Clips
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You can't go to SXSW without visiting Chicken S**t Bingo! Duration: 01:09
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Admiral Fallow and Rachel Sermanni House Tour Duration: 01:24
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Bronto Skylift rock the British Music Embassy. Duration: 01:36
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Dam Mantle performs 'Not A Word' live at SXSW 2011 Duration: 03:27
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Flatstock; a massive poster art show at SXSW Duration: 00:32
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5 minute taster of Scotland Rocks at SXSW Duration: 05:06
Music Played
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Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out
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Biffy Clyro The Captain
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Dam Mantle ArtWorks Title Music
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Duran Duran View to a Kill (live at SXSW)
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Rachel Sermanni performance at Celtic Connections
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Unicorn Kid Dreamcatcher
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Withered Hand Providence
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Withered Hand For the Maudlin
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The Proclaimers Letter from America
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Kid Canaveral Good Morning
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Rachel Sermanni Bones
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KT Tunstall Black Horse and a cherrytree
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Edwyn Collins A Girl Like You
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Unicorn Kid Untitled song
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Withered Hand New Dawn
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Withered Hand Providence
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Bronto Skylift performance on 6th Street
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Twin Atlantic Yes I was drunk
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The Twilight Sad Songs from the Birdhouse
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The Twilight Sad I became a prostitute
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Withered Hand Religious Songs
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Olive Tree Dance Didgeridoo performance on 6th Street
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Inverness Amaneceres
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Admiral Fallow Squealing pigs
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Rachel Sermanni Humming Home
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Unicorn Kid Wild Life
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Erland and the Carnival Was You Ever See
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King Creosote Missionary (with Kid Canaveral)
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Primal Scream Movin' On Up
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Admiral Fallow Old Balloons
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Admiral Fallow Squealing Pigs
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Admiral Fallow with Rachel Sermanni When I go Deaf (Low cover)
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SXSW
South by South West (SXSW) is the world’s largest music industry festival. Every year 2000 bands from around the globe descend on Austin, Texas trying to make an impact.
The documentary follows some of the Scottish acts who have been lucky enough to be selected for this year’s festival: -
Rachel Sermanni
Rachel Sermanni was the surprise hit of this year’s Celtic Connections and is friends with Mumford and Sons. Not a bad start for this 19 year old from Carrbridge!
Rachel Sermanni myspace -
Unicorn Kid
Unicorn Kid’s computer-game influenced dance-music is beginning to take off. He’s signed to the legendary ‘Ministry of Sound’ label and has even remixed a Pet Shop Boys track.
Unicorn Kid website -
Withered Hand
Withered Hand has been called ‘a Caledonian-tinged Neil Young for the Facebook generation’. His songs mainly deal with sex and religion.
Withered Hand website -
Admiral Fallow
Admiral Fallow are a 6 piece indie band whose music has created quite a following. The band melds clarinet, flute, and two jaw-dropping voices to deliver their joyous but heart-filled orchestral songs.
Admiral Fallow website -
The Twilight Sad
The Twilight Sad are the bad boys of Scottish indie rock; their performances are loud and raucous. Their dark lyrics and screaming guitars go down well with US crowds.
The Twilight Sad myspace -
Kid Canaveral
Edinburgh indie-popsters Kid Canaveral have come to Austin under their own steam, shelling out their own hard earned cash to get to here. But they’re certainly working SXSW hard; 8 gigs including some with legendary, Fife-based, singer-songwriter King Creosote.
Kid Canaveral website -
Bronto Skylift
Noise-rock duo, Bronto Skylift are staging a guerrilla gig which unsurprisingly attracts the attention of the Austin police force.
Bronto Skylift myspace -
Twin Atlantic
Twin Atlantic are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, they already have made inroads on the US market.
Twin Atlantic website
During their Scottish Showcase performance Sam McTrusty has to cope with every front man’s nightmare… a knackered guitar! -
The documentary follows the acts from Scotland to Austin.
It covers airport stories, different venues, accommodation and includes some exclusive performances in unusual venues; like Admiral Fallow in the local soup kitchen for Austin’s homeless and Withered Hand in the Central Presbyterian Church.
We see live performances at the Scottish Showcase in 6th street in downtown Austin.
There is also coverage of exclusive parties and gigs featuring the likes of Edwyn Collins, Erland and the Carnival, the Bangles and Duran Duran.
It also takes in the flavour of the festival; the madness of 6th Street; the main hub of SXSW, Tears of Joy; a hot chilli sauce emporium, Jodie Foster and Dave Grohl at the film festival and an interview with a band from Patagonia who call themselves Inverness. -
The programme features interviews with acts who performed at SXSW in the past;
The Proclaimers, KT Tunstall, Mogwai, Camera Obscura, Frightened Rabbit, Glasvegas and Franz Ferdinand.
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Creative Scotland
Making this programme would not have been possible without the help of Creative Scotland who organised the Scottish Showcases at SXSW and helped to fund some of the Scottish acts.
Creative Scotland -
Crew
BBC Scotland SXSW crew Heather Mitchell (sound), Folko Boermans (director), Marisa Privitera Murdoch (research and additional camera), Vic Galloway (presenter), and Rick Walker (camera) celebrate the end of the shoot.
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Vic Galloway
Presenter Vic Galloway poses in front of the British Music Embassy in Austin Texas during SXSW 2011.
Credits
- Series Producer
- Andrew Lockyer
- Director
- Folko Boermans
