T.V. Coahran opened kicked it off. Bombastic on the downbeat.  Live, their sound is more punk and less nuanced than their recorded material, like Township of Cecil, with weird doubled falsetto vocals, WWI musical style songs, ancient Greek references about Artemis Ogygia, toy keyboards and drums all snare and cymbal.

Nice shoes.

Next was Idle Times, their second live show, as it were.  Grunge-o-rific:

Headlining was The Impossible Shapes from Indianapolis. Pared down drums. Songs alternately mangled and sweet. Mushrooms and moans.

This?

Or that?

All photos by Adam Forslund.

What The Heck Fest 2008

Desolation Wilderness at Causland Park on Saturday indie rockers. 

Saturday night, Ô Paon in the City Hall gym.  Each song a looping a guitar part and looping vocal done on the fly, then  French on top like some sort of incantation.

Sunday morning, a ferry ride to Anderson's Store on Guemes Island featured The Solvents.  Venue looking out to bales of hay, mountains and ocean.  Accompanying violin..

Some lines from one of their songs:

Goin down to the basement
Listenin to the Replacements
Love to watch that record spin
With my tonic & gin

Mirah and Spectratone International on Sunday afternoon played, serious musical chops.  Accordion, cello, oud and percussion: nice.

One of three MCs from the BBB, Bryce Panic at Causland Park on a Sat afternoon, beats across Anacortes at What The Heck fest.  

Served up joints from the record  as well as Boom Boom Baby.  One man wordball rollin with the B.

Here's B w/ B-Wanna:

Blake/e/e/e make for a soundtrack recorded and live

Check out “Time Machine,” ain't so bittersweet.  And jams.

At The Comet they opened with “New Millennium,” anthemic. Harmonies between the singers. “Time Machine” shouts. Instrumentation configuration during the show, the banjo passed around, the bassist on percussion, the drummer with a cymbal with a bow. Ended with “Holy Yes To The Sun” into minimalist banjo melancholia into a full out jam.

Video from their tune "The Thing's Hollow" 

Photos by Adam Forslund