Cheers Elephant - Side Bar, SXSW, Austin TX - March 14, 2014

[Philadelphia, PA? / Southern California?] First show of SXSW! I was trying to stay calm but it is only the best holiday of the year! Our real first show (Dune Rats) was a bust (changed schedules), so we schlepped over to the bar next door to see the band our new friend from the bus stop (member of Rare Monk) was hustling downtown in the late morning to see. Five minutes into the band our ‘friend’ was there to see – twee girl in a shorts and top outfit made of an impossibly thick beige material covered in bumblebees – convinced us to see the inside band instead. And Rockboy loved them… he does tend to be enthusiastic in the first flush of SXSW … but they were good. Big indie pop with some psych-y touches – Rockboy heard The Strokes. They covered La Bamba, used a megaphone…