super whammy double day rundown part 2!

for the optimum experience, read the last post (part 1) before reading this one.

woke up in the morning and realised no one was home, i didn't have a phone and we had a show in a few hours. i panicked for a while and eventually jumped on skype, attempting to call rich with my one free skype call but it rang out. sick. i tried to buy some skype credit and the money came out of my account but my skype credit didn't arrive until after rich logged on and i could call him for free anyway. sick. sussed it out, jon eventually came and picked me up. we headed to the convention centre for the KCRW showcase, first show of the day.




this girl named lissie was playing and she is amazing. incredible throaty voice, effortless. real sweetheart. we played and it was a bit of a sterile environment but everyone was chilling out so that was okay. finished, loaded out and headed to the next venue: red eyed fly.


after loading in, joe and i got hot dawgs from some kingly gentleman.


they were okay. did i mention that it was absolutely FREEZING? it felt like it was about 5 degrees. celcius, that is. everything was cold. life was cold. anyway, we played about 4:30 and it was still cold.


it was so cold that rohin introduced the show by saying "hi, we're the middle east and this is going to be hilarious". it reminded of the paste party at galaxy the other day cause a number of things weren't quite right so we were all a little annoyed and played really angrily. which kind of added to the set. it turned into a good thing. NEG VIBE CONVERSION. talked to some cool cats after then loaded out and walked around for a bit. went to a beautiful hotel called the driskill to have some food but we ended up just sitting in the lounge drinking water. i got a little bored of that so i decided to walk around the hotel taking photos.










i must have looked like a real creep snooping around the hotel taking photos. i had to hide my camera a few times which would have looked even more suss, but heck the hotel was so nice i couldn't resist. after that i made my way down to 6th to grab some pizza and find maggie maes to load in for the next show, the aussie bbq. eventually ran into ro and we found everyone in maggie maes. started getting set up while washington soundchecked and then played. i really enjoyed them, the front lady meg has a killer voice and can hit those keys real nice too. dappled cities followed them with a super solid set. i'd never actually seen them live before and i was really impressed. they've got entirely their own vibe going on and i love that.

we followed dappled. it was nice playing to some more australians again. not that we don't appreciate the US crowds but there's something about playing to a room full of your own countrymen in another country that's weird and nice. we played a pretty good set i think, it was a bit of a celebration for us because it was the end of the intense grind that was sxsw 2010. met a bunch of cool people at the show including paul and moe, two gentlemen who'd travelled all the way to sxsw from near dallas just to see us cause they'd missed our denton show at the start of the trip. really straight up guys. there were two other guys that travelled to see us too but i forget their names, i feel bad for that. they were really encouraging and had most excellent tattoos.

i wandered off and got some more pizza and checked out the alamo ritz.


it's this beautiful cinema right on E 6th in the heart of austin. there's a few more alamos around austin but this is the original and (apparently) the best. besides being a nice big well designed ornate cinema it also has tables running along the front of every aisle of seats so you can order food before the show and eat it during. it also had a stage so i presume they had music and maybe sometimes theatre in there too. the lady who was running the door was nice enough to let me go in for a few minutes and watch what was playing (a documentary about rural studios which was really interesting) so i could see the cinema. here's a sneak peak of what it was like out on E 6th at around midnight on the last night of sxsw.



after that i headed back upstairs and rich pulled out some more cigars (i'm assuming they were "sxsw is over!" cigars) and we headed downstairs to light them up. i believe it was rich, don, joe, hootie (mel's husband, andrew), rohin and myself. jord popped in a few times too. jordan (TAO) got a good photo of don and i with our respective rolled leaf sticks.


don's a bit of a dude as you can see from this photo.

while finishing up our cigars we started to pack the van. a nice lady named diana was helping keep the cops off our back so we gave her a vinyl (the EP was recently released in the UK on 10") which she appreciated. i talked to her awhile and found out her favourite band was don castillo who i am going to look up. after that we decided to leave but mark and jord went ahead and we lost them so joe, bree, ro and myself went with don and rich to the hilton to have a quiet drink and wait for the van to come back.




don's a hell of a photographer and showed us some great shots. rich helped me get internet but it kept dropping out. thanks anyway rich! eventually the van came back, picked us up and we were outta there after saying goodbyes to don and rich. went back to colin's, found beds, sleep time.

i just woke up. we're driving to dallas today.

speak soon.