Bumbershoot

photos by Chris Graham The Weakerthans

photos by Chris Graham

Don’t shoot video clips of bands on your phone to post on YouTube. They are always shaky and sound like crap. No one cares that you saw Beck from 300 yards away…

Lee Perry’s new album ‘Repentance’ – out since Aug 19, 2008 on Narnack Lee Perry @ the Bumbershoot Festival – Aug 31, 2008 Lee‘s only upcoming scheduled gig is September 8th at Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA, BUT he is listed as one of the artists playing CMJ this year, so stay tuned for exact details of an October live show in NYC (which may or may not be at Santos Party House on October 25th where Narnack band Restaurant is listing a show)…

Darondo–wiry and hyperkinetic in a flashy suit, gold sneakers, and white hat–hit the stage while Moschella and company backed him. The sexagenarian busted astonishing James Brown-cum-Michael Jackson moves, and belted out songs with a weathered tenor that suggested a cross between Al Green and The Spinners’ Bobby Smith…

The headliner for the night, the musical chameleon known as Beck Hansen, did not disappoint. His set was filled with almost all of his alt rock hits, many of which were given different arrangements than on record…

Bumbershoot is about music, of course, but it’s also about every other kind of performance you can imagine, from dance and comedy to film and literary and visual arts…