My lovely Mike and I have been planning a trip to Seattle in May for a few months now. Plane tickets (Winnipeg to Vancouver) and train tickets (Vancouver to Seattle) have been purchased, as well as hotel rooms and Mariners vs. Red Sox tickets.
However, we only just had an amazing discovery on Friday.
While we're in Seattle, the most amazing thing is also occurring a mere 2.5 hours away.
Yes, Sasquatch! Music Festival is happening while we're there! I've wanted to go to the annual festival ever since I first heard of it three or four years ago. What amazing luck! What a beautiful coincidence! What great timing!
The line-up is amazing. Mike's less enthusiastic, there's none of his beloved classic rock on schedule (he doesn't quite share my love of indie music), so I'm trying to convince him that renting a car and driving down to the Gorge for a day would be worth it.
(The mainstage at Sasquatch. Such an amazing view! There's many other stages, as well as camping.)The shows run Saturday to Monday, and our flight to Winnipeg leaves first thing Sunday morning, so we'd only get to see Saturday's shows (which is the best line up anyways, in my opinion).
Here's the line up (I bolded the bands that I really really like):
Saturday, May 23rd
Kings of Leon / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Decemberists / Animal Collective / Bon Iver / Devotchka / M. Ward / Doves / Sun Kil Moon / The Gaslight Anthem / King Khan & The Shrines / Ra Ra Riot / Shearwater / Passion Pit / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Vince Mira / Blind Pilot / AA Bondy / Owl City / Arthur & Yu / Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele / Death Vessel / People's Republic of Komedy / James Pants / Todd Barry / Tim and Eric / Crystal Castles / Nick Thune / Mos Def / Maria Bamford / Champagne Champagne
Sunday, May 24th
Jane's Addiction / Nine Inch Nails / TV On The Radio / The Murder City Devils / of Montreal / The Avett Brothers / Calexico / M83 / The Airborne Toxic Event / The Walkmen / The Wrens / St. Vincent / The Dodos / John Vanderslice / The Submarines / Viva Voce / The Builders And The Butchers / Fences / Point Juncture, WA / The Red Wine Boys / Hockey / Zach Galifianakis / Deadmau5 / Natalie Portman's Shaved Head / People's Republic of Komedy / Aziz Ansari / Japandroids / Mike Watt and The Missingmen / Mad Rad / Street Sweeper
Monday, May 25thBen Harper and Relentless7 / Erykah Badu / Silversun Pickups / Fleet Foxes / Gogol Bordello / Santigold / Grizzly Bear / Explosions In The Sky / Girl Talk / Blitzen Trapper / The Knux / Monotonix / Bishop Allen / Black Moth Super Rainbow / Beach House / Mugison / The Dutchess And The Duke / School Of Seven Bells / Horse Feathers / The Pica Beats / Loch Lomond / Heartless Bastards / The Whitest Kids U' Know / People's Republic of Komedy / Tobacco / Chromeo / God's Pottery / Demetri Martin / BLK JKS / Other Lives
Isn't this amazing? We can't NOT go.
If you do go on saturday, you have to see Sun Kil Moon. Experience him for me.
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