May 27: Sasquatch
Freak Hail Storm. Miss all headliners.

June 28: Wilco
I moved from Edmonton to Vancouver and had to sell tickets

July 25: The Stills, Broken Social Scene, Sam Roberts Band
Get caught in unusually busy rush hour traffic trying to pick up friend from SFU. Miss the Stills and part of BSS. Leave because Sam Roberts just isn’t any good :/

July 30: Silversun Pickups, Ladyhawk, Magnolia Electric Co.
Bar floods during Silversun Pickups

Future Dates:

Sept 3: Bumbershoot
Alien abduction

Oct 6: We are Scientist & Art Brut
Thomas Dolby comes on stage and blinds us with his science.

Looks like I’m not the only person wrestling with the big grid small grid effect. Ryan Irvine puts together a thoughtful commentary on what he calls the Garden State effect. I’d like to think I’ve moved on and that it’s for the betterment of the medium in general but its hard to be that optimistic.

I guess in a way we want to feel validated for our unique knowledge and simply jumping onto the bandwagon doesn’t cut it.