Sound on Sound Fest (often abbreviated as SOS Fest) was a three-day music, comedy, action sports and camping festival held 35 miles east of downtown Austin, Texas, at the Sherwood Forest Faire, home to an annual renaissance fair, and medieval-style village, set on 23 acres and located in the heart of the Lost Pines Forest region of Central Texas.
SOS Fest celebrated its inaugural year November 4–6, 2016 with notable performers such as Beach House, Phantogram, Young Thug, Courtney Barnett, Death Grips, Tim Heidecker and more.
Founded by Graham Williams's Austin-based promotions company Margin Walker Presents and produced by Funhouse Services and Sound on Sound Event Services, SOS Fest was home to three music stages showcasing emerging and established talent from the worlds of indie, punk, hip hop, metal, and dance music, as well as comedy.
Created by Graham Williams and much of the same team behind the long-running Fun Fun Fun Fest, SOS Fest aimed to bring the same Austin-centric culture to the forest by including many local businesses, food trucks, restaurants and nonprofits as official vendors of the fest.
With a fan focus, SOS took the festival beyond the music with a comedy and live-panel discussion stage, a skateboard and BMX halfpipe, a wrestling ring, a disco dungeon, and 15 acres of camping. The festival also incorporated the renaissance theme of Sherwood Forest Faire into the daily fest activities with period actors roaming the grounds, jousting, turkey legs, and SOS Fest's own fire-breathing dragon that lives at the top of the main stage.
SOS Fest was scheduled to return for its second year on November 10–12, 2017 at Sherwood Forest, but was canceled by organizers on October 6.
Lineup
2016
Friday Phantogram Descendents Thundercat Run the Jewels Fidlar Thee Oh Sees Hinds Touche Amore Death Grips Guided By Voices Empress Of Turnstile The Range Denzel Curry Clipping. Beach Slang Cursive Into It Over It Good Riddance Shannon and the Clams SWMRS Planes Mistaken for Stars Diet Cig Magna Carda War on Women Calliope Musicals Protextor Piñata Protest Boyfrndz Drug Church This is Spinal Tap Todd Barry Johnny Pemberton Yung Jake One Night Stand Dating Game The Needle Drop Podcast SOS Live Podcast Laugh Dammit
Saturday Purity Ring Boys Noize Dillinger Escape Plan Aesop Rock Youth of Today Beach House Flag Girls Against Boys Metz Jagwar Ma Big Boi Deerhunter Car Seat Headrest Diarrhea Planet Pouya Health Small Black Alex G Dead Milkmen Wild Nothing Bleached American Sharks The Relationship Orthy Radioactivity Hardproof Tiny Moving Parts Us Weekly Moving Panoramas Anya Culture Abuse Statesman Shots Podcast Tim Heidecker Joe Mande Air Sex Championships Turned Out A Punk SOS Live Podcast Catherine & Ryan's Wedding Fragile Rock
Sunday Explosions in the Sky A-Trak Carcass Courtney Barnett Big Freedia Baroness STRFKR Protomartyr Young Thug Bob Mould White Lung Thursday Baio The Monkey Wrench Kero Kero Bonito Cherubs Recover Open Mike Eagle Old Man Gloom Youth Code The Frights Bully Night Drive Illustrations Leopold & His Fiction Boombaptist Die Young Emily Wolfe Psychic Twin Sailor Poon
External links Official Website
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