The primary weekend of the Austin Metropolis Limits Music Pageant kicked off with performances by worldwide superstars and a gaggle of scholars who made historical past.
West twenty second turned the primary band of present UT college students to carry out on the iconic music pageant.
“We’re all Longhorns for all times and are extraordinarily grateful for all of the alternatives that the varsity has given us,” Logan Madsen (vocals/lead singer) advised The Austin Chronicle. “Austin is the reside music capital of the world, and there’s no different place than UT we’d reasonably be as an up-and-coming band.”
On the highway to ACL, West twenty second performed greater than 50 exhibits in Austin over the previous yr, together with throughout South by Southwest (SXSW) at UT’s Hook ’Em Home at Antone’s and at Longhorn Metropolis Limits, a free, on-campus live performance sequence when Texas Soccer performs at dwelling.
“We actually worth our training, so we’ve executed the perfect we will to be full-time college students and musicians on the similar time,” Gabe Acevedo (rhythm guitar/backup vocals), advised The Austin Chronicle.
The band plans to spend winter break within the studio, with their first full-length album scheduled for launch this spring.
“We’re doing issues that I by no means thought we may have executed,” Jet Beck (bass) advised The Every day Texan forward of the band’s ACL efficiency. “We’re enjoying ACL, so the sky’s the restrict.”
