Athens, Georgia
SOUNDIES are two things. They are one of the first forms of music videos-popular in the early 1940s. They were three minute musical films usually found on "video jukebox projectors" in bars and clubs. It's also the name we've affectionately titled a series of one take, low-fi, live sound music videos inspired by the "Take Away Shows" series from LaBlogotheque (takeawayshows.com)

Friday, May 23, 2008

HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH


These four guys came all the way from Philadelphia to the Melting Point, by way of other cities, of course. The next morning we met up downtown and the guys decided they wanted to play in front of Five Star Day because they always eat there when they play Athens. We love Five Star Day so of course we agreed. Despite battling the sounds of trucks on downtown Athens' busiest street, the song came through clear and the guys' harmonies caught more than one bystander off guard.

http://www.myspace.com/hootshellmouth




For their last song, they said they wanted to play under a tree. I think we were imagining the base of a big oak tree, but they made a b line straight for a giant magnolia on UGA's campus, which felt more like being in a jungle than under a tree.
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