I'm a journalism student writing an article on the Fest for one of my classes and need the input of someone going to the Fest this year. If anyone could post the following information or email the information to me, it would be greatly appreciated.

1. Full name, Home state and/or city, Age.

2. Have you attended the Fest in the past? If so how many have you been to?

3. Which band are you most excited about seeing?

4. What you like most about the Fest (the drinking, the music, the people) and why.

5. How did you first hear about the Fest?

Again, I greatly appreciate anyone who can help me out and I promise that this is a legitimate request. Thanks for your time.

Ben Hinton
bhinton1@email.georgiasouthern.edu

1. Ronald Joseph Cresswell - 29 - Austin, TX
2. Yes. 1 (Fest 5)
3. Avail
4. The people - it's nice to see old friends and meet new people
5. teh internets

1. Sam Sousa, 27, Claremont, Ca.
2. No, this will be the first.
3. Avail, Bridge & Tunnel, Die Hoffnung, Asshole Parade, and Ampere..........& Small Brown Bike
4. The Bands and the No Idea record sale, plus the chance to go to Gainesville, which has produced some of my all-time favorite bands. I imagine there must be something in the water, though when I get there I imagine it will be like every other Floridian town I've been to, hot, humid, and average.
5. No Idea Records

thank you for your responses!

1. Justin Ryan, 19, Rhode Island (It's too small of a state for divisions!)
2.Yes, this will be my second
3. Small Brown Bike
4. what you said as examples, how could I not?
5. teh Fest webpage

SBB huh?

I'm honestly goin for Bitchin' I think. And many many other bands. Most of which are touring 'round here before the Fest. But if I had to pick one, it's Bitchin'.

Oh, and my boys in Dirty Money of course

1. Christina. Tampa. 18.

2. Nope, this will be my first time attending.

3. BTMI!

4. Live music, exposure to new music, meeting people, beard growing.
It's nice to grow more than flowers around here.

5. Teh world wide web.

1. Full name, Home state and/or city, Age.
Brian Kelleher. Cork, Ireland. 26.

2. Have you attended the Fest in the past? If so how many have you been to?
This is my third Fest.

3. Which band are you most excited about seeing?
Small Brown Bike, Dillinger Four, New Mexican Disaster Squad.

4. What you like most about the Fest (the drinking, the music, the people) and why.
Meeting new people, hearing new bands, talking to people who actually like the same music as me for a change!!

5. How did you first hear about the Fest?
Punknews.org had a piece about some festival in florida that had dillinger four AND latterman playing the same weekend. Had my ticket bought and flights booked within about ten minutes.

1. Benjamin Dean Ray Worth, IL 21

2. Nope

3. MOSTLY all these bands i don't know. but specifically Naked Raygun. I've seen the Arrivals/D4 handfuls of times but I always look forward to them.

4. We'll see. But I'm interested in interacting with punk enthusiasts the world over

5. Little Dave from the Arrivals

Fuck yeah...still can't believe the list of long gone bands, back from the dead at this Fest. Bitchin woulda been amazing alone, but with this lineup...just amazing.

Thank You Tony!

1. Mackenzie Singleton, Florida, 30.

2. Twice, Fest 4 & Fest V

3. American Steel, Small Brown Bike, Naked Raygun, Opioneers! and Bitchin oh and Glass & Ashes' last show in FL...sad.

4. Every minute of it...Everything about it. Old Friends, New Ones, The Best Lineup of Bands EVER and drinking just kind of comes along for the ride. I can get drunk by myself at home, but at Fest, it just kinda happens. But the most amazing thing is to walk around town during Fest. Everywhere you look are people just like you...it feels like home. You see old friends, idols, and people you'd never expect to see just walking around, going to the same shows you are...it's amazing.

5. Total fluke. My friend Asa volunteered us to help out at Fest 4 and we've been doing it ever since. Made some really good friends in Gainesville that I never would have met and I'm eternally grateful for it.

1. Alex Leech, 24, Cardiff, South Wales

2. No, this is my first.

3. Fay Wray, Shook Ones, Dead To Me, Small Brown Bike..

4. The combination of amazing bands and what sounds like the best atmosphere of all time.. plus the plonk is cheap.

5. Through friends.

1. Jeremy Silveira, Gainesville FL, 20

2. Yes, attended Fest 5

3. Dillinger Four, Small Brown Bike, BTMI, The Falcon, Gaslight Anthem, Ruiner, Shook Ones, Smoke or Fire, Witches with Dicks, Young Livers

4. everything, there is nothing to not love about the Fest, from pretty much thursday-early in the morning monday is non stop music, fun, and good times.

5. www.gainesvillebands.com, was looking for shows when i first moved to gainesville for college, and i remember how pissed I was that I had to leave town the same weekend of Fest 4 =(

I'm a journalism student writing an article on the Fest for one of my classes and need the input of someone going to the Fest this year. If anyone could post the following information or email the information to me, it would be greatly appreciated.

1. Full name, Home state and/or city, Age.
joshua pratt, boston,ma 26

2. Have you attended the Fest in the past? If so how many have you been to?
Fest V

3. Which band are you most excited about seeing?
SBB without a question, beard assault ranks up there though

4. What you like most about the Fest (the drinking, the music, the people) and why.
friends, new and old, last year i got to see a bunch of friends and meet a bunch of new ones

5. How did you first hear about the Fest?
punknews.org probaly

1. Full name, Home state and/or city, Age.
Tony Marston, Richmond VA, 27

2. Have you attended the Fest in the past? If so how many have you been to?
nope, never been able to get down there or get the time off

3. Which band are you most excited about seeing?
seaweed, avail, D4

4. What you like most about the Fest (the drinking, the music, the people) and why.
Since i've never been, i can only guess that the best part will be the amazing music and meeting amazing new people, seeing amazing old friends, and drinking till it comes out my nose (most literally)

5. How did you first hear about the Fest?
How do you not hear about the Fest.

haha, quite.