The Pink Snowflakes were approached and interviewed on the street in Austin during sxsw. The interview footage should be up here soon.
Playing in San Francisco to a full house of hungry freaks was a true highlight playing at the Knockout in the mission with Candy Apple. The next night was completely surreal at the Roxy Theatre opening to a capacity crowd for Nico Vega and the Von Bondies. The bubbles and strobe lights really made an impact on the faces of the kids in front of the stage. Toms guitar rig was missing an important cable left behind in SF so he hardwired his pedals from his rack and set everything up in time seconds before the cutains went up and exposed ourselves under the hot lights! A true Macguyver move.
We played an insane house party with 6 or 7 bands and like 100 people in Las Cruces New Mexico and a few fans came out of the woodwork especially to see us from 2 hrs away!
We ended up in San Antonio Texas and played a small festival there called The Big Spill and met fellow Portlanders Roxy Epoxy and the Rebound as well as LA band the Start with a drumming machine of a chick that kills it!..had fun with passed out hipsters and sharpies..plastered our stuff everywhere and played outside!
Austin we ended up lugging our heavy equipment around the hot sun and setting up on the east side in a tent at Co-Lab. Andy the organizer was really cool and really smashed but he dug the Snowflakes so we kept accidentally finding him and he got us into some nice day showcases at Elisium. Thanks! Played in front of college kids at a Cooperative space on 21st St in the coolest painted on Mural room with a decent stage. Naked guy dancing and freaking out.
Albuquerque NM was a stop we did with an energetic band from LA called Spider Problem..they were noisy and raw and tore into it. They dug our noise too and loved the bubbles. (bubbles know no boundaries..they rule.) I'll write a segment on that sometime..the importance of bubbles in music.
All and all a good trip to the Southwest. Tripped out landscapes and peyote sunsets all the way up! We hope to go that way again!