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Saturday at the 2011 Capitol Hill Block Party, I was faced with the challenge of having multiple bands I wanted to see all scheduled with overlapping sets. I ended up skipping a few—Yuni in Taxco, Best Coast, and Beat Connection—but overall was quite happy with the bands I did get to see, which were Hausu, Austra (twice), Witch Gardens, Reporter, Seapony, Cold Cave, and Baths. Of those bands, Hausu was totally unknown to me beforehand, Witch Gardens I'd heard before on KEXP but didn't even remember that, Reporter I'd only just heard for the first time earlier that week on KEXP, and Baths I knew of but hadn't heard before that I knew. Also, Seapony was the only one of those bands I'd ever seen live. So that all made for a very good day of musical discoveries.
The full review is now up on the KEXP Blog. You can also see my set of photos from Saturday on Flickr. I really didn't get anything good as I was almost always too far away or the lighting was too poor, but unfortunately there were almost no photos of these bands available from the official KEXP photographers so I had to make do with mine. (Actually I did get a good shot of Austra in the Caffe Vita Bean Room, the one performance I really didn't need any photos of my own as it was thoroughly covered by the other photographers.)
And now I have to get Sunday's write-up done and submitted.
The full review is now up on the KEXP Blog. You can also see my set of photos from Saturday on Flickr. I really didn't get anything good as I was almost always too far away or the lighting was too poor, but unfortunately there were almost no photos of these bands available from the official KEXP photographers so I had to make do with mine. (Actually I did get a good shot of Austra in the Caffe Vita Bean Room, the one performance I really didn't need any photos of my own as it was thoroughly covered by the other photographers.)
And now I have to get Sunday's write-up done and submitted.
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