8PM Asteroid Galaxy Tour (Denmark) at Maggie Mae's: This band contains one lovely Mette Lindberg on vocals, a Danish Version of Debra Harry. I'd been stalking this band all weekend, but only managed to catch their last set. Awesome northern European pop with horns and quirkiness.

I'll put in a quick aside here...the Do512 was a lovely little affair in a nice artist compound. It had plenty of Lonestar, some vodka to sample, a little Sweet Leaf Tea, good sound, good site lines, a good size crowd, but plenty of room. The problem is everyone I asked had a different schedule. I had Asteroid Galaxy at 6, but their schedule had 4 (I got there at 4:40), but another guy swore they didn't play. I guess I saw Red Cortez and the Afternoons, who were pretty good, but it was not Black Joe Lewis and Asteroid Galaxy Tour as was on my schedule. That would have kicked ass...grrr.
Another aside from 8:40 -9:30 I was only listening to a band (The Broadfield Marchers) while cursing the refs and Duke Blue Devils as they beat my Horns in B-Ball.
9:30 Love Me Nots (USA) at Smokin Music The Love Me Nots are awesome 60's fuzz rock with TWO lovely lasses in the band, Nicole Laurenne: lead vocals and organ and Kyle Rose Stokes: bass and backup vocals. Go-go boots, doing the swim, and shimmying were in fashion here!
Here's a picture from the actual show that I linked to from their My Space Page:

10PM Cafe Funque (Brazil) at Opal Divines had one woman, CACAU (Lady Acid) on vocals. I wasn't into the one song I heard, so....
10:20 Suzanna Choffel (Texas) at Momo's, a lovely little lady from right here in Austin, Texas. Her Great voice over grooving, indy, jazzy numbers made the Sierra Nevada go down nicely.
Here is her My Space Photo:

11PM Pepper Pots (Spain) at Opal Divines. The number of cute young ladies grew to Three in this band. They were just so damn cute singing their Supreme style harmonies over ska grooves, I...er..well...I bought a CD...just loved the grooviness of the whole thing.
Here's a picture stolen from their website:

12AM Futomomo Satisfaction (Japan) at Opal Divines. I'm sure you heard me talk about the 3 Japanese women wearing bikinis playing Trombones. What you probably did not know was that they were great musicians and that there were actually 5 women wearing bikinis in the band. The keyboard player and bassist also joined in the fun. This was probably the highlight of SXSW for me, at least in terms of fun, good music. I'm serious...the music was great. I don't know why you'd think differently.
And a picture for the non-believers (it's all I got from their website)

1AM is when the night turned ugly. No nothing bad happened, just the bands turned into dude bands!
The surprise of the night was Diego's Umbrella who were tearing up the bar caddy corner to Opal's (I forget it's name). They were some crazy ass flaminco punk band tearing the shit up along the side walk. We stopped and danced around for 3 or 4 songs. Check 'em out...and no I won't post a picture.
Last Band of SXSW 2009? Marcy's Playground at Cedar Street. You may know this band as the one hit wonders who played Sex and Candy, but I really enjoyed all their songs. Great song writing, good 90's alternative rock. Just in case you thought I'd abandoned the whole "how many cute chicks could their be on stage" theme, I'll tell you that their were TWENTY (at least) dancing on stage to Sex and Candy. "God I'm so glad I wrote that song", exclaimed lead singer, John Wozniak. Amen brother.
I just want you to know that all of the lovely women potrayed in this entry are not only very good looking, but also talented musicians. If you thought otherwise, you suck!
