Don't quite feel like FRYing out in the sun with a bunch of frat boys this weekend? Ok ok, I might be a little bitter about Fry Street Fair due to some previous bad experiences (I'm talking like near death bad), but personal crap aside, the strength of the following line up should persuade you to at least spend a little bit of time at the 8th Continent on Saturday:

THE EIGHT CONTINENT
731 Texas Street in Denton

Abigail & Hansel - 2 PM
Hotel, Hotel - 3 PM
Zanzibar Snails - 4 PM
Delphi - 5 PM
Oveo - 6 PM
Angry Businessmen - 7 PM
Nouns Group - 8 PM
Christian! Teenage Runaway - 9 PM
Chief Death Rage - 10 PM
Unconscious Collective - 11 PM
The Great Tyrant - MIDNIGHT

Um, yeah. You might want to spend more than a little time there. I'm not sure what it costs, if anything, but I bet someone can let us know in the comments section. Oh, and while you're pondering your weekend plans, check this little video clip from Zanzibar Snails:

Yes. This is in no way an anti-fair. I dislike the term. It is merely an alternative to the fair. And it's starting right now! So get your asses over here and check out Abigail and Hansel! >:O

Key

nah, i was just sayin that the people who think that it's uncool of delta lodge to exclude certain bands/sounds are mistaken. they probably just don't know about 'em.

oh shit!! aaron, really, we're not playing that show tomorrow in any sort of protest, I hope nobody got that idea!

we know we wouldn't fit in on an outdoor stage by a frat house! shoot!

we have no intentions of doing so, but jonah and kyle have put this bomb shit together as an alternative, and it is quite an awesome alternative indeed!

I think anyone who knows what they're talking about realizes that CL sounds nothing like Theater Fire. At least I hope so.

And I think there are enough good bands at the Fair to warrant checking out both, especially considering that the cover for the fair is what, like $5?

when i think of "alt-country" i think of uncle tupelo or old 97's, both of which i don't care for.
CL at least TRIES to not play the boom-clack plodding "songwriterly" stuff and go for more atmosphere and noisey echo stuff. we also play old rock and roll, blues and original country.
back when dconstruction gave us that glowing criticism i was pretty annoyed that he compared us to the theater fire (or rather barked how much better they are) on the basis of one hastily recorded song.
as for the fair, the dudes that put it on are in a fraternity. did you expect OVEO or Undoing to headline? not saying anything negative about either faction, just sayin. we played anti-fairs in the past, but we will never be cool.
so there you go, flame away.

I wonder who the secret guest is going to be this year? They usually do a good job in that category. The Frank Black appearance a few years back was wonderful.

Kyle Hitler

And I like jetscreamer and Minx Burlesque a lot. It's just that those are the only two bands/performers on the bill that I really like, let alone have even heard of.

I didn't say it(alt-country) was the only thing going on at the fair. I said it was dominating the fair. There's a difference.

I broke my own brains

I meant that ppt is rap, not alt country, but maybe its funnier the other way around. I'm serious about funny.

ppt is alt country, not rap.
I think there is tons of not country stuffs at frystreetfair

but seriously. I'm serious.

It looks to me like there is diversification, all the acts aren't alt country. But they might be all the same as far as you not liking any of them.

This alt-country stuff is just really not my thing. I suspect it's not the thing for a lot of us. So why is it dominating Fry St. Fair now? I see absolutely no diversification there now. And it's frustrating. Sorry.

Troof.

Current Leaves are purty good. Heard good things aout TT&Q.

I don't know what that means, by the way. I just felt I had to write it. Does that ever happen to you?

Give the people what they want.

Jetscreamer
Record Hop
White Drugs
Knee Pad

in your opinion who are the good bands at fry street this year?

i've seen jetscreamer once and they were pretty good.

Yeah, the anti-fair is a great thing. I'm playing at the FSF, as I officially love all fun and I love a day in the sun with a beer, but that's quite a fucking line-up over at the 8th. Good jorb!

Fry St Fair has a couple of good bands, but I feel like it's more of a show for the general public. It just seems silly to see yer friends bands play at the fairgrounds. The Eighth Continent sounds like fun, mostly. I'm too old to know about the Panhandle bands tho'. I am glad to see that the tradition of the alternative to FSF is being kept up.

That scene still makes me cry every time.

Sensitive Gay

"Thank God! And thus, there is some hope afterall. One.....last....bastion.......of hope! It is you, Atreyu! And your little horse Artex too!"

Weird, 7 Ft. Tall, 128 Year old, Pointy-headed Wizard Dude W/ Fu Manchu Down To His Sack Hair

I am so excited about playing and hearing/seeing the other bands at the 8th continent on saturday!!!!

love, The Slutiest Slut of Slutdom
Julie Mckendrick

So....

About the show on the 14th.....

shamncy?please for the love of god.
shut up.
i don't care what you think.
you always have to put your two cents
in 2 hrs late.just shut up.go eat some smores and kiss some more ass

5:58 - Hahahahahaha. You obviously don't know my immediate family. But good comeback, by the way. Sharp. Witty. Etcetera.

If you think the site is bullshit, you should stop wasting your time reading it. Arguing with opinion just to piss people off doesn't exactly shout to the world that you aren't pathetic as fuck.

Abigail und Hansel are a duo from Austin, including Joel Crutcher, guitarist of Austin's ST 37, who have been persuing cosmic musicks for literally decades. They have a multitude of tricks up their sleeve -- from sleepy mushrooming mind-expansion to searing infernos of rickety shacks ablaze in a border-town hell -- but Joel's textural awesomeness on guitar is most certainly NOT a trick. Come early. Not to be missed.

http://www.myspace.com/abigailundhansel

Also, regarding the Zanzibar Snails tidbit, credit on the visuals, and also the slowed-down audio remix of the beginning of "On An Oblong Plane" off our Introdewcing CDr, goes to Snail percussionist/sound und eyeball scalpelist extaordinaire DLP ... he kixxx moosch ass.

I am not the immediate family of Eat Avery's Bones. I care VERY MUCH about them. I also think they're fucking rad people. Good friends. So I guess we can quash what you just wrote, 5:58 PM?

I will say that Record Hop is a fucking great band and it will be great to see them at the Fair again. You talk shit about them and you obviously haven't listened to them.

you truly are naive to think anyone besides your immediate family cares about your band

damn. ps. www.myspace.com/pamplennui. there!

I hear ya, sr. I know that normally you guys don't stoop, and it does suck to watch a couple of bored types bring everything down, but know that no matter what kind of anon crap goes on here though, that a lot of people really don't read up on the comments, or they say they don't.

course, me on the otherhand, I typically only read the headlines and the comments. ha!

also, 342, I typically sign with a link to my myspace. I don't have anything to hide from. sorry it didn't work the last time I signed off. but most people know where to find me if I sign nancy or schmancy or whatever-so let's hold hands. I'm not bullshit. promise.

Saturday's show at The 8th Continent is a free show. Come out and support your peers.

"smug fairytale artists running around"

Damn, I wanna be one of those.

2:56 - You are truly naive to assume that the bands this blog speaks of are only mentioned here. Also, barring some catastrophe, the text on this blog will most likely be archived in a database forever into perpetuity.

SR - Pull out the numbers and shut that motherfucker up.

nope, its a fact. Sorry to disappoint you.

"TWO people out of thousands of readers"

now that's comedy!

3 times before the cock crows

that last comment was directed toward troll # 3:36

no, thank you.

just for the sake of clarity, not argument.

our biggest influences come from no coast.

we are neither great nor amazing, but we are true to ourselves, and you can't say otherwise with even an ounce of truth.

and like schmancy said, if you really think this is such a flat wasteland, then seriously, move away. I mean, you are sooo cosmopolitan right?

356: Thats actually a good question.

And Nancy, I try to stay out of the crap when I can, but its hard not to say something when you know for a fact that TWO people out of thousands of readers are making this place so negative. I think I might have a solution to the problem, however, and it won't involve erasing comments or requiring people to register. More to come...

Early Lines really need to get back together and show all you turds what's what.

Reading these comment threads only add color and detail to the pathetic picture that is our music scene.

It's painful, really.

SR-
when was the last time you said "yeah, that's why I allow anonymous comments."

hello nancy, SR and DL are as anonymous as the "peons" you're trying to differentiate them from. it's all just a ball of sucky anonymity. SR and DL look pretty silly and stupid with their little tougher than thou retorts though so I hope they keep it up.

336, stop wasting my oxygen here then, and get the fuck out. go be a big fish elsewhere.

love,
schmancy

this blog is great, and despite how angry or emotional people get over the comments, it is kind of a strange art form-like a textual jerry springer. it's great for the guffaw.

BUT, I think bringing yourselves down to the level of these anons, dl and sr, is NOT becoming of you, nor is it entertaining. just let the peons blather, and leave your typing to your actual blogs. Forget what these nerds have the balls to say behind anonymity. if you really cared, you wouldn't allow anon posts, but then this blog wouldn't be so fun.

just friendly advice.

There are no GREAT/AMAZING/EXPERIMENTAL local bands.

All of your art has been done before. D/FW is the epicenter of a following culture. We look to the East and West coast Metropolis(es)(i?) for inspiration.

Nothing original comes from this flat wasteland.

Thank you.

And 256,

One more thing. How long are you planning on keeping these kinds of comments going? Aren't you tired of talking shit already?

""SR" and "DL", get over yourselves. You write a blog. Whooptyfreakingdo! Bands, you play in local bands. You are not some amazing and miraculous geniuses. Your friends post on here anonymously (and you most certainly do) patting you on the back for some AMAZING this and AMAZING that trivialness. I hope all this AMAZINGNESS is being documented somewhere in some holy book to be remembered for all time. But it's only documented here, on some sad little blog that will all be deleted someday."

I'd ask what you contribute to the world that's relevant but I won't for two reasons:

1. You wouldn't have the guts to tell me even if you did.

2. You don't.

I'll get over myself when you get over me.

thanks for adding to it.

"SR" and "DL", get over yourselves. You write a blog. Whooptyfreakingdo! Bands, you play in local bands. You are not some amazing and miraculous geniuses. Your friends post on here anonymously (and you most certainly do) patting you on the back for some AMAZING this and AMAZING that trivialness. I hope all this AMAZINGNESS is being documented somewhere in some holy book to be remembered for all time. But it's only documented here, on some sad little blog that will all be deleted someday.

alright.i am a sincere person.i just dont understand all of the little smug fairytale artists running around as of late.farah crying?kyle hating
her on a public board then they both come togther for a glorious make-up session.how embarrassing.i heard her show was packed.what a joke.it must be lonely at the top.all of the scum come out to play to the sad slaves that could never strike a chord of
thier own...ah at least she and kyle are off the fry st.fair bill.but that's another bitch

121: you're hilarious! That little "oh I was just saying it to get a rise out of you" joke was really funny the first hundred times someone did it on here and it continues to be the best. Take care buddy.

hey all:

if you've seen oveo and think you know anything about us, pls erase yr memory glandz.

We are going to bring it with bite and attack on saturday.

I will not disclose any other details other than watch yr gut cause the bass is gonna rip it.

you will feel our waves. wether you like it or not

and for the record:

we love you all and hope that all "noise bands" or any sort of art project is made with the best of intentions.

because we are sure that vile ones show through.

the 8th is going to be goodnezz all of those blasters bring the beatz they are all sick and "amazing" seriously nouns group brings it the mighty chief ctr great tyrant angry business.... what a line-up it is going to be bezerker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but i have an idea all of the haters on here should show up and line-up outside and tell us in true "warriors come out and play" bytch fashion that you hate everything that is going on inside

and then we can have an all-out war

you will bring it pro-wrestling style and we will bring the hyper warp speed photon beam style

c u there if u dare

or is this the only theatre we are going to get your play?

and the purpose of my statement was to rile you up.

wow, DL, you sure did get me with that there. there really is a whole lot to noise, eh? well, we'll find out when you give my band a glowing review!

1250 is sad because he thought his noise band was making a difference.

Mr. Anon,

I truly hope you do start said noise band, and I hope that in the process, you realize how trivial your effort has been, and how small you actually are.

Noise bands are gay. I can start 5 of them tonight. Then I'll play in my living room and call it a fest.

You guys should come.

You posted a comment in this thread. What was the relevance of your statement here? The truth is that you wouldn't be able to find which post to attach your little comment to, because you don't know enough about any of the music to make your point. Just like if you tried to just "start an awful noise band", you'd quickly realize that there's more to it than just making noise. If you actually knew one fucking thing about any of it, you wouldn't talk such empty shit.

fuck off dl, i didn't say one thing about any of the bands that you didn't talk about in the post.

12:20-

So out of the eighteen bands playing at 8th Continent and 715 Panhandle on Saturday, you could probably getting away with calling only two of them "noise" and that's really pushing it. So you should start a noise band, at least you'd be doing something with your free time other than making completely ignorant statements on music blogs. If you're going to come at us, come prepared.

Daniel?

i'm going to start an awful noise band for the specific purpose of seeing if i can get this blog to talk about it.

That Zanzibar Snails song/sound scape/? was pretty cool. The video was pretty good too, a little too much fade to black though.

trifle tower is confirmed for the saturday show, just an F.Y.I.

the sad thing is that my mistake is clearly a typo, while 844's mistake is obviously the result of not knowing how to spell the word in question.

9:12

"THE EIGHT CONTINENT"

Sebadoh @ Emo's!

The Mad Mexicans???
HAH!

844,

You should probably learn to spell before you talk shit about how bad my writing is. And you honestly think our writing used to be better?

the last two slots for every stage at fry is just lame... except for the drams, i kinda like them but look at the rest:
record hop, the mad mexicans, ppt, sleezus and pinebox? what happened to fry street?

The writing on this blog is really terrible now... Is the original guy still doing this? What a dissapointment..

Fry Street Fair lineup:

Main stage

12:00-12:35 KHORINA VEGA
12:50-1:25 ADVENT
1:40-2:15 CONGRATULATIONS
2:30-3:05 TAME…TAME AND QUIET
3:20-3:55 CURRENT LEAVES
4:10-4:50 SHAOLIN DEATH SQUAD
5:05-5:45 SPITFIRE TUMBLEWEEDS
6:00-6:45 JETSCREAMER
7:00-7:45 RECORD HOP
8:00-9:00 THE DRAMS

Stage 2

12:00-12:35 OPEN
12:50-1:25 KNEE PAD
1:40-2:15 WHITE DRUGS
2:30-3:05 LITTLE BIG HORN
3:20-3:55 MESCALERO
4:10-4:50 BLOOD OF THE SUN
5:05-5:45 RED MONROE
6:00-6:45 JOINTMETHOD
7:00-7:45 THE MAD MEXICANS
8:00-9:00 PPT

Stage 3

12:00-12:35 FATTY POINDEXTER
12:50-1:25 B.O.B. WINNER
1:40-2:15 J.PRICE
2:30-3:05 THE DEMIGS
3:20-3:55 SPACE CADET
4:10-4:50 ROSE COUNTY FAIR
5:05-5:45 POPS CARTER & THE FUNKMONSTERS
6:00-6:45 SLEEZUS FIST W/ THE SIDECAR GIRLS
7:00-8:00 PINEBOX SERENADE

HIP-HOP STAGE

1:00-1:30 MOOKIE PETERSON
1:45-2:15 T-LIT & TLP
2:30-3:15 L.I.G.H.T.
3:15-3:45 FAB DUECE
4:00-4:45 VORTEXAS
5:00-5:45 CLEATUS BLACKFOOT
6:00-6:45 BOONDOX
7:00-8:00 LIQUID BOUNCE

Special Guests:

CIRCUS DELLA MORTE
MINX BURLESQUE
XCW

The Fair will be at the North Texas Fairgrounds (behind Kroger on University.) Pre-sale tickets are only $5 or $10 at the gate. Pre-sale tickets are available at the UNT Union, The Zebrahead, and all XCW wrestling events.

Wow... looks like SD is pissy like all the anons on here.

Trifle Tower is so flaky.
Amazing, but so flaky.

oh cool... I knew I was forgetting something else up there. We'll be sure to post all the info on that too.

This Saturday @ 715 Panhandle

Koji Kondo
Get Serious
Trifle Tower (maybe?)
Jumping Phoenix
Teenage Cool Kids
Angry Businessmen
Black Wizardz