Free Press Houston

Westheimer Block Party, 2005 — “West Fest Compressed”

October 15, 2005

The first edition documented in the archive's own holdings. The paper prints it as “West Fest Compressed”, not yet as the Westheimer Block Party; the name the paper later used is applied here only as the collection it begins. Four numbered stage sites are keyed to a hand-drawn map of Westheimer, Montrose, Taft and Fairview, with a fifth schedule column for Helios Upstairs. Thirty-six sets are printed with set times, and eight sponsors are thanked on the map page. Date printed on the map page of Free Press Houston Issue 52, October 2005: “October 15th”. The issue itself is the primary source; no other held record dates this edition.

Dates
October 15, 2005
Site
Helios (411 Westheimer), Numbers (300 Westheimer), Mango's (403 Westheimer), Imagine That (2402 Montrose)
City
Houston
Recovered lineup
36 names
Held visual records
2
Record confidence
confirmed · in-review

Held visual record

Band Schedule, page 8 of Free Press Houston Issue 52, October 2005, printing thirty-six sets with times across Helios (411 Westheimer), Helios Upstairs, Numbers (300 Westheimer), Imagine That (2402 Montrose) and Mango's (403 Westheimer), under the printed title “West Fest Compressed”. · Object record
Map, page 9 of Free Press Houston Issue 52, October 2005, printing “October 15th”, a hand-drawn site map by Timothy J. Dorsey keying stages 1–4 to Westheimer, Montrose, Taft and Fairview, and a list of eight sponsors. · Map artwork by Timothy J. Dorsey · Object record

Lineup — 36 names, with stage and set time

Credited contributors

In the collection

Westheimer Block Party