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Location Downtown Gulfport - 13th Street & 27th AvenueGulfport, MSHarrison CountyDriving Directions Mailing 1909 East Pass Rd., Suite D11Gulfport, MS 39507 Phone 228.388.2001 Fax Toll-Free Website http://www.gulfportmusicfestival.com/index.php Email Contact Ricky Mitchell - Event Coordinator Details Annual Event: YesNumber Years: 1 Admission Yes Huge two-day music festival featuring headliner entertainment, food booths, and the Beer Garden area. Headliners Montgomery Gentry, Steel Magnolia, Jason Michael Carroll, David Nail, and Back Water perform Friday, with pop/rock music starring Train, Flo Rida, Rehab, and Skattered Union performing Saturday. In addition to the Main Stage with major headliners, the Beer Garden area features individual acts in a more intimate atmosphere offering premium and craft beers. - Eventful
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Skattered Union
1Skattered Union is a punk/pop band with a fresh style and approach to music. They are full of energy and interact with the crowd very well. They are from the Knoxville area of Tennessee and have played at many large events including the CPR Fest 2010 in Biloxi MS, with Buckcherry, Trapt, Sick Puppies, Aaron Lewis and Limp Bizkit. They are a younger band with four members consisting of Sinjin Landers, lead singer and lead guitarist, Sarek Futch- rhythm guitarist and back up singer, Connor Landers, bassist and Caleb Bales on drums. They have recently released a new album called Electrical Bathtissue. Their web address is www.skatteredunion.com where you will find links to their twitter, myspace, and facebook accounts. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
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Gulfport Music Festival
Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14
Downtown Gulfport - 13th Street & 27th Avenue
Gates open Friday @ 4pm, and 3pm Saturday
Montgomery Gentry, Steel Magnolia, Jason Michael Carroll, David Nail, Train, Flo Rida, Rehab, and Skattered Union
228-388-2001 - 97.5 WABB
Festival gives South Mississippi a chance to exhale
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tool goes here There was a time, not that long ago, when downtown Gulfport more closely resembled a ghost town than a thriving entertainment district. Thankfully, those days are gone and Mississippi’s second largest downtown district is buzzing with dining and entertainment options.
But what’s missing from this picture? You guessed it. A gigantic two-day music festival that will attract tens of thousands to celebrate the spirit that rebuilt downtown Gulfport.
The inaugural Gulfport Music Festival kicks off today downtown. The festival, a joint venture between the city of Gulfport and the Mississippi Media group of radio stations, features top-tier acts and a healthy dose of local talent.
Link: Gulfport Music Festival
“We’re looking at 8,000 to 10,000 people on both days of this festival,” Gulfport Public Information Officer Ryan LaFontaine said. “Most of them have never been to downtown Gulfport. This is our opportunity to showcase all that our downtown is and all that the city of Gulfport is. For the locals, it’s an opportunity for them to let their hair down, relax and have a great time after six years of hard work.
“Our people, in Gulfport and all of South Mississippi, are survivors. We survived the worst natural disaster, an oil spill and an economic recession, and we did all that in just five years. This weekend, we hope, will be an opportunity for all of us to sit back, exhale, have a good time and celebrate that survival.”
Country music is the order of the day today, with the music kicking off at 4 p.m. with Gulfport-based Americana band Rosco Bandana. The group has gone from zero to hero in less than a year with their victory in the 2011 Hard Rock Battle of the Bands. They perform at the annual Hard Rock Calling music festival in London this summer. Regional country act Autumn Rise-N follows, with Steel Magnolia, Jason Michael Carroll and David Nail pumping up the crowd. Country superstars Montgomery Gentry close out the night.
Saturday’s lineup will have a more rock ’n’ roll feel and draw heavily from the local music scene. Hattiesburg singer-songwriter Glenn Chandler opens it up at 3 p.m. He’s followed by local favorite The Myles Sharp Band featuring Rebecca Powers. Long Beach-based ska band Stereohype and Ocean Springs’ Together Tomorrow are on the bill as well. International dance music sensation Sean Kingston, pop punk stars Skattered Union and national rock act Neon Trees will set the stage for the evening. Hip-hop powerhouse Flo Rida and Grammy award-winning rock act Train will co-headline the final night of the festival.
Tickets are $45 at the gate for individual days and $55 for a weekend pass. Children
- The Sun Herald
Gulfport Music Festival245 / 365Tonight was night 1/2 at the Gulfport Music Festival. Tonight was "country" night. Big bands included Steel Magnolia and Montgomery Gentry. Tomorrow night brings a little bit of punk and a little bit of hip hop to include Flo'Rida and Skattered Union. - Lisa McCombs
INAUGURAL GULFPORT MUSIC FESTIVAL
May 13-14
Huge two-day music festival featuring headliner entertainment, food booths, and the Beer Garden area! Headliners Montgomery Gentry, Steel Magnolia, Jason Michael Carroll, David Nail, and Back Water perform Friday, with pop/rock music starring Train, Flo Rida, Rehab, and Skattered Union performing Saturday! In addition to the Main Stage with major headliners, the Beer Garden area features individual acts in a more intimate atmosphere offering premium and craft beers. Check website for complete details!
Date(s): 05/13/2011 - 05/14/2011
Times: Gates open Friday @ 4pm, and 3pm Saturday!
Location: Downtown Gulfport - 13th Street & 27th Avenue, Gulfport
Contact: Ricky Mitchell - Event Coordinator
Phone: 228-388-2001
Admission: Tickets on sale now - purchase on line or call! - GulfCoast.org
May 24, 2011
Skattered Union Plays Alphapalooza 2011 an Annual Event
By travelwriter13
Skattered Union, a self-proclaimed “zombie punk” band from Gatlinburg, Tennessee will be performing at Alphapalooza on May 20, 2011. Fellow performers at this festival are DJ Hypnotikk, Of the Vine and The Blackline. Tickets are available for purchase online at www.alphapalooza2011.eventbrite.com.
You can visit the Skattered Union web site at www.skatteredunion.com and follow them on facebook at www.facebook.com/skatteredunion or on myspace at www.myspace.com/skatteredunion you can add them to twitter straight from the Skattered Union website.
In little over a year, Skattered Union has developed a following throughout the U.S. and in a number of foreign countries. The band has shared the stage with such artists as Train, Flo-Rida, Trapt, Aaron Lewis and Limp Bizkit. They’ve played to crowds of over 40,000 in venues like The Mississippi Coast Coliseum and the coliseum at Loyola University. The band has also been featured on AOL and Studio Now.
Skattered Union has pre-released an EP, “Electrical Bathtissue,” available on iTunes and Amazon.
- Travelwritterblog13
Skattered Union
Whats the meaning behind the bands name?
Sinjin- Well We're in a time of Crisis in America. We're supposed to be United but we're all Scattered Apart from each other
The bands name is ultimately a pun off that. That and a lack of Spell check on our part attributes the K.
How was the band started?
Sinjin- Love of music.
Caleb- You're welcome for that.
Whats the message you want to transmit with your music?
Sinjin- Group Reality. Thinking outside the box. understanding that everyone has Self destructive thoughts.
Caleb- I think with a great front man, I can do what I love in life, and Help people relate to things that are happening in this world and around them.
And you're welcome.
Sarek- I think We're trying to warn Society about brain dead thinking. Because brain dead people just follow everyone else, and we need.
individualist thinking to prevent Society from following under a monopolized way of thinking.
Connor- We're trying to show that anyone can do anything and not stay the Typical norm. Do what they want in life.
Whats the Method you use to write songs?
Sarek- Automatic thinking. We have an idea and go with it from there.
Sinjin- It helps us stay true to our meanings in our music vs what would sell better.
What is your musical influence?
Sarek- Things that piss us off.
Sinjin- Life. Ultimately for me, its life. For all its worth. The negatives, The positives. Just straight out life.
Caleb- I drum and you're welcome. Honestly though Music makes me happy. I'm tired of living in a world where I walk down the street and everyone is looking down on everyone. And I hate the fact that we live in a world like that. So I drum, And you're welcome.
Connor- My relatives . They gave me the belief in myself to do anything and everything. So they influenced me to be a musician.
Whats plans do you guys have for the future??
Caleb- To find a Common Ground.
Sinjin- To Spread good music in a time where good music is largely lacking. Write more music and play infront of any many people as I can.
Connor- Playing shows. meeting new people and sharing who we are with them and Vise versa.
Sarek- WELL! I am Glad you asked. I plan to create a cult based on a bogus idea then coming out and telling people how bogus it was to show people how easy it is to manipulate the brainless.
If you guys were stranded in the middle of nowhere after a show or while on tour. And help is 65 miles away from where you guys are, Who would you send to look for help? and if while the Rest wait, theres no food and the only way to feed yourself is by eating each other who would you eat first?
Sinjin- We'd go together.
Caleb- Thats a journey none of us would send someone on alone. We'd Take the wheels off the bus, Lock the door. and Go together.
Sarek- And if we were starving on the way there, We'd cut off small pieces of each other and share.
Connor- Eat a roadie!
Which country Would you guys love to play?
Sinjin - Japan.
Sarek- Japan.
Caleb- Japan.
Connor- Australia.
With Which bands would you guys love to share a stage?
Caleb- The Offspring, AFI, Blink-182, Alien ant farm, eleventySeven
Sarek- Bayside, Smoking popes, The Early Strike, Foxy Shazam. EleventySeven
Sinjin- Green day, Good Charlotte, The Offsprings, Social Distortion, The Early Strike, My Chemical Romanc, .Blink-182, EleventySeven, The Ataris, Japanese Voyeurs
Connor- Green day, Good Charlotte, Blink-182, EleventySeven, Japanese Voyeurs
Are you okay with the direction the band is going actually?
Sarek- I'm Very happy. Within a year we've shared the stage with some of our Favorite bands and achieved a lot.
Sinjin- I would like to be playing more but other than that yes very happy.
Caleb- Oh yes.
Connor- I wish we had more mooses.
- Vents Interviews
Skattered Union — more than the average punk band
By Stephanie Edwards
News@theknoxvillejournal.com
As members of Sevier County band Skattered Union prepared to shoot a music video in an abandoned amusement park in the small mountain town of Gatlinburg, they described their music as zombie punk.
This classification is fitting considering the titles and lyrics from songs from their newest album, “ Electrical Bathtissue,” like Ritalin and Self Destructive.
However, the band’s songs show more diversity than many bands their senior. Gone are the monotonous rants that most punk bands seem to get stuck on no matter how “different” they claim to be.
Green Day’s influence is evident, with shades of both pop punk powerhouses like Blink-182 and rougher garage punk like Black Flag and Propaghandi. Even the occasional touch of ska breaks through in their sound.
Band members include Sarek Futch (rhythm guitar, vocals), Sinjin Landers (guitar, lead vocals), Caleb Bales (drums) and Connor Landers (bass).
In just one short year together, the band has managed to accomplish what many have set out to do and failed. They have shared a stage with bands like Limp Bizkit, Buckcherry, Trapt, Aaron Lewis and Sickpuppies for crowds of 40,000+. They have also hung out with super stars like Fred Durst.
“It was surreal,” said Sinjin Landers.
The band collectively expressed their gratitude for these moments by saying — “We’re proud to be at this place in our career. We want to show kids that if you have a dream, do it. If you live in a small town and think you can’t get out and accomplish something, you just have to try. If you have a will, you will find a way.”
Other major accomplishments include a recent sponsorship by AOL and Studio Now.
Of course, Skattered Union has garnered the attention of many cities’ smaller venues, as well. Their devoted 26-city-strong street team is always on the look out for new venues and fans. The band is getting airplay in eight major markets, plus numerous college towns and online radio shows.
These young, but wise beyond their years, musicians are about more than just jumping around a stage, yelling random lyrics.
Despite their hard core image, the band is drug and alcohol free.
“Today, everybody’s lives are so muddled with drug problems. It’s about having a natural high,” Bales said.
“It’s important to not get caught up in the moment,” Connor Landers said.
In their quest to be a good example for their fans, they encourage them to, cliché or not, be themselves.
“If everyone would stop judging everyone else, the world would be happier,” Connor Landers said.
The band does a live podcast once a week at www.skatteredunion.com to interact with fans. Visit www.myspace.com/skatteredunion to listen to or download Skattered Union tunes or to show the band some love. ???
OCTOBER 1, 2010 - The Knoxville Journal
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Biography
Skattered Union is making waves in the Pop/Punk genre! They are rocking the scene with true pop/punk lyrics and real live music that Sinjin and Killian wrote themselves. They have been playing since they were 14 years old and writing music since they were even younger. SkAttered Union cut their first CD at the young ages of 16 and 14 years old. Everything they write comes from their own experience dealing with peer pressure and the everyday trials of being a teenager dealing with heavy issues like friends who have over dosed on drugs and their own struggle to try and help their friends overcome the effects of the poverty and lack of education have caused in their very young lives.
Watching their young friends, and their friends parents deal with their drug addictions and the effects that poverty has had on their families because of the drugs and alcohol really made them understand at a young age the true effects that drugs have on even one individuals life. The boys wanted to educate their young friends and they couldn't help but sing out about the oppression that the drugs were causing for the people they loved. Everyone around them seemed to be trapped in a bubble of ignorance and not at all attuned to the devastation of the entire society in their home town. At 15 Sinjin starting writing self destructive, it was a song about their town, about their friends and the ruin of their lives and how they all seemed so clueless as to how their choices were the cause of their own ruin.
After the first song, each new song came pouring out and they all reflected what they were witnessing every day around them. Their friends were dropping out like flies, one overdosed on pills at a music event in town and almost died, . He was a former member of the original band and it really hit home with the boys. They found themselves looking at their own lives, they wanted to make a difference and the only thing their peers seemed to care about was getting high and listening to music. Another friend and band member lost a very young family member to drug overdose and was devastated. SkAttered Union pushed on, even though they lost member after member because of addiction, the boys remained clean and their mind was clear about what they needed to do. They deliver a message in every song, and their fans get it. The band has been ever resilient, and they have been true to their music. If you listen to their lyrics you will know that each song that SkAttered Union has produced has a very heavy message, and it is coming across to the youth of today. It is telling them to stop, look, and most of all to think about what they are doing.
It takes talent to bring controversial messages to the stage and make people WANT to hear your message. They know how to handle a crowd and make them come forward and beg for more at every concert. The band is interactive with fans both on and off stage and are not afraid of self or individual gig promotion via social and media outlets. Through these social medias the band members have reached out, they have touched lives and made changes in their friends with their music and values.
Skattered Union has been touring all over the East Coast and playing large, high impact festivals like The Memphis Music Festival, CPR Fest, Central Florida Music Festival, The Gulfport Music Festival where they headlined with Cobra Starship, Sean Kingston, Train, Neon Trees and Flo Rida. They took the stage in front of approximately 40,000 people and rocked Gulfport like they owned it! These were all highly publicized events and it brought Skattered Union to the forefront in Gulfport, Memphis, Nashville, and Biloxi - all of which are well know areas for their music and soul. Skattered Union is a headline band and can handle a crowd better than most seasoned music veterans can. They have played in Times Square and rocked in the very spot that U2 stood not an hour before them.
The band has also played fundraisers in many states that brought in money to help support underfunded schools like the May Madness Festival in Paintsville, Kentucky where all the proceeds went to the school band, or 34 Hope which raised over $10,000 for tornado victims in Central Alabama. They have played many larger art and music funding festivals all over the East Coast and the deep South as well.
"We have played with big name bands like Cobra Starship, Sean Kingston, Flo Rida, Neon Trees, Limp Bizkit, Buckcherry, Trapt, Aaron Lewis and Sickpuppies, and they were all just real people just like us. You learn to respect each individual for what they give of themselves to the crowd. We have taken on large crowds of over 40,000 people in large coliseums like The Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Gulfport Music Festival, and the coliseum at Loyola University and we left the fans screaming for more! There is nothing more exciting than to know you have made new friends and new fans all through your music, and what is
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Skattered Union is making waves in the Pop/Punk genre! They are rocking the scene with true pop/punk lyrics and real live music. They know how to handle a crowd and make them come forward and beg for more at every concert. The band is interactive with fans both on and off stage and are not afraid of self or individual gig promotion via social and media outlets, so you won't be promoting the gigs alone with this band.
Skattered Union has been touring all over the East Coast and playing large, high impact festivals like The Gulfport Music Festival where they headlined with Sean Kingston, Train, Neon Trees and Flo Rida. They took the stage in front of approximately 40,000 people and rocked Gulfport like they owned it! To show a true testimony of their fan base they sold out of all t-shirts and cd's at a set price of $25.00 each and the tickets to this show were $55.00 at the gate and $40.00 if purchased online in advance. This was a highly publicized event and it brought Skattered Union to the forefront in Gulfport and Biloxi. Skattered Union is a headline band and can handle a crowd better than most seasoned music veterans can.
Skattered Union will be taking the stage at large festivals all over the East Coast this summer like the Sun n Fun Festival in Florida and many more that the band has already booked, bringing in more and more fans and tons of publicity for the band and the events they are playing at. They always set up radio interviews at local stations and blast out press releases both in print and rss feed.
We have played with big name bands like Limp Bizkit, Buckcherry, Trapt, Aaron Lewis and Sickpuppies. We have taken on large crowds of over 40,000 people in large coliseums like The Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi and the coliseum at Loyola University and we left the fans screaming for more!
SkAttered Union was also featured on the Real Radio Show and played live in Times Square on Dec. 12th. Drawing a large crowd and creating an excellent fan base in new York that continues to follow the band and beg for more appearances in New York.
We have played many smaller venues as well and we keep the show warm and open, the fans go nuts and we never fail to walk away with a full email list of people who want to keep in touch with our band.
We do have a true following with over 26 Street Team Leaders in 26 cities and 14 in foreign countries each with full teams of fans waiting to go out and spread the word not only for the band but also for new venues. We on average send out anywhere between 250 to 475 t-shirts and cds with autographed pictures of the band every day but Sunday, and these are all fan requested items.
We are getting air play at stations all over the South East and plan a radio station tour beginning Nov.1st that will include every genre appropriate collegiate station and mainstream stations.
The band was also recently sponsored by AOL for their Studio Now, working together with the AOL production managers to develop a promotional video for Studio Now featuring Skattered Union as a showcase band.
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