Entries in sasquatch (6)

Tuesday
16Feb2010

Early Bird Special.

Last night I was lucky enough to find out the line up of this years Sasquatch Music Festival early. I followed line up launch party and some bloggers who were at the Seattle event. Than I broke the news on twitter for all Victorians to see.

So here it is. 

My Morning Jacket/ Massive Attack/ Pavement/ Ween/ Vampire Weekend/ MGMT/ Band of Horses/ The National/ LCD Soundsystem/ Tegan & Sara/ Broken Social Scene/ Passion Pit/ Deadmau5/ She & Him/ Public Enemy/ Nada Surf/ The New Pornographers/ The Hold Steady/ The xx/ Dirty Projectors/ OK Go/ Drive By Truckers/ Kid Cudi/ The Long Winters/ Minus the Bear/ The Mountain Goats/ Quasi/ Camera Obscura/ Fruit Bats/ Brother Ali/ Midlake/ Dr. Dog/ Caribou/ Simian Mobile Disco/ City & Colour/ No Age/ The Temper Trap/ Vetiver/ Miike Snow/ Portugal. The Man/ Telekinesis/ Mayer Hawthorne/ Why?/ Girls/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros/ Wale/ The Lonely Forest/ Japandroids/ Boys Noize/ Yacht/ Freelance Whales/ Laura Marling/ Patrick Watson/ Past Lives/ Cymbals Eat Guitars/ The Low Anthem/ The Very Best/ Phantogram/ Neon Indian/ Nurses/ The Tallest Man on Earth/ Fresh Espresso/ Mumford & Sons/ Jets Overhead/ tUnE-YarDs/ Shabazz Palaces/ Fool’s Gold/ Morning Teleportation/ Z-Trip/ Dam-Funk/ Hudson Mohawke/ The Middle East/ Local Natives/ Avi Buffalo/ Booka Shade/ A-Trak/ Yes Giantess/ Craig Robinson/ Rob Riggle/ Garfunkel & Oates/ Luke Burbank/ …and more to come!


 

More info to come. Check out Sasquatch 2010 to buy tickets.

Thursday
11Feb2010

Sasquatch = Broke.

Holy Fuck!

I did it again. I bought Sasquatch tickets $400 I'll never see again. They haven't even released the line-up yet.

This year I sprung for the premiere camping to be part of the VI Convoy and to not have to deal with the regular folks. The drug dealers and whores next door last year was enough to make me want to eat a bullet.

This will be my 4th year going in the last 5 years. Every year has its ups and downs. Every year (except the first) I've sworn I'm never going back.

2006: Was the first big road trip of my life without family. D-Rail, a stranger (Lindsay), and ex, and an idiot. One of the fondest memories I have of the music festival.

2008: Space Cowboy ditched us on the last night because we were partying to loud. I met some of my comedian heroes (Eugene Mirman, Brian Posehn, Marc Maron)

2009: Returned with D-rail, brought Caity, met up with JB and Joss. Was a tough trip on me but I got to see John Vanderslice.

I can't wait for this year I've been excited for months.

Monday
08Feb2010

The Playlist.

I'm on a quest to make the ultimate driving playlist.

Last year Darryl and I had a few drinks at the Lennox Pub after catching a Canucks game and started working on the idea of making a great 5-6 hour driving playlist for the drive to Sasquatch. Of course we forgot 90% of what we thought would be great songs to listen to while driving but we started working on it anyways. In the end we made it less than a 2 days of leaving for Sasquatch.  It felt rushed and had far to much filler for my liking and we also added some songs to appease.

I made some interesting rules that we tried to follow and almost succeeded in.  Here are some of them.

  1. The songs have to be good to drive to for everyone in the vehicle.
  2. The songs can't just be your favourite song. (You might have to debate choices).
  3. No repeating of artists. (But solo/side projects don't count as repeat).
  4. Songs need to be somewhat recognizable for everyone. (Less obscure cuts).
  5. If possible 35% CanCon.
  6. Every selection is up for debate before going on the playlist.


I need to go through last years list and weed out what I didn't think were the very best selections.  Like I believe "Gimme Shelter" is better to drive to than "Paint it Black" for a Rolling Stones selection.

Is there a good song to end it with? God help you if you say "Free Bird." Although that is a good way to almost eat up 20min worth of time.

I pose the question to you what do you suggest are some great songs to drive to? Are they unlikely picks you found while scanning the radio on a road trip? Is it your "go to" song for every mixed tape you make for that long drive ahead of you?

Let me know I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts. When the playlist is complete I'll post it up here for debate.

Monday
28Dec2009

Day 25: Gift.

I’m the type of person who if they have the money will buy what they want right then and there. Hence my fairly large record/cd/dvd collections.

The gift I bought for myself and that I enjoyed the most is something I’ve talked about already on here. That’s Sasquatch. So instead of talking about it again here is a picture of John Vanderslice performing on the Wookie Stage.

Wednesday
27May2009

Of Sunsets and Mullets.

More photos and a review of the Sasquatch Music Festival to come in the next few days. I'm trying to get my bearings back after five days of mediocre sleep and lack of showers.