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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Bumbershoot The Best Band of the Day at Bumbershoot?

Posted by on Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:15 PM

Holy Fuck
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Yesterday, it was Gang Gang Dance. Today, it was Holy Fuck. (Dave Segal, batting 1,000.) I didn't catch their afternoon KEXP set, but I saw Holy Fuck's evening performance on the Broad Street stage; I'll have more about it tomorrow, but briefly: they had the crowd eating it up, clapping along and even crowd-surfing to their weird, robot-voiced future funk and muscular motorik grooves. It was great to see such an audience for one of the fest's more outre acts. The whole set was just one noise-inflected groove building to an elevated crescendo into another and another, with the whole thing reaching a seriously ecstatic climax in the soaring strings of "Lovely Allen." There was other good stuff today, but nothing topped that.

 

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Holy Fuck were indeed great to watch and dance to under the evening sky. But that show, followed by MSTRKRFT's fratboy electro, were truly the one-two punch of the day. The Exhibition Hall was packed with pogoing kids sweating their asses off and having an amazing time. I left drenched and smiling like crazy.
Posted by smiller555 http://smiller555.com on September 7, 2009 at 12:46 AM
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It was an awesome way to close the night (for me). Did anyone catch them at the afterparty? I was going to go, but didn't make it.
Posted by Dod on September 7, 2009 at 9:54 AM

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