Thursday, February 28, 2008

SXSW 07

It is the end of February and I am gearing up once again for south by southwest music festival in Austin. I will post the bands I am planning to see very soon. Below is a list of the bands I saw last year.
SXSW 2007 Bands I saw:
Iggy and the Stooges
The Rapture
The Buzzcocks
Pete Townsend (The Who)
The Good, The Bad, and The Queen
The Sunshine Underground
The Pipettes
Peter, Bjorn, and John
Mondo Diao (twice)
Fratellis (twice, one acoustic set, one electric set)
Fujiya + Miyagi
Cold War Kids
Elvis Perkins
Architecture In Helsinki
Takka Takka
Ferraby Lionheart
Trainwreck Riders
Blonde Redhead
Annuals
Dirty on Purpose
Datarock
The Ponys
RJD2
Menomena
Andrew Bird
Girl Talk!
Earl Greyhound
Perry Farrell (he was terrible)
Badly Drawn Boy (equally as terrible)
Malajube (all french lyrics)
Johnossi (awesome Swedish group)
Tokyo Police Club
Monsters Are Waiting
Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings
Buffalo Tom
Waco Brothers
Do Make Say Think
Marnie Stern
Beach House
Simian Mobile Disco
Cloud Cult

Plus many other bands....
Also at about 1am on Saturday night I met Will Mapother, the actor that plays Ethan Rom on the tv show "Lost." He was hanging outside the beauty bar patio watching Tokyo Police Club.

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