Some crankypants Austin American-Statesman columnist took in his first music festival this weekend, when he attended the Austin City Limits Festival, his hometown’s muddy three-day extravaganza that featured Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and a slew of other bands. Most festival reportage tends to gloss over the hinkiness of events like these—the gradual deterioration of the venues’ PortaPotty army, the dust-flecked food, the shirtless bros who turn their favorite bands’ sets into a campfire singalong—but Ken Herman went right into the mud, and wound up slinging some of his own! MORE »
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Crabby Columnist Would Like You To Get Off His (City Park’s) Lawn
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Festival-Goer Takes “If You Sprinkle While You Tinkle” Maxim To New, Horrifying Levels
A woman known as “Charlotte” has inspired lots of tittering and even a little bit of Internet fandom thanks to her dropping her purse, which contained all of her cash as well as her bus ticket home, down a Porta-Potty’s chute at this weekend’s Leeds Festival. She then spent (wait for it) 20 minutes surrounded by the temporary toilet’s innards because (wait for it once more) she stuck both her hands down the hatch and (yes) had to be extracted from the loo by local firefighters. So if you’re having a bad day, just think: It could be worse! MORE »
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Reading And Leeds Give A Boot To The Head Of The Concert-Going Traditions Of Yore
This weekend’s Reading and Leeds Festivals—headlined by Radiohead, Kings of Leon, and Arctic Monkeys—will be cracking down on crowdsurfing, despite the shows’ lineups being full of bands who might compel one to get some buds to hoist them up on everyone else’s hands. Crowdsurfers won’t be kicked out of these festivals, but they will suffer a possibly much worse fate: They’ll be forced to walk all the way back to the front of the arena, re-enter, and fight their way back to the front of the crowd. The nerve! MORE »
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Jimmy Buffett And The Rains Come To Bonnaroo, But Don’t Go Looking For Any Magic Mushroom Peanut Butter Cups
A few not-really-but-possibly-related headlines regarding the Bonnaroo festival, which starts today in Manchester, Tenn.: Jimmy Buffett has been added to the Saturday docket at the last minute–even though he can’t even get the festival’s organizers to spell his name right; a severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for the festival’s home base for the entire weekend; and 35 pounds of mushroom-laced peanut butter cups were confiscated before they could make their way to the grounds. In related news, I am now very very hungry. [Official site] MORE »
