Lincoln Calling lineup set, will feature more Lincoln and Omaha bands
The Lincoln Calling 2011 lineup is now mostly complete and, unlike 2010, it's heavy on bands from Lincoln and Omaha.
Last year, Lincoln Calling organizer Jeremy Buckley was able to expand the multi-club, multi-band festival to include national touring artists such as Sea Wolf, Those Darlins and Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers.
For 2011, that wasn't possible.
"Last year, I had a pretty big sponsorship from Scion that allowed me to throw some money at touring bands. I didn't have that this year," Buckley said. "Having less money than my pocketbook could afford, I had to scale it down on how many huge bands to offer. But I still think there's plenty for people who want to see good music."
Some national and regional touring bands are among the 80 acts that will perform during the Oct. 11-15 festival. And it's not that Buckley didn't try to land others. Some declined offers and others couldn't make the dates or routing work with their schedules.
"Last year was kind of like the perfect storm to get all those bands," Buckley said. "This year was the opposite."
The 80 bands and DJs will play in nine venues this year -- Bourbon Theatre, Duffy's Tavern, Zoo Bar, The Alley, Zen's Lounge, Black Market, The Spigot, Fat Toad and the "venue formerly known as the Bricktop," which was recently purchased and has not yet been given a name by its new owners.
Again, most of the Lincoln Calling shows have been organized by genre, with roots music in one club, indie rock in another, etc. Buckley has patterned that off the South By Southwest Music Festival, which either has label showcases or presents similar artists in the same venue.
"We could experiment with having a folk band, then hip-hop and metal to get people out of their comfort zone," Buckley said. "But I don't think people are ready for that on the local music level. If people want to see the metal show at the Spigot then go to the folk show at the Zoo Bar, it's only three blocks."
One of those groupings is leading to an inventive, sure-to-be entertaining night.
On the Thursday of the festival, Oct. 13, six bands are set to play in three hours at the Zoo Bar. The catch: The bands share members and will switch off during the show. So Omaha's The Whipkey Three and All Young Girls are Machine Guns will play for an hour, as will The Mezcal Brothers, Really Rottens, Shaun Sparks and the Wounded Animals and the Allendales.
As was the case last year, the festival will open on Tuesday, Oct. 11, with Pecha Kucha at the Bourbon Theatre, followed by the Homegrown Film Festival. The music will begin on Wednesday and run through Saturday.
A pair of special events are set for FAC on Friday.
At the Parrish Project, music-themed artwork from students at the Lincoln Public Schools' Arts and Humanities Focus Program will be displayed during a show featuring female musicians, curated by Hilary Stohs-Krause, who hosts the KZUM show "X-Rated: Women in Music."
"It's kind of like the Academy of Rock of art," Buckley said of the Parrish show. "I'm excited about it because it brings people from the community into the festival that might not be there otherwise. They (the students) have been working really hard on their stuff."
At the Zoo Bar, the FAC will feature Bonehart Flannigan and The Amalgamators. But they won't be playing normal sets of their original tunes. Instead, Buckley asked each band to cover an album by another artist for the performance.
Bonehart Flannigan is going to do "Best of Shel Silverstein," the writer of "A Boy Named Sue," "Put Another Log on the Fire" and "Cover of the Rolling Stone" among many others. The Amalgamators have not yet selected the album to be covered.
Early shows set for Saturday at the Zoo Bar and Duffy's Tavern will pair Academy of Rock bands with established local punk-pop outfits such as the JV Allstars, Sheridan Breakdown and A Summer Better Than Yours. A special $5 cover charge and staggered set times will allow people to see all the bands during those shows.
Early-bird tickets for the festival are $20 at Black Market and Kinetic Brew, the coffee shop inside the Bourbon Theatre, until Sept. 9 or supplies run out. After Sept. 9, tickets will be $30, available at the same locations until the first day of the festival. Daily passes will be available during the festival for $10 or $12 depending on the day.
For more information and a schedule, see lincolncalling.com.
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