Dirty Filthy Mugs - Dizzy Rooster, SXSW, Austin TX - March 16, 2011

[Los Angeles, CA] real punk is pretty hard to come by during SXSW so this was a welcome relief of a show - as it turns out, it looks like this band was not an official SXSW showcase band (we were led here by ThinLizzyLover) – sounded British, the sing-along drunk type punk – the leader singer was just perfect: he’d have these little moments of insecurity and then he was back to being in the audience’s face and yelling “fucking hipster prick” – Rockboy was excited when they covered a Test Tube Babies song and would officially call them “street punk” – in an example of how they blended fuck-you-ness with charming earnestness, the lead singer wept to the side at one point, “If we just make one person happy…”