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South By South West shapes up

The provisional line up for this year's South By South West festival, which takes place in Austin, Texas in March, features a number of UK acts and one or two surprises.

From March 16th through to the 20th, the city will be taken over by the following acts. Expect more to be announced in the coming weeks.

Kaiser Chiefs
Hot Hot Heat
The Dears
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
The Kills
The Raveonettes
Billy Idol!
Aimee Man
22-20's
Soundtrack Of Our Lives
American Music Club
The Go! Team
Jack Ingram
Nada Surf
Rolling Blackouts
Robyn Hitchcock
The Longcut
Saul Williams

Erykah Badu is confirmed as keynote speaker. Tonnes more info over at SXSW's website.

• South By South West shapes up

  'I before E, except after C'
  
  tut, tut...

  bamos | 5 Jan '05, 12:15 | Reply | X

• Re: South By South West shapes up

  Apologies.
  Rect-um-ified.

  Mike_Diver @bamos | 5 Jan '05, 12:16 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  ACE! Now all I need to do is live in America. Or join a band that's already playing the fest!

  Guthrie | 5 Jan '05, 12:29 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  Punish The Atom are playing SXSW too.

  domgourlay | 5 Jan '05, 12:50 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  If only Texas wasn't thousands of miles away. Ho-hum. I'd love to see Aimee Mann live - anyone else heard of her? And why doesn't she have a profile on DiS?

  SouthCoastKevin | 5 Jan '05, 14:24 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  Yes, and ask sean/gareth

  fullerov | 5 Jan '05, 15:20 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  awwwww maaaaaan!
  
  i want to go.
  
  xxx

  -gen- | 5 Jan '05, 15:54 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  and Fingathing www.fingathing.com
  
  oh yes

  mattjuk | 5 Jan '05, 16:15 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  white rabbit are too.

  colly_kunoichi | 5 Jan '05, 17:08 | Reply | X

• Re: South By South West shapes up

  Yeah, there are a lot more bands listed on the SXSW website - this list is really just a taster.
  

  Mike_Diver @colly_kunoichi | 5 Jan '05, 17:28 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  And Sleater-Kinney. Ditto the bit about living in America.
  
  Well maybe near America, the Bahamas maybe. That sounds good.

  crosbysleftear | 5 Jan '05, 18:24 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  anyone get the feeling that this might be the ideal platform for Kaiser chiefs to go stellar? - it seems as if they're being groomed for big things (and just think, Dis was a small aprt of this ahhhh....)

  mooseman | 5 Jan '05, 20:05 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  if bloc party got their collective asses over there they'd probably be able to take over the indie world in 8days or less . . . itd be hype overload - american stylee

  soapy | 5 Jan '05, 21:25 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  Wow that looks shit suprisingly

  Grizzwald | 5 Jan '05, 22:35 | Reply | X

• Re: South By South West shapes up

  I thought much the same, I was expecting it to be heart stoppingly good for some reason.

  helly_welly @Grizzwald | 5 Jan '05, 22:44 | Reply | X

• Re: South By South West shapes up

  $445. Ouch.

  SuperSheep @-gen- | 5 Jan '05, 22:54 | Reply | X

• Re: South By South West shapes up

  It is crap but it'd be good to see Saul Williams and the Longcut, mind.

  Gaara @helly_welly | 6 Jan '05, 10:33 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  HOT HOT HEAT,Kaiser Chiefs and 22-20s are f*cking great bands, if only KASABIAN were attending they'd wipe the floor with all those Texans.

  Spider | 6 Jan '05, 13:48 | Reply | X

• Re: South By South West shapes up

  You're an A-hole.

  Spider @Mike_Diver | 6 Jan '05, 13:49 | Reply | X

• South By South West shapes up

  Are Black Lace playing? I think they'd storm that place with their sing-and-dance-a-long party anthems.

  Guthrie | 6 Jan '05, 14:50 | Reply | X

• Re: South By South West shapes up

  i think dis were a fucking big part of it! no question.
  without dis they would've actually had to have written more than one half decent song to get noticed.

  dana_barrett @mooseman | 9 Jan '05, 18:29 | Reply | X