Monsters of Blog: Fun Fun Fun Fest

November 7th-8th Austin, Texas held their 4th annual Fun Fun Fun Fest at Waterloo Park.

2 days, around 100 artist, split among 4 stages is what I had to look forward to after my one night road trip to Forth Worth to see Minus the Bear. This festival of triple the fun provides fans with a weekend experience of Indie Rock, Hip-hop, DJs, Punk Rock, Hardcore, and Comedy acts; along with local businesses, emerging artist, and just artist we all know and loved to see play. Fun Fun Fun Fest, although being a big festival, still gives fans an opportunity to meet their favorite artists. The only problem I faced with this festival was deciding which bands to see because of the overlapping times of so many great artist.

On Saturday I dragged myself out of bed around noon and met up with some friends and headed down to Waterloo Park to catch All Leather's performance, unfortunately parking was horrendous and I just missed them! Since missing them I headed over to the Blue Stage and saw Foot Patrol put on an amazing performance. Foot Patrol is a local band from Austin with a hip-hop, funk feel. After Foot Patrol I stayed at the the Blue Stage and caught Vega's perfomance. Vega is also a local artist from Austin that is known for their Disco House, Italian Pop music. Following Vega, Mc Chris came up to the mic and wowed Austin with his comical hip-hop, rap. Mc Chris was one of the many artist that did a meet and greet with his fans, so I had the honor of meeting him after his performance. Next I worked my way to Black Stage to see Melt Banana, a rock band all the way from Tokyo, Japan. To end my night I parked myself at the Orange Stage to see the end of No Age; followed by Death, Yeasayer, Les Savy Fav, and Ratatat. Yeasayer is a psychedelic, experimental band from Brooklyn, whose performance was nothing less than amazing but nothing that could match up to the very interesting performance delivered from New York's Indie Rock band Les Savy Fav. Lead Singer, Tim Harrington, managed to strip down to his underwear with bright purple tights underneath. Making his way across Orange Stages, he ended their set by putting a ladder in middle of the crowd which fans lifted up while he sang their last song. Ending the night, Brooklyn's Ratatat delivered an amazing performance with psychedelic visuals. Evan Mast and Mike Stroud are an unbeatable duo with outstanding chemistry, which was a perfect way to end the first day of Fun Fun Fun Fest.

Sunday was the second and final day of Fun Fun Fun Fest and despite the ugly weather, the festival was still a good turn out. Parking nearly wasn't as bad as it was the day before so I made good time getting to the festival grounds and started off my Sunday by seeing Growing at the Orange Stage and then Reign Supreme on the Black Stage. After that I traveled back to Orange Stage and saw Texas' own This will Destroy You. Their ambient rock music set the mood and must have called on the rain, because shortly after their set began, it began to pour. Once they were finished I saw a couple of songs from Fuck Buttons before I had to leave and get some food, drink, find some trash bags to improvise as a pancho, and dry off a little underneath the Stubb's hand dryers. Once returning back to the grounds I made it just in time to see some of the people I was looking forward to the most! For the rest of the night I stayed at the Blue Stage and saw the rest of DJ Nu-Mark who was mixing a lot of really good oldies. After DJ Nu-Mark, HEALTH went balls to the wall playing their experimental rock and getting the crowds hyped up. After HEALTH, Buraka Som Sistema put on an excellent performance! I had never seen them perform before but their music and performance was truly something to see and hear. I will be one to admit I was dancing in the crowd to what they describe as breakbeat, ghettotech, club music. (plus the drummer was very good looking) Next GZA/ Genius (member of Wu-Tang clan) did a kick ass performance and got many people out to the tiny Blue Stage to watch. King Khan even played a few opening songs for GZA. The last person to end the night and the festival for the Blue Stage was one of my heroes, Kid Sister. Playing all of my favorites and opening up with Right Hand Hi, Kid Sister put on a epic performance. One point during the show I, along with other girls, got to get on stage and dance with her to Pro Nails. As if that was not enough, at the end of the performance I got to meet her! This Festival plus Minus the Bear roadtrip plus great friends equaled a great weekend!

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