Austin City Limits Wrap-up

We are back from our Austin City Limits trip. As always it was an excellent vacation.

The weather this year was a bit painful as we had record breaking heat compounded by dusty fair grounds due to the lack of rain. Can't complain too much though as it was much better than it could have been given that Hurricane Rita was barrelling towards Texas just as we were making our way down there.

We managed to catch quite a bit of music at the festival. Bands we saw included (in the order we saw them): Leo Kottke, Mofro, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Built To Spill, Buddy Guy, The Frames, Death Cab For Cutie, Fiery Furnaces, Jet, Drive-By Truckers, Oasis, Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, and Wilco.

Arcade Fire blew everyone away when we saw them last Wednesday here in Seattle, and then proceeded to bring the rock again at the ACL fest. If there's a better live band out there right now I don't think I've seen them. Other highlights included excellent sets by The Decemberists and Wilco. The lowlight was definitely Oasis who sounded terrible and not in a funny Oasis is so crazy sort of way but rather in a Oasis really sucks now sort of way. Austin 360 has a ton of write-ups on the festival and links to about a bazillion blogs that probably have way more interesting festival coverage than I have time to write here.

Aside from the festival, we ate some great food, visited the Texas State Capitol Building, hit the Texas State History Museum, made our first trip out to Lake Austin and did some quality Austin shopping. I've uploaded a bunch of pics from the trip to Flickr, so check 'em out.