Bumbudumbum
So, I got some free tickets to this year’s Bumbershoot, Seattle’s yearly music and art fest at the Seattle Center. Despite having lived in Seattle for around a decade, somehow during that time I have managed to miss it every year. So yesterday, Ariel and I headed down to check it out. Bumbershoot is a little strange in that, even though you have a ticket to the whole festival, each individual show can sell out, so there is no guarantee that you will get to see the shows you came for. Ariel and I had three things we really wanted to see.
1. Roller Derby. I had not yet made it to a Roller Derby event (mainly because they seem to sell out in around 3 seconds) but I kept hearing that it was well worth it. The atmosphere is supposedly a big part of it, and I’m sure that the crowd was much different for Bumbershoot than it is at their normal events, but it gave me a taste, and I’ll be back for more. At first I couldn’t understand what was going on. It pretty much looked like a bunch of women skating around in a circle, and randomly one of them would decide to go all hockey and check the crap out of one of the other players. Ariel looked up the rules and it all made a little more sense at that point (as it is want to do when you look up the rules). Basically, it’s a lot like Quiddich - The skater with the star on her helmet=Harry Potter, everybody else=Bludgers.
2. Jamie Lidell. Ariel and I have been really into him for a while. He has an amazing voice and most of his music is soulful and beautiful. He also oddly makes glitchy electronic music that can be quite jarring. At home we have deleted all of these songs from the playlist, but his show was sadly filled with much of it. He did do some pretty great on the fly sampling though, where he would layer his beatboxing to create some cool grooves. That was interesting, but overall I was a little underwhelmed.
3. We really wanted to go see the spoken reading of R.Kelly’s Trapped in The Closet, but after waiting in line for around 25 minutes, they reached capacity about 20 people in front of us. At some point, the fates will stop conspiring against me and I’m going to see this show! We did get to see a reading by one of the co-founders of Bitch magazine, which was very funny, and we also wandered through the poster exhibition for a while.
Bumbershoot is expensive and getting more so every year, but there are some amazing bands (not that we caught much music) and worth it I think.
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