Is anyone going to SXSW?

I will be there working on an australian music showcase, see www.australianmusiccollective.com. if you wanna come ot the aussie bbq rsvp on the website above - free beer/wine and bbq!

I'm not going either this year... Another year without Shiner bock.

I'll be in the midst of moving (to Austin) but I'd love to meet up with ilXOrs for drinks. :)

I definitely won't be around on Wednesday or Thursday, but if I get in before Friday night, I'd like to see Cut Copy. (Speaking of Aussie bands.)

johanna - the BBQ sounds fun! im going to put it on my calendar.

Andy, it burns...

There's a free day show (12-7) at the Longbranch Inn of a lot of my country-punk friends from Dallas. Maybe if enough people are going we can try to do a ILx meet up at some non-venue bar.

You don't need official wristbands etc but you gotta RSVP (check website www.australianmusiccollective.com) to get in...

Come say hi to me!!

I wish someone would stick them on at one of our (numerous) left-field music fests up here in Scotland.

C'mon, yer original 70's synth-punk pioneers? Just across the channel? Beaucoup noise! Optimo? Anyone?

Seriously, if anyone thinks they might have a spare moment, mail me some contact info and I'll try to organize a meet-up.

I'll have to see what my schedule's going to be like first, though.

Which is fine.. .the best SXSW moments are the unofficial ones. Even if you only have a day to spare bumming around at free days shows and BBQs, it's pretty good times.

stop madcowboy disease east dallas showcase

dog kickers 12pm
radio nationals 12:45
von ehrics 1:30
spitfire tumbleweeds 2:30
pleasant grove 3:30
sorta 4:30
slick 57 5pm

free beer and bbq for all who attend.

Friday afternoon I'm either going to be at the Merge/Barsuk party or the Hold Steady show at Emo's, but free beer and BBQ is tempting!

hopefully will do this whole thing better next year!

SXSW is overrated and I hate it. Why did I forget this?

is this something that your normal person can attend, or do you have to be a music journo?? i have to use a week of vacation by march 31 and thought going to sxsw might be cool.

open to the public. i'd recommend it but it has its annoyances, e.g. music journos.

You can buy badges for a few hundred dollars or wristbands for about a hundred. Or you can pay a cover to see bands individually, which is possible as long as you're not trying to see any buzz bands.

Also, labels, clubs, booking agencies, Starbucks, magazines, etc., have free parties every day, sometimes with beer and BBQ. Those can be casual and fun.

So, yeah, it can be a cheap vacation if you just do the free events (which are cataloged extensively online, and those have been some the best shows I've seen anywhere. Plus, it's springtime and beautiful in Austin, so go.

if you're taking the trouble to go down there and want to see a bunch of shows and are not super broke, I'd spring for the wristband

yeah i am not broke, i make a decent amount of money and really havent gone anywhere in a few years.. plus might drive there which would save loads of cash. and have a friend in austin to stay with.

THE FRIEND IS BIG HOOS THE STEAMDRIVER

Last time I was there, Ann Richards gave the opening address.

But I tell ya, The Buckpets rocked.

careful or he will kick your ass OUT THE HOUSE xp

Last time I was there, Ann Richards gave the opening address.

Wait, you WENT to Texas, on purpose?

My favorite unofficial shows have been here.

if only i could convince one of my friends to go with me... so i dont have to stand around like a creep alone the whole time

Wait, you WENT to Texas, on purpose?

Oh, c'mon. Austin's like the West Berlin of Tejas.

i didn't know where else to put this so

http://www.avclub.com/article/sxsw-threatens-international-artists-deportation-p-251394

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C57-xE3U4AA6d6v.jpg

This is probably the best place...Google kept giving me an ILM thread from 2011 about that year's fest.

Also: What assholes!

Merely a stopgap until they can get a law passed banning any live performance of music in March not sanctioned by SXSW.

fuck these traitorous collaborator scum

well, everyone should and will boycott sxsw now. good riddance

Swenson also says: “It’s intended for someone who does something really egregious like disobeying our rules for pyrotechnics, starts a brawl in a club, or kills somebody. You have to really fuck up for us to do this stuff.” He continues:

What people don’t understand is that we’re already talking to immigration about all these bands. Most of these bands are here because we sort of sponsored them. So if somebody did something bad enough that we had to enforce this part of the contract, we would probably be obliged to notify immigration that ‘Hey these guys are trouble,’ but we’ve never had to do that.

He adds that the festival does not threaten international artists with deportation over playing unofficial shows: “Some of this about playing shows other than their showcase, which, if they come in on the kind of visa that most of them get – they’re not supposed to do that. All this stuff in there about getting deported and immigration – that’s just us telling them this could happen if you’re doing this other stuff. It’s not us saying we’re going to try and have you deported, it’s us warning them that if they violated the terms of the visa that got them here, that’s what could happen.”

seems about as impossible to boycott as it would be to police. aren't there way more unofficial shows than official? what would you boycott -- just official shows? the unofficial ones too? the entire city of Austin?

just don't go

miraculously, I have managed to boycott SXSW my entire life! I can give you tips on how to if you like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKao_Pox5A

ugh fuck these assholes

We hope never to be put in the position to act on this.

fuck you dude

read some more stuff about this and it seems it might be a lil more complicated than i thought. reverted to giving them BoD until i make up my mind

they're definitely using the specter of deportation to keep their international artists in line, which is pretty garbage. it doesn't feel like a heads-up, the way it's written.

my impression is that the most egregious stuff is legacy verbiage. it's language that never should have been in there in the first place, but accusations of "collaborationism" just because the cultural context of the language has changed seems like stretching it.

now that it's been brought to their attention, of course, they absolutely better run the language past the lawyers and redo it to not be awful.

when legalese meets real life

yeah I think the inhuman shittiness of US immigration (and precarity of musicians on VISAs) is the real Devil, but they definitely need to re-write that monstrous text and apologize ASAP

their response was very bad i thought

yeah that was about as far from an apology as you can get

One of the problematic things about SXSW is that they've been trying to crackdown on "Non-Sanctioned" events for years, going so far as to report certain get-togethers to the police (there's a Austin Chronicle editorial by SXSW co-founder Louis Black that I read at the time but now can't find where he defends this by saying it's less about 'protecting the brand' and more about public safety, but still...), and now they are seizing something that's more NAGL than ever to carry this out.

I believe this was written by ILX poster fact checking cuz, via yetimike:

http://futureofmusic.org/blog/2017/03/03/whats-deal-sxsws-artist-contract

this is what they should do / should have done

Could the inclusion of this language in the contract just be a way for SXSW to avoid liability?

If that was the concern, they could just as easily include a more straightforward clause where performers agree to abide by all federal, state, and local laws.

miraculously, I have managed to boycott SXSW my entire life! I can give you tips on how to if you like

― Οὖτις, Thursday, March 2, 2017 3:46 PM (yesterday)

doesn't seem like it's been particularly effective

just think of how much more successful they would be if I attended though

SXSM (South By Shakey Mo)

SXSW sure has...evolved huh

CIA talking about creativity @SXSW might seem like an odd pairing (unless by #CIA you mean the @CIACulinary Institute of America)

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