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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Bumbershoot
Bumbershoot is an annual Seattle music festival, taking place roughly at the base of the Space Needle in the Seattle Center. A collection of indoor and outdoor performance spaces, 
Bumbershoot is a fairly big deal in Seattle, attracting crowds from all the outlying areas and bringing in not just downtown music types, scenesters, and enthusiasts, but also lots of suburban families. It's a big event, but it's also a family event.
Bumbershoot is a fairly big deal in Seattle, attracting crowds from all the outlying areas and bringing in not just downtown music types, scenesters, and enthusiasts, but also lots of suburban families. It's a big event, but it's also a family event.
There are a variety of stages at Bumbershoot, so sound varies from place to place as you switch from open air stages to concert halls to theaters. Most of the spaces are large, and everything comes through the PA-- all the drums are mic'd (and often pretty reverb-laden), so boomy and cavernous is the general mix personality.
There is also a “No Moshing, No Stage Diving” policy that makes sense when you're standing next to someone's 85 lb. grandmother during a punk show, but it was so viciously enforced that the line of kids being escorted through the crowd and out the door seemed endless. I can't tell if they were all part of some previous pit, but I definitely saw docile, unoffending kids pulled from right in front of me... we can file that under “not too cool.”
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