Fourth Avenue Food Park might just be the hippest – and most serene – place in Gainesville to grab a spot of breakfast before the carnage of Fest takes over. Over the course of three mornings, we'll spy reformed indie titans Good Luck and up-and-coming power-pop champs Camp Trash, while emo heroes Kerosene Heights – riding high on the back of their excellent sophomore effort 'Blame it on the Weather' – will make it their regular morning haunt.

There's the big names of Fest, too – Max Stern (Signals Midwest), Evan Weiss (Into It Over It/Pet Symmetry), and Erik Hunter Czaja (Dowsing/Pet Symmetry) – they'll swing by for their daily dose of bagels and coffee. In short, if you want to do a spot of DIY emo star spotting, this is the place.

It's super chill, too. To the point that when the instantly recognisable Get Up Kid Matt Pryor rocks up, nobody bats an eyelid. Perhaps more than most festivals, the Fest has cultivated a lack of barriers and a healthy respect for personal space, and this is reflected around town pre- and post-event, too.

Before we get to 'The Salton Sea', it may be prudent to add some context. The album will drop almost immediately after the Get Up Kids end their mammoth run of nostalgia shows, which started with anniversary gigs for 1997's much-loved debut, 'Four Minute Mile', and ended with a near two-year celebration of 1999's epic and iconic 'Something to Write Home About'. Both albums left an enormous imprint on the musical and cultural landscape at the time – indeed, you can probably trace the legacy of those two records in the sound of 80% of the bands playing at Fest this year.