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ACL scene report: We Go To Eleven; the long road to Austin
We Go To Eleven got a solid-gold introduction before their set at the BMI Stage at 12:40 today. The band was brought onstage by C3 partner and ACL producer Charles Attal.
Probably it had something to do with the fact that WGTE’s drummer, 13-year old Sled Allen is Attal’s nephew; his sister, Jennifer, is married to visual artist Bale Allen.
Backstage, Attal mingled with his parents, Charles “Lucky” and Katherine Attal, as well as Sled’s grandparents—musician and artist Terry Allen and playwright/actress Jo Harvey Allen. The Allen’s spent part of their ACL sojourn catching up with another family friend, David Byrne, who performed at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday and at ACL on Friday.
Since the Austin City Limits Festival’s beginnings, it has been an article of faith that the festival could never co-exist with a U.T. football home game. Now, thanks to Hurricane Ike, Saturday saw the festival going full-steam ahead while the Longhorns hosted the Arkansas Razorbacks across town.
C3 Presents partner and ACL producer Charles Attal was asked if, in fact, the town could handle both events, might C3 be more flexible in picking a weekend to host the festival?
Nope, he said. “It’s all about hotel rooms. There are people staying in San Antonio and Waco and Bastrop this weekend. Luckily, the festival opens early and the game is in the middle of the day. But we still don’t want to have to house performers in San Antonio.”
Looks like the perfect-storm pairing of ACL and Longhorn football is a one-time convergence.
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