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The Shitshow #2: Almost-Almost Famous at SXSW

March 13, 2012

It’s been my lifelong dream to perform inside a six-story Doritos vending machine, but today, at the opening of the SXSW music festival, this is not my fate. Instead, I’m in Long Island City going through scraps from two years ago, when I served as “backline tech” to a British band signed to Atlantic, making their much-hyped US debut.

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