The Extremities & Jesse Dangerously – Get Fresh:

More or Les freestyling for CBC’s R3TV:

South By Southwest is the Austin, Texas, music, film and new media festival that tells you every spring who is going to be the greatest and best and most wonderful.

This year, Backburner is sending a host of representatives.

More or Les and Jesse Dangerously will both be playing, and both will be accompanied by The Extremities (Uncle Fester and Fresh Kils) providing wax and sampler support/wizardry.

So if you’re going to be in Austin next weekend, you are going to never forgive yourself if you don’t get in on a piece of the action. Here’s how it’s going to work.

On Friday, March 20th, More or Les + Extremities is playing the Canadian Hip-Hop Allstars showcase at Music Gym & Lounge (815 East 6th Street). Their performance is at 9 p.m.

If, after their performance, you wanted to stick around and see other Canadian rap ambassadors do their thing, you could not be blamed for it. But you would kick yourself in the FACE the next day if you didn’t take the chance to scoot just thirteen minutes west (East 6th becomes Old Pecan St, turn left on Congress Ave) for:

Jesse Dangerously + Extremities, performing at Prague Nightclub (422b Congress Ave)! That performance begins at 10:30 p.m. so you have plenty of time! Look how easy:

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Now, we’re not going to lie to you – both of those showcases will be difficult to get into without a SXSW bracelet, and those cost more than a car (not a real one but a very nice toy). It’s not that it won’t be possible or that you shouldn’t try, but it’s a fair concern. I don’t know exactly what to tell you about that.

I do know this, however – it will be much, much easier to get into the other Jesse Dangerously show on Sunday night, the 22nd. It’s not an official showcase, and only costs five dollars to get into. Jesse will be performing with several of the same nerd rappers as are sharing the bill at his show on Friday – MC Frontalot, MC Lars and Terp2it. We’re still working out the logistics of whether the Extremities will be available to be perform at this show as well (they may be on a bus to San Antonio, which they aim to make “Jus Lyke Compton”), and More or Les will most certainly have fled the premises by then, but it’s still another chance to make things right.

Speaking for myself (Jesse D), I would recommend the die-hard Backburner aficionado try harder to get into the Canadian rap showcase on Friday to see Les and Extremities together (AKA FesKilLes? Did I get that right?), then lamp out until Sunday when it will be easier and cheaper to see my show. If you can swing all three, do that instead, but I don’t want you to miss out on More or Les. His new album with Fes and Kils is ready and will be available and you MUST HAVE IT.

If you have any questions, go ahead and post comments here or e-mail jesse@backburner.ca and we’ll get you sorted out.

How’s that?