Designer Genes - Mi Madre's, SXSW, Austin TX - March 19, 2011


[from Austin, TX] we were lucky enough to see their last-show-ever (and their 5th show ever) – and all because of a girl: the leader singer and guitarist is moving to follow his woman (who filmed the entire show) - the bassist and the drummer work with ShellFish, and we were regaled with the band’s history the night before by the bassist who learned to play bass just in time for their first show – despite all this, they were a just-fine 90s alt rock, post-grunge sort of band – they had a blues stomper song too – they wrote several of their songs – they played a Roky Erikson cover (“I Walked with a Zombie”) – most charming were the tongue-in-cheek comments of the lead singer – he managed to unite the band and the audience (most of whom he probably knew) into finding all of their flubs endearing and being thrilled that we were able to see the last show if this outstanding – they re-started 3 songs, the bassist screwed up his run one time, and then pulled out notes to do his spoken word part, but that was all part of the hilarity

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