FEST 2013!

We remember a time twelve years ago when a good friend of ours (shout-out to TS) knew every damn concert happening in Gainesville. And sometime in the autumn of 2001, TS mentioned  going to “The Fest” and continued to discuss some amazing after-party in someone’s apartment.

We sort of shrugged.
Maybe it’s a passing thing, who knows in this town? 

And here we are today, writing about how no, it happily was not a passing thing. The Fest is here to stay, and the famous after-parties are killer. The people you see downtown and walking University are not in Halloween Costumes. They are ready to rock and enjoy damn good music.

Oh, and you should be ready to enjoy damn good music too.

When we first heard of the Fest 12 years ago, there were only around 60 bands, 4 stages, and 2 days. (Spontaneous “after parties” are not included in the numbers but are such an awesome unofficial-but-official Fest tradition!)

In that time, the Fest has grown exponentially, and we’re grateful it has.  The past five Fests have sold out before the annual musical orgy/extravaganza began. The Fest proudly brings in bands from other states and other countries–but what is truly amazing, as is usually the case when talking about music events, are the fans. Fans from Australia, Britain  and countless other countries have flocked to indieGainesville to enjoy the Fest. (We don’t need to remind you to be nice guests, right? Cool.)

This year, the Fest brings all these amazing bands.

You can find the main schedule here.

More info can be found here.

Registration:
FEST 12 REGISTRATION: 
THE UNIVERSITY HOTEL
Holiday Inn University Center
1250 W University Ave
Gainesville, Florida 32601
(Corner of University and 13th Street)
(352) 376-1661

REGISTRATION HOURS AT THE UNIVERSITY HOTEL

Thursday, October 31st – 12noon – 7pm (Full Registration, Pool Party & Flea Market Tabling)
Friday, November 1st – 12noon – 2pm (Full Registration ONLY – NO Flea Market Tabling – NO Pool Party)
Saturday, November 2nd – 12noon – 2pm (GENERAL Registration ONLY – NO Band  Registration)

If you have a chance, don’t miss this. If you can’t for whatever reason–we get it. But do be aware that when the Fest is happening, Gainesville is lifted from “College town” to “international music scene.” And you can at least enjoy people watching….

Previous bands include:

7 Seconds / Able Baker Fox / Against All Authority / Against me! / A Great Big Pile of Leaves / Alexisonfire / American Steel Ampere / Andrew Jackson Jihad / Ann Beretta / Anti-Flag / Armalite / The Arrivals / As Friends Rust / ASG / Assholeparade Atom and his Package / AVAIL / A Wilhelm Scream / Banner Pilot / Baroness / The Blood Brothers / The Bomb / Bomb the music Industry / Bouncing Souls / Braid / The Briefs / Bridge And Tunnel / Broadway Calls / Burning Love Ceremony / Cheap Girls / Chuck Ragan / Circle Takes the Square / Coalesce / Code Orange Kids / Coliseum / The Copyrights Dan Vapid and the Cheats / Dave Dondero / Dead to me / Dear Landlord / Defiance, Ohio / Dillinger Four / The Dopamines The Draft / Drag The River / Dwarves / Engine Down / Ensign / The Ergs / Fake Problems / F.Y.P. / The Falcon Fifth hour hero / Fight Amp / The Figs/    The Flatliners / Fleshies / Floor / Frank Turner / From Ashes Rise / The Front Bottoms /The Gaslight Anthem / Ghost mice / Good Luck / Good Riddance / Gospel / Government warning / Grabass Charlestons/ Grade / Gunmoll / Hard Skin / Har Mar Superstar / The Holy Mountain / Horace Pinker / Hot Water Music / Iron Chic /J Church / Joey Cape / Joyce manor / Kepi Ghoulie / Kyle Kinane / Kylesa / La Dispute / Lagwagon / Larry and his Flask Laura Stevenson / Latterman / Lawrence Arms / Leatherface / Lemuria / Less Than Jake / Look Mexico / The Loved Ones /Lucero / Make Do and Mend / Marked Men / Masked Intruder / Mastodon / Mates of State / Matt & Kim / Mean Jeans/ Me First and the Gimme Gimmes / The Menzingers / The Methadones / Minus the Bear / Mixtapes / Municipal Waste / Mustard Plug / Naked Raygun / Negative Approach / None More Black / Nothington / No Trigger / Off with Their Heads /Old Man Markley / Paint It Black / Paul Baribeau / The Pietasters / Planes Mistaken For Stars / Plow United / P.O.S./ Polar Bear Club / Pretty Girls make Graves / Propagandhi / Radon / Rehasher / Riverboat Gamblers / RVIVR / Russian Circles The Sainte Catherines / Screaming Females / Seaweed / Shellshag / Shook Ones / Sleepy Time Trio / Small Brown Bike Smoke or Fire / Snuff / The Soviettes / Streetlight Manifesto / Strike Anywhere / Suicide Machines / The Swellers Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / Teenage Bottlerocket / This Bike is a Pipe Bomb / Tigers Jaw / Tiltwheel / Tim Barry Titus Andronicus / Torche / Touché Amoré / Toys That Kill / Twelve Hour Turn / Underground Railroad to Candyland/ Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company / Valient Thorr / The Velvet Teen / Young Livers / Young Widows / Youth Brigade

Happy Festing!