Music makes you feel things – sometimes it aches, sometimes it soars, sometimes it shakes the ground under your feet. That’s the spirit at the heart of Gazed and Confused Fest, a new three-day event landing at Puzzles in Deep Ellum from March 20 – 22. Instead of sticking to a single sound, the festival brings together a vibrant mix of alternative, metal and shoegaze bands.
The idea for the festival sparked, as many great ideas do, from a moment of inspiration at another festival. Jewel Patani, co-founder, talent buyer and executive assistant at Third String Entertainment, was at South by Southwest with Third String co-founder Mike Ziemer when the two noticed a distinct trend.
“We were just seeing a lot of these really cool shoegazey, emo rock acts,” Patani tells the Observer…