Skankfest X is two days out and the only advice is hydrate
The festival's account posted the countdown twice in one day, and neither post came with a schedule.
Skankfest X is two days away, and the festival's own account is offering exactly one piece of preparation advice. Hydrate.
The post from @skankfestnyc reads "2 days till Skankfest X!" followed by "Time to start hydrating!" That is the whole message. No set times, no lineup drop, no last call on anything. Just a countdown number and a reminder to drink water before whatever is coming.
A second post went up with the same count and a different closer, "We've been waiting all year for this...time to party!" Same two days, more exclamation, zero extra information. If you were hoping the two-days-out post would finally tell you which room your favorite podcast is taping in, it did not.
We've been waiting all year for this...time to party!
The real story
The hydration bit is the brand. Skankfest has never pretended to be a festival where you show up rested and take notes. The advice is a joke and also not a joke, which is roughly the operating principle of the whole weekend.
The festival lands in New Orleans from November 13 to 15, as the account laid out earlier. Saturday has already sold out, so anyone still deciding is deciding about Friday and Sunday.
What the countdown posts do not mention is the other thing on the calendar that weekend. Luis J. Gomez has been teasing Skankfights for weeks, and the clock on that has run most of the way down too. The festival account is sticking to vibes for now.
Two posts, one day, same number. That is where things stand with 48 hours to go. If the official pre-show checklist expands beyond water, it will presumably arrive at the one-day mark.
2 days till Skankfest X! Time to start hydrating!
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