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The Cure and Depeche Mode set to headline.

http://www.aclfestival.com/2013-lineup/

Ooh very interesting..the cure..and depeche mode?

That will be some weird crowd..

Weird? In what way? Both of those bands are thirty years old.

You don't think those 2 bands are just a tad "off"?

LOL I like em both and even I know there will be a slew of folks with eyeliner on just to support the cure at very minimum.

"good and weird'..that will be a cool show.

To regular work-a-day folks they might be considered "off", but to musicians they are absolutely normal. A little eye shadow does not make someone weird to me; being a conservative and pretending to be a rock and roller is much weirder.

Are you a Cure fan, Jimmy?

Are they the founders of the "emo" genre? Robert Smith always sounded like he was whining to me but I did like some of their music. Do you remember "Pirate Ships"?

Those do sound weird as headliners for the Austin City Limits to me also. It should be something a bit more "texas", imo, a little more edgy and guitar oriented instead of whiny and synthesizer. That belongs in, oh I don't know...Minnesota?


Nope, in Texas it has to ROCK. Detroit is full of bands who would fit the bill. Why depeche cure?

lol "Depeche Cure", look out you just named the next tribute band for that sort of thing.

And yes, grown men wearing eye liner is weird to me.

So was the vampire band thing, but you knew the vampires were going to be wearing makeup. That's a given for those oddities.

I never really thought that Robert Smith of the Cure ever needed the strange get up, his music was weird enough to be captivating on some level to me. (imo)

And I am sorry but if you speak political, I just go to sleep.
Conservative, liberal, moderate, leftist...I have no idea what those terms mean and I don't want to know either.

There's always someone so politically active that if you say the wrong thing, they'll always remind you..

yod wrote:Are you a Cure fan, Jimmy?

Are they the founders of the "emo" genre? Robert Smith always sounded like he was whining to me but I did like some of their music. Do you remember "Pirate Ships"?

Those do sound weird as headliners for the Austin City Limits to me also. It should be something a bit more "texas", imo, a little more edgy and guitar oriented instead of whiny and synthesizer. That belongs in, oh I don't know...Minnesota?


Nope, in Texas it has to ROCK. Detroit is full of bands who would fit the bill. Why depeche cure?

Oh yes always loved The Cure, and Depeche Mode. The 80's New Wave was my favorite time of music. As far as "emo", no...you're thinking of goth. Whether they are appropriate for the festival I will leave to the audiences.

My favorite era was too early for me to be a part. I love mid 60's to late 70s, but most of my musical career aspirations happened in the 80s.

There were hair-farming Motley clones and spandex from the west, and a lot of synth and goth from the east.

But without the Police and U2, the 80s seemed to be about nothing but excess. Led Zepplin started sounding rather mortal, even sucky.


And that was my "heyday" as a frontman in a rock band. Played a lot of bars all the way through the decade. Don't remember hardly anything about them.

But do you remember a song called "Pirate Ships" by the Cure? Was that well-known among Cure fans? It was written by a friend of mine but I didn't keep up with them.

The Cure to me was always "Fascination Street" and later on "Burn".

I lost someone I really cared about during the "Burn" period and it still bothers me when I hear that tune. Haunting and accurate in it's simplistic rendition of pain and mental anguish.

Ah the mistakes we make, the music is often a painful reminder of that which we strain the hardest to forget.

To me Austin City Limits has always been about country, blues, cajun, music related to Texas. Lately however they have been featurng bands that were once not considered Austin City Limits "material." The other week I saw Coldplay on ACL. I'm glad more genres are appearing on ACL. There's an entire world of music full of diversity and I'm glad ACL is featuring it.

fisherman bob wrote:To me Austin City Limits has always been about country, blues, cajun, music related to Texas. Lately however they have been featuring bands that were once not considered Austin City Limits "material." The other week I saw Coldplay on ACL. I'm glad more genres are appearing on ACL. There's an entire world of music full of diversity and I'm glad ACL is featuring it.

Part of that old schools was tied into the Armadillo Night Club , where most of the acts either started or ended there. ACL doesn't have that kind of pool anymore. So they have expanded.

Here's a link to the Anthology of performers at ACL.

It was very American root music till the 2000's then it seems to become more international and a much wider array of genre's.
Got to love free performances. Thank you PBS. This has NOT been a political comment!
M'Fers!
http://acltv.com/anthology/

I just heard this morning that The Cure played a fifty-song 4 hour set a couple of days ago in Mexico. Wow.

Jahva wrote: This has NOT been a political comment!
M'Fers!
http://acltv.com/anthology/

You are a commie liberal for making that political statement!!!!