Bumbershoot: overcrowded, over priced, overrated

I like food, I like festivals and I like music so this should be a no brainer for me, right?

Wrong.

I had just started to come to grips with the fact that I was going to be spending quality time with 30,000 of my closest friends, and then I get there… Who invited the other 30,000? Now granted I haven’t been to Bumbershoot in awhile, but I don’t ever remember it being this overcrowded by music fans beer guzzling idiots.

I can respect that Seattle is desperately trying to hold onto the one thing that is supposed to set us apart from other places: the music, but what I can’t understand is why they’re making it so blatantly obvious how hard their actually trying. It was put perfectly with, “Every year it gets more crowded and more hip-hop” which is a nicer way of saying “Why are you trying so hard to appeal to all the trendy hipsters, Seattle?“. The set lists were iffy at best, and spread out through the entire weekend small clusters of decent artists were few and far between.

Besides the fine company, the only thing worth noting was my fantastic Cajun Salmon Burger I ate from Ballard Brothers where I will surely be returning very soon. But even then it’s as if I paid $35 dollars for a burger, and I didn’t even get to see the one band I came there to see because of, you guessed it: overcrowding. I know I’ve said it before, but this is the last time I let this event put such a sour taste in my mouth.

I will get down off my soapbox now.