March 23rd, 2009Acts twitter at SXSW, in interviews and on stage
AUSTIN, Texas – It wasn’t just the legions of concertgoers wandering the streets who were twittering at South By Southwest. Many of the acts were posting tweets throughout the music conference and festival, sometimes even on stage or during interviews.
Microblogging by performers shed a new light on their SXSW experience, revealing the fun, fatigue and frenzy of the annual Austin music event – which concluded early Sunday.
----------Advertisements------------Dave Navarro, the guitarist for Jane’s Addiction, took a photo of this reporter in the middle of an interview of the band, later explaining a negative story would mean the wrath of his Twitter followers. Later, after playing “Three Days,” he tweeted from the stage: “We just played 3 days!!!! Yeah!”
Tweets must be 140 characters or less and can be posted directly from mobile phones to twitter.com.
Colin Meloy, the frontman for the Decemberists, perfectly reflected typical pre-show and post-show emotions. Shortly before performing the band’s new folk opera “The Hazards of Love” for the first time, he wrote: “Krikes! Nervous as all get up. Think good thoughts.”
