It seems hard to believe Day one of SXSW is over and I’m sitting at the hotel writing while Fobia, whose striking (and quite nice) lead singer I met this afternoon, is out there closing out the first night of the fest.

I was reunited today with a few friends I hadn’t seen in a while, all of whom, strangely enough, live in Portland or Seattle. Our fearless and totally f’ing awesome Press volunteers (they don’t come any better than Renée, Josh and co.) manned the front lines while I tried to decide what two venues should get the extra press boxes that Leslie, the greatest Production Manager of all time scored for me.

Tonight I managed to make it out on the streets for an hour and within the space of ten minutes saw Perry Farrell walk by (see blurry picture) and Bushwick Bill standing by a photo booth at Dirty Dog. I will be absolutely honest and say that both of these sightings would have gone right by me if it weren’t for the astute eyes of Capitol Records’ Louie Bandak and Ground Control’s Eddie Meehan.

I also witnessed the awesomeness that is Louisville’s Wax Fang (see less blurry picture). Scott, Jake and Kevin always deliver the goods.

So, what are your night one stories? Who did you see that was beyond compare? Who made you starstruck? Who made you go ewww?

Let musicblog@sxsw.com know!

Back at it again tomorrow… I mean today,lp

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