Surprise Talent Coordinator
This is another Landon story - which means it's full of (true!) bullshit, alcohol, and regrettable decisions.

South by Southwest (SXSW) is a yearly concert event held in Austin, Texas with dozens of shows, the big acts taking the bigger stages and the rest being spread throughout the smaller venues over several days of the concert. These include different genres of music slightly outside of mainstream, like 8-bit music - imagine the sounds you get when your instruments include a gameboy, a dot matrix printer, and several bits of a circuit board that go "ping!" and you'll have a pretty good idea.

It was at one of these 8-bit shows that my friend Landon, predictably, gets smashed. Now, he's very involved with his music, and loves to get autographs, meet artists, swap tales and buy them beer.

During the show, he meets a few artists that, although not scheduled to play, are still touring with the group. Time restrictions and all that. Well, Landon gets it into his head that it's a dreadful shame these undoubtably talented artists are denied the chance to share their vision with the world, and it's his responsibility, nay, privilege as a SXSW talent coordinator to find these lovely gentlemen a venue.

Except Landon isn't a talent coordinator.

Cue the morning after, when he wakes up with god's punishment for overdrinking and recalls telling this nice group of DJs that they have a guaranteed packed show that coming Sunday.

Cue frantic phone calls.

Landon had managed to promise the grounds of his local hookah bar, to which he had absolutely no connection except being a regular customer. Somehow, they agreed to host a concert far outside of their usual range of music - namely, punk and country.

He then had to borrow an amp and PA system, design, print and post flyers, and even buy a PSP for the artist who hadn't brought their equipment (figuring he wasn't going to get a chance to play).

Despite all this, the show actually managed to be quite successful, and this DJ has quite a following among the Austin crowd.

And Landon got to play SXSW talent coordinator.
(TheManWhoWas SlightlyKnackered, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 16:06, 1 reply)

Sounds like the sort of guy
Who could sell ice to the Inuit! :)

*Click* for improvisation!
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 16:28, closed)