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Todd P goes to Mexico
Todd Patrick, better known as Todd P — the concert organizer and promoter who’s too cool for a period — has announced via his Web site that he’ll debut a new, post-SXSW music festival, the MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music, in Monterrey, Mexico, this year.
Austinites might best recognize Todd P as the organizer of a series of popular SXSW day parties at Ms. Bea’s in East Austin. This year, he’s elected to set his sights on Autocinema Las Torres in Monterrey, a drive-in theater with a 5,000 person capacity, where he’ll hold his own festival from Saturday, March 20 (the last day of the SXSW Music Festival), to Monday, March 22.
Further details are available at the Web site, but here are the bullet points: two stages and 75 bands (with staggered sets to keep acts from overlapping), tickets $30 for all three days, with a visual art component including murals and video projections, on-site camping available and thrice-daily shuttle buses running between Austin and Monterrey to ferry attendees. Confirmed bands so far include Dan Deacon, No Age, Neon Indian, Toro Y Moi, Das Racist and dd/mm/yyyy. Deacon and No Age are exclusive to the festival and won’t be performing at SXSW, according to the announcement.
“Monterrey, Mexico is roughly the same distance as other ‘next stop on your tour’ cities like Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, El Paso, etc.,” reads the announcement. “The idea of the festival is to provide bands with another option during those 3-4 days after SXSW, where they risk playing under attended, money losing shows because a) it’s spring break, b) it’s a Sunday night in Oklahoma City and c) every other band in the world is also trying to play a show on a Sunday night in Oklahoma City!”
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