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Planning for SxSW 2006

The bands I'm particularly eager to see:

The Kooks, The Magic Numbers, The Research, Voxtrot, Tullycraft, The Brunettes, Field Music, Paris Motel, Persephone's Bees, epo-555, Oppenheimer, The Chalets, Metric, The Jessica Fletchers, Jose Gonzalez, Thomas Dybdahl, The Ark, The Sun

The bands I want to go see if they aren't playing at the same time as anyone on the above list:

Go! Team, Envelopes, Ryan McPhun and the Ruby Suns, The New Pornographers, Belle & Sebastian, Goldfrapp, People in Planes, Guillemots, Figurines, Envelopes, The Organ, Poni Hoax, Girls in Hawaii, Quit Your Dayjob, Flight of the Conchords, The Aeroplanes, The Subways, Polytechnic, The Heavy Blinkers, The Charlatans, Dressy Bessy, The Duke Spirit, Annie, Mascott, Cerys Matthews, The Owls, The Elected, Rob Dickinson, Oranger

The bands other people will want me to see:

Hot Chip, controller.controller, Pilate, Holy F#ck, The High Dials, Camera Obscura, Radio 4, The Boy Least Likely To, Arctic Monkeys, Electric Soft Parade, White Rose Movement, Dirty on Purpose, Morrissey, The Tyde, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Nada Surf, Maritime

The bands I'm curious about:

Birdy Nam Nam, The Cinematics, The Feeling, The Boy Least Likely To, Real Ones, Mohair, Tapes 'n Tapes, Rogue Wave, Guggenheim Grotto, Vega 4, The Zutons, Dirty Pretty Things, Palaxy Tracks, Merz, Office, The Rakes

The bands I will refuse to see play live:

Nine Black Alps, Morningwood, The Stills, Jason Collett, Ladytron, Goldrush, Snow Patrol, Calla, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

The bands I'm frustrated they have pulled out:

Charlotte Hatherley, The Concretes, The Changes

The bands who were never scheduled but should be:

Johnny Boy, Josh Rouse, Kevin Tihista's Red Terror, Fancey (will be there with New Pornos), Bart Davenport (will be there with Persephone's Bees), David & The Citizens, Jens Lekman, Wir Sind Helden, Amy Millan

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So who did you see? Who, who, who???