nme reports: http://www.nme.com/news/sxsw/27139

The Stooges make live return at SXSW

Iggy Pop and co tear it up in Austin

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A reunited Stooges made their live return at Stubbs in Austin, Texas last night (March 17).

The capacity crowd queued from 7pm to see the band, who took to the stage at around 12.15am.

Opening with 'Loose' the Detroit punk rockers ripped their way through five classic Stooges songs before giving way to material they recorded for their first album since 1973.

Following 'I Wanna Be Your Dog', 'TV Eye', '1970' and 'Funhouse', the notoriously shirtless Iggy Pop was in top form, with a typically high energy performance.

"Sometimes when you want to pick up a chick you don't want to go to a dirty club full of pimps and drugs, you just wanna get in your car and trawl," Pop said as he introduced new track 'Trollin'.

As the set came to a close, Pop incited a stage invasion saying "I'm inviting all the fat fuckers to dance with the asshole Stooges onstage", resulting in a melee of audience members storming the stage to dance to the song 'I'm Fried'.

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better than the first show at sxsw which was 5 songs and all crappy new ones

this is cool there was a sxsw thing on a the direct tv station thing today
and i missed leescratch perry

im mad

i was there, i must say it was a fucking AMAAAAAAAZING show. top 2 for sure. i'm trying to find a torrent of it...

I saw this thread & got all excited for a moment wondering if they'd play here, and then i realised i already saw them two years ago

& that sounds pretty much just like the time they played here