This October, during the weekend of the 27 - 31, the third annual Next to Last Festival will take place, which is a “left-of-center” music and arts festival based in the quaint village of Athens, Georgia. The festival heads have also announced that this year’s headliners will be Van Dyke Parks (best known as co-writer and co-composer of SMiLE with Brian Wilson, but should also be known for this awesome album and this awesome Twin Peaks appearance) and New York’s own ESG (who helped usher in hip-hop in the 1980s). Both acts were selected because they “represent the dynamic
and mutated platform of artistic discovery offered by the festival.” The only problem is that neither headliner is actually mutated… but that could change after five days in the Athens sun!
The festival will also include more than 70 other musicians playing at six venues across the city, as well as tons of people (around 10,000) expected to show up and make the rest of Georgia ask, “who are all these strange people?” Other artists already scheduled to play include: Adrian Orange, Avocado Happy Hour, Bird Names, bubbly mommy gun, Bunny Brains, Circle Pit, Creepy, Deaf Judges, Diane Cluck, DJ Dog Dick, Dope Body, The Dream Scene, Future Ape Tapes, How I Quit Crack, Hume, Lord Scrummage, Malaikat Dan Singa, The Missoula Oblongata, Mouser, Noot d’ Noot, Quiet Hooves, Reptar, Skeletons, Summer Hymns, Tunabunny, Weekends, and Witches.
In addition to the music, festival-goers can revel in other fun stuff like film screenings, late-night warehouse parties, haunted spaces, bondage, peach-picking, BBQs, leopard hunting, ice-floe riding, gallivanting, drive-by body piercings, and plenty more! A professional crew is also documenting the entire event on tape and film for an eventual release in the Next to Last Songs compilation series, so make sure to put on your pretty face!
Tickets are available now! Buy them!
• Next to Last: http://www.nexttolastfest.com/2010
