Day 1 (Part 3)

Well...I finally convinced engineer Ben to give me back the computer so that I could post a blog update from the XMU Acoustic Lounge at SXSW 2007! It's truly been an unbelievably awesome day of acoustic music here in Austin...and this is only the first day of recording from the lounge! Little did I know...but Jim Fairchild aka All Smiles (formerly of Grandaddy) is old friends with Great Northern...so, after he finished his acoustic set he stayed and sat in on the Great Northern set...if you listen closely to the performance that will air tomorrow on XMU...you'll hear Jim's stellar shaker skills! It's pretty sweet. I have to say that I'm really impressed with each band's "creative" use of instruments when it comes to performing their acoustic sets...see the picture below of Softlightes and their make shift drum set up which consisted of an empty drum case and brushes. Lemurs also had a pretty sassy scenario happening as well...the drummer rigged up an empty suitcase and foot pedal to provide what I'm told is a "little more kick than snare, but not much"...according to engineer Aaron. All I know is that it looked cool and sounded even better. But don't take my word for it...listen tomorrow and Saturday starting at 9 am west / noon east for all the exclusive LiVE music from SXSW 2007...I promise your ears will smile :) Okay then...that's all for now...enjoy more photos below...chat with you soon! xoxo...t.

Great Northern & All Smiles Reunion













Softlightes













Case Drummin'



















Canada













Jim Fairchild aka All Smiles (formerly of Grandaddy)