http://showburner.com Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:59:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://showburner.com/sxsw/sxsw-preview-standard-fare The Crookes, then, instead of going down the rampantly excitable route, instead tread the lesser-travelled, but much, much more difficult path of trying to weave in Motown references, big choruses, and The Smiths, without it all sounding like a mess of the first water. The soon-coming single Bloodshot Days is a little cracker, with some fine crooning, musically managing to reference almost all of my favourite records at some point or another. There seems to be some chatter about them at the moment, and it's well-deserved. I'd dearly love to end with a really duff joke around how The Crookes should become famous or it'd be criminal, but I think we're all well past that, and I'm not sure everyone finds the same stuff as funny as me.]]> http://showburner.com/sxsw/sxsw-preview-the-crookes Strait Laces are one of the Northern Irish contingent at SXSW this year. I always find Northern Irish bands - and the Northern Irish in general for that matter - to be ever-so-slightly but fundamentally crazy, in a cheery but quite patently demented sort of way. Brilliant fun, sharp as a switchblade, but invariably the sort that will leave you for dead in a drinking competition, a race, or a fight. It's endearing in many ways. Unsurprisingly - to me, anyway - Strait Laces come across exactly like that, all yelping and occasionally unrestrained voltage. As if the wheels are about to come off, but only because they've unscrewed them all.]]> http://showburner.com/sxsw/sxsw-preview-strait-laces http://showburner.com/blog/well-yes-and-here-we-go-again hurray, the grid!) is now live on sxsw.com for all your nerdish planning needs, while I've weeded out the brits who are playing after the wotsit.]]> http://showburner.com/sxsw/british-bands-at-sxsw-2010-final-list-maybe-now-live We Were Promised Jetpacks, Hudson Mohawke, Unicorn Kid, Broken Records and the hotly-anticipated showcase from Frightened Rabbit, Young Fathers, Mull Historical Society and Codeine Velvet Club (featuring him off The Fratellis) are all on the bill, with The View "mysteriously" dropping off. You might not get a deep-fried Mars Bar in Austin, but you will get the soundtrack. Full list below, aye. ]]> http://showburner.com/sxsw/scottish-bands-at-sxsw-2010-the-view-are-out-codeine-velvet-club-mull-historical-society-young-fathers-are-in Enormous Band List Of Doom just keeps on getting bigger, and from a quick whizz down the list, I can see that ever-such-nice-boys Athlete, as well as Ian MacLagan & The Bump Band (he was in the Small Faces, y'know) have been added to the British SXSW contingent.]]> http://showburner.com/sxsw/ian-maclagan-and-athlete-confirm-as-list-keeps-swelling Fanfarlo are to play at Californian radio station KCRW's evening showcase on Weds, 17 Mar, representing Britain alongside a globe-spanning line-up including Ozomatli, Mike Snow, Choir Of Young Believers, Soko and Fitz And The Tantrums.]]> http://showburner.com/sxsw/fanfarlo-sxsw-showcase-confirmed live on sxsw.com, but this is the list of British bands playing SXSW 2010 that we've got together so far. Let us know if you hear of anyone we've missed - there's probably loads, since there's no longer an easy-to-scan list sorted by country yet. Latest scan through it shows up Stricken City, Pulled Apart By Horses and Marina And The Diamonds all added to the Brit-list. There's also a Twitter list we've put together of showcasing Brits that you can follow here.]]> http://showburner.com/sxsw/british-bands-at-sxsw-2010-as-at-20th-jan The Pop Cop, there have clearly been some late nights and some square eyes as they've gone through Google and listed all the Scottish bands they could find on Bandcamp. I'd taken my eye off Bandcamp, but on the back of this list it looks like it's getting some traction from bands (Frightened Rabbit, Meursault, Amanda Palmer for example), and I've got all my fingers and toes tied up in knots this continues, because - just like everyone else - I'm flat-out sick of linking to them simply by default. The Pop Cop's got the scoop though, so have a nose around, tell bands about it, tell your friends about it and encourage it. It's just better that way.]]> http://showburner.com/blog/pop-cop-goes-google-eyed-doing-the-rest-of-us-a-favour-with-bandcamp-trawl