Photos from the SXSW Music Fest

Submitted by Patrick on April 11, 2009 - 1:30pm
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For four days in March, my life basically consisted of one of three things: shooting photos of bands, editing photos of bands and waiting in line for pizza from a truck.

This was my first year photographing the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, though I've been in Austin during that week since 2007.

Until this year, my South-By experience involved driving around town slower than usual, stuck at intersections while I muttered at the smug transplants from out of town with festival badges around their necks. This year, to paraphrase the great 1995 film Angus, we were those transplants. (Around 5:50 on this clip).

Thanks to the Observer music writers, I was never short on shows to cover, and got to discover all kinds of really great music. Check out all their work on our music blog, DC9 at Night. The Decemberists, a Danish band called Efterklang, and old Austin favorites Okkervil River put on some of the best sets I made it to.

...and here are the shots:

Comments

direct links?

Submitted by Anonymous on April 11, 2009 - 3:27pm.

sweet, is there a way to link directly to one of these images within a slideshow? i'd like to link for a photo of the day, probably #4, maybe #18, though...
---matt w.

How bout Flickr?

Submitted by Patrick on April 11, 2009 - 7:39pm.

Thanks Matt -- I'm still undecided on the best way to keep a unique URL with each shot, and still get this Flash presentation. Might just stick with Flickr, where each shot's up here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/llamarama/sets/72157616555615517/