Sasquatch Festival
 

If any of the PNW contingent is free on the weekend of May 26, in the mood to trek to the city of George, WA and want to make me excruciatingly jealous, the Sasquatch Festival is for you!

High on the jealousy list: Bjork, Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys, Polysonic Spree, and Ghostland Observatory (currently blasting).

Grumble. :cheers:

VERY nice line-up.

If you're jealous you must never have been on the drive to the Gorge. Or sat in the line.

We've driven to far-flung locations, including outdoor places in freezing cold and indoor places in sweltering heat. We've waited an hour to park and hours to get in (I think I've blocked out the worst of our waits). We've sat on wet cement floors and dusty desert, coming home with either an awful cold or dirt in our lungs.

All totally worth it. :)

I went to the Gorge once. For some reason, they decided to have the festival in the usual parking lot area - no great view. I have not forgiven them.

Woah.

And here I thought we were going to talk about people dressing up in Bigfoot costumes.

ETA: Awesome freaking line-up, though. I'm totally jealous of anyone who gets to go to this.

It must be a good line up. I've heard of two of the bands that GD mentions.

Hmm, considering how popular a band has to be to make it onto your radar...that's usually a sign of a bad lineup. But this seems to be the rare exception.

Which two, btw. Going on the, "Would my parents recognize the name?" theory of popularity, I'd guess Bjork and Beastie Boys?

Yep, I was even aware enough to know what you meant by Beatie Boys (technically the Beatie Boys are the males from my step-mother's family).

My only personal experience with Bjork is Dancer in the Dark (which I enjoyed very much) but I have friend who completely swooned last time she performed in San Francisco. 35 year old male fans swooning for any musical act is absurdly funny to me.

I saw the Beastie Boys on Letterman a while ago promoting some concert gimmick they were doing giving audience members cameras. I had heard of them before that but that appearance was where I learned they are white.

Let me rephrase: Those must be big names since I've heard of two.

Me, I'm totally into the Polysonic Spree... ;)

In the end it still means almost the same thing.