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How we gonna kick it? Gonna kick it shutdown!
Well, another SXSW is in the books, but not without a little controversy. I received a harried text from a friend late Thursday night that the after-hours party at Factory People had been shut down. Rumor has it the party was actually just limited to 50 people, which, in effect, is a shutdown. More rumors had the Vice Party shutting down prematurely at Blue Genie and being forced to move over to the Elks’ Lodge. And yet more scuttlebutt had the I <3 Comix party being shut down due to a lack of permits. One promoter told me she had heard that the fire marshal had a list of parties that were going to be shut down. Nobody seems quite sure as to the origin of this directive or why this year’s unofficial late-night festivities appeared to be under much closer scrutiny than in year’s past, but there have been some unhappy campers grumbling about it online, most notably, in the comments section over at Austinist.
The whole ordeal should make for some interesting cat & mouse and red-taping hurdling come this time next year, or come ACL Fest, for that matter.
Party on, party people.
Were you at a party that got busted? Got a scoop?
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By Kevin
March 19, 2007 4:22 PM | Link to this
I was at the IHEARTCOMIX party when it got busted. We talked to some guy in Ocelot and it seems like they shut it down over an easily looked over permit technicality that was just put into place this year. At another party later I talked to the security guards, and they said they made Franki pay for the extra 20 cops that showed up that night, plus some. I don’t know, it all seems really shady.
By El Stone
March 22, 2007 9:02 AM | Link to this
I heard that SXSW handed the Fire Marshal a list of “unsponsored” parties with the intention of shutting down anything competing with an official SXSW event. How underhanded is that?