Last week, we interviewed with Rachael Recker from the GR Press and Jake Sebastian from ArtLife (radio show on 1680am) so those will be coming out next week (GR Press on Thursday, in the weekend section, ArtLife I think is on Friday…I’ll look into that…).  Hopefully we also make Gonzo’s top 5 this year!! We were #5 last year, maybe we can move up the ranks!  If you’re on Twitter, let him know that you want us on the Top Five!  His name is @GRGonzo

We also took some photos on the bridge yesterday with Katy Batdorff (also known in the Roller Girl circles as Shutter Speed!) to accompany the GR Press article.  She’s a fantastic photographer, and provided some of the photos from last year’s event.  Check out her work at http://katybatdorff.blogspot.com/ and be amazed.

Lastly, we’ll be trying to get a Bottom 40 after party going on, if we can get a polish hall or something to host it in.  I want to make sure there’s somewhere for the bands to mingle and relax after the show, rather than having to pack up and go home right away.  Let us know if you have ideas or a hookup at a hall!!

For the next week, we’ll just be sweatin’ the details and hoping you all can make it out for our drink-on-a-bridge party!!!

I’m ultra excited about seeing Sara Scare, featuring Levi from Spit for Athena, after hearing the phenomenal track “Valentines Day.”  We also posted a track from Cemetery Improvement Society from Wisconsin, a live recording from our band, Charles the Osprey, from last year’s Fes2val, recorded by the dudes from 13 Day Mission & HiJacking Music (http://www.oteampress.com/ozonelair/) and finally a track from returning duo, Tahquamenon Falls.

We’ll have more soon in the audio player in the left bar…Enjoy!

And where will you be?  The Gillette Bridge, a pedestrian bridge that runs behind DeVos Place and right into Ah Nab Awen park.

My other decision to be made has to be what to do about a headliner.  Most of the obvious ones have been unavailable (or waaaaay too expensive), but I’m still digging at it, cause it’s very important to me to get one this year.

In other news, Chris is working on the design for this year, and so far what he’s sent me is friggin HOT, so I look forward to unveiling that in poster/handout/ad form.

If you didn’t catch that I posted the photos from last year, you gotta check em out.  Thanks to Paul Carlson and Katy Batdorff for their amazing work.

-D