Future Blondes - Elysium, SXSW, Austin TX - March 18, 2015




[Houston] I was lured from Beerland to Elysium by the thick wafts of smoke streaming out Elyisum’s front door. The mist was so thick, you were essentially stumbling around in complete darkness, with eerie backlit silhouettes of people along the edges. Ominous ambient music coming from the stage and people walking around the crowd using tiny flashlights to blind people. Then the music started in earnest – old school industrial clang – and rectangular strobe lights started going off. There was nowhere safe to look. Then the mist started pulsing with light – I felt seizures coming on and had to vacate. Horrow show – appalling – never do it again. And this initiated my brief friendship with a guy from the border who has “like 5 bands” – “yeah we gig pretty regularly… well not for a few years” – he followed me around for a bit and then had the effrontery to DITCH ME without explanation.

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