Category: Gigs

Gigs, Photography

Photos: Gogol Bordello @ the Newport / July 2013

Posted on by Rachael Barbash

I arrived to the show late because of a final (who holds their final at 8pm? Looking at you Art Hist department!) so I had to shoot from the sides. Still a great show! Gogol Bordello is always fun. It wasn’t until after the show when I learned about the lawsuit. Ha, oops.

Either way, lawsuit or no lawsuit and despite having just seen them in May at Nelsonville, (which looking back I guess I never blogged those pictures here, but Paste Magazine did!) it was a great show. And pictures!

Gogol Bordello
Newport Music Hall
July 30, 2013

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Gigs, Photography, sxsw

SXSW 2013 Amanda Palmer Ninja Gig

Posted on by Rachael Barbash

Where do I even start? I was debating attending the ninja gig at the Scottish Rite but decided to hike over last second.

Amanda “Fucking” Palmer is well known for putting on “ninja” pop up gigs around a town where she is playing. This ninja gig was put together in five hours complete with multiple bands, a panel (This is Southby, after all) all interspersed with AFP solo pieces. All work was volunteer and tickets were free.

The panel included volunteers from the audience, filmmakers, members of the bands and Amanda herself. Topics discussed included the music industry, getting scheduled at SXSW (or being cancelled behind your back by a crook booker), crowdfunding and Amanda’s TED talk, and something that struck a cord with me, being a woman in the modern day… the frustrations about being taken seriously as a female and how to use that fact as an advantage.

Every day I am quickly covering my SXSW experience but I thought this needed a separate piece.

Because I am better at taking pictures than writing words, here was the Ninja Gig. A picture blog.

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This dog was crowned Bongo.

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