Thursday, August 1, 2024

ACL 2024: Schedule is OUT!

Which, I really shouldn't be too excited about because it just means I have to go back and re-do every post to note when they are playing, but it means we are edging ever closer to me being able to slap all of this into spreadsheets to that you can use those to figure out your pathway through the park!  Yeehaw!


Schedule | Austin City Limits Music Festival (aclfestival.com)


This is also a good time to notice that they have added multiple new bands to the Friday lineup!  None are anything I have ever heard of or anything, but more music is a good thing!  More Friday reviews to come for sure.

Also, some observations about the first Friday.

  • WTF is Catfish and the Bottlemen doing at an early afternoon slot?  They are on the eighth line of the poster and have great songs, and yet they are below tons of unknowns?
  • Carin Leon at 4:30 is also a surprise, since he is the top non-headlining artist on the poster.
  • Foster the People vs. Leon Bridges is lame.  Since we don't care about the size and power of the band for the slots, can we just put Foster at 3?
  • Looks like I'm grabbing dinner at 7!
  • Two things left to review on that day!
First Saturday Thoughts:
  • They did all the aspiring rappers dirty, putting PawPaw Rod, Obed Padilla, and Godly the Ruler all at noon.  They also shanked Zach Person with that same slot.  Weak.
  • Honestly, now that I look at it, they did all the up-and-comers wrong here.  Friday has ten bands before 2:45 (and one is Asleep at the Wheel), but Saturday has 15 bands before 3!  Packed the house for that early college football spot.
  • Pretty weak day for me overall, would have been good to have some of those randos in the mix so that I'd have something new to try out - like Geese or Sawyer Hill.  Jungle vs. Vince Staples is hard though.

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