Drop The Lime played our VICE KILLS TEXAS party and just sent us this hilarious video for his song E-Lock. Says DTL:
"Shot by swan kids in the italian alps/ castellucia di norcia this past december. bad boy got gutted and trimmed last week. enjoy "
Video: DTL - E-Lock
Didn't go to SXSW and wish you had? Or maybe you were there and want to recreate the magic in your own home? Well, now you can, sort of but probably not really. Sony Connect, the good folks who sponsored Vice Kills Texas, recorded live sets from some of the bands that played, and you can get them here. Download, drink a case of PBR and eat so much BBQ that you don't poo for a week, and play these tracks for your friends. Create your own little pretend rock festival.
As we said here Diamond Nights got an amazing letter scolding them for bad behaviour at SXSW. Well, we got a hold of it. It's from a radio show from Minnesota called The Current.
Someone threw a bottle at Towers of London so the entire band got off the stage and kicked the guy’s ass right into the beer tent. Stockbauer (owner of Longbranch Inn) got knocked out for making fun of some guy’s dead dog. Crom (pictured here) played an amazing set that included their crippled singer taking a barf on the stage and the guitarist kicking it to some girl WHILE HE PLAYED.
There's these guys called the Teenage Harlets that aren't booked for any SXSW stuff but keep showing up in a van and playing two songs at every event. The van is all hooked up with a PA and amps and all that and they just park in the middle of wherever and start jamming until they get kicked out. They’re like a Hives / New Bomb Turks thing. It was weird when they came to our thing because we thought we were crashing SXSW but then they crashed us so then we became the bad guys. It was like a Marxist Dialectic where the proletariat became the oppressor and it made us feel like farting.
What a cunt it was getting here. Do yourself a favor. If you miss your flight and you’re on standby and then you miss the next one, insist they do what’s called a “rollover” where you move to the top of the next standby list. Most people at the gate don’t know this new rule so you have to really drive it home but remember, you get more bees with honey than with vinegar.
Anyway, we’re here now. We went straight to the Longbranch from the airport and, in true Texas style, there was a huge brawl going on as we walked in. Sean was kicking out some dude and the guy smashed a beer bottle on the ground and started to attack. Sean managed to ward him off with some fancy karate moves but got his thumb split open so bad it has a flap hanging off it the size of a cannoli.
That was last night. Today is a new day. The Vice Kills Texas party starts at noon and goes til 8. Every band listed here is confirmed except Whitehouse who backed out at the last second for some reason we’re still trying to figure out. We’ve got over 60 bands playing the next two days and you don’t need a pass so don’t miss it.
Oh yeah, we heard some rich Texan was so mad about the title “Vice Kills Texas” he took out a full page ad in the Austin Chronicle defending this great state. Um, moron, we meant “kills” like “knocks it out of the park” not “extinguishes the life of all 20 million residents.” Tabernak.
AUSTIN - VICE SXSW SHOWCASE
What can we say about South By Southwest that hasn't been spilled or soiled in another hundred places?
Well, we can tell you about our killer line-up this year, which includes The Fuckemos, Art Brut, Lady Sovereign, Spank Rock, Test Icicles, Plan B, Fatal Flyin' Guilloteens, Kinky Friedman, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Annie, Whitehouse, plus much more ... See the full bill.
Come back to Viceland for live updates from the festival.
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