So we didn’t have much planned for Wednesday. The two big shows were Lily Allen at Stubbs and Beirut, The Mountain Goats, and Blonde Redhead at Emos. Both had fantastic lines so we didn’t even attempt them. We started at Elysium seeing “The Hourly Radio” who were really good. Somewhere in between Placebo and The Secret Machines in sound. After them were Blacklist. They sounded really good recorded, but I think the singer couldn’t play guitar quickly and sing so all the songs were really slow. And the singer sounded like Peter Murphy, who neither Julie and I are that into. We ended up ditching that show and looking for something else. We ended up at Spiro’s seeing Electrico. They are apparently the hot band in Singapore right now. And they were pretty amazing to watch. They quality of the singing and playing was definitely head and shoulders over pretty much anything you see at SXSW. It wasn’t completely my style, but it was done really well. Julie didn’t enjoy it as much as I did since she got slapped by some old lady who was trying to get her to dance, or something…

We ended up going to see The Unbearables at their free showcase at Trophies after that. We’d pretty much exhausted all of our SXSW options and we really had missed seeing the Unbearables. They rocked and were done too soon. They should have had a showcase…

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Comments

Tara (http://rabid-fraggle.blogspot.com/)

2007-03-15T18:26:02.000Z

So did you get time off of work to do the SXSW thing? Or were the shows you mentioned later in the day? I wish that I was dedicated enough to fight my way through the south by experience. I’ve never done it, but it doesn’t seem like my speed. The whole being out in public in a crowd thing and all. Ick. Sounds like you guys are having fun so far! Keep updating on the shows so that I can live vicariously. :)

Ian

2007-03-16T06:05:24.000Z

Damn right we should have! Thanks again for coming. Hope you guys have a great weekend.