San Antonio Kid

Emerging Indie Rock Group from Texas

Imagine for a moment the five musicians from San Antonio Kid, sitting double-deckered in a canoe, riding the waves at the Augsburg Olympic Eiskanal, instruments slung over their shoulders, sunglasses on, in matching suits and ties. At the newsstand, the yellowed postcards show the band in different scenarios, cycling through the photographer’s sets: drinking moonshine in a Wild West Saloon, standing out at an English garden party, wandering in the Alps, sitting in a 1950s Hudson Hornet at a drive-in movie theatre, eating dinner at Ulmer Hof. Copies of this week’s newspaper, with the headline SURF-GUITAR RIDING THE WAVES OF PSYCH-ROCK, start to disintegrate, splashed by the water and caught by the breeze, the letters of the headline coming away one by one, taking off, and spreading in the wind. To this date, San Antonio Kid are the only band to be reviewed by the super secretive and always underground Organisation for the Appreciation of the 1960s and its Many Beverages, which recommends preparing yourself for “notes of vanilla, red apple and salty caramel, a fashionable jammy body, and a long spicy finish”.