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ACL 2008, according to you
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When the schedule grids for the Austin City Limits Music Festival were released last week, we decided to take the pulse of fans in a fun, if completely unscientific, way. Our version of a “hot or not” poll features 105 of the bands scheduled (or in the case of Duffy, previously scheduled) to play the festival Sept. 26-28 at Zilker Park. In place of “hot or not,” voters can click on “Can’t wait” or “I’ll pass” for each act. (We’ve since removed Duffy, who was around a 40 percent positive rating before she canceled.)
The main thing we learned: People online are a tough crowd. Few acts made it past the 50 percent mark in the “can’t wait” category.
Trends as of press time:
You love:
Beck. 70 percent ‘can’t wait’ to see him.
Next best:
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and the Raconteurs at 60/40 (perhaps showing no grudges against Jack White for last year’s White Stripes cancellation)
Highest rated local band:
South Austin Jug Band at 55 percent ‘can’t wait’
Stuck in the middle:
A bunch of bands are at 50/50, including headliners the Foo Fighters, John Fogerty, David Byrne, Iron & Wine, Erykah Badu, SXSW buzz band Vampire Weekend and Alejandro Escovedo.
Only 25 percent want to see:
CSS, which music writer Joe Gross says is just wrong.
Also just wrong:
A sampling of great acts below 50 percent in the ‘can’t wait’ category — Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (see a concert review on Page 10), Gogol Bordello, Patty Griffin, Manu Chau (stuck at 30 percent!), M. Ward, White Denim, the Swell Season (they’re Oscar winners!), Antibalas and the Jones Family Singers.
(Photo courtesy of myspace.com/beck)
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