Posts Tagged "SXSW"
Ok, so I’ve been recently a bit stymied by the shiny SXSW scheduler that’s currently live. Because it (currently, anyway) doesn’t have an easy way of checking countries of origin, I just don’t have the time or the inclination to be able to put together a decent list of Brits. In the meantime, here are 20 bands I like who I know are both British AND on the scheduler at the moment. I’ll do...
I know, I’ve already covered this, but this is just prettier. Full sized image here, enjoy.
The first, second and third round of invites have all now been sent out by the good people at SXSW 2011 now and the list-scouring may commence. Just out of habit more than anything – since I’m not b*stard goi g this year (of which you’ll no doubt hear more over the coming months) – here’s a list of the British bands playing so far. As far as I can tell these bands have...
Since I’m also a total humdinger of a data geek, and because I’ve not posted anything about next year’s SXSW yet, I thought I’d have a stab at doing something graphic-y around the bands that have already been invited. I’ll start getting more specifically into the British bands playing (as is customary) a bit later on, but in the meantime I’ve pulled together this cheesy-arsed graphic showing where the bands invited in rounds 1...
I think I've got a bit of a band-crush on Standard Fare. It's getting a bit out of hand, if I'm honest. I think I'm just a sucker for several things, various little trigger points in my head that close the series of synapses that leads to me to completely forget myself. Stuff like boy-girl vocals, clean choppy guitars, start-stop drums, and buckets of vim. That sort of thing. Hence, I guess, the crush....
Look, they're from Sheffield, guitars that sound like that are issued on arrival, let's just move on from anything that mentions the Arctic fucking Monkeys shall we? Excellent.
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...