more advice from my american brothers

[baldyboy]

hi guys,sorry,but its another of those "i need help" threads from me.

the band have been offered a slot playing at the sxsw festival in austin texas in march.
can anyone tell me what its all about-any of you oldschoolers ever been there?
seems like a real mix of different stuff,judgeing by the website/info i've got already.
any experiences you guys might have had would be tres helpful

basically,we gotta decide on whether its right to accept and go play or not.

if we do,gonna have to try and organise a few other gigs in that(rather vast)area to make it more worthwhile!so any other suggestions would be cool too!!

thanks fellas-i know i can count on you guys to help me on this,cause you always do

 

[carnut]

Of course I dunno about the American stuff. But do you guys have some kind of promo package? I know the organisers of Graspop in Belgium, Verrrry big metal festival !! And just a fart away from UK It's a 3-day festival that attracts about 80.000 people.
http://www.graspop.be/

 

[baldyboy]

graspop would be awsome carnut-please pm me a mail address,and i'll get one over to you straight away.i live in ramsgate,theres a ferry to zebrugge down the road-practically a day trip for us to do it!!cool.

thank you very much sir!!!

 

[Greeno]

SXSW is a major music fest Baldy, however I don't think it's very metal friendly. All kinds of bands play it every year. Most of the bars in Austin are in on it, so each night there are a bunch of bands playing at different bars. People just buy passes that get them in to any of the bars. I've never been to it but it is a MAJOR deal here in the States these days. I think they have 2 of them each year. I think there are literally hundreds of bands there.

 

[sixxswine]

SXSW is a major music fest Baldy, however I don't think it's very metal friendly. All kinds of bands play it every year. Most of the bars in Austin are in on it, so each night there are a bunch of bands playing at different bars. People just buy passes that get them in to any of the bars. I've never been to it but it is a MAJOR deal here in the States these days. I think they have 2 of them each year. I think there are literally hundreds of bands there.

I agree with Greeno these event are great for new bands, but metal isn't well recieved. Even if the bands are great. I have been to North by North West once & it's just like Greeno says, a bunch of people getting loaded that can't recall who or what they saw the previous evening... I thought it was okay, but
to me it seemed like most were there to get "faced" rather than checking out good music...

 

[baldyboy]

hmmm-we were looking at it as an "experience"-the gig we'll be doing is with 3 other metal bands from the uk,viking skull,biomechanical(one of hawks faves)and pdhm.

i was hoping to organise a few more gigs whilewe were out there,certainly houston and afew other places near(ish)-damn your country is so big!!.

guess we'll just have to wait n see what happens!

 

[Greeno]

hmmm-we were looking at it as an "experience"-the gig we'll be doing is with 3 other metal bands from the uk,viking skull,biomechanical(one of hawks faves)and pdhm.

In that case I would say do it! If for no other reason than to have a good time. I just wanted to warn you that SxSW is not a metal fest. I wish you could make it to the East Coast, would love to see you guys play, and meet in person!

 

[baldyboy]

that would be way cool greeno-it all depends on what ends up being organised.its difficult for bands like us(ones with no distribution in the states)to get gigs over there,but things have a way of working out.

trust me,you'll get to see us at some point,and if i remember,i'll bring that sorb stuff for plan 13 i promised you ages ago!!

 

[sixxswine]

Do it & then do North By Northwest....
I'll be there for that...
Good Luck Luke!
Sixxswine

 

[baldyboy]

they do a north by northwest show too sixx?
please excuse my ignorance.-when is it usually?