The Blurb: Pirate Radio,” a unique box set from Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Pretenders, is out on March 14. Three days later, the band speaks in a very special SXSW Interview. Chrissie Hynde, Martin Chambers, Adam Seymour, and Nick Wilkinson discuss the retrospective, and look forward to their 2006 tour and future […]
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg Originally uploaded by RachelC. Getting ready for his talk…
Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde Originally uploaded by RachelC. Chrissie signing autographs after her interviews this pm.
IMG_3593
IMG_3593 Originally uploaded by RachelC. Last night I saw 2 performances. The first was from Persephone’s Bees, a 4 piece rock band from California. (track here). Both albums are going to be purchased!
Magnet
IMG_3599 Originally uploaded by RachelC. Magnet was one of the acts seen lst night, a singer-songwriter from Norway. (track here)
Morrissey on stage
Morrissey on stage Originally uploaded by RachelC. According to the blurb…”In what could best be described as a once in a lifetime experience, Morrissey will be interviewed by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke for a SXSW Interview on Thursday, March 16, 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM at the South By Southwest Music Conference, followed by a […]
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys Originally uploaded by foresmac. This seems to be the only photo that I can find on Flickr of this (completely different to the Interactive part, where there were photos everywhere). So thanks to Chris for putting it up.
SXSW – Beastie Boys Audience Interview
The final panel of today is an interview with the Beasties boys. Queuing was mandatory, but the attendance appears to be the same as the Bruce Sterling monologue on Tuesday. Whilst knowing a fair bit of their music, I’ve never been a fan enough to work out who was who…so I took just general notes […]
RFID Tags
Yesterday, posters appeared around the conference centre announcing that music passes were all fitted with RFID tags. And that you would be scanned going to events..and that the information could be collated and used to send you approprite marketing materials. This was news to me..I could not remember seeing that anywhere in the sign up […]
The Church of Content
There’s a new religion, or at least a revamped version of an old one. Content and creative and art and music and all that stuff used to belong only to the individual or to the group. Then we got patronage and wealthy individuals could commission stuff, could pay to make things and see things and […]
Ted Cohen Interview
Deidre and Ted Originally uploaded by RachelC. The first session of the day was an interview with Ted Cohen, SVP Digital Dev & Distribution, EMI Music,(pictured here with Deidre at a party the other night). Peter Kafka from Forbes carried out the interview; I’m not sure of his background, but to me he certainly started […]
Music Festival Swag
Music Festival Swag Originally uploaded by RachelC. A different crowd…some of what you get in the Music Swag bag
SXSW on Tuesday
My first panel today was on VIdeo Blog Business Models. From the beginning this panel was far more of a conversation than a presentation. Well moderated, it explored the various business models that could be used. These ranged from in video advertisements, adsense, through to subscription. No common best model emerged; the key thigs wre […]
SXSW On Monday
Monday was another quiet day when it came to panels – I keep leaving early. The key one I wanted to watch I got pulle dout of due to a call, but it sounded entertaining from later reports – the Future of Darknets. The position on the panels were entrenched – there’ll never be agreement, […]
Womens; Visibility, Value Add and Tagging
A few random things learnt today…that you have to blag your way into every bar when they ask for ID. I have a reluctance to carry around my passport, but so far the line “I’m English, I don’t have picture ID” seems to work as managed to get into the bars OK so far. Another […]
After Party
IMG_3540 Originally uploaded by RachelC. Arriving at Club De Ville for the after party for the web awarrds, we all got given glowsticks …which break if you twist them too far. And then give great photo opportunities.
SXSW – First Day Review
The first day is over and what have I learnt? that I should stop goign to blogging panels as I’m not picking up anything new. The better converasations on that topic are one on one. how the term AJAX was derived – and something that the coiner Jesse thought was a small concept rapidly took […]
SXSW First Day
The first day of the conference and things are starting to heat up. Well, at least the weather is. Temperatures are up in the 80s and the sun is out – meaning i got sunburnt in my wanders around the town yesterday. Loads of photos to put up when I get a decent connection. Meanwhile, […]
Lucky
Sometimes you get lucky. Somehow I managed to get an upgrade on the flight fron SFO to Austin, so got a nice seat with plenty of legroom and no-one next to me in Economy Plus. Then I arrived at the hotel at the perfect time and managed to get an upgrade to a suite for […]
CC Salon
Last night I went along to a CC Salon event held at Shine. For someone more used to London events, the turnout was pretty impressive. There were brief presentations about Fireant, about Geek Entertainment TV and about Second Life before the chat and networking started. It was the first time I’d seen Second Life in […]