The HIGHlights:
Deathcab For Cutie is a pretty hip Seattle band - I checked them out a few years ago at Emo's solely because of their name, and walked away semi-unimpressed. The band's latest effort, however, is its best and I recommend it.
The John Butler Trio hails from Australia, and there were more dreadlocks at this show per capita than anywhere else at any given time yesterday - dig those stand up basses.
The real shows were still to come, however, and 2 of the 3 didn't disappoint - although the one that did was a little surprising to me. At this point Cody Hodges had thrown his first INT of the year.
Jet opened up their show loudly reminiscent of those 70's bands we all loved and just kept cranking it out the whole time it was on stage with no BS in between songs - a great rock and roll band.
We were backstage (Stubb's plug here) for the last 2 shows of the night and Bloc Party, as it turned out, stole the whole day's worth of music. They were the darlings of SXSW and these guys just don't know how good they really are. At one point, the lead singer gushed that the crowd was the largest they had ever played for. Go buy this album right now.
Finally, the big disappointment was Oasis. The guys just didn't appear that they even cared to be there, which was too bad considering how good of a band they used to be. Yawn.
The night wound down at Stubb's where Wilco was playing, but at that point we were more interested in paying Jack in the Box a visit for the second night in a row.
Time for round 3 - the Tivo is set for 3pm.
1 comment:
Glad to see you're Tivo-ing the Cowboy game.
I would have loved to have seen Jet. I imagine they put on a great show.
As far as that Cody Hodges INT goes, it was short lived, as the guy fumbled it on the return (when Taurean Henderson hit him) and Tech recovered for 1st and 10. Hodges never left the field.
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