The New York Times at South By Southwest

Morrissey at Austin Music Hall

A link to Jon Pareles' blog on the festival. Four days of sometimes wonderful, sometimes puzzling, always entertaining zooming from place to place. What I love about shooting in Austin is how close the venues are to each other, how many of them there are and what great variety you get to experience in such a short amount of time. The most intense day for me was easily the last night, Saturday during which I shot two different showcases that were running concurrently with each other during a one hour period as well as working with Jon on the bands he was covering. After doing this together for four (or is it five?) years we've developed a good system of staying in touch and bopping around from place to place. He's inexhaustible and invariably knows about the most interesting bands to check out. It never ceases to amaze me how knowledgeable he is about what's out there.
Below; The Flairz from Australia who are all of 12 years old.