Out of the foreign bands going over this year, (Leatherface aside, cuz duhh - it's Leatherface) who are you guy's most looking forward to seeing? What about last year, or any other year for that matter? Should there be more/less overseas bands at Fest do you think?

I was just wondering how much of a draw the long-distance bands are against the native ones..

Ok Pilot and Gordon Gano's Army fer sher

You, Me, and the Atom Bomb has become a staple of my Fest experience the past 2 years.

This year I'm really looking forward to finally seeing Chillerton, going to try and catch Ok Pilot. also looking forward to The Cost of Living at the Tampa pre-fest.

I'm still keeping my hopes up that Deny Everything is a last minute edition. I can't see how they wouldn't be a huge draw, their "Fire This Time" LP was so fucking good.
bring on more overseas bands though, I wish The Lockout or The Steal was playing

oh yeah also FC Five and Brazil UFO, both from Japan

Im gonna try and check out OK Pilot, Gordon Gano's Army, and FC Five.

Chillerton, Former Cell Mates, You Me & The Atom Bomb, and OK Pilot.

I'm interested in good bands from anywhere, but I'm not really familiar with many international bands.

Last year I saw Four Letter Word and Dauntless Elite and both were great.

The Flatliners are Canadian.

Deny Everything posted on my myspace the day the Fest poster appeared saying ' looks like we won't be at Fest' with a link to the poster. I'm not sure if that meant they had been officially told no or just assumed that they weren't playing as they weren't listed but I know they applied to play and I think it would be almost criminal to reject them!

I would be really surprised if they got denied, their an incredible band that I think would draw a ton of people. Fire This Time is probably one of my favorite records.

I love their "sounds like" on myspace too: Shook Ones might call any minute to tell us Kid Dynamite need all those riffs back they borrowed from GB and Minor Threat.

haha, thats great:) I really hope i get to see Gordon Gano's Army. I saw 'em with Lemuria in London last year but i was distracted with rage from flicking through a local zine to see they hadn't reviewed my last issue yet again, fucking hippies. *ahem*

i dont know why this thread was moved from general discussion. it clearly says 'talk about the bands', and this isn't a rant thread (apart from my outburst just then). Ho-hum, Thought Police strike again.

They just got the official no no email! Real shame!

ugh how the fuck did they get rejected!?!
i swear I'm going to have to fly out to germany to see those guys play.

so which band is going to do deny everything covers for me?

On the plus side.. I've got a sneaky listen of the new GGA record, and it's AMAZING. so looking forward to seeing them now

i'm super stoked to se the chillerton boys again... they were a total highlight last year... and i've never seen gordan gano's army(best name EVER!) so i'm really really stoked that they're playing the tampa pre-fest!!!

all i can hope is that GGA plays a Violent Femmes cover set for halloween!!!