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SXSW scenes: Notes in brief…
— Everyone who saw the Circle Jerks on Thursday night at an utterly packed Beerland was floored.
“Really, really fun,” No No No Hopes/Camp X-Ray bassist Mark Grady said. “All old stuff.”
“The last bit was all old Black Flag songs,” Transmission co-owner Graham Williams said. (Circle Jerks singer Keith Morris did time in Black Flag.) “It was like a weird dream, like you’d tell someone ‘Yeah, I had this dream where I went to Beerland, but Max wasn’t at the door, it was this other girl stamping your hand and for some reason the Circle Jerks were playing.’”
Circle Jerks played the Mess With Texas fest Saturday evening and Morris was spotted backstage in a Beerland T-shirt.
— Was that Kanye West checking out Kid Sister’s set Friday night at Club De Ville? Observers said whomever it was, and those who danced up closer swear it was him, say a wig was involved, but so were two large bodyguards.
— By the way, if you can’t make it to the Kanye show tonight at Fader Fort, know that it is streaming on fader.com.
— It seems to have been a good year for old people, by which I mean bands with members older than, say, 35. Strong buzz is out there for the sets from Obits, Flower Travellin Band, DEVO, Absu, Slough Feg and others.
— For a band known for having a sullen lead singer, Echo and the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch should be given some sort of award for not punching Echo touring rhythm guitarist Gordon Goudie while on stage. Goudie displayed some of the most annoying, distracting hey-look-at-me rock movies of the entire festival, non of which fit with the band’s music. Dude, nobody needs to look at you. They are here to see Ian and guitarist Will Sargent. Now, I admit that those two dudes don’t move much and your guitar adds much needed noise to the proceedings. Still, as the kids said back in the Bunnymen’s ’80s heyday, take it down a thousand.
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