Kanye West's SXSW Show Already Has People Lined Up

People are already lined up waiting to get into Kanye West's hyped-up show at South By Southwest.Only 1,000 people will get into the super-exclusive show, which is why the line formed at 6 a.m. along West Street in Austin.There's not much to look at -- the line is by an...

By Martin Cizmar

March 19, 2011

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People are already lined up waiting to get into Kanye West's hyped-up show at South By Southwest.

Only 1,000 people will get into the super-exclusive show, which is why the line formed at 6 a.m. along West Street in Austin.

There's not much to look at -- the line is by an ugly power station on a street where few people are walking -- but fans are making the best of it, sitting under umbrellas for shade, blaring College Dropout from a boombox. The show doesn't start until Midnight so they've got a long wait.

Jonathan Lucio, a SXSW volunteer from Corpus Christi, posted up at 9 a.m. since he hasn't seem 'Ye before. There's an awful lot of other music to see bit nothing caught his eye so he's selling his badge and chilling with a crowd of about 50 that'll get much larger after the sun gets a little lower.

I almost decided to hop in line with them... If that sounds crazy you've probably never seen Kanye before.

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