Anutha Zone
Web extra: Catch TCB’s online interview with singer Roddy Woomble of Scottish pop-rockers Idlewild, who play the Parish Saturday. Woomble discusses wintering in L.A., Idlewild’s new album, Warnings/Promises, and playing “Sweet Home Alabama” onstage with R.E.M.‘s Mike Mills. Remember, if it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!It’s Thursday, Sept. 15, and the smoking ban still sucks. The latest bit of hilarity involves a smoldering cigarette on the back porch of Elysium, which started a small fire before alert staffers put it out. Terrific. Oh, and all you nonsmokers who swore you’d flock downtown once the ban took effect: We’re still waiting. There’s plenty of room.
Memo to the Yuppie Pricks: You are more than welcome to your opinion of the Chronicle music staff as “pussies,” but sending us a box of Tampax is so played. We already went down the whole feminine-hygiene-product road years ago when the Sheridans sent Michael Bertin a case of douche. Be more like Misprint magazine, who sent several copies of their side-splitting “Austin Shitty Limits” issue and some awesome stickers. Misprint rules.
Best of luck to the umpteen Austin bands and musicians playing CMJ in the Big Apple this weekend: Cruiserweight, DJ Rapid Ric, Gorch Fock, Jeff Klein, Single Frame, Sound Team, Attack Formation, the Arm, Voxtrot, Honky, Shane Bartell, Octopus Project, Tia Carrera, and Zom Zoms. In somewhat related news, SXSW 06 is now taking applications at www.sxsw.com.
Music buff and sometime Austinite Matthew McConaughey is at it again. Looking “completely out of it,” Double M broke out the bongos – whether it was the same set presented by City Manager Toby Futrell at April’s Sahara premiere is unclear – to join John Mellencamp on “Pink Houses” at the Coog’s Aug. 29 Hollywood Bowl show. “I knew every word,” posted an eyewitness on Defamer.com. “I’m not sure Matty did.”
This article appears in September 16 • 2005.