SS @ SXSW in SIX Mins!

Dead dirty and inescapable from the bearded to-the-brim residents, Austins pied piper music heritage led greedy fans, industry hippies and SUPERSWEET's Gemma Dempster for March's SXSW Music Conference 2010.

Raking in the wonderfully pissy hoards of queuing freeloaders for the daily parties, or the elitist who darken SXSW badge-only events at night; we snaked through both realms, grasping every morsel of fresh and tarnished bands for our bite-size video review.

The highlights? Stalking Adam Green down a pastoral suburban street to commandeer footage of his underwear; rolling down a barbed wire hill to secretly break in for a Surfer Blood show; catching Woody Harrelson slurping eyes at Hole's Love, and bumping into a surprisingly short Sean Lennon. The result? A shamefully gimmicky video called SXSW in SIX Minutes, gah, now we didn't want to gloat too much did we?

SXSW in SIX Minutes Line Up: Adam Green, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chew Lips, Hole, Liars, Local Natives, Marina and the Diamonds, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Phantogram, Pivot, School of Seven Bells, Soko, Stricken City, Thurston Moore, and Warpaint

Footage: Gemma Dempster

BLOOD RED SHOES: Who (and where) are ya?

At the CroBar CroBar, CroBar...

Blood Red Shoes are back and looking shit-hot, readily giving away freebie single 'Colours Fade' (available from bloodredshoes.co.uk), and even putting on a intimate show last night at The Cro Bar. Sounds all rather too good to be true right?

Firstly, what a sausage-fest Cro Bar was, if it wasn't the odd penis in your back, then it was someones neat Jack Daniels dribbling down your shoulder at the tiny bloody tiny venue. But of course, it's a great sign for Blood Red Shoes to easily fill a venue after their much deserved break, and what a way to return. Their new songs still are too fresh to really get a much-loved feel for them, but the memorable 'Light Up' and Placebo-esque, 'Colours Fade' were thick with dirty angered electric guitar from red-lipped lady Laura-Mary Carter and shuddering percussional whacks by the guiltless Steven Ansell, and just from those tracks I seriously can't wait to hear the record.

Nevertheless, it was an interesting show, from the loud bellows of "TURN UP THE VOCALS" to my own desperate shouts "Where are you? I can't see you?", and BRS kept the conversation going with cheeky requests for some whisky to the audience, and from a silent crowd response Laura aptly declared "Who Are You?" to the wishful thinker.And after many tri-hard jumping attempts, I did managed to glimpse Steven's blonde curls and Laura's newly dyed hair through the a pyramid of sweaty armpits, just to make sure I was in fact watching the right band.

So the tour junkies are back and what sounds like a much heavy record. So pull out the earplugs and get ready to destroy your remaining strips of ear-drum for Blood Red Shoes' thrashing t-shirt tearing return.

Behind the Scenes: BESTIVAL

Whoa! SUPERSWEET’s been all over the place this last weekend, with the Ed whirling herself off to fashion central in NY, I’ve been destroying my eardrums and browning my face like a crème brulee in the lovely Isle of Wight. While you may chortle at its lack of glamour, SUPERSWEET’s covered the island’s much hailed Bestival welcoming anyone with a colourful identity crisis for the space themed costume parties...and keep those eyes peeled for the in-depth review of the festival on SUPERSWEET! For now, here are some snippets of the musical mayhem I got up to!

After ploughing through what costumes to decorate myself with, I decided with the loveable red jumpsuit wearing Mork aka Mork and Mindy! However bumping into a male Mork only realised how poor my delightfully homemade costume was, well I suppose you can decide... I did get cheered in the costume catwalk and hugged by a sweaty Chewbacca look-i-like!

While running around searching for the Hidden Disco in the forestry labyrinth, I began to doubt my journalistic skills until I ran to new-wave soul band Hockey, bear hugging them for their fab interview earlier and snapping a cheeky photo of beauties; vocalist Benjamin Grubin and bassist Jeremy Reynolds. Feeling I’d proven my journalism worth, we cheered Happy Birthday to Jeremy; yet with a quick turn I swiftly lost myself in the woods and failed as a simple festival goer, missing Cagedbaby at the Hidden Disco!

Hockey wasn’t the only band we managed to get chatting too; in the upcoming review we’ve recapped horror stories from Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Chew Lips and their sexual party tricks and Casiokids rocked up for a late night acrobatic finale with the lead singer face painted in the style of a space cat (or as the band pointed out repeatedly, definitely a mouse). In the press tent we overheard a band accidentally slipping a racial slur, and while struggling up the hill home I spotted lead singer of The Big Pink, Robbie Furze wearing a cropped fur gilet and white sunglasses looking rather pleased with himself.

Anyone have any stories to share with SUPERSWEET? Comment below, we want to hear your adventures too, you could even get a mention the article...only if you make us laugh into incontinence of course!

GGD MBFW

I just saw Gang Gang Dance play live to Erin Wassion show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week last night! This is MEGA! Obviously they stole the show, without them I would probably be sleeping because the clothes were so bland...

GGD were there dude! Best thing ever! This somehow will go down in history.

The Dodos @ Bush Hall

Me and Tiffany went to see the Dodos together last Thursday and it's the best gig I've seen so far in 2009! Here's my crap bootleg of 'This is a Business' off the new album, Time to Die. And if you want to hear what Tiffany thinks, you can click and read about it here.

We need to get them to do more fun things for us next time! It's been too fun every time and now my life is a little dull... Save me the Dodos!

Free Track: No Age

No Age almost played our Launch Party with Liars 2 years ago, but for some reason they didn't get to so we had our friends Prinzhorn Dance School play for us instead. That worked too but I can't help wonder how amazing it would have been had we had all three of them played... Oh well, nevermind. More chances in the future. Their EP, Losing Feeling is out next October 12th on Sub Pop, and here's the teaser!

No Age | You're a Target by supersweet

PS: This is what you missed by the way if you weren't at our party... Liars were lush!