Keep Austin Weird

Okay, it is high time I write a little bit and try to be more productive with my down time. This includes getting back to taking more photographs, and trying to keep this little venting outlet of mine alive and current. So here I am once again with the intention of staying on point, and updating more often. However i do get easily distracted and often times a wee bit lazy.....
Most of you know I am in fact back on the road , and have been since about the 28th of May. We were very fortunate this time around in that we got to have 3 production/rehearsal days in Austin Texas as well as one show in the same venue to kick off this round of Crazy Love touring. Now if you have ever been to Austin then you would understand just why I say we were lucky to have four days in that amazing city to start a tour off. Austin is the Live Music Capital of the world, and this goes without saying. There are more bars, pubs, clubs, parking lots, and general spaces for bands to play than anywhere else in the world. During SXSW, an annual festival that runs in March of every year, thousands of bands, okay maybe hundreds, converge on the city and it is nothing to hear styles ranging from funk to death metal, all within a block or two of each other. Austin is the home of the famous Austin City Limits, both a TV show as well as an annual festival, and it is full of people who march to the beat of their own drum. Often times you will hear people say that Austin has no business being in Texas as it simply does not belong. They have a saying around town, often printed on tshirts that simply states,"keep Austin weird".
Austin is also the home of some pretty serious bbq joints like Stubbs and Ironworks. A few years back I had the pleasure of working for the Magic Numbers who played the SXSW festival and one of our gigs was at Stubbs. Its a cool outdoor venue that packs in about 1500 people and serves alot of BBQ meat!