SXSW Thursday-Cool Kids & More

Thursday, March 18^th: The Cool Kids, Crystal Method, Steve Aoki, Band of Horses

This began the series of days that began at 4 pm in the afternoon after a long party of band watching from club to club and ending with breakfast at 4am to waking up for breakfast at 4pm. Nonethless, so worth our body clock’s to be off after all the cool music we saw. This was the first full day and night of music. We got downtown early and roamed around all the venues trying to catch some good shows and find out where all the venues were. We wanted to see “the Cool Kids” perform at this day stage and we could not find it to save our lives. We honestly walked all over Austin looking for this park and eventually we did right in time to see their last few songs. Excited to get to the show we decided to partake in a foot long motorcycle shaped vegas style margarita. After a few brain freezes and sourpusses we realized we weren’t even buzzed. After paying for these so called margaritas we were pretty pissed so we went to complain at the booth. We were not given a refund but the lady running the stand offered to smoke weed with us, which was funny but we passed. Fast forward to the evening where we went to Stubb’s bar b que a famous SXSW venue where a lot of the larger “SOUTH BY” as the Austin natives call it play. Tonight Band of horses was playing so we watched and it was cool. After the horses wrapped it up we rolled a couple of doors down to this club I cant remember the name but Steve Aoki was doing a set. We got there a little early and The crystal method was playing. I was into them back in like 1998 or so and it was cool to see them but I was so bored during their set and couldn’t wait for it to be over. Finally it was over and as expected Aoki came up to the decks and rocked the foundation of this hole in the wall. It was like a digital punk rock mosh pit the whole time and as his records were playing he was surfing over the crowd with the microphone until last call and the cops and horses came to shut the streets down. AWWWWESOME!