Talk:Austin City Limits Music Festival/Archive 1

Ryan Adams
The addition of Ryan Adams to the list of performers who have appeared was added by a longterm vandal whose other edits are all nonsense or disinformation. it has been removed. Please vet this action if your are knowledgable. Dates added to appearances would make the list mopre credible and useful. --Wetman 04:45, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ryan Adams played at the 2002 ACL Fest as well as on Friday night of the 2004 ACL Fest.  I was in attendance. Bbatsell 05:58, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Images
If ANYONE has any images from any of the festivals that they would like to share with Wikipedia but doesn't know how, please feel free to post on this page or to e-mail me. Thanks! --bbatsell | &laquo; give me a ring &raquo;  15:12, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I've added one from 2004. I think a crowd shot with a view of the concert area is probably more appropriate than one of any particular artist. SteveHopson 01:41, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

The Shins
Not sure why Rilokinkaid keeps removing The Shins from this article, but according to the Grackle on their site they are confirmed to perform at the festival. jareha (comments) 00:09, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Changes by ACL Staff?
I've noticed a distinct clean-up on this article in past days to remove any criticism of the Festival. These changes have primarily been done by 67.67.214.99 and 199.227.30.163 The contributions to Wikipedia by both of these anonymous users has been limited to these 'happy-face' cleanups of the ACL Festival and ACL TV show pages. While I personally love both of these institutions, I think that we should recognize and work on the problems and not try to cover them up. Anyone else agree? SteveHopson 22:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I definitely agree, Steve. And to &#8212; sadly &#8212; further support your suspicions, take a look at the details here: 67.67.214.99. jareha (comments) 23:03, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, great research Jareha. SteveHopson 23:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

External link to ACL site
I have four years worth of ACL photos posted on an ACL Tribute page on my website at http://www.stevehopson.com/ACL2005.htm I have also contributed a photo to the public domain that is posted in the ACL festival article. I'd like to add a link to my site to this article, but don't want to violate the wiki principle of no self links. What do you all think about including this link? SteveHopson 20:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Untitled
Removed The White Stripes from the 2007 lineup after the Austin-American Statesman reported on 9/11/07 @ 11:05AM that they had withdrawn from the festival lineup. (http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2007/09/11/the_white_stripes_pull_out_of_2.html) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.98.150.4 (talk) 16:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Austin city limits logo.gif
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Article quality
Although, it is pretty lame that the only real article heading here is "Criticisms". It paints it as a festival that is generally considered poorly done. Yet it draws thousands of repeat visitors (I assume) each year.Tenfour 04:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, the article is greatly lacking in substance. Without the one 'Criticism' section, all we really have is a massive and unorganized block of band names.  I think we should completely rewrite the whole article - its a great festival and deserves a great article.  SteveHopson 12:30, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I've done a few things to reorganize the article today, but overall I don't think this article reflects the quality of the event. I want to encourage everyone to contribute to make the article better.  SteveHopson 03:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know what the article looked like a year ago, but now it seems to be the opposite. "Austin City Limits is the must-see event in Texas for rock, indie, blues, world/ethnic contemporary and traditional, reggae, eclectic, fusion, electronic, soul, folk/Americana and almost all other music fans". Hyperbolic, and not particularly encyclopedic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.22.12 (talk) 20:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I revised this paragraph and believe the POV template should now come off, but I didn't remove it myself. I removed some useful information about attendence—After selling 75,000 tickets on Saturday in 2004, organizers capped attendance at 65,000 for 2005 (the cap was met on Saturday and Sunday"— but it was really out of place in this section.   Agadant (talk) 14:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Neutrality?
It's September, 2009, and the following statement: "Austin City Limits is a very popular event in Texas for rock, indie, blues, world/ethnic contemporary and traditional, reggae, eclectic, fusion, electronic, soul, folk/Americana and almost all other music fans. Major metropolitan areas Dallas, San Antonio and Houston are each within a 3 hour drive of Austin. Zilker Park also features nearby Nature City and its gardens, the botanical gardens and Barton Springs pool, beach volley ball courts and a rock formation in Zilker park.The festival is located near downtown Austin, where many artists perform after-shows after they play at the festival.[1]" has been tagged as disputing NPOV for over a year and a half.

I don't see any discussion here, I think the warning should be removed - those are all factual statements, easily verified. 71.145.152.203 (talk) 19:20, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

It's been a week, no response arguing that the NPOV is disputed, I am removing the tag. 71.145.152.203 (talk) 11:34, 24 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Seems reasonable to me. TheMindsEye (talk) 12:16, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Date of Festival?
The date for Austin City Limits seems to move around quite a bit. Is there any rhyme or reason to it? // Internet Esquire (talk) 03:33, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Until this year, it was always in September. The specific weekend in September floated because the promoters, C3 Presents, said that they want to avoid conflicts with the UT Football schedule. Last year, one UT home game was rained out and UT moved the game to ACL weekend. All hell did not break loose, although hotel rooms were in short supply and traffic was worse than usual. Because of September's extreme heat in Austin, C3 moved the Festival to the first weekend in October this year. Today, C3 announced that next year's Festival will occur on the same day. TheMindsEye (talk) 02:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

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Lineups
The table of contents doesnt look very neat of consistent, maybe we should either remove the "lineup" title for the years before 2007, or add it for the sections lacking it; otherwise it just looks messy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MONODA (talk • contribs) 11:53, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Maybe try starting the list with the oldest lineups first? Xosmileback (talk) 20:54, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

The lineups are still inconsistent and make the page longer than necessary. Would it be more useful if they are streamlined and moved to subpages similar to the lineups for Bonnaroo (Section 9) and Lollapalooza (Section 4) lineup pages? Julie at C3 Presents (talk) 20:49, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Discussion of festival
Made some edits to the intro paragraphs to help clarify what the festival is and where it came from. I think adding a "History" section and moving some of the content from the individual year sections to that new section would help make it more digestible. Thoughts? Julie at C3 Presents (talk) 20:25, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

I wanted to add a discussion of the festival so the article would have more than just the band listings. I've never contributed to Wikipedia before, so any feedback on what I wrote would be appreciated.--sschuett 20:38, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Why do people keep removing the "rumors" section? This is the only place to find out who may play until the official list comes out. What gives?

Add date to day-of-the-week subheaders?
For 2018 Weekend 1, I added the date, a bit of specificity that helps readers IMHO. But I didn't add dates for the rest because I wanted to check here to see if there is any reason I don't know about to not add the dates. Thanks  - Mark D Worthen PsyD   (talk)  20:59, 27 December 2018 (UTC)