SXSW was pretty cool for Angeli this year, except that the bigger it gets, the more of a challenge it is to get people where they want to go after 10 pm! There were bands playing everywhere, even on the sidewalk on 6th St.
Taylor and Fiona managed to sneak in a look at a cool poster exhibit today. Great people-watching from the vantage point of the driver's box on a carriage. All the Coachwomen had bands stop and visit or ride with us to their gigs.
Some bands and their friends took some photos and video. Many gave us CDs so we're sharing the luv with each other. Great people, great music. We hope they ring us up for a REAL tour when they get back to Austin. We're developing a "Haunted Austin" tour that should be a kick!
Cormier providing the horsepower, Stacey driving, she met and/or drove several artists to gigs, including a Playing In Traffic Records founder (Los Lonely Boys label) to the Austin Music Awards. PITR won for Local Label and LLB for Rock. Stacey also taxied a group from Seattle called Run From Cover Friday and had a band member of Le Loup stop to chat. RegularJOE interviewed a singer while riding with her and Beats Antique posted this photo of them about to ride in style!.
Riding with Taylor:
Karmina, a folk/pop girl band from LA, Cali. They flagged down the Cinderella Friday, on 5th St, and wanted a ride to somewhere where they could "catch a cab". A horse taxi to a car taxi--ha! The girls filmed their carriage experience on the way to the Driskill and remarked that “a carriage ride is the best way to end the long trip of SXSW.” Tipped Taylor with a CD (that she says is badass). Somebody, let us know when they get their video of SXSW uploaded--we hope we're in it a little!
When Karmina got off the carriage they exchanged embraces with another rock-star group from LA, The Rescues, who promptly boarded the carriage. Although they didn’t tip via CD, Taylor checked out their music and said it was real cool. During the ride they talked about how being on the horse carriage was VIP status and that it made them ‘friggen awesome’. Of course, so many bands thought they were SO MUCH COOLER on the Cinderella.
Finally, Drake & Truth, a rapper who is signed to Lil Wayne's label, Young Money Entertainment, rode with Taylor. This guy has no shortage of confidence. Check out some of his acting and music credits on Wikipedia.
Saturday, The Gin Riots used Taylor's horse as an advertising stand, putting a sticker on him (only barely attached horse-lovers!), then gave her a professional mix tape with their music on it.
Fiona fanned the film THE RUNAWAYS which opened at The Paramount Theater during SXSW. People promoting the film gave her and Taylor fliers and pins and had them pose for pics on their carriages holding the fliers up--that's surely creative advertising. If you see that they post those pics send us the link.
Some of the members of The Giving Tree stopped by Fiona's carriage to visit. She joked with them about their CD cover (the word is "obvious", not "devious" - ha!) and they invited her to see them play The Ghost Room. Too bad she was working!
Evergreen Terrace also rode with Fiona, going "green" for the day, but we don't know if there are any pics/vid posted.
We'll post more links as we remember more names of artists we met. If you took photos of us at SXSW, we'll link to them or you can send them and we'll post them here!
Angeli crew, happy to be in Austin, TX and celebrating SXSW.
