ROTR’s SXSW headquarters. Pure glamour.

We’re here. After ten hours on a plane, then forty minutes on another plane, we found ourselves in sunny Austin yesterday afternoon, speeding down the Interregional in a cab driven by an 83-year-old gospel blues piano player.

Now we’re getting ready to head out for the first day of the music festival – frantically scouring invites and flyers, kidding ourselves we’ll be able to do anything but go with the flow.

Bands we’re excited about seeing: Cursive, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, The Pack A.D, Sebastian Grainger, the Hold Steady, The Black Lips, King Kahn and the Shrines, the Sonics…seeing as the list of bands playing exceeds 2000 it’s hard to pick a handful. Needless to say we’ll most likely be running around like headless chickens within an hour of leaving the hotel this morning.

Remember we’ll be armed with a flipcam as well as a camera, so we’ll be uploading our video blog of the day tomorrow as well as a few photos and our lowdown on what was cool and what sucked.

Stay tuned.

Sian B Rockin’

xox

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