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Like Barry Manilow playing Emo's: Megadeth and Motörhead come to ACL Live
- Gigantour 2012
- Megadeath
- Motörhead
We’ve made no bones about our love of ACL Live as a venue in Austin, but it’s also developed something of a reputation as a fairly adult-contemporary room.
It’s an place awesome to catch Wilco or Willie Nelson, but there are always more than a handful of polo-shirted dudes looking around for their golf buddies on a given night, which fuels our hipster-driven sense of superiority, which subsequently leads quickly to shame and regret as we realize that’s not the person we wanted to be in 2012…
Not that it matters right now, because those people are probably going to be making other plans on Mar. 3rd. That is when the venue plays host to the GIGANTOUR 2012, which gets all caps like that because it is headlined by Megadeth and Motörhead. Yeah, Lemmy is going to be at ACL Live in less than two months, and there will likely not be a single pair of khaki shorts anywhere in the building that night.
The GIGANTOUR is an on-again, off-again tour founded by Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine; it hasn’t been active since 2008, when it featured support from In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job For A Cowboy, and High On Fire.
This time out, Mustaine is keeping the festival more classic in nature at the top, with Motörhead as co-headliner; the undercard boasts Italian goth-metal success story Lacuna Coil and Danish psychobilly stars Volbeat, meaning you’re in for a solid 3-4 hours of intensity if you pony up for a ticket.
Regardless of whether the Megadeth and Motörhead bill lights your fire, there’s definitely something cool about the incredible sounding space at ACL Live playing host to a diverse assortment of acts.
In fact, March promises to bring a pretty wide assortment of acts to the venue’s stage, though not all of them will be consumer-level performances: Radiohead will be taping an Austin City Limits broadcast around the time of the band’s show at the Frank Erwin Center on Mar. 7th, and SXSW is likely to bring another batch of acts who break with the venue’s nascent formula — though we’ll hear a lot more about that in a few weeks.
In any case, how many venues can claim to host performances by Gladys Knight, Megadeth and Motörhead, and Radiohead all in the same week? ACL Live forever!