Late of the Pier Setlist

Space and the Woods
A Hearbeat a Flicker a Line
Random Firl
Broken
The Bears are Coming
Best in the Class
VW
The Enemy are the Future
Focker
Bathroom Gurgle

Crimea Setlist

Grace
Loop
Jelly Fish
Lover
Only Living B&G
Shredder
Alison
Movie
Psycos
Lottery Winners on Acid

Continuing the Flashback for lost photos for SXSW 2009 Day 4. For the first time, since 2015, these photos are available online.

Below are the original posts for SXSW Day 4:

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SXSW UPDATE, DAY FOUR
I think part of the fun (at least for me) was meeting so many people with the same like-minded attitude towards music. I’ve become somewhat of a card collector, swapping info and what we do regarding music etc. Hopefully, next year, if we’re still doing the same thing, I would like to meetup with them again at shows and hangouts.

Mostly Saturday was spent in a few places as I didn’t want to walk anywhere. I had only planned on attending the Garden Party from Press Here in the daytime and at night, head over to the LondonMusic spotlight at the Rio (primarily for The Crimea). Obviously, things didn’t work out that way, I ended up seeing Jeremy Jay at the Garden and then sort of just followed them to their next gig over at 900 Red River Street (it’s about four blocks). Saw JJ again and found out that the reason why didn’t play certain songs, like “Alpharhythem” was because their new drummer didn’t know it).

Also stood next to Peelander-Z, who are apparently so distinct looking and famous that every minute people were coming up and taking pictures with them.

Saw Late of the Pier accidentally at their video-filming concert at the Bat Bar. It was a very professional setup, however, playing live proved disastrous for the band. First of all, none of the audience knew who they were, and secondly, they had equipment failures during live recording. Needless to say, it was embarrassing.

So, look for me in a video, I am in front, green shirt, glasses, sweaty…

Then headed over to check out the all-London band showcase at the Rio. Most interest of the bunch seems to be Goldielocks who is a young woman and her DJ, doing British rap-style music. She had a stage presence, look for her to be bigger in the future.

The last show on my list was The Crimea, who came on at 1.15am (I knew this because I was really, really, really tired). They had a girl singer, which surprised me, because I didn’t think they had a woman in the band.

Everyone who went to the show got a free copy of Davey Macmanus’ album called Listen to Seashells; They Know Everything.

Christopher writes:

Vu – updated the post with a more recent track, off a seashells demo. And no, they don’t really have a girl in the band, davey just uses loads for the vocals. The one you saw was Tara Egan-Langley aka Tara Blaise, they’ve also had Regina Spektor, Tywanna Jo Baskette and Davey’s superstar Radio 1 DJ sister Annie Mac record loads of tracks with them, along with plenty I forget.

DAY FOUR (Saturday, March 21, 2009)
Saw a few bands in the daytime at the Press Here Garden Party at the French Legation Museum across the Freeway (this is actually closer than it sounds). The walk there was interesting, and I discovered a no-seating Wendy’s on the right side of 7th Street. Yep, I ended up having dinner there since they were making these chicken things that’s not available in Minnesota.

I got to the Garden just in time to see Jeremy Jay, and enjoyed the most of the day with The Soft Pack and Diane Birch* before heading over to 900 Red River to see Jeremy Jay again.

Listened to Camera Obscura afterwards with those Peelander-Z, as I previously mentioned.

Headed back to the Garden to see Melissa Auf De Maur, who started her set with three cover songs: Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang”, Danzig’s “Devil’s Plaything”, and The Smiths’ “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before”. Although the first two went off pretty well, she totally messed up on “Stop Me” – which is understandable because that song has a lot of Morrissey’s lyrics and also, they had only practiced it the night before in their hotel room.

It wasn’t long before people started filling up the seats at the Garden to see Laura Marling. She was joined on stage by Marcus Mumford, I think. He played percussion and sang backup, although I have to say that Marling would’ve done just fine with her lovely voice and acoustic guitar.

Saw Late of the Pier at the Bat Bar later that night. Since it was being broadcast live on DirecTV, I think the pressure got to the band and it was just embarrassing to watch. Towards the end, they seem to not be so nervous, and the (rather long) setlist ended with men in death masks coming on stage to carry the band offstage. I don’t have DirecTV, is there a way for non-subscribers to watch this?

Honey Ryder was really happy to be Austin, I think this was their first ever US appearance or something. I believe also that their name came from a James Bond girl ? I don’t know much about them, but they seem to have a wider audience and following in the UK, where their single “Fly Away” entered the UK Top 40 at #31.

GoldieLocks is 75% English and 25% Swedish from Croydon (South London). She raps to DJ Sports (?), who is wearing this Skeletor T-shirt. After the show, she wanted to give everyone in attendance her EP, which actually went pretty fast. As I previously mentioned, keep an eye on this one.

There’s no denying that The Gin Riots have quite a few hardcore fans here, as evident by a bunch of Gin Riots T-Shirt in the audience.

It’s been a few years since The Crimea toured in the US, so I was happy to be there for them on their second and last SXSW appearance. They were the last band on my list, so it was kind of a relief when it was all over.

And as corrected by superfan Christopher, Tara Blaise shared the stage to sing backup for the band…. Highlight of the show was then Davey Macmanus stepped down and sang in the center of the audience.

* A note on Birch is that she has these incredible legs, but too bad they were well-hidden behind her piano on stage.