Music — September 4, 2014 14:34 — 0 Comments
Bumbershoot 2014 in Photos
The Monarch Review mostly spent Bumbershoot 2014 laying low near the press area with Bobbi Rich and her excellent team of maritime party animals. The set for her music variety show Hangin Tuff became our home base. It was a perfect. We got to watch band after band come through and party down, drink the dangerous Hangin Tuff Punch, sing karaoke, and get silly. La Luz, Rose Windows, Dude York, Sandrider, and many more (16 bands actually!) Â made guest appearances. We did occasionally make it out to catch some bands and take some photos. True to The Monarch’s loyalty to the local, most everything we managed to catch were Seattle bands.
La Luz rockin’ out.
Speks Wizard demos a beat at a workshop in the Vera Project.
Ryann Donnelly looked like she was about to weep between songs near the end of the Schoolyard Heroes reunion set.
The guitarist for Heroes was stunning in his regal tie and gorgeous hair and backlit with purple spots…but dammit he was hard to shoot. He just wouldn’t stop moving around!
Art Brown of Polyrythmics blowing. Their set at the KEXP live stage was tight and super funky. It felt weird to hear them sitting down. I felt sort of whiny about it until I noticed the lady in the wheel chair dancing like a maniac right in her seat.
Bobbi Rich Hangin Tuff with Rose Windows. She was gracious enough to take a few minutes to answer some of my questions about the show. “Soul Train, Midnight Special, the wackiness of Pee Wee’s Playhouse, or MTV’s Beachhouse, or Yo MTV Raps!…Every music variety show that I’ve loved…I’ve wanted to bring pieces of them back.”
The mermaid.
The Unprotected Sax Man Mike.
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