POLYPHONIC SPREE SXSW Friday 15th 2013, brooklyn vegan party, PHOX, Flaming Lips
day three at full speed and it's starting to get harder to get up and leave the house... we went to whole foods and saw pentatonix (not my thing) and left before rick springfield came on (it was getting thick with cougars up there). I checked my FB events and saw that PHOX was playing in an hour, we just had to walk the twelve blocks to get there. my partner had a couple false starts and we didn't get far. but he regained his legs and we made it with time to spare!
then we hauled ass over to the brooklyn vegan party, caught the thermals again
ran into one of our VIP friends from the Hype Hotel party.
the show was loud! but I'd picked up free earplugs from the PHOX show. this enabled me to get up in front of the speaker where nobody else could stand.
I also took some pics of polyphonic spree with my iphone. Tim DeLaughter (lead singer) saw me holding my iphone up. he asked for it (by reaching out for it) , I gave it to him and he sang a song to it and pointed it toward band members and audience. BUT, he never hit the video/record button. I'd had it on camera.... so I got it back without any really cool video. funny.
the best wurst cart was outside the brookly vegan. we enjoyed one and it gave us the power to keep going.
we stumbled on ALT-J. not as good live. and he ranted about how much he hated texas, "this god-forsake hell-hole of a state". it didn't really inspire home town folks. not sure what he expected from the crowd of people that were clearly enjoying their sxsw here.
we met with some friends at auditorium shores. Jim James was playing when we walked up.
I got up front for part of the flaming lips show.
Wayne did not get in his gerbil ball. BUT they did have a topless girl in there holding a disco ball.
they played new music on a new instrument. it looked like a human baby, with tubes coming out the back. he would blow into the mouth of the baby and it made a sort of a humming sound, the tubes from the back flowed light out, over/around him and around the stage.
it was really crowded. they said it was the largest crowd for a sxsw show, ever. wayne explained that justin timberlake was coming on stage to sing with him, but it ended up being jim james under a mask. I laughed, some people were not as amused.
this was the view of the jumbo tron (right) and stage (left) from our friends picnic area.
not my favorite flaming lips show. but it was free...