It's good to know Donnie Davies - the man who brought us the best homo hoax in homo history with his homo-hating single, "The Bible Says" - hasn't given up his hilarious mission. Joe.My.God reports that Davies and his band, The Evening Service, will be playing a little tune at Austin's South By Southwest.

That's right - everyone's favorite fake homophobe's taking the indie flavored stage this Saturday, March 17, at 11:05 post meridian. We won't be there, unfortunately, but if someone can gank us a copy of this sweet ass poster, we'll love you forever. Or until we need to devote our love to someone else...

When Morrissey sings, the boys listen--and sections of the audience at Morrissey's SXSW show looked like a gay-hipster bar. What's the allure? Hype over his new album, Ringleader For The Tormentors? General anti-dance music backlash? Whatever the draw, his gay fans are unfaulteringly loyal. This show was packed. Gay, gay, gay.

Morrissey's show was among the most talked about of the festival in genreal, up there with The Beastie Boys and The Pretenders, as he performed new songs that held up to the old tunes by The Smiths he threw in for kicks. Unlike his usual pity-party music of the past, with lyrics that could pass for suicide letters, "Ringleader For The Notorious" (on sale April 4) has already won critical praise, and holds more optimistic fare. (A little.)

In a pre-show interview, he said The Smiths were offered $5 million to reunite and play at Coachella, but they turned it down for personal reasons. Fools. The gays will just have to settle for The Scissor Sisters, Paul Oakenfold and Madonna at Coachella instead.

South By Southwest also holds a film festival, and some of the biggest buzz surrounded a little film called Small Town Gay Bar, a documentary about gay life in rural Mississippi. Rooting for the underdog is a way of life in the gay South, and watching the various communities highlighted in the documentary is a celebration of tough skin and unfaltering glamour. And there's a touch of kink and raunch thrown in just for kicks.

This is a bare-bones indendent film, of course, and little issues like editing and "structure" and whatnot abound--you can fast-forward through the Fred Phelps segment, when the movie comes out on DVD--but no matter. When you're filming a documentary about the lives of drag queens in the middle of Mississippi, you expect things to be rough around the edges. Those edges are still sprinkled with gold with sequins and glamour and a little bit of sass. Just sit there and watch the movie and like it.

Part 3 in the South By Southwest Series

New Zealand-based Coco Solid labels themselves as hip hop artists, combining heavily-produced house music with rap lyrics. We're not familiar with the New Zealand music scene, but we wouldn't call Coco Solid "hip hop." We say it's electroclash. Not that it matters. We love the odd beats and the random lyrics. Pure, sexy fun.

We hung out with the Coco Solid crew after their set, introducing ourselves to all the gays who work for them (love their sexy New Zealand accents!), and we promised we would come down for Gay Ski Week in September. And hopefully we'll be able to catch their performance again while we're there. Already a hit Down Under, they're just starting to take to the Northern Hemisphere; this is the music you'd listen to in a club somewhere in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, with hot skinny artsy guys who you know are great in bed. Yeah, we've thought about this a lot. Those accents got us in the mood.

Play ABC

One SXSW evening we were feeling particularly adventurous, so we ventured over to "Japan Night," a collection of Japanese punk/rock bands who promised to be more fun than a marathon of Iron Chef. While we didn't partake in the mosh pit, we did stare wide-eyed at the spectacle of crazy Japanese rockers wiggling around on-stage, thrashing their guitars and proclaiming their love for all things American.

The standout act was Tsu Shi Ma Mi Rae, who were everything you'd want from a Japanese girl band: a trio of the cutest little women you have ever seen, who bounced around singing their heads off, yet looked like they were going to fall over from the weight of their instruments.

Unlike the "garage-band" noise common in much of the festival, the gays are more patient when it comes to uncommon fare like this. It's fun, it's catchy, and who doesn't love tiny Japanese women bopping around? These are the songs you listen to while taking those long boring road trips. If nothing else, Tsu Shi Ma Mi Rae will keep you awake.

Play Big Seeds
Play Ebihara Shinji

Tsu Shi Ma Mi Rae's official site
Another Tsu Shi Ma Mi Rae site

And go read their Myspace page. Cute.

South By Southwest is the premiere music festival for "discovering" new talent--bands from all around the world flock to tiny little Austin, TX, to fill the numerous downtown bars and theaters and play their hearts out in the hopes of signing with a label, or introducing themselves to new fans.

We arrived at the festival with our energy drinks in tow, ready for marathon days and late nights as we tried to soak in as much as we could; and after hearing more bands than we can comprehend, we compiled a list of our five favorites. We'll feature one each day. Some have been around, some are new, some are new only to America--but we hope to hear more from all of them.

1) Goldfrapp
British "electro-rock" Goldfrapp is a mix of disco, synthesizers, and glam-rock; perhaps resembling a re-tooled Debbie Harry (from Blondie), Allison Goldfrapp's breathy lyrics seem slow at first, but it's a more subliminal vibe. By the end of the song you're singing along and you don't even realize it. This is the music you'll hear when you go to gay cocktail parties. Very glamorous, total diva, authentically British, Allison Goldfrapp will pick up in America where the Scissor Sisters left off.

Play song: White Horse (our favorite)
Play song: Ooh La La