HoseMobile wrote:Nick - By chance, did Steeve Sleeve make that sharkacopter for you?

nope. nate from driftless pony club - but you're close though. when on tour in europe we played a game where someone came up with an a) animal b) method of destruction c) wearing a _________ and then someone had to draw it. there was also a platypus with lazer eyes wearing a sherlock holmes hat that i drew. you can kill tons of time like this. liam drew the original sharkacopter in a tour journal, then after we got back and told the story nate used the idea to make a poster steve sleeve screened, and we used the image for shirts as it was our idea originally. that show was for panic pill (liam from NB) and klinker (thom from kate mosh, the band we were on tour with), DPC and MOMN. so sleeve screened that poster, but nate did the drawing based off our idea.

How was Les Savy "Don't Call It A Break-up" Fav?

I can think of few contemporary bands that bore and annoy me as much as the Decemberists. The northwest needs to get its shit together if this is one of the best exports.

tallchris wrote:How was Les Savy "Don't Call It A Break-up" Fav?

they were the highlight of the whole thing for me. that singer dude was funny, yet the music was real tight and good. good blend of "haha, this is fun we're just fucking around", and "we're not fucking around, we're serious about our music". there was a definite buzz feeling in the air while they played. i liked em.

I worked a booth at the fest. It was pretty hard to hear or see most of what was going on, but the kids were so cool. I hardly heard any complaints about the heat. There were 15 year old kids that were totally well informed about music, excited.... it gave me a bizarre hope for the younger generation. I actually found it refreshing and it made me think about how much I would have shit over something like that when I was younger and less jaded (hmmmm........ note to self, stop being a dick and get over it). Of the bands that played, some I love and some I don't but for a line-up as diverse and topical and (okay, I can say it) hip to go for less than $20/day or less than $30/2-day pass is an amazing feat. Also I loved the lack of any Buweiser signage. Think about it; most major music fests have a huge Miller or Bud banner behind the stage - instead we had just Jay Ryan's Intonation logo and the list of bands. We all love to hate Pitchfork but I think you have to be pretty nit-picky to find fault in this fest. I worked my ass off for 14 hours each day and I had a blast.

nick92675 wrote:

tallchris wrote:How was Les Savy "Don't Call It A Break-up" Fav?

they were the highlight of the whole thing for me. that singer dude was funny, yet the music was real tight and good. good blend of "haha, this is fun we're just fucking around", and "we're not fucking around, we're serious about our music". there was a definite buzz feeling in the air while they played. i liked em.

They played in Bellingham at the college n late 2001 to a crowd of about 50-70 in a room that holds about 900. They put on one of the best shows I've ever seen. During "Adoptduction" Tim Harrington took a utility cart, ran around the entire room, then when he came to the edge of the crowd, put out his arms and had people push him to the stage. Priceless.

No Intonation Fest this summer:

Intonation fest off

The Intonation Festival, a major rock event that headlined at Union Park the last two summers, will not return this summer, organizers said Thursday.

Intonation had hoped to return to Union Park over the Labor Day weekend, but what spokesman David Singer called a glut of summer festivals prevented it from doing so.