In a lower-than-usual-key event,
UK acts were prominent at this
year’s SXSW. On the first night,
the Texan audience listened in
disbelief to a facile Eurovisionstyle
performance by the inept Lily
Allen and her dire band. Her idea
of entertaining the yanks was to
slag off NME. Razorlight cheered
things up with their usual bra…