UPDATES!
8/31/09 New website launched. Full lineup unveiled. Less than a week to get early bird tickets. Earlybird PIP passes are already sold out! Get your tickets now and save some cash! www.funfunfunfest.com.
4/15/09 A new website is in the works. Bands are being booked. Get all the latest info on twitter.
VIDEOS!
RATATAT // FALCON JAB
OF MONTREAL // ID ENGAGER
DANZIG // MOTHER
COOL KIDS // BLACK MAGS
JESUS LIZARD // PUSS
CRYSTAL CASTLES // CRIMEWAVE
THE PHARCYDE // DROP
FACE TO FACE // DISCONNECTED
GORILLA BISCUITS // NEW DIRECTION
BROADCAST // PAPERCUTS
WHITEST KIDS YOU KNOW // OPPOSITE DAY
FUCKED UP // CRUSADES
FUCK BUTTONS // SURF SOLAR
PAST PERFORMERS!
The National, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Spoon, The Black Angels, Atmosphere, Dead Milkmen, Minus The Bear, Z-trip, Dan Deacon, St. Vincent, Black Angels, Trail of Dead, YACHT, Grupo Fantasma, Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon, Dengue Fever, Deerhoof, Dead Meadow, Bad Brains, ALL, Adolescents, Integrity, Bouncing Souls, Peaches, Prefuse 73, Quintron, Circle Jerks, Negative Approach, Riverboat Gamblers, The Murder City Devils, The New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Cat Power, Explosions in the Sky, Neurosis, White Denim, Against Me!, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Okkervil River, Girl Talk, Angry Samoans, Cadence Weapon, Battles, Diplo, MGMT, Mates of State, Final Fantasy, and I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness.
Transmission Entertainment is pleased
to announce the lineup for the 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest, taking place on
November 7th and 8th at Waterloo Park in Austin. Fun Fun Fun Fest made
its first appearance on a cold Friday evening in 2006, offering a
unique approach to festival booking, filling stages with talent
bubbling from the underground: what sounded great, and what was making
an impact, regardless of what mainstream media said was cool. What
started out as a show for a few touring acts and local favorites has
become a movement -- a festival that fans and bands alike realize
needs to be experienced year after year.
Now in its fourth year, Fun Fun Fun Fest has made a significant impact
on the country’s winter calendar, successfully combining the vast
worlds of indie, punk, rap, electronica and comedy while showcasing
some of the city’s most unique local businesses. It is the most
relaxed, laid back and (yet) progressive festival in the market place
today, a true urban event in the middle of downtown Austin. Most
importantly it’s a fest we in the music community want to go to,
without all of the filler that shows up at corporate music carnivals
around the world. Fun Fun Fun Fest: the fest before the fest ... where
you go to see what’s about to happen as opposed to what's already been
done.
Each year, fans have been treated to sets by reunited legends as well
as prominent acts from across the globe at the festival. And this
edition is no different – music aficionados will be eagerly awaiting
performances by DEATH, The Jesus Lizard, Shonen Knife, Mission of
Burma, and Danzig. Of Montreal, King Khan & BBQ Show, GZA, No Age,
Young Widows, Ratatat, Yeasayer, and The Cool Kids ensure that a wide
variety of relevant artists will again be on display, and as always,
Austin is well represented, this year by the likes of Shearwater, Foot
Patrol, Black and White Years, The Laughing, Harlem, and Strange Boys.
In true Fun Fun Fun Fest fashion, fans can now learn about new music,
research the line up, listen to MP3s, interact, enter contests, buy
merchandise and more; simply by joining the new Fun Fun Fun Fest (http://www.funfunfunfest.com) community online.
2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest Line-up:
RATATAT – OF MONTREAL – CRYSTAL CASTLES - LES SAVY FAV - YEASAYER -
MISSION OF BURMA - LUCERO - WHY? - BROADCAST - ATLAS SOUND - DEATH
(DETROIT) - NO AGE - RED SPAROWES - SHONEN KNIFE - FUCK BUTTONS - TIMES
NEW VIKING - THIS WILL DESTROY YOU - CRYSTAL ANTLERS - GROWING - BLACK
AND WHITE YEARS - ROYAL BANGS - THE LAUGHING - JESUS LIZARD - DANZIG -
GORILLA BISCUITS - FACE TO FACE - FUCKED UP - 7 SECONDS - D.R.I. TORCHE
- MELT BANANA - FLIPPER - COALESCE - RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS - STREET DOGS -
RUSSIAN CIRCLES - NIGHT MARCHERS - METALLAGHER - YOUTH BRIGADE - MIKA
MIKO - ALL LEATHER - YOUNG WIDOWS - COLISEUM - UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO
CANDYLAND - OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - REIGN SUPREME - RAT KING - PACK OF
WOLVES – ROLLER - THE COOL KIDS - PHARCYDE - GZA/GENIUS (PERFORMING
LIQUID SWORDS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS) - KID SISTER - BARUKA SOM SISTEMA - DJ
NUMARK (JURASSIC 5) - HEALTH - NEON INDIAN - MC CHRIS - SSION - ALASKA IN
WINTER - VEGA - FOOT PATROL - ASTRONAUTALIS – CAR STEREO (WARS) – THE
DJ MELEE - SUGAR & GOLD - LAX - PELIGROSA DJS - BETA PLAYER -
DESTROYER - WHITEST KIDS YOU KNOW SKETCH COMEDY TROUPE - BRIAN POSEHN -
KING KHAN BBQ - SHEARWATER - TODD BARRY – DEAD CONFEDERATE - NICK THUNE
- HARLEM - JOSH FADEM - STRANGE BOYS - HANNIBAL BURRESS - JAMES HUSBAND
(OF MONTREAL) - BRENDAN WALSH - CEDRIC BURNSIDE & LIGHTNING MALCOLM
– CHELSEA PERETTI - BANKRUPT AND THE BORROWERS - ALTERCATION COMEDY
HOUR – MOONLIGHT TOWERS – LOW LINE CALLER - NEW MOVEMENT COMEDY GROUP -
AND MORE TO COME
PRESS! Alarm Magazine: "Four stages with all brands of music and chicanery, plenty of it good, some of it amazing!"
Alarm Magazine: "If you’re a hardcore/punk fan and you missed the Fun Fun Fun Fest, you’ll be sitting slump-shouldering and crying in your Dropkick Murphys t-shirt for a long time."
Austinist: " Transmission Entertainment's Fun Fun Fun Fest turned Waterloo Park into a veritable underground music melting pot. Successfully spanning hip-hop to comedy to hardcore in one weekend isn't an easy feat, and we can't remember the last time we saw so many punks, hipsters and club rats quite so elated."
Austinist: "... it's hard to think of a better atmosphere for a festival."
Austinist: "Such a diverse group of performers draws an equally diverse crowd, and that to us is always the appeal of Fun Fest: underground music's tiny nation coming together for the love of music, community and good times
Brooklyn Vegan: "Fun Fun Fun Fest successfully mixes punk, indie, singer-songwriter, hardcore, dance, hip-hop, metal, comedy, new and old. For instance, after blowing my mind to the thrash metal stylings of Municipal Waste, I immediately ran over to catch the end of Bishop Allen's family friendly indie rock set.
Buzzgrinder: "It’s not just the typical festival for gold-shoe-wearing chicks and handlebar-mustached dudes, either. From Bad Brains to Dan Deacon to Young Widows, the folks at Fx3 have all the bases covered."
Consequence of Sound: "The word “fun” may be getting a little derivative for some. Graham Williams, owner of Transmission Entertainment, probably took a long, hard look at the ever-growing list of year-round music festivals, and saw a lack of the word “fun” in those titles. So what’s the man to do...as cheesy as the Austin based event sounds ( by name ), it lives up to its name, both in terms of the bill offered and the experience realized."
Gorilla vs. Bear: "FFF has quickly become one of the most enjoyable festivals in the world..."
Gorilla vs. Bear: "Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest has quickly established itself as one of the most diverse and laid back festivals around with legends/luminaries from the worlds of hardcore, hip hop, indie, and dance converging in Waterloo Park for the weekend."
MOKB: "This was a festival that mixed all genres, so it was great to explore live music I normally wouldn't make a big effort to see. I ended up having a great time because of it."
MOKB: "Giving me an excuse to jump a flight to Austin, TX is never that tough, but getting me to do it when it isn't 108 degrees down there is liking taking candy from old people."
Sonic Itch: "One of the more interesting blends of up and coming indie-rock, punk, comedy, dj/electronica along with some of the well established in the industry all wrapped up in an environment that is as welcoming as it is, as the name would suggest, fun...while (the fest) still remains a bit of a secret, I would imagine the secret will be out soon enough.
Fuck Yeah D.R.I. Haven't had the pleasure of seeing them boys for nearly a decade. And i've never seen 'em with daylight shining down on 'em. Fuckin A.
FACE TO FACE got back together...playing shows and stuff...one of the most influential punk bands of the 90s..-2004...should get them to play! no doubt tons of f2f fans will go
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