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Exclusive!!! ACL Fest poster!!! (It’s a fake)
Imagine getting this in a mysterious e-mail on Easter Sunday, three weeks before the official ACL Fest lineup announcement. The person who sent it claimed to be an employee at C3 Presents, who saw it on a screen he was passing, so he e-mailed a copy to himself and, later, to Austin Music Source. We all got pretty excited, but then C3’s Charles Attal said it was a fake. What’s he gonna say? “Yep, you guys got the real poster? Might as well cancel that April 15 announcement.”
But after checking with some of the names on the poster, including Bruce Robison and Slaid Cleaves, it turns out the whole thing is a hoax. Neither Robison, billed as playing with brother Charlie, or Cleaves are booked for ACL.
But what a fake fest this jokester put together. Especially the superstar jam (it’s in small type) featuring Robert Plant, Thom Yorke, Thurston Moore and Stephen Malkmus. Sometimes you want to believe something so much, you look over the obvious inaccuracies. Like why would Raconteurs be so high on the bill and Feist, Al Green and John Fogerty be so low?
Tell us: What other signs are there that this poster is a fake?
Update: Turns out, as Eddi pointed out in our comments, that the “C3 employee” who e-mailed this to us got it from the fans on the ACL boards at austincitylimits.com. More details here.
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By Sarah
March 24, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
Crappy design?
By Scott Hudson
March 24, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
the fact that paul westerberg is listed was an immediate indication that it was a fake.
By Dan
March 24, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
slow news day, huh?
By Matt
March 31, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this
i feel like the goofy racoon could be a giveaway…
By keith sharp
April 2, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
tom waits??? after a la zona rosa employee knocked the teeth out of one of waits’ crew members tom swore he would never play austin again. and in front of 20,000 plus??? that was the real stinker……… whoever did this should be stripped in front of an ACL crowd on stage….surprised THE WHO wasnt put in the line-up too.