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Just back from Seattle and Bumbershoot. I love that festival, definitely a top five in the US for me. The sound was great, all the stages were very easily accessible, excellent programming, good amenities, I love the whole blending-of-music-with-arts-thing, and the setting (right below the Seattle Space Needle) just made it unforgettable. If you play music, or if you are just a fan of music, definitely add Bumbershoot to your must-play, must-attend list.
From a Sonicbids standpoint there were 15 bands that the programmers booked using our site and I caught the sets of many of them including the awesome Ian Moore on the Starbucks stage, Barcelona (who played the Rock Star Energy Drink Stage), Marlee Sioux, and the Tripwires who played on the Sonicbids-sponsored EMP stage (this is the Experience Music Project museum that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen financed and was designed by the architect Frank Gehry to resemble a mangled Hendrix guitar. If you are in Seatlle, you should definitely go).
We’ve been sponsoring Bumbershoot for three years now and this is the first time that I had the chance to attend. I think Chris Porter who books the festival and the other folks from Bumbershoot did a great job with the booking of the Sonicbids bands because they were not confined to just one stage which sometimes can result in low attendances as festival goers tend to go to see shows of large names. If you want new music to be heard, then you have to put it on the same main stages as better-known names and that’s what Chris did. Every single show that I went to (and I caught dozens over three days) was very, very well attended and the sound was fantastic.
I’m adding Bumbershoot to my list of regular festivals that I attend every year. You should too.
Panos
P.S. I missed Beck but I saw Death Cab For Cutie at the main stadium play in front of 30,000 people. Amazing.
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- The Space Needle
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- Barcelona at the Rockstar Stage
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- Cool Dell Booth with All Kinds of Music Gizmos
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- Some Funky Art
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- Ian Moore at the Starbucks Stage
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- Sonicbids member Ian Moore Rocking It
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- Me Looking Baffled at the Crowd
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- Lucinda Williams at the Main Stage
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- Hmm….
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- This is an Amplifier, yes
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- The Tripwires at the Sonicbids Stage at EPM Museum
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- Mariee Sioux
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