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Bumbershoot 2008: Day 1

Bumbershoot 2008 photo by Kyle Johnson

at Bumbershoot 2008

Bumbershoot is a musical extravaganza, spanning the three-day Labor Day weekend with more bands, arts, and elephant ears than anyone can possibly capture. We had a posse of imaginary writers (ChrisB, Chris Estey, imaginary elle, imaginary dana, and Cory), and photographers (Chona, Kyle, Nathan, and Andrew) all over Seattle Center, trying to capture the frenzy and mayhem of Bumbershoot 2008. Below you can see and read about our adventures during the first day, which kicked off with local electronic duo Beehive and ended with superstar Beck, and covered over 20 other bands in-between.

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Beehive and The Long Ranger at Chop Suey. On a Monday.

Beehive photo from MySpace

at Chop Suey

Digitalism was, of course, the attraction on this Monday night, yet both bands played well and delivered fun sets. I was thoroughly impressed -- even if most people in the club barely noticed.

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Latest comment by: Phil: "Well, my full take on the evening can be found in my MySpace blog, but in short: I was one of at most three people actually standing out on the main floor for Beehive's set, and maybe ten people by the end of The Long Ranger's set - and it seemed as though that was due ...

Top 50 Northwest Releases of 2004: the Imaginary Readers' Poll Results {20-11}

The top Northwest releases of 2004 as voted on by you, our readers (see winners #20-11 here).

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