South By Southwest: Day 3- Part 2

I left Red 7, on my third day of South By Southwest, and walked in the lovely sunshine further east to a house show, where a slip and slide was promised. Turned out it was more of a yard show, and a super great one at that. There were beachballs bouncing around the crowd, ok to good bands playing, and, though no one was utilizing it, there was a slip and slide. Also, very few Iphones out, and no mention of Tumblr in sight.

 

 Plea for friendliness or strict penis advice?

Renée got to see her beloved El Ten Eleven, who were rocking a double neck guitar (!), and I got to snap a picture of this little badass, whose mom, in what was part of a much more prominent Local Pride movement I noticed during SXSW, was wearing a shirt reading "Welcome to Austin, Please Don't Move Here"

 

I stayed later than the rest of my crew, and got to see Zorch, a local Austin two piece who ahve a sort of less-bewildering more electronic Lightning Bolt vibe. Zorch had the crowd play games with the beachballs that were already everywhere in the yard while they played, and it was a really good time. I took this picture to try and capture this, but it doesn't do a very good job:

A very long, and admittedly 40 fueled, walk back to the Spiderhouse followed, where I got to catch Javelin, a duo whose self released debut Jamz n Jemz was one of my favorite albums in 2009. I hadn't really been following what they had been up to since, though I know they signed with Luaka Bop and put out an "official" debut, but I had not heard it. From seeing their show, I can surmise that they took some of the usually short instrumentals from Jamz n Jemz and extended them into real songs, with choruses and everything. Some of the vocals, previously sampled, were even sung by one of the guys in the band. This all made me a little confused and I was not totally sure I was on board. My confusion only increased upon hearing them do a, unsurprisingly pretty awkward, cover of A Milli. All in all it was ok, but kind of a let down thanks to my high expectations for seeing them.

Dollars Spent So Far (primarily on bus fairs and forties):
TEN!