All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.
Saturday, 4:50 at 8 Seconds.
“This song is for anyone who has ever or will ever be a woman.”
Don’t let the haircuts, short shorts and constant talk about gender/sexual politics between every song dissuade you, Rvivr is a must see.
All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.
Friday, 11:30 at the DoubleDown.
I go back and forth with Coliseum. I go from barely remembering they exist to not being able to stop playing their records. Specifically, their newest full-length, House With a Curse.
If Hot Water Music are playing all the old good stuff, I’d probably skip these guys, but I don’t think that will be the case.
All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.
Friday, 10 at 8 Seconds.
With Touché Amore playing at 9:50 and these guys playing at 10, a choice has to be made. Skip Banner Pilot? Skip Touché Amore? Or try to see parts of both sets and hope there isn’t a line.
By the time Fest rolls around, Banner Pilot should have a new album out. If it's even ½ as good as Collapser, I’m going to be stoked.
Constantines - Insectivora
I forget on a pretty regular basis how great this band was.
The show they played at Mac’s Bar in Lansing in 2004 is in my top 10 funnest shows.
All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.
Saturday, 3:10 at Seconds.
My wife loves her some Paul Baribeau. So last year, when she couldn’t make it down with me to Fest, I asked Paul to make a sad face for a picture, and I sent it to her. She was pretty psyched, not “I saw her play live" psyched, but psyched nonetheless.
Originally posted by breathinglisterine
All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.
Friday, 11:25 at The Florida Theater of Gainesville.
Amongst my friends, there are two camps when it comes to HWM. One believes that the No Idea years were the best and anything beyond Forever and Counting is terrible. The other believes the opposite, that the Epitaph years were great.
I’m firmly among the first group. Firmly. I haven’t seen HWM live in years because of this, but I’d check them out in hopes of hearing some of the old gold. There are at least 4 post-post No Idea albums, though, so who knows if I’d actually get to hear anything I wanted. But Hot Water Music at Fest seems like a no-brainer.
I’m pretty sure I’d leave this show after 15 minutes and try to rush to the Coliseum. A band I actively care about.
All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.
Friday, 7:50 at The Atlantic.
Last year I ended up running (let's be honest, chubby guy fast walking) from the No Idea house to 8 Seconds to try to see this band. I missed the 1st half of their set, but what I did see was great.
I love this band (whoever the hell is in it now) and would gladly run (chubby guy fast walk) to see them again.
La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
I’ve been hating on this band since they started. I got why “the kids” loved them, but it did nothing for me at all. Their new album, Wildlife, made me eat my words.
Good job.
You can stream the entire album on the band’s Facebook page.
All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.
Friday, 1 am at the Laboratory.
Last year 8 people watched these dudes, and now they’re closing out a venue. It's not “The Venue,” but still, nice move.
There is a “mystery band” playing at the same time as CTO at another venue, so there is a chance that, depending on how that mystery is, I’d miss at least part of these guys' set. But the times are 20 minutes off, so maybe I wouldn’t have to miss much.
If CTO mentions a “Sleep EP” that is “being recorded soon,” yell “WHEN?” at them. Less talk, more recording.
Unless you’re cooler than me and know about some secret warehouse, hotel set, or house party show by some band, this is probably the musical end of your Friday night. Go eat some Five-Star.
All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.
Friday, 10:30 at the Atlantic.
My introduction to Shores last year: driving from Michigan to Gainesville with the band and then seeing them play 3 times in four days.
There is a pretty good chance that, despite liking these guys quite a bit, I’d skip them or at least miss part of their set so I could see Campaign, a band I’ve never seen.
All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida.
Despite lots of talk, I will not actually be going to Fest again this year. Nevertheless, I’m going to spend the month posting songs by bands who are there. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.
Friday, 6:25 at The Florida Theater of Gainesville
6:25? Shit. I’d have thought the bike had a bigger draw than a 6:25 on Friday show. I guess everyone else liked that new album about as much as I did.
Despite current sins, I love this band’s back catalog enough to show up for the show.
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
Originally Kelly Clarkson
A second Kelly Clarkson cover? I didn’t see that coming.
I like this song, but it's not as good as the band’s cover of “Once Upon A Time” by Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise. But I already posted that in February, so here we are, with the silver medal winner.
Second place or not, this is still a great cover that sounds and feels so much different than the original.
