Fun Fun Fun Fest 2008

BACKGROUND:

Fun Fun Fun Fest made its first appearance on a cold Austin Friday evening at Waterloo Park in 2006. It was a unique approach to festival booking…filling stages with what's happening now, what sounds great, and what's making an impact, regardless of whatever Pollstar or the mainstream media said was cool. What started out as a show for a few touring acts and local favorites became an underground movement and a festival that fans and bands alike realized needed to be experienced year after year.

The theory behind Fun Fun Fun Fest was to create a festival experience that supported the creative class, local business, emerging artists, and bands we just love to see play, regardless of genre. It is a true urban festival in the middle of downtown, where fans can get a burger from Spiderhouse, some brisket from Lambert's, a beer from Club de Ville, a pair of vintage boots, and T-shirt from their favorite band. A fest WE in the scene would want to go to, without all of the ‘filler’ that tends to show up at the corporate music carnivals around the world these days. Also, the FFF team makes sure that many of these shows end up in the streets of Austin after the fest, playing at local clubs into the night.

Lastly, one of the things that truly makes FFF special is a focus on a collection of 3 core styles of progressive and underground music: indie rock, punk/hardcore, and hip hop/dj, spread across a park on 3 core stages that would allow fans to go from one area to another to see and appreciate different styles of music. Cross pollination at its best…put on by people who know music and for people who love music.

The 2006 effort included bands ranging from Spoon, to Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Peaches, Prefuse 73, Quintron, Circle Jerks, Negative Approach and Riverboat Gamblers. You get the idea. It was the beginning of a revolution. The 2007 effort was larger and even more successful than the previous year, featuring the Murder City Devils, The New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Cat Power, Explosions in the Sky, Neurosis, White Denim, Okkervil River, Girl Talk, Angry Samoans, Cadence Weapon, Battles and more. It was a virtual Tsunami of awesome.

LAST YEAR'S SPONSORS:

Intelligent Media Platform
Alternative Press
Heineken
Filter Magazine
Ticketweb
Punknews.org
KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle
The Onion
Spider House Patio Bar & Cafe
Event Production Services
Pangaea
Sweet Leaf Tea
The Austinist
Scooter Revolution
Platypus Promotions
Room Service Vintage
Do512.com
Prototype Vintage Design
Gorilla Vs. Bear
Birds Barbershop

Please contact us if you're interested in becoming involved with the 2008 festival...

brendan@transmissionentertainment.com

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