Well, it's not technically the first day of South By South West, but it is the first day of the AU mission to the music festival in Austin, Texas. We're heading over to SXSW via the assistance of the Northern Ireland Music Industry Commission. The plan is to mix business with pleasure, meet record labels and various peeps plus check out some fine new bands. Of course, this will include the Northern Irish contingent who have made the trip over (In Case Of Fire, Driving By Night, Oppenheimer and The Answer), plus the bands from rest of Ireland (specifically, Fight Like Apes).
We set off from Belfast at 7.15am with travel partner Joe Dougan. Grab some breakfast, hang out for a bit, bump into Jennie McCullough, find out that Rigsy and Feargal O'Kane are traveling on the same flight. Nice.
Land in Newark, NY, after a fairly decent 7.5 hr flight. Joe, Rigsy, Feargal and I kill the time rightly with bad jokes, Mexican food and masturbation stories (courtesy of Rigs). Our onward flight to Austin is totally filled with hipster types. It's a sea of laptops and iPods.
We land in Austin 22 hrs after we left Belfast. Good times.
We set off from Belfast at 7.15am with travel partner Joe Dougan. Grab some breakfast, hang out for a bit, bump into Jennie McCullough, find out that Rigsy and Feargal O'Kane are traveling on the same flight. Nice.
Land in Newark, NY, after a fairly decent 7.5 hr flight. Joe, Rigsy, Feargal and I kill the time rightly with bad jokes, Mexican food and masturbation stories (courtesy of Rigs). Our onward flight to Austin is totally filled with hipster types. It's a sea of laptops and iPods.
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