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We’re lucky enough to be sponsoring One Little Indian’s SXSW showcase this year, which promises to be a fantastic show featuring some of the most ‘need-to-see’ artist in Austin for the South By Southwest music week. Excited, are we?
A little!!!!

SXSW SHOWCASE 2010

The Victorian Room at The Driskill Hotel

Thursday, March 18

8pm-2am

Link: One Little Indian and Never Enough Notes @ SXSW

The Bands

Julia Marcell uploaded her demos to SellABand. Three months later, she raised $50K to record her debut album, appropriately titled It Might Like You. One Little Indian will release It Might Like You in the U.S. in 2010. This girl opens heads. If Chopin ever played in the Sex Pistols he would be called Julia Marcell” (Kmag-Poland).

Named the #1 Act to Watch at SXSW 2010 (About.com). Ólöf’s Arnalds’ solo debut, Við og Við was recently named as one of the 100 Best Albums of the Decade by eMusic. Ólöf’s voice has been singled out for high praise as “otherworldly” by The New York Times, “stunning” by SPIN, “remarkable” by the NME, “ethereal” by Vanity Fair and “impossibly lovely” by Paste. Ólöf’s second record, Innudir skinni was produced by Sigur rós’ Kjartan Sveinsson and is set for release this Spring. Olaf made it onto Never Enough’s ‘Southwest of Never’ charity album last month.

Produced by Ryan Hadlock (Foo Fighters, The Gossip) in the world famous Bear Creek studio, “uncontrived, Kill It Kid are a brave, raw talent” (BBC). They are one of ten bands nominated for XFM’s New Music Award this year. ‘An outstanding British record – 9/10′ Clash. According to NME, Kill It Kid is “bucking the trend with glee, making music for the misfits and giving us delicious little murder ballads. 8/10”.

Surrounded will take their adventurous songwriting an extra step further this year, into the lush world of vintage technicolor and unpolished high-fidelity with the upcoming Oppenheimer and Woodstock. Produced by Tony Doogan (Belle and Sebastian), Bill Racine (The Flaming Lips) and Paul Mahajan (TV on the Radio), the bands follow up to The Nautilus Years is filled with more breathtaking moments, combining dense instrumentation and surreal lyrics.

Orchid and Hound is keyboardist Lawrence Alarcon and vocalist John Constantine. They have been named “Top of the Crop” (angrysong.com) for this years SXSW Festival. The music of O&H has been described as a stripped-down Queen, “Ben Folds meets The Doves” (fuckyeahmistakes.com), and SF Weekly calls it “soaring vocals over bouncy piano pop.” They are “brilliant onstage” (SF GUARDIAN). Orchid and Hound will release their independent debut record this year.

This event is open to badge-holders, and wristbanders – and also the general public for a fee.

The set times are as follows:

8:00pm Orchid & Hound

9:00 Julia Marcell

10:00 Ólöf Arnalds

11:00 Surrounded

12:00 Kill It Kid

You can keep up with Never Enough’s South By Southwest adventure by following hashtag #sxswnen on Twitter, following @kim_neverenough, and reading our blog!