We survived our first day at SXSW 2007 and it was incredible. With little planning involved, we ended up stumbling through a more amazing day than we could have dreamed up. Here’s a quick recap of what happened:
We started off the day eating cheeseburgers and saw this guy:
After he finished posing for onlookers, he walked away.
We then started our musical journey. Here was our schedule and quick note about each:
Okkervil River @ Bourbon Rocks – Incredible performance; High energy. We all have man-crushes on Will Sheff.
The Mooney Suzuki @Red Eye Fly – Best stage presence of all the bands we saw and great guitar work.
The Whigs @ Friends – The loudest show of them all. We don’t have earplugs, so I stuffed cigarette butts into my ears.
The Black Angels @ Red Eye Fly – A little too much reverb for my taste, but we did bump into Joe Simpson (Jessica’s Dad) and had a nice chat.
Everyone is rushing me to begin day two of our journey, so I’ll continue the day one re-cap in another post. It’ll include Pete Townshend, Elvis Perkins, a quick talk with VietNam on the street, Cold War Kids, Sondre Lerche, The Little Ones, a picture with John Norris from MTV, and Menomena’s 40 minute sound check at 1am that turned the crowd into an angry mob.
By the looks of our schedule, today will be another stellar day. More to come…
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that guy in the thong ran for mayor in Austin… he even has a wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cochran
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