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The 2011 festival was held at the massive 1950’s Art Deco Seaholm Power Plant, a de-comissioned steam power plant on the banks of Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin that had been made temporarily available for events. Due to changes in city ordinances and construction plans, the festival changed venues 3 times before landing back at its originally intended location, The Seaholm Powerplant. The 63 band bill was topped by the 13th Floor Elevators’ Roky Erickson, Spacemen 3 offshoot Spectrum, Omar A Rodriguez Group (who showed up as The Mars Volta lineup and played new TMV songs for the crowd), the first performance from Black Moth Super Rainbow in several years, Crystal Stilts, and The Black Angels. Nearly 2000 attendees packed the building on April 29 – May 1, for the last concert held inside its walls.
“The sprawling, dilapidated Seaholm Power Plant on the southwestern edge of downtown Austin, Texas is an ideal venue for a haunted house or, incidentally, for the purpose it served on the weekend of April 29th; the creation of a dark, otherworldly atmosphere to celebrate the current resurgence of psychedelic music and commemorate its Southern roots.” by Annabel in Culture, Music, 2011
“Austin Psych Fest is a very special event. People were there to hang out and network as much as they were there to listen to (and play) music, and so in many ways, it seems like the fine folks at the Reverberation Appreciation Society have put together a spectacular alternative to SXSW for those most interested in music on the heady end of the spectrum.” portableshrines.com 2011
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
STAGE ONE
Omar A Rodriguez
A Place To Bury Strangers
Crystal Stilts
Atlas Sound
Night Beats
Beach Fossils
ZaZa
STAGE TWO
This Will Destroy You
Tobacco
No Joy
Shapes Have Fangs
Radio Moscow
Quarter After
Blue Angel Lounge
Zechs Marquis
Sky Drops
Christian Bland
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
STAGE ONE
Spectrum
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Prefuse 73
Crocodiles
Fresh and Onlys
Sleepy Sun
Black Ryder
Beaches
Shine Brothers
Woodsman
Ghost Box Orchestra
STAGE TWO
The Meek
Bass Drum of Death
Lower Heaven
The Soft Moon
Indian Jewelry
Young Prisms
Lumerians
White Hills
Pontiak
Cloudland Canyon
Vacant Lots
Weird Owl
Holy Wave
Tjutjuna
SUNDAY, MAY 1
STAGE ONE
The Black Angels
Roky Erickson
The Growlers
Pete International Airport (members of Dandy Warhols and Upsidedown)
Dirty Beaches
Diamond Center
Black Hollies
STAGE TWO