Bumbershoot, Day 3

Wow. Apparently I just really suck at updating this. Day three should have gone up yesterday morning. Sorry, folks.

The first act I saw was People Eating People. I guess it's one of those one person projects (like Smashing Pumpkins). It was actually really cool. She kind of reminded me of Ingrid Michaelson. Apparently the Zune Smart DJ disagrees.

Then I headed over to see JEFF the Brotherhood for a bit before BOAT. They were okay. They probably have some potential. They were very grunge. I wasn't personally a huge fan.

Since I was slightly bored, I walked into BOAT a little early. I saw some props and speech bubbles and was all excited it was going to be comedic, but then it wasn't. It was still pretty good music. I enjoyed it. I really didn't get the speech bubbles bit, though. They didn't really seem to have a point. Their banter was pretty amusing, on the other hand. They mentioned they had planned to go into the audience, but there was a barrier set up, and they were surprised the Bumbershoot clientele was so vicious they needed a barrier.

I saw a few minutes of The Whigs. They were pretty decent. Not really a whole lot else to say. Headed over to Greg Laswell after. I liked his music a bit better.

The real goal here was to get to the Garfunkel and Oates, David O'Doherty, and Nick Thune comedy show. Garfunkel and Oates were probably my least favorite of the three. I just felt kinda awkward through most of their set. All three comedians were very funny though, and it was a fun performance. I think my favorite was Nick Thune.

I was able to see Japandroids for a little bit before the other comedy show. I was really sad I had to leave their performance early because I really liked them. One more Canadian band I'm a fan of. I was also surprised that it was only a two-piece. I guess I hadn't really thought about it before.

Went to go see Laff Hole (the real site is broken, so this link is the best I got) after Japandroids. It was surprisingly empty, and through the first half I realized why. I was starting to regret leaving the Japandroids early for it, and then the last two comedians came on. They were really good. And then the final bit was Airpocalypse which was an air instrument hair cover band. It was pretty funny. Unfortunately I don't remember any of the comedians names.

I made my way over to Surfer Blood after that. They were also really good. The Broad Street stage was a good place to be on Monday.

Checked out Booker T. for a little bit, next. His music was interesting. It was a little more bluesy, and not at all bad, but I don't know if I could just listen to him. A lot of it was also covers. Since it was jazz type instruments, though, the rock covers had a very different feel to them, so I'm definitely glad I saw him.

Finished out the night with the Thermals. I was most excited for this on a friend's recommendation, with good reason apparently. The three-piece from Portland were very good, even if they did seem to talk over their music. Two things I didn't realize were that they were a three-piece and had a girl bassist, and both are rather inconsequential. At any rate, I enjoyed them enough to stay through the rain for their entire encore, and I'm glad I did because one of their encore songs was "My Name Is Jonas," which is probably the most fitting Weezer song, but I thought it was really funny that they played a Weezer song when probably the entire audience had seen Weezer the day before.