What The Hell Is Going On? #37: SXSW 2010 Week Pt.2
By: Thomas Hannan
Hey mate,
Still rubbing our eyes after the triple whammy of the most excellent Matt Groening ATP festival at the weekend, followed by Foals’ return to the live circuit at the Electric Ballroom on Monday and Pavement’s heart-warming run through of anything BUT the hits at Brixton Academy last night, the entire Rockfeedback team could do with a lie down. Instead, we’re going to see Kiss at Wembley tonight. In full make up.
Rockfeedback TV this week takes another look back at some of the sights, sounds and opinions bandied about the recent SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas. We started on Monday with a secret show and in depth chat from technical metal pioneers the Dillinger Escape Plan (pictured - view HERE) delivering probably the heaviest music we’ve ever shot, continue today (Wednesday) by presenting Fool’s Gold’s distinct brand of relentlessly uplifting, sprawling Afropop (HERE) and wrap up the week on Friday with a return to Rockfeedback TV from our old friend Soko, time having diminished her acerbic wit and endearing kookiness not one bit.
Those of us who aren’t at Kiss will be whooping and clapping in the appropriate places as Rockfeedback and Hush join forces to present Peggy Sue, Anna Calvi and the Rural Aberta Advantage in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall in London tonight in perhaps the most serenely lovely line-up we’ve ever put together. The last few tickets can be bought here. The Rockfeedback Live team will also be heading to The Great Escape festival in Brighton on Thursday to host a stage on to which the likes of Gaggle, Pulled Apart By Horses and The Walkmen (the freakin’ Walkmen!) will jump, so if you call the south coast home, get down to that one too.
What else? Oh yeah! We start filming the Concrete and Glass Festival as official media partners tomorrow night, when Volcano The Bear and The Owl Project kick off the second of these fascinating East London celebrations of all things that sound and look just a little bit wrong. There will be a whole host of sculpture, painting and performance art going on across the festival too – check here for more details.
That’s definitely enough.
Tom.x