Georgetown Music Fest

I randomly decided last weekend to go to the Georgetown Music Fest, and it was a good decision indeed. I went on Saturday, I got there about 2 and we watched some of the bands. I liked how they had the bands set up so you didn't have to miss one band to see another, but it was also easy to walk back and forth if you wanted to see another band. And also, there were enough people there, but not so many that I had to wait like an hour to use the one toilet that I knew of in the area. At the end of the day, it wasn't half bad. And we later found out that half the people walking around were actually in the bands that were playing, so that was surprising.

Most notably were Pwrfl Power (which he is apparently starting to get a big name in Seattle.) He played guitar and before his one song, he pointed out to the audience and said "NICE JACKET!" really loudly and I don't think anybody knew who he was pointing at. And then his song was like "you have a very nice jacket, the nicest jacket in my town." Weird... hah. 

We went back and forth from Jules Maes to see the bands playing in there. Leeni impressed my boyfriend because she was playing her gameboy music... thingamajig. I generally thought the back stage at Jules Maes was too loud so I watched Hockey's and Denelian's sets, but I couldn't stay back there after that. My hearing is already shot. Hockey was a better band than we thought, kinda catchy. We were thrown off a little at first by the guy having no sleeves and wearing a camo hat... that's usually a bad sign. Denelian had a really impressive drummer and I want a drum set :(

Then we went to watch the Pink Snowflakes, which was very entertaining because they had a bubble machine. And some fancy schmancy unicorn carpet that they had flung over the front of the stage that looked like one of those glow in the dark posters with the felt that you can buy from the store and color yourself...

We saw the last song from Slender Means and were actually kinda bummed 'cause they sounded like they were pretty good too. 

Aqueduct was awesome as always, but I think they had the keyboard up way too loud which was piercing my ears. I always like watching Aqueduct 'cause they always look like they're just out there doing what they love. They always look like they're having so much fun, and just playing (awesome) music for people. I've seen Aqueduct a couple times, most memorably at Sasquatch '05 (when it wasn't horribly overpriced) and a week later at EndFest which was much more enjoyable.

Then we watched the Lashes and SURPRISE! Somebody took my picture.

Whoo! Famous!!! Me!! I look like Eric just said something really annoying and I'm like "baha" and he's like "ugh, it was supposed to be a joke."

My friend myspaced me and said "Look what I saw in the Seattle PI!" and you can see more pics here

The Lashes were really good though, but I've seen them better (with more people) when I saw them two years ago on Halloween when they played with Schoolyard Heroes and Vendetta Red. That was a phenomenally good show. Mostly because Ben Lashes was all hot and dressed up like a zombie, and they were one of the first bands to play so all the assholes hadn't come to punch people in the mosh pit quite yet. 

We didn't stay for Thee Emergency, even though I really wanted to, but we had to catch a bus back to downtown so we could catch the ferry back to Bremerton (booooooooo! I hate Kitsap. Nothing this cool ever happens here.)

In the coming weeks I'm looking forward to Gay Pride Fest and Beer Fest. It's gonna be a good summer!