Sasquatch Music Festival 2009
God I am always so late on writing these damn posts. My apologies. Old news now for some, but I went to Sasquatch Music Festival!!!!!! Before I left for Washington on Memorial Day Weekend, I would read the lineup over and over again because I was in a continual state of disbelief that SO MANY AMAZING MUSICIANS WERE IN THE SAME PLACE AT ONCE!. I thought the sky would turn red, our ears would melt off and everyone at the Gorge Amphitheater would be sucked into the ground due to an overabundance of magical musical energy, looking like a mix between Indiana Jones when the Nazi’s reveal what is in the lost arc and Poltergeist, when the house implodes upon itself.
Raider of the Lost Arc
You get the picture. That didn’t happen though, maybe we were one band short. I’m sure if Broken Social Scene had shown up the whole northeast would have disappeared off the map completely. That’s how I would like to go out.
The Gorge Amphitheater
Enough of theoretical and impossible tangents, lets talk about music!!!!!! I am actually going to release a new post every few day for the next week or two, looking at each band more closely, but here is who I am gonna discuss (in the order I saw them):
- Passion Pit
- M. Ward
- DeVotchKa
- Animal Collective
- Decemberist
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Kings of Leon
- St. Vincent
- Murder City Devils
- M83
There were a ton of others I missed due to intoxication and much needed naptime like Bon Iver, Crystal Castles, Doves, of Montreal, Sun Kil Moon, Walkmen, The Wrens and The Dodos, but I am happy with my over all experience, which I will also share more about next post.
Panda and Jutley
Until then hang tight and check out a group called Agent Ribbons from Sacramento. They opened for Camera Obscura last night at the Fillmore (which I will also write about later.. ahhh so much to do)
X ) toodles!
