Austin Music Source

By Will on Nueces

September 16, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

Do it!!!

By Boomer Sooner

September 16, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

The week after ‘TU’ loses to OU looks best

By Kelly

September 16, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

I have been wishing for ACL Festival to be pushed back since the dust storm! I think it would be a lovely idea!!

By mom

September 16, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Good idea! And thanks for head’s up as well as the UT Football schedule.

My first daughter is getting married in fall of ’09, and were reminded to make sure we book the wedding for when UT is not playing. A friend’s wedding a couple of years ago was upstaged by UT Football when all the men between 18 and 80 were at the hotel bar trying to get a glimpse of the game.

Now we can make sure it’s not over ACL week as well, when hotels are all booked up.

By flygirl

September 16, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

There are a few things the first weekend of every month that would conflict with ACL for us and many others - I vote to keep it at the end of September!

By Barbara Johnson

September 16, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

This is one of those “duh-hey” situations. Of course it should be pushed back to a more comfortable time of the year. This is the very first year since its inception that I’ve decided not to attend the fest because I can’t take the heat any more. Now if they move it later on in the fall…yes, indeed, I’d attend.

By eltex

September 16, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

This was brought up a couple of years ago, and they are just now thinking of making the change. Come on, you are trying to hold one of the best music fests in the country and you do it during a very hot time of the year??

By Brian

September 16, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Moving it back to Oct., also lessens the chance of a conflict during the hight of Hurricane season. How would Austin choose? ACL or house hurricane evacuees? We almost had a close call with Rita, and we are not out of the woods for this season yet. Thousand of people would head towards Austin, only to be turned away because of no vaccancies at hotels and a city with resources straped with a major music festivel.

By robert tillotson

September 16, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

I totally agree with Kelly

By Kelly

September 16, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

ACl in October? It’s about freaking time! I never understood why it was held in the hottest month in Austin.

By suzanne

September 16, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

yes yes yes!!!!!

By mike

September 16, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

a few things on this: 1)moving the festival into October is fine, just not at the end of the month. Although we all may think things revolve around Austin, there is the Voodoo music festival in New Orleans at the end of October. It would be best for music fans to not have two major festivals going on the same weekend. 2)FYI, the warmest month in Austin in definitely August.

By nicole

September 16, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Duh! I’ve been saying that for years.

By JR

September 16, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Isn’t ACL held in September in order to catch bands in the midst of their summer tour? Moving it to October would be great in regards to beating Austin’s heat, but the downside would likely mean a slimmer crop of bands for the organizers to choose from.

By chris

September 16, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

I agree, move it to October and KEEP IT THERE. This has been a major killing point for ACL on the festival circuit, as austin is a muggy scorcher in the middle of september.

By Dirty Joe

September 16, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Why don’t they just move ACL to Portland? The weather is so much nicer there this time of year.

By Suzi

September 16, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

oh YES!!!!! Once was enuf for me in the heat…dry……… now we Austinites won’t know how to act!!! someone’s been thinking again!!! yippers A GREAT DECISION, finally……….. JUST DO IT!!!! onward…….

By ilovecakes

September 16, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Duh!! I almost made t-shirts to campaign moving ACL to October….sounds like I might be able to save some money ;)

By Mark

September 16, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

Sounds good. Now, can we move SXSW to say… California?

(Uh oh… did I just commit a copymark violation by using the letters ess, ecks, ess, and double-yoo, in that order, without express written permission?)

By Beyond Beleef

September 16, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

I just returned from the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco and it was 63 degrees. What a wonderful difference! I had so much fun focusing on the issue at hand; the music and NOT the horrible heat. Music is wonderful but we shouldn’t have to suffer for it. Great weather makes for a much better experience. I know early Oct is not going to be 63 but 85 is better than 105. Have not bought a 3 day pass since the dust bowl and not going this year. Shame since I live only blocks away. But I’m not paying to suffer like that; ACL is being unfair to the people. That’s why so many tweens are going because they are the only ones who can stand that heat (or are willing) but we are the ones with the money. Think about it.

By AnswerMan

September 16, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

FYI, y’all, one of the primary reasons ACL Fest has been held in September is that it is a better time for the availability of headlining acts at the tail end of the summer touring and festival season.

By Me

September 16, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

If you can’t stand the heat people—get out of Austin—-I say keep the Sept. dates

By OpenD

September 16, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

Yes, indeed September is the tail end of touring band’s summer season… BUT… bands go where the money and exposure is, and the September heat in Austin is not only brutal on the hundreds of thousands of fans, but on the musicians and their staffs. Why make ACL such an endurance test for everyone, when October is altogether a more pleasant and inviting month for all outdoor activities?!

As much as I love the music and the spectacle, I cut back my ticket purchase this year to a single day, and some associated “after-concerts,” because I just couldn’t face another 3-days-in-a-pizza-oven experience.

By liz

September 16, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

Do it. It’s too hot in September and the dust and sweat ewwwww.

By reesa ring

September 16, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this

anybody know where i can find a mean cheeseburger in this town???

By Greg

September 16, 2008 10:04 PM | Link to this

August works best for me….I love the Hot weather

By lk

September 16, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this

Do it!

By austinamethyst

September 16, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this

Lots of tickets are still available for sale - I think this means this year’s crop of bands is already on the slim side. MOVE IT TO OCTOBER. We don’t need anymore 107 degree ACL Festivals.

By Dave

September 17, 2008 6:10 AM | Link to this

Definitely should be moved to October. It’s a music festival, not an endurance contest.

By Mark

September 17, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Good job FunFunFun Fest. You gave ACL their line up this year….and now you have given them your idea of a fest during good weather times in Austin. Whats next? Maybe ACL will end up at Waterloo Park and start booking punk and hip hop as well.

By sup

September 17, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

acl already moved a week back (used to be in mid sept), but 7 more days isn’t going to make a difference, really…it’s a week, people, so weather isn’t going to drop that significantly. and going any more into OCT puts them in competition with Voodoo, CMJ, Vegoose, etc.
The festival has made it’s name nationally as being a sept/beginning of fall festival already, I say stick with what works and book bigger and better artists with bigger names next year, if tickets are indeed slow, as someone mentioned.

By wolfgang

September 17, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

ACL is big enough now that we can insist bands accomodate our schedule, instead of vice-versa. Jazz Fest has been taking place in mid-to-late April for decades now, and April is certainly not “summer touring season” for bands. It is too logical, with the hurricane possibilities and football season and our own weather, to have ACL festival in early October. However they worry that out-of-towners will see “October” on the web and think it’ll be too cold at night to enjoy the festival.

By john doe

September 17, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

If UT truly wants to become a respected national football power why don’t they schedule some tough opponents on their non-Big 12 schedule? UTEP, Central Florida, Wyoming??? Please!!! Do like USC did and schedule a powerhouse like Ohio State. That’s how you become a #1 team.

By norm

September 17, 2008 7:42 PM | Link to this

Bet they keep it in September. Cooler weather means a lot less beverage sales.

By Brandye

September 19, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

I have to throw my 2 cents in…… Moving ACL Fest to Oct??? Are you kidding me? Part of ACL Fest is the fact that it is hot, it’s Texas. It’s what makes it unique. Where else do you eat gallons of hot sauce in a park in the heat, or battle dust storms in 108+ heat. Look at Burning Man, it’s in the Nevada desert Labor Day Weekend. If you can’t take the heat-don’t go. Part of the draw of ACL is the battle. It only makes you stronger. Keep it in Sept. PLEASE!!!