Return to Zaireeka
Some of you may have attended the Zaireeka listening party we hosted awhile ago. After a lot of trial and error it actually came off pretty well and I think we all had fun (and some of us even enjoyed the CD…s.)
Last night we attended Tim League’s listening party and I am pretty sure that his version blew ours out of the water. It helps, I suppose, that as a well-connected member of the business community Tim was able to arrange a massive professional outdoor sound system and set it up in Round Rock’s Old Settler’s Park, and as a well-connected member of the entertainment community he was able to line up two opening acts — the Austin Theremonic Orchestra and Pong (who are playing the ACL Festival) — that were awesome, and as owner of the Alamo Drafthouse he was able to erect four movie screens at the cardinal compass points of the park and wrangle his movie-geek high-level employees to create synchronized videos to accompany the audio (plus a guest video editing spot from Willey Wiggins).
Setting up the screens before the show.
Becky took an opportunity during this delayed set-up to do her favorite thing in the nearby playset.
Austin Theremonic Orchestra. video of the band. During their set a foil party balloon eerily passed overhead.
Pong (the band), video of the band.
And our favorite song on Zaireeka is the closer The Big Old Bug Is The New Baby Now.
4 Responses to “Return to Zaireeka”
Comment from Jorge Neumbatew
Time July 25, 2005 at 5:39 pm
A few of us went to old Settlers for this and were very disapointed. The event itself wasnt too bad but there were a lot of smug self important people in the audience who ruined it for the rest of us.
Comment from etrigan
Time July 25, 2005 at 9:53 pm
Now I feel a little self-conscious.
How would I know if I was one of the “smug self important people”?
Comment from Becky
Time July 28, 2005 at 3:19 pm
Seriously, now I’m wondering if that was me, too. I thought the crowd was a pretty cool mix of music freaks, movie geeks and assorted Austinites. My favorite was the 50ish dad in the Frank Black t-shirt with a Harry Potter look-alike son.
On a personal note, Tim League stood next to me for almost 5 whole minutes! Why didn’t he profess his undying love????
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Comment from Zack
Time July 25, 2005 at 9:23 am
Yeah, but did everyone hold hands and spin around in a big circle?