Little Things: Buckingham Review, NRT & Interviews

With SXSW creeping up on us, the music section at Austinist has been crazy busy. This is a good thing! One things we’re doing this year is sending email interviews to as many bands as we can early, so people can read about and get some info on some of the act that they should be excited about. Today, we posted an interview with Ladyhawk, and I highly recommend their stuff, it’s good good stuff.

In news unrelated to SXSW, I officially reviewed the Lindsey Buckingham concert. The only thing missing from that evaluation of it was my utter childishness and near-freak-out at the end when he signed my album and dripped sweat on my wrist. He also made eye contact with me during the encore–I didn’t imagine it, the people next to me noticed and mentioned it to me after the show. I proceeded to bring those people over to where my friends were waiting for me so that I’d have come credibility later on when I talked about how Lindsey was looking at me (MORE THAN ONCE).

“Please tell my friends what you just told me.”
“Oh, yeah, he was totally looking at her. More than once. Absolutely gave her the eyes.”
“See?”

The expressions between us were hilarious: the strangers were thrilled to be confirming my story, my friends were bewildered and I was ecstatic. Hilarious. Also, I got a t-shirt. Also, the girl in the cowboy hat was insane. Also, Linsdey Buckingham. Gah.

I love what you’ve done so far with the Qwilm! theme. So rockstar.

Congrats for being dripped on and gazed upon by one of your icons. I once made goo goo eyes with Trent Reznor but it was early in his career and I thought his music was kind of, well, bad. And actually I think he was looking at my tits. LOL

I saw your signed BN album on flickr and found myself here soon thereafter. Your review of the Austin show was really great. I love the way you write.
Tonight, I too, will have my BN album held tightly to my chest until the moment comes when Lindsey bends down to sign it. Perhaps a little bead of sweat will fall upon my wrist. About 14 hours from now, I’ll know. Thanks for a great review — it makes the anticipation I feel that much greater!

About SXSW, have you heard anything about NXNW? It’s in June, in Toronto, Ontario. I could find little information on it but I’m under the impression it’s a mock version for Canadians. Though I wonder what sort of lineup they could gather at this point?

My friend and I are the strangers that happily collaborated the total and complete eye-contact event. What a great show! I think I was as excited for you getting your album signed and first hand attention as you were

OMG That is so insane. MY WITNESS IS HERE Y’ALL!