The Spot 09 Festival begins today, so today and tomorrow I'll be hanging out downtown trying to spot the next The Raveonettes alongside hundreds of other kids in search of a new bandwagon to jump on. Last year's festival was incredible, and although I doubt this year will be quite as good it'll be fun just hanging out and meeting people. And since the thing is sold out, I'm expecting to see pretty much everyone and his brother down there.

There aren't a lot of bands I'm dying to see, but I'll probably check out Tiger Tunes, Kitty Wu, and Moi Caprice, and then just see however plays whenever. And tonight when the festival part is over the party should continue at Play, where Electro Clash heroes Separations will perform.
My only gripe about the festival is that they've signed too many established (and sucky) bands to pull in the bridge-and-tunnel crowd (we don't actually have bridges and tunnels here, but you catch my drift). It's called Spot, because you're supposed to be out there spotting new talent and not because the bands have liver spots (yes, Sort Sol, I'm looking in your direction).

But even with the influx of geezers it should be fun. Last year I really looked forward to hearing David Fricke from Rolling Stone talk about Scandinavian music and this year I'm looking forward to hearing him pretend like it's not his fault The Raveonettes got a huge record deal. I'll probably also go to the interview with Richard "I produced Blondie's best records" Gottehrer just because he's bound to have some cool stories.
I'll let you know later how the whole thing went.