils, and The Saints are all playing. The Saints! Whoever booked stage one deserves all praise for not limiting themselves to bands that still exist.

I have been (back) in Austin since 93, but never saw Spoon.

Because I hate fun (and loud, crowded venues.)

I've lived in Austin a collective ten years and have never seen Spoon. Mostly because I don't care to.

Riverboat Gamblers on first stage - Seen them dozens and dozens of times but always look forward to seeing them again.

do u hate fun fun fun xpost

Probably, if it means loud, crowded venues.

It's outdoors. Loud, yes. In the past, not crowded (due to cold front)

lcd was awesome.

oh and there was a fire

we didn't start it

Billy Joel did.

P.S. It's too fucking hot to see even Jesus Christ Almighty this time of year.

I think it's less hot than last year was.

I love how the paper had a sub-head that said "Crowd helpfully made way for emergency responders" Those wonderful ACL attenders, getting out of the way so someone else can help people on fire!

i accidentally got hi during stephen marley. cyhsy were palatable. arcade fire's set was good, but not as good as their set in 05. i'm looking forward to common, bloc party, my morning jacket & dylan tomorrow. still need to see ghostland observatory, but tomorrow's not the day.

arcade fire's set was good, but not as good as their set in 05.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 16 September 2007 07:35 (28 minutes ago) Link

OTM! i think the set never really gained the momentum of the 05 show - i guess that's the difference between opening with "Wake Up" and encoring with it - some of the new stuff was enjoyable, a couple songs dragged though.

also OTM about LCD, easily the best set of the festival so far!

i'm looking forward to and will be at Common, MMJ and Dylan as well (and probably Bloc Party with my sister, though i dont care much for em), and also also ALSO really excited for Yo La Tengo (reeeeeeeaaaally excited for them!) and the National (who were great at the Emo's aftershow with Blonde Redhead later).

oh and clap your hands say yeah were AWFUL...sorry!

haha i wasn't real familiar with them beforehand and put up with them for about 20 minutes. it was enough to keep my head nodding.

My Morning Jacket were fantastic, really mellow set for about the first 2/3 though, and loved the costumes and set design, and the chicks with the pineapples, just brilliant fun.

Yo La Tengo absolutely *KILLED* it for their early set. Two long noisy jams from the new record, which took up almost half of their stage time, and were fucking great.

The National were good, same set as Emo's the night before so somewhat dull, not really a "festival band" in my opinion, but they had a nice crowd going for a while.

Common put on a pretty fun show for the 20 minutes-ish that i stayed for.

Dylan sounded awful.

Also not worth mentioning: the Decemberists, Ghostland Observatory, Bloc Party, all pretty lame.

Haha dude I was just thinking that I hated MMJ (despite loving Z).

Agree re: National.

I was kinda stuck with the Fan's Dilemma at Common's set. I wanted to hear 12 year old album tracks, he wanted to do singles off Finding Forever. Meh. I got kinda hyped when he did "The People," he did a nice little medley in the middle where he did verses from "Award Tour," "Scenario," "I Used To Love H.E.R.," "Passin Me By," and "Straight Outta Compton." He pointed me out as "probably the only dude that knew all those," which says more about the crowd than it says about me.

I thought Bloc Party put on a pretty good show, but I'm a fan.

I wrote about Dylan here.

Bloc Party are trying waaaay too hard. I think their best song -- "I Still Remember" -- is their most unassuming and probably one of their least intricate, simple and pretty and absolutely soaring on record. Too bad they didn't play that one on Sunday, and the rest of their set didn't impress me.

OMG, the smell must have been atrocious:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leafblower/1387220997/

(that's from http://informationleafblower.com , by the way)

Since Com is going on tour with Q-Tip starting this week I was kinda hoping he'd bring him out on stage, and when he did "Award Tour" I flipped out for a second expecting him to come running out, but there was no Tip.

I had this awful vision during his set of him spending the next decade doing awful LL Cool J loverman songs. I really don't want that to happen.

He did also do "Get Em High." And he closed with "The Light," the only tolerable loverman song ever.

Yeah right by the Blue Room stage (where LCD Soundsys, National, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and a few others played) it smelled of burned shit all weekend.

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wait, i thought the fire was over by the far AT&T stage??

(i wasn;t there til an hour or so later)