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Club Crawl adds flavor,
freebies, chill to AthFest
By JENNIFER JACKSON
jjackson@randb.com
Even if the main outdoor stage AthFest
bands aren’t appealing, the event has much
more to offer.
With more than 180 bands confirmed,
there will surely be something for every ear.
An AthFest wristband gets lis-
teners into almost all venues
without extra costs, in or out
doors.
“We’ve played the Club Crawl
for the last few years and like to
mix it up a bit to attract differ
ent audiences,” said Kathy Kirbo
of Jackpot City, an alternative
rock band.
This year, they play on the
main outdoor stage, but it isn't
their first time playing outside.
“Our most exciting AthFest-related show
was when we played on the top of a parking
deck for 'Oood Day Atlanta’ to promote
AthFest,” she said.
“It was tons of Ain, almost like we were
kids pretending to follow in The Beatles’ foot
steps.”
Playing the outdoor stages gives bands
opportunities the indoor venues cannot.
“The outdoor stage allows for younger peo
ple that cannot get into a club at night to see
your band,” Kirbo said.
However, there are still many positive sides
to the Intimacy of an indoor stage not to
mention the air conditioning.
Mantooth Music, the production, promo
tion and recording of rap and hip-hop music,
will put on a Friday night show upstairs at
Tasty World for local rappers and MCs.
"Mantooth, the owner, producer and engi
neer, is Inspired by his family, by the drive he
sees within MCs every day and by
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CLUB CRAWL
When: Thursday • Saturday
More Information: Fun
schedule at http://www.ath
fest com/festival/mustc/ven
ues.htm.
excited to be able to give Athens an original
event for Friday night’s Club Crawl,” Olbson
said.
Mantooth Music will give audiences more
than something for the ears free CDs, T
shirts, stickers and more will be flying around
during the show.
“Many people look at rap and hip-hop as a
degrading underground music that never
sends a positive message,” said Olbson.
“However, the MCs we work with have so
much love and hope for the world and the
future that it is impossible for them to be a
negative influence in our society.”
his love for all things musical,”
said Laura Olbson of Mantooth
Music.
The show has 11 rapper
appearances confirmed and plans
to be a good alternative to
Athfest’s outdoor music scene.
“Mantooth Music has never
formally participated in Athfest,
but everyone here has great mem
ories of AthFest shows and are
ATHFEST PREVIEW
Local music magazine
holds artist honors
By VALENTINA TAPIA
vtapia@randb.com
Whether Outback Steakhouse pays its
theme music contributors in steaks is
debatable.
Less uncertain is that even if Of
Montreal's Kevin Barnes is the only person
in Athens’s music scene making money, that
doesn’t mean the rest of 2007’s notables
should be overlooked, according to Chris
Hasslotls.
Hassiotis is set to host the Flagpole
Music Awards tonight as he has for the past
four years. The Flagpole music editor
stressed the abundance of skilled musicians
the show will highlight.
"If you look at the list of finalists, there’s
an overwhelming amount of talent in this
town,” he said.
"It really is something that not a lot of
other places in the country can say they
have.”
The Flagpole Music Awards, now in what
Hassiotis said is its ninth year, was original
ly conceived from Flagpole's desire to give
back to the music community.
According to Hassiotis, Flagpole adver
tising director and co-publisher Alicia
Nickles envisioned pairing the awards with
AthFest, as she had seen an Austin, Texas
weekly do with the music festival South by
Southwest.
Flagpole’s show follows a format similar
to larger scale awards shows, including live
music and awards presented in between.
However, the evening as a whole will be
infrised with quintessential Athens particu
larities.
Local bands Grogus, Tin Cup Prophette,
the New Sound of Numbers, Bear and Ben
FLAGPOLE MUSIC AWARDS
When: 7:30 tonight
Where: Morton Theatre
Cost: $4 with AthFest wristband. $8 without.
More Information: http7ltagpote.com/Awards
Stevens and the Empties will perform two
songs each between awards. The
Magictones will serve as the show’s house
band, kicking off the evening from the pit of
Morton Theatre.
Award presenters and winners will find
themselves escorted to and from the podi
um by the Classic City Rollergirls.
Even the awards themselves, handed out
to winners, encompass Athens; they are
made by once-local artist Pattiy Tomo.
"She's built [the awards) out of CDs, out
of concrete, one year out of marbles and one
year out of vinyl that she stitched together,”
Hassiotis said.
Tomo’B art also appears around town in
the form of the iconic guttering stars hang
ing from the 40 Watt Club's ceiling.
From start to finish and in every detail,
the Flagpole awards show truly celebrates
Athens's music community.
"When you start out writing music, you
start out with nothing, and you do it
because it’s something you care about,”
Hassiotis said.
"It’s brave and inspiring, and hopefully
once a year we can pause and say you guys
are really awesome for doing that.”
Finalists for major awards include The
Shredders, Allison Weiss, Dark Meat and
Modem Skirts.
