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SXSW: dispatches from the frontline
Day began @ 6.30 in the AM when a 30-piece Mariachi band in full regalia performed a surprise gig in my hotel bedroom. Advance warning would have been nice, but the set certainly created some buzz in the adjoining rooms and corridor. The elevator ride to breakfast was soundtracked by Congolese folk collective Papa Doodle Doo, who overcame their fear of enclosed spaces to deliver a sterling set, while the cab ride to see Petrified Aubergine made their SXSW debut in a disused coal shed was hijacked by much hyped Czechoslovakian punk outlaws The Gary Busey Experiment, who slit the driver’s throat and made off with the takings.
Special mention too must go to my top tips for 2010 – tween-psychobilly duo Cogent Housekeeper (whose debut album drops in April under the force of gravity.) Yes, Neville Cornflake and his partner in rhyme Derek “The Tractor Lawnmower” Gonzales rocked the fuck out of Austin in a gig which few present at that will live long in the memory of all who made it to their gig in that old abandoned mine shaft.
UPDATED: My find of the day for Friday were four doe-eyed young scamps I chanced upon on the kerb outside Big Larry’s Bar & Grill and immediately fell in love with. Asked if they had any CDs for sale, they explained that they weren’t musicians and were just waiting on a friend. Nonetheless I’m confident there’s a lot more to come from Steve, Chuck, Geraldo and Mary.
March 19th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Well at the moment I’m right up the front to see an incredibly brilliant band you’ve never heard of and I can confirm, Mike, that yer definitely not cool enough to be here….
March 19th, 2010 at 11:24 am
I hear some of the bands playing this year are so cool and edgy they haven’t even formed yet!
March 19th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@ EK – what can I say, no rest for the wicked…
March 19th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Don’t miss Todd Edgar Hoover & The Fat Predicament — they’re playing Dannys Pawn Shop.
If you don’t know where that is, er, never mind dude, maybe next year
March 19th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
@ Peter81 – caught them, their set was amazing, one of the highlights of SXSW’10 imho
March 20th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Sour grapes boys, you’d all be here in a flash if you could!!
March 21st, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Haha, consider me chastened. When you say here, do you mean Austin or the Intergalactic Confederacy??
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:58 am
I’m not going to publish a comment was just left on here, since I can’t verify whether or not it was really left by the person purporting to have left it (email address: [email protected]).
Either way, the original blog post was written in jest and I certainly wasn’t taking the piss out of any individual journalist. Least of all one I happen to really like.
March 22nd, 2010 at 2:18 am
P.S. If it really is from the person who purports to have left it – let’s meet up… and fight!
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Chicken
March 22nd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Send me an email (to prove its really you) and I’ll gladly post both comments…
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:40 am
Truth is stranger than fiction:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=34776635&blogId=531374419
April 3rd, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Funny how you’ll publish comments from “Bibi Baskin” but not from “*****”. Like I said above, chicken,
April 3rd, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Anyone with half a brain knows Bibi Baskin isn’t leaving comments on my blog. But you could be mistaken for the person you’re pretending to be. That person is a friend of mine. You’re not that person. You’re some moron with a fake email address.