The 3rd Annual Hangout Music Festival is on once again and the Gulf Coast beach fest will take place May 18-20, 2012 at the same Gulf Shores, AL locale. Last year’s lineup included Black Keys, My Morning Jacket, Widespread Panic, Flaming Lips and Foo Fighters and the initial major artist lineup announcement for the 2012 edition should be out in the coming weeks. At present the festival has not announced any artists but a limited amount of discounted early-bird tickets for $159 go on sale next Friday, November 18 at 10 a.m. CST. In addition, beach-front accommodations can be reserved now by going here.
A big announcement regarding the 2012 Hangout Music Festival appears to be coming on Friday 3 p.m. CST, as indicated by the ticking clock on the festival’s home page. It will be interesting to see how they follow up the 2011 festival, a resounding success by most accounts I’ve heard that sold in excess of 35,000 tickets and was undoubtedly one of the strongest festival lineups of the year. 2011′s festival was the kind of breakout success that makes the Gulf Coast beach fest a player on the major American festival landscape for the foreseeable future.
The Avett Brothers, STS9, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Brandi Carlile, JJ Grey and Mofro, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Big Gigantic, Soja, Railroad Earth, Greensky Bluegrass, Rival Sons, & Honey Island Swamp Band have been added to the Hangout Music Festival lineup.
Hangout Festival Artist Video Spotlight – Widespread Panic [LMB NOLA]
For many, festival season is synonymous with Widespread Panic and their massive, cross-country summer tours. In the last 10 years they have headlined almost every major festival in America (many forget Bonnaroo served as a two night Panic run in 2002 and 2005 – WP has headlined Roo considerably more than any other artist) and are consistently invited back to play our own Jazz Fest nearly every other year. This spring they add The Hangout to that impressive resume – the second year gulf coast festival will feature Panic on opening night. WSP has been no stranger to the Alabama gulf coast, they have been playing Mobile since the 80’s and their more recent stands at Orange Beach have been perfect excuses for fans to slip down to the beach and celebrate the Gulf Coast’s beautiful Spring weather.
Hangout Fest 2011: Lineup Coming Soon [LMB NOLA]
Unfounded rumors of headliners including Phish, Tool, Jack Johnson, Weezer, Dave Matthews Band and My Morning Jacket are floating around today and I expect this year’s lineup to more than trump 2010′s impressive debut. To get all seven of those acts I would assume they would have to considerably slash their asking prices (and maybe they would to benefit the ongoing Gulf Coast relief efforts).
Phish, Tool, & Jack Johnson? LULZ.
Update: “soon” actually means a full lineup announcement is coming on Tuesday. Definitely stay tuned.
Yesterday was the final day of the inaugural Hangout Festival and Trey Anastasio Band finished off the festival and a rain-soaked-and-delayed afternoon with a set full of most of the good stuff that we ever see TAB perform. Here’s the setlist via PT:
05/16/10 On The Beach, Gulf Shores, AL | The Hangout Beach, Music & Arts Festival
Set I: Gotta Jibboo, Push On Til the Day, The Devil Went Down To Georgia*, Burn That Bridge^, Money Love and Change, It Makes No Difference%, Alaska, Sailboat Man^, Sand, Valentine, Cayman Review, Plasma > Drifting, Black Dog
Encore: First Tube
* Last Played 06/13/2004
^ First Time Played (Original)
% Last Played 05/14/2005
Download a zip of the show here.
I got to watch most of the set from my couch as I recovered from the Bay to Breakers ragefest that rolled through SF yesterday. The “Jibboo” was tight, “Alaska” sounded pretty good, and the “Sailboat Man” song was novel at best. The rest of the set as a whole seemed like standard Trey fare and nothing for the legend books. The encore was an absolutely trainwrecked version of “First Tube,” too — so that didn’t help its case for any “set of the year” type accolades. With the sound of fireworks over head I’m not sure the band could actually hear where each other was at in the song. Still, the song almost always rages and it’s a perfect end to a music fest.
Kudos as always to iClips.net for hooking up the free and legal streams from the event. What did you guys think of the set?
