The Twilight Sad, United Fruit, Hector Bizerk among Scottish bands set for SXSW
The seven bands set to fly the flag for Scottish music in Creative Scotland’s showcase at this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival have been named.
The Twilight Sad, Hector Bizerk, Dave Arcari, Fatherson, Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire, United Fruit and Holy Esque will all receive partial funding and support from the public body, as will Holy Esque (who also featured on last year’s Showcasing Scotland bill, alongside Mercury and SAY-winners Young Fathers, Prides, Casual Sex, Withered Hand and Honeyblood). Watch our diary of a day in the life of Honeyblood at last year's SxSW in the player below.
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Looking ahead to this year's festival, Marco Panagopoulos of United Fruit said: “We are aiming to meet like-minded individuals who enjoy our sound and are willing to help us and our music reach as many people across the world as possible.”
The Twilight Sad's James Graham remarked: “We are really looking forward to playing SXSW again, we believe we have produced an album that we are all very proud of and the festival gives us the opportunity to promote it to the worlds media, all of whom have their eyes on Texas at that time of the year.”
The seven selected acts will receive funding from Creative Scotland for their trip to the music and creative arts festival, which takes place at venues across Austin, Texas from 17-22 March.
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