So Fused has made it to SXSW. We arrived on Sunday night and have been hanging out with the West Midlands Interactive Delegates for most of that time and planning where to do and who to meet while here. (Image: Our SXSW bag of swag).

As Wednesday was the official first Music day we had a sizeable list of things to do. The first thing on the list was to drop off flyers for our parties and the West Mids Wasted Youth CD’s to the Convention Centre – we then headed over the road to sit in the sun where we bumped in to – who we think is the only Birmingham Music Representation at this year’s festival – Vijay Kishore. After a catch up with Vijay, whose been gigging around Toronto and NYC before heading to Ausitn, we headed to the Canadian Blast event at Brush Square gardens for a very generous and tasty BBQ.

During the latter end of the day we bumped in to our buddies from The Culprit who are playing 3 gigs at SXSW and went on to watch Juliette Lewis strut her rock ‘n’ roll stuff with her new band The New Romantiques.

So we’ve seen bands on streets, in venues, in shops and today we are at the Barbers to catch more. It seems busier this year in Austin with the streets packed with music and punters so the sensory overload begins – wish us luck!

Also when we get back to the UK along with Capsule we will be on the panel for the ‘How Bostin’ was Austin?’ event hosted by Creative Republic. If you want to hear what we got up to, where we went and who we met then come along and ask us. The event will be lead by music experts Andrew Dubber and John Mostyn and takes place at Stageside, Thorp Street, Birmingham on Monday 30th March from 6.30pm.

If you want to come along you will need to sign up to the Creative Republic charter either before or on the night.