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No Idea Records have launched the official site for their seventh installment of their annual multiple day, multiple venue, independent music festival held in Gainesville Florida called THE FEST 7. You can check out the site www.thefestfl.com/here!

The site includes a pretty comprehensive list of all the bands playing this year and is quickly reaching their goal of 250 bands! (Read below for a complete listing).

Some of the main acts include: Leatherface, Less Than Jake, Strike Anywhere, Dillinger Four, Atom and His Package, Municipal Waste, Coalesce, Dead to Me, Paint It Black, None More Black, Rehasher, The Lawrence Arms, The Falcon, Toys that Kill, The Ergs, The Methadones, The Holy Mountain, Armalite, Assholeparade, A Wilhelm Scream, Japanther, Able Baker Fox, Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves, Former Cell Mates, LaSalle, Bomb the Music Industry, The Arrivals, Bridge and Tunnel, New Mexican Disaster Squad, Off With Their Heads, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Stressface, Ann Beretta, Broadway Calls, Cobra Skulls, City of Ships, Pink Razors, Drag the River,
Whiskey & Co, Ghost Mice, Paul Baribeau, Fin Fang Foom, Shellshag, and Bouncing Souls who had this to say about their special FEST 7 performance:

2009 is the 20th anniversary of The Bouncing Souls!! We’re getting
ready to celebrate all year long… and just in time to get the
party started is THE FEST!! We’re thinking “kick-off party” on this
one!! What better place than the city of Gainesville to get it
started? and what better people than our good friends in Strike
Anywhere, Less Than Jake, and the No Idea family? And what better
day than Halloween, our favorite holiday for a show? You never
know what costumes and themes we might come up with!!!! And like
any Souls party, we’ll drink a lot of cheap beer (maybe even 40’s
only??) and re-live the embarrassing moments of our youth… by
playing songs from 1995 and earlier! That’s right… The Good, The
Bad, and The Argyle and Maniacal Laughter and maybe even a Green
Ball Crew if the mood is right and the beer is wrong. Come party
with us!

The FEST 7 will be held on Halloween weekend – Oct 31st, Nov 1st, and Nov 2nd 2008 in Gainesville, Florida and will host 250+ bands on 8 stages. THE FEST 7 will also feature two official hotels and one will be hosting their kick off registration at the UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY INN with a roof top, poolside, reception and a FEST 7 FLEA MARKET to feature vendors, record labels, distros, and other fine things to consume.

THE FEST 7 will also be planning a finale after party at the hotel for all guests staying there for the weekend. Details of that party will not be announced until the weekend of the event.

Passes for the event are $55 in advance and $75 weekend of. The event does not sell day passes but does allow minimal walk up sales for individual shows. THE FEST 7 is also an 18+ event (due to Gainesville age restrictions on minors attending events at bars) but will have three stages this year that will be all ages.

FEST 7 CONFIRMED BANDS SO FAR:

Leatherface, Less Than Jake, Bouncing Souls, Strike Anywhere, Dillinger Four, Atom and His Package, Municipal Waste, Coalesce, Dead to Me, Paint It Black, None More Black, Rehasher, The Lawrence Arms, The Falcon, Toys that Kill, The Ergs, The Methadones, The Holy Mountain, Affirmative Action Jackson, Armalite, Assholeparade, Amateur Party, A Wilhelm Scream, Japanther, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Antillectual, Ape Shit (GNV), Banner Pilot, Able Baker Fox, Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves, Former Cell Mates, LaSalle, Black Tusk, Bomb the Music Industry, Brainworms, The Arrivals, Bridge and Tunnel, The Brokedowns, Cloak/Dagger, Tiltwheel, Colossus, Comadre, The Copyrights, Dan Padilla, Dear Landlord, Deep Sleep, Fake Problems, The Flatliners, Foundation, Future Virgins, Ghastly City Sleeps, Ghost Buffalo, Grabass Charlestons, Hifi Handgrenades, Hour of the Wolf, The Measure sa, Gatorface, Virgins, New Mexican Disaster Squad, Chinese Telephones, North Lincoln, O Pioneers!, Off With Their Heads, Polar Bear Club, Ringers, Ruiner, Saw Wheel, Shot Baker, The Swellers, The American Etiquette, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Young Livers, Stressface, Zoroaster, Emotron, Mose Giganticus, Ann Beretta, Eric Ayotte, Forensics, No Trigger, Battle!, Olehole, Party Garbage, Worn in Red, Lemuria, Rager, Shook Ones, Billy Reese Peters, Screaming Females, Cheeky, Tim Version, Vagina Sore Jr., Nothington, The Blacklist Royals, Anchor Arms, X.O.X.O, New Bruises, Power Douglas, Dynamite Arrows, Broadway Calls, Cobra Skulls, City of Ships, Pink Razors, The Wading Girl, Drag the River, Madeline, Static Radio, Whiskey & Co, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Crash Burn Repeat, Halo Fauna, Mike Hale, In The Red, Gimmie Drugs, Casting Out, Sista Sekundun, Ninja Gun, Iron Chic, Ampere, Cutman, Delay, Young Widows, Jammy Dodgers, Bang Bang, Star Fucking Hipsters, Suicide Note, The Hidden Spots, Vultures United, Pretty Boy Thorson & the Falling Angels, Sidekicks, In Defence, Ghost Mice, Paul Baribeau, Josh Small, Thunderlip, We Versus The Shark, Fin Fang Foom, Look Mexico, Landmines, ADD/C, Young Hearts, The Menzingers, Used Kids, Brook Pridemore, Jena Berlin, The Pharmacy, Ready the Jet, Antlers, Everybody Out!, Tubers, American Cheeseburger, Four Star Alarm, Nervous Dogs, Monikers, No More, Matty Pop Chart, Good Luck, Alligator, Cassette, Environmental Youth Crunch, Benard, Scouts Honor, Dukes of Hillsborough, Travis John (A Love Dog), Daniel Striped Tiger, Shark Pants, Austin & Bob Lucas, Averkiou, Sinaloa, Hunchback, Capsule, Vena Cava, Tin Armor, You Me and the Atom Bomb, Two Cow Garage, Dead Friends, Cheap Girls, The Shaking Hands, FIYA, Pegasuses XL, Cheap Tragedies, Mouthbreather, The Serious Geniuses, Degenerics, The Rick Johnson Rock and Roll Machine, Max Levine Ensemble, Triclops!, Maruta, Laura Stevenson, No People, Belly Button, Brazil UFO, Drunken Boat, Umoja Orchestra, Matt Kutz One, Shinobu, Mehkago NT, ANS, Chillerton, FC5, Shellshag, Capsule, Jonesin , Beat Buttons, Bitchin Summer, Hawks & Doves, Ok Pilot, One Win Choice, The Ones To Blame, Religious as Fuck, The Rest of Us, The Riot Before, Slingshot Dakota, Two Funerals, Dirty Tactics , Shang-a-lang, Black Cobra, Killer Dreamer, The Scaries, Sharks Come Crusin , The Catalyst, Gordan Gano s Army, Queer Wolf, Die Hoffnung, Ramming Speed, Annabel, Liquid Limbs, Dave Dondero, No More