By Alex Young on October 15th, 2009 in Festival News/Rumor, News
From October 26-31, Fucked Up will take to venues across Toronto for the awesomely titled Fucked Up Weekend 2009. Among those scheduled to take part include Little Girls, Cro-Mags, The Rival Mob, Free Spirit, Burning Love, and The Bang Bangs, and of course Fucked Up will play two sets during the weekend as well. Advance tickets available at Hits and Misses, Soundscapes, and Rotate This. Those outside of Toronto can contact fufest09@gmail.com for ticket orders.
Now, on to Mr. Robbins. Over the next two months, the actor will putting on a series of shows featuring his favorite musicians, comedians, movies, and poets. The event(s) will be all part of being what is referred as the WTF? Festival.
“The name of this festival came to me after a recent board meeting where I was told that due to the economic downswing and recent reduction in donations that we can no longer afford to produce theater,” explains Robbins on the festival’s website. “I was told it would be less expensive to do nothing. We’re not very good at doing nothing.”
As TwentyFourBit reports, upcoming musical acts set to perform for 100 lucky ticket holders are Tenacious D, Jackson Browne, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, John Doe, Jill Sobule, Tom Morello, Jenny Lewis & “friends,” and Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard.
Find the full scheduled and ticket info here.
Now, if only Pavement could get its own festival. Oh, wait…
Ben Gibbard, Burning Love, Cro-Mags, Free Spirit, Fucked Up, Jenny Lewis, Jill Sobule, John Doe, Little Girls, Serj Tankian, Tenacious D, The Bang Bangs, The Rival Mob, Tim Robbins, Tom Morello, WTF? Festival