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somertimeoh
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michaelcoyote
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blammo wrote >>
Playing March 18th at BD Riley's with Lydia Loveless. Can't wait! Long freaking drive for a one-hour set though, lol.Shit man, since you're going to head down anyway, consider driving on down to Monterrey, MX for the Todd P party there. http://toddpnyc.com/mtymx/
I mean it's a 3 day party at an "autocine" in Mexico. What could go wrong?
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JonMyers
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That's awesome blammo. Congrats on getting the gig.
I'll be there for interactive. I haven't booked a return ticket yet, and am debating on staying on for some music.
Can you sneak some Columbus guys into your show?
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jpizzow - lol, yeah you and every other city planner. :) We need to think of what's next and be the first mover on it.
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blammo
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I will track down some info on guest list options. It's my first time there, so I don't really know what to expect, what we're allowed to do, and what we can get away with. I'd love to get everyone in for free though, lord knows we're gonna pay enough to just get down there. So i'm not too broken up about someone not collecting a fee to see us play.
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michaelcoyote
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JonMyers wrote >>
jpizzow - lol, yeah you and every other city planner. :) We need to think of what's next and be the first mover on it.What's next would be to build a music scene as good as Austin's. Start by convincing people that music venues are important to the city being a vibrant dynamic place.
Get people to build a few hundred live venues all over the city. Use these venues to attract not only Rock and Blues musicians to live in your city, but Jazz, Pop, Country, Hip-Hop and Soul. Ideally there will be strong community of artists that share ideas and push each other to be stronger.
Use this strong pool of musicians to attract a public TV network to showcase the music scene in your city once a week. This will probably take about 30 years, although it could take less with a lot of support from the community and the city.
Start your first small festival. Go through the normal growing pains but promote hard and bring lots of great local and outside talent until it becomes a "thing". This will probably take about 15 years if it happens at all. Make sure your festival does something different and interesting to draw more than just the music crowds.
There you go.. easy peasy.
Jon: it can be a pain to get into venues if you don't buy a pass. Lots of waiting in line unless you know someone.
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somertimeoh
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Day shows are free and open to the public. Night shows require the SXSW wristband and a bit of luck to get in before the venue reaches capacity :)
Jon, if you stay for the music, ask them to upgrade your band to include all of the conferences. Might be $100 or so more, but totally worth it. Hardest part will be finding a place to crash unless you've got friends in the city.
PS - Blammo, I'm going to try to make it to the show at Rumba. If I don't, I want to contribute to the gas fund. Hit me up and let me know when I can bring by some cash for you guys. I sent out a mass email to all my TX friends making their way down to check y'all out and I've gotten good feedback. So happy for you guys!
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JonMyers
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Yeah, I'll just have an SXSW interactive pass, not a SXSW music pass. So, even buying tickets is tough.
Last year we did get into some of the music shows. We ended up hanging with Kid Sister for a minute and cuttin it up.
I do have a place to stay down there.
Blammo, if you guys are trying to figure out lodging or anyone else for that matter, I know some people that are using AirBnB.
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michaelcoyote
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Brant Jones wrote >>
michaelcoyote wrote >>
Start your first small festival. Go through the normal growing pains but promote hard and bring lots of great local and outside talent until it becomes a "thing".Independents Day...?
Actually I'd say that Comfest is a "thing", and probably a lot closer to the multi-day format of SxSW but probably not very well known outside of Central Ohio. Growth of course is an issue with Comfest as the park is pretty much packed to the gills and we seem to be having more problems every year. Independents Day could become a thing, but you would need to make it a multi-day festival. Even then it still wouldn't be a festival like SxSW with tons of different venues doing shows. Really, I don't think we have enough venues to do that.
My real point is that Austin has a lot more music venues and musicians to fill the venues, and it's therefore easier do an event of that size there as there are more great musicians to put on stage and more venues to have shows (official and unofficial).
That's not to say that we don't have great musicians here in Central Ohio, because we obviously do. It's just that Austin has more of them as well as an infrastructure of music clubs and other performance venues to support them.
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somertimeoh
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Not sure what the amount of musicians in Austin has to do with it, SXSW is an international draw. And if every restaurant/bar in the surrounding neighborhoods became a live music venue for the week it would be a similar set up. They put music everywhere. We played a showcase in the lobby of the Red Lion hotel. That was 12 years ago. It's even bigger, more spread out, more random now.
There's something special about SXSW that I don't think could ever be recreated, but I think claiming that it's some kind of magical coincidence that is only logistically possible in Austin is false. The majority of people in most of those bars during SXSW wouldn't be caught dead in them any other day of the year. It's not like there's 80 kick ass music venues at all times. It's also important to note that SXSW and UT's spring break overlap every year.
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osulew
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somertimeoh wrote >>
Not sure what the amount of musicians in Austin has to do with it, SXSW is an international draw. And if every restaurant/bar in the surrounding neighborhoods became a live music venue for the week it would be a similar set up. They put music everywhere. We played a showcase in the lobby of the Red Lion hotel. That was 12 years ago. It's even bigger, more spread out, more random now.
There's something special about SXSW that I don't think could ever be recreated, but I think claiming that it's some kind of magical coincidence that is only logistically possible in Austin is false. The majority of people in most of those bars during SXSW wouldn't be caught dead in them any other day of the year. It's not like there's 80 kick ass music venues at all times. It's also important to note that SXSW and UT's spring break overlap every year.Exactly. It's not as if every band there is playing Antone's or Emo's or Stubb's. Granted Columbus doesn't have as many live music venues of that variety as Austin, but most of the bands you see at SXSW are crammed into places more the size of Rumba or a restaurant/bar more like La Fogata rather than streets and streets lined with strictly live music venues. Shit I think they'd shove a band into an empty maintenance closet to perform if they could fit a few people in there to see them.
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michaelcoyote
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somertimeoh wrote >>
Not sure what the amount of musicians in Austin has to do with it, SXSW is an international draw.It has to do with talent pool and infrastructure. If you're starting out, you start out small and the local talent is very helpful in getting you off the ground. Moving forward these guys not only open shows, but do sound and other things. SxSW was started in 1987, and didn't even have 1000 people show up for the first one. It wasn't an international festival then. They had to start with who showed up.
somertimeoh wrote >> It's not like there's 80 kick ass music venues at all times.
Firstly, the venues don't have to be "kick ass" the other 360 days, just the days of the music festival.
Secondly I'm hard pressed to name 8 halfway decent music venues in this town. Austin could probably easily do 8 in the 6th street and market district areas downtown.
Do those places play stuff I don't want to hear most of the time? sure. Do they play crap? Sure. Can they host whoever you want when you have a festival? Yep
Really, you could pare it down even further to infrastructure.
(I should point out that the Austin CoC claims 200 live venues in Austin. I'm not sure I buy that, but I could believe over 100 pretty easily, especially if you start counting places I'd never go.)
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somertimeoh
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Sigh, you're right. You know everything about everything.
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michaelcoyote
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JonMyers wrote >>
Remember those venues that used to be where Campus Gateway exists? Some were dance clubs, others weren't.Sure, there are places that can be used, but it's going to be a lot easier if those places are already open and running and you don't have to truck in sound, booze, beer and staff them and get the licensing.
It can all be done of course, but it makes it easier if you don't have to.
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somertimeoh
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michaelcoyote wrote >>
JonMyers wrote >>
Remember those venues that used to be where Campus Gateway exists? Some were dance clubs, others weren't.Sure, there are places that can be used, but it's going to be a lot easier if those places are already open and running and you don't have to truck in sound, booze, beer and staff them and get the licensing.
It can all be done of course, but it makes it easier if you don't have to.Well that's absolutely not true. There are semis for DAYS bringing in equipment to outfit all these places. I-35 from DFW to Austin is a parking lot for 2 solid weeks. The amount of volunteers at all these venues keeping this thing going is mind boggling. Just about every showcase/party has a booze sponsor. I'm not trying to defend some Columbus SXSW, I just question how much time you've actually spent at SXSW if you think what you're saying is reality.
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