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Here's all the good pictures of all the bands I saw at SXSW 07. The bands I link to are the ones I really liked and would recommend to others. Not to say the others were necessarily bad, they just weren't quite my taste. But first, some comments on my very first South by Southwest experience
Best Venue: La Zona Rosa. Mostly because they had the best lighting of any venue, and every concert I went to there I was in the front or second row.
Worst Venue: Exodus or Element. Horrendous lighting and stages only about a foot off the floor. Both are normally dance clubs, and thus only concert venues 4 days out of the year.
Worst Venue Runner up: Uncle Flirty's. Only because they scheduled a free rock band the floor below a SXSW singer-songwriter Marit Larsen, and the noise from below bleed right through
Must Have Accessory: Earplugs. My ears are still thanking me after some of the body rattling bass.
Should Have Had Accessory: Some of those gel shoe insert things. Standing up for 8 hours straight on club concert is hard on the feet.
Best Reason to Be A Rock Star: You can wear the most absolutely ridiculous outfits and no one calls you out on it because you're the lead singer in a band.
Best Random Artist: Kid Koala. Freakin amazing skills and cool show. Glad I decided to follow the paper's recommendation
Best Show: The Bravery. Probably biased since I love the band and up close.
Worst Show: Peter and the Wolf. Lead singer was really drunk.
Most Annoying Thing About SXSW: Having to show up really early to make sure you can get into a show and suffering through bands you have no interest in seeing (re: Peter and the Wolf) Sometimes it works out well though, but usually not.
Show I Shouldn't Have Bothered Going To: Cute Is What We Aim For. I should have been tipped off that 80% of the crowd was high school indie-teeny-bopper girls.
Best Quote: "You should put some clothes on" Said by a 6 year old as he passed by Austin's famous Leslie
Best Band Quote: "This is our 3rd SXSW and we only keep coming so we can become famous" - The Lovemakers.
Best Dancing by Lead Singer: Ghostland Observatory. No contest.
All in all I had a blast and can't wait to do it again next year. Even though I had only heard of a handful of these bands before the festival, part of the fun was going to random shows and seeing what happened. Next year I'm going to do a lot more research on the bands beforehand, but for going at it mostly blindly, I think I did pretty well.
The number of pictures usually correlates to how much I liked the band, but anything at La Zona Rosa has a ton of pictures since the lighting was so good so it was easy to take amazing shots. Other venues I only had one good photo at best. Maybe next year I'll buy a better camera for low-light shots. And it's really hard to get an entire band in the shot when you're in the first row, hence the majority of them are only one or two guys.
Wednesday
3-14-2007
Pipettes
@ La Zona Rosa
The Rapture
@ La Zona Rosa
Razorlight
@ Stubbs Amphitheater
The Bravery
@ Stubbs Amphitheater
Thursday
3-15-2007
Pete Townshend
@ La Zona Rosa
Elvis Perkins
@ La Zona Rosa
Cold War Kids
@ La Zona Rosa
At the end of the set they invited the Elvis Perkins band and other people to do a jam session, ending up with over 15 people on stage banging on everything from wine bottles to a beer keg.
Architecture in Helsinki
@ La Zona Rosa
Ghostland Observatory
@ La Zona Rosa
The Dirty Hearts
@ Co-Op Bar
On the smallest stage I think I've ever seen. I felt bad for them.
The Young Knives
@ Friends
Friday
3-16-2007
Took the day off work to see what the day shows had to offer, and more importantly, catch up on sleep.
The Hedrons
@ Uncle Flirty's
The Lovemakers
@ Spiro's
This Will Destory You
@ Maggie Mae's
Marit Larsen
@ Uncle Flirty's Loft
Peter and the Wolf
@ Element
Pela
@ Element
The Faint
@ Element
Saturday
3-17-2007
Spill Canvas
@ Emo's
Cute is what we Aim For
@ Emo's
Mohair
@ La Zona Rosa
Mew
@ La Zona Rosa
Yppah
@ The Parish
Kid Koala
@ The Parish
Including a glow-stick dance off
Prototypes
@ Exodus
Junior Senior
@ Exodus
Misc Austin Shots
The Frost Building from top of a parking garage on 5th:
Another downtown shot:
Some 6th Street:
The 101x vehicle
The Wristband that did it all
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