Austin TX~Epilogue. Thankfully all the travel to and from went fairly smooth and was not horrendously long. The accommodations at my sisters place made for some great comedy over the weekend. (Especially the air mattress. On our final night it was losing air at record speed. We were up once an hour. At one point, Jason got up to find the hole, which wasn't hard, while I milled about looking for some sort of tape. No suck luck. Jason, brilliant dude that he is, chewed a piece of gum and placed it over the hole. That saved us for a couple more hours.) Anyway, that being said, I can't stress enough how very thankful I am that my sister gave us a place to stay. Her hospitality is very much appreciated. She also let us use her bikes. Not having to rely on other people for rides and cruising through town in beautiful weather was boss hog fantastic. I was pretty impressed by the fest as well. Having seen the Murder City Devils several times before they called it quits and at last years Seattle reunion, I can say that these two shows were among the best. On top of it all, I got to see family I hadn't seen in a couple years. Nice!
I didn't pull out the camera as much as I had hoped, but here is some thee.ography from the trip:
On our way-light rail
My sister's place.
gross.
late night bike riding...and posing.
This is the gecko that comes to visit my sister.
Austin graffilthy
We kept seeing this dude everywhere. Jason referred to him as Juan Valdez. The guy with the baby is the one that jumped onstage during the Angry Samoans.
There was actually another gentleman wearing this shirt too, but we couldn't track him down for a 3way dance.
dead soldiers at the Mohawk.
end notes:
I didn't take any pics of the bands. (Not good ones anyway.) You can find plenty on the comments section of the MCD's MySpace page. Some videos are up here.
After doing a little research I found out the tall, bearded, pork-pie hat wearing, Kim Thayil looking photographer was hired by the organizer to take shots for the fest. His name is Houshang.
The other bearded man; the one that was irritating me because he was on stage, throwing his arm around everyone in the bands and singing along is this fellow. I'm not really mad at him anymore. He was just having a good time.
A lot of people traveled to see these shows. In the Austin airport, on our way home, we saw many, many, many peeps that were at both the fest and the Mohawk. Including the Murder City Devils themselves. Bass player Derek was in line to get himself a sandwich. I found this funny because I know he does a food blog...or used to anyway.
geek alert~to the best of my knowledge, these were the setlists:
the Mohawk
idle hands
rum to whiskey
bear away
i drink the wine
dancin' shoes
bride of the elephant man
officer
one vision of may
someone else's baby
press gang
mutter museum
dancehall music
18 wheels
encore:
murder city riot
broken glass
i want a lot now
FunFunFun Fest
dancehall music
idle hands
in my heart
bear away
drink the wine
bride of the elephant man
officer
dancin' shoes
rum to whiskey
dear hearts
somebody else's baby
left hand right hand
press gang
murder city riot
midnight service
18 wheels
broken glass
i want a lot
encore
one vision of may
fields of fire
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