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SXSW 2008: Lou Reed is the keynote speaker
Eleven years after Louis Black called his booking at the old Austin Music Hall “disrespectful to the Austin music community,” when it bumped up against the Austin Music Awards, Lou Reed will be the keynote speaker for the 2008 South By Southwest Music Conference and Film Festival. The speech will be held in conjunction with a screening of Julian Schnabel’s film “Lou Reed’s ‘Berlin,’” which documents a recent performance of the landmark 1973 album. Reed will speak at the Austin Convention Center on March 13 as the kickoff of the twenty-second annual festival. The music festival takes place March 12 to 16.
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