Austin Psych Fest II

correct. They've used Levitation overseas and want to unite the brands.

and this lineup is 90% suck.

yeesh. looks like I missed the boat to go to one of these, then :(

Some good bands in the middle-tier, but I'm going to sit this one out.

O RLY?

http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2015-02-12/13th-floor-elevators-to-reunite-at-levitation-festival/

Yeah this smells like a road trip!

There's going to be spin-off Levitation/APF in Vancouver BC in the first week of June. No line-up announced yet except Black Mountain (and yeah they are from here & have played a million times so big deal really).

One good day. Might head down on Sunday but man are Friday and Saturday not my thing.

In some alt. universe where I could actually attend this I'd probably at least try to catch Sungod's set on Saturday, and maybe Eartj, but yeah Sunday def has the most solid lineup.

*obv I meant Earth

Anyone planning on going to Levitation (formerly Austin Psych Fest) this year? I don't usually do these things, but there are just way too many acts I'm excited about.

http://levitation-austin.com/

I'll be there! The lineup is pretty incredible compared to most of the other big ticket festivals, which have become super lame imo. I was originally planning to go to Shaky Knees in Atlanta again this year, but I was betrayed by this year's lineup- So Austin here I come.

arrrrrggghhh!!!!!

festival canceled, very disappointed

friend of a friend just arrived from England for this :(

that sucks. I'm keeping an eye out for any good replacement shows over the weekend. Would still really like to see Flying Lotus, OPN, and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith in particular.

FWIW there's shitty weather coming in (rain with possible flooding), and this event didn't seem ready to handle that.

It's the venue that is the issue, not the event organizers or anything they can control. It's a big open field by a river. The parking lot is a field. It'd be impassable in minutes with rain, and there's no cover for hail,tornados, etc.

that's a huge bummer for folks who came in from out of town for this... but you really, really don't want to be caught in a giant crowd in a flood-prone area during a flash flood here. I feel even worse for the organizers, because if the storms don't materialize, they're going to get (unfairly) savaged.

bright side: I now have a fighting chance to see Slowdive if they manage to rebook at another local venue!

Yeah, it seems like when a big selling point of your event is on-site camping, cancelling on those grounds is a no-brainer.

This could be a boon for other venues in Austin and surrounding markets if they could pick up some of the acts (although I don't know how much contract dodging that would entail).

And by "event not being ready to handle that", I meant having back-up venues in town or another--perhaps indoor--site ready, but otoh that is kind of nuts.

The logistics of a "just in case" backup for an event with three simultaneous stages and 10-15,000 fans is basically impossible. Would be nice, and I feel horrible for the promotors and the people that have traveled from all over the globe.

probably the tornadoes and extensive straight-line wind damage from tuesday night's storms made the county a little more conservative in their judgement... same conditions are forecast for friday night and the ground is pretty saturated.

bummer. i was contemplating heading out to at least one day of this. i think they obviously made the right decision.

XPS Wow, did not realize they were drawing that much. A just in case scenario there would only work if they were at a venue were they could just move everything inside and, you know, wasn't a three-day deal. (Many years ago a Houston date of the Warped tour got hampered by a huge rainstorm. The venue was the then-new Reliant Park--they were gonna do a half and half indoor outdoor setup but had move everything inside and just made the end time much much later (from 8:00 PM to 11-12-ish). Perhaps the venue took exception, because the a similar weather thing happened to the event a couple years later, and it was cancelled outright.

it seems like the brunt of the bad weather will be tomorrow evening, I'm surprised they didn't try to run on Sat. and Sun.

on the website they explain that they had to clear out of the grounds and wont have time to set up again.

Plus the grounds themselves will be muddy as fuck--not a problem for hippies, natch--but they'll have to re-sod the whole place afterwards (a similar thing happened to Zilker Park after an ACL Fest iirc).

i was at that ACL, got there early because i was volunteering and got to watch the grass slowly turn to sludge throughout the course of the day. it was pure mud -- i remember everyone walking around barefoot and thinking it was a bad idea and low and behold a good number of people got some weird skin condition!

two friends just flew down for this from NY...

all that scary weather everyone was panicked about is looking less and less likely to materialize, very typical Austin weather paranoia

All the scary weather went up I-35 to DFW.

and all the backup shows sold out instantly

Pictures from the Sleep, Boris, SunnO show show amplifier stacks worthy of MBV if not more. Worth searching instagram for picts.