Music Jul 20, 2011 at 4:00 am

Have your own damn block party!

Josh Bis

Comments

1
Seriously.
2
Yes! Thanks for preempting the seasonal block party trolls.
3
Can you re-write this about Blue Angel's whiners next week?
4
And you can even host one without paying for all those permits you usually need to get!
http://www.seattle.gov/police/Nightout/
5
"...incredibly famous and expensive bands..." where?!?!
6
It should be free and free of "incredibly famous and expensive bands". How about a free block party with bands that live in the neighborhood?
7
love.
8
@6 That would be nice! How about you organize it!
9
A-goddamn-men.
11
how cute... someone is butt-hurt and trying to justify their little VIP passes.
12
really?? people are mad about this? weird.
14
I don't necessarily have a problem with the price so much as a problem with the amenities. Neumo's is the worst venue during summer in the city as far as I'm concerned. The drink options are appallingly bad. The space is way too small for what the Block Party has become. You have to be a VIP or a 22 year old to be able to tolerate it.
15
Didn't this love it or leave it shit die around the time Ben Stiller was imitating Tom Cruise in a wheelchair?
16
@ 13 & 14:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/shut-…

Are you guys not getting this? Shut up and pick a venue/temperature/crowd/sound level/drink list that suits your own niggling tastes. I live 1,000 miles away and even from this distance I'm annoyed that you people can't just make your own selves happy.
17
Folklife does confuse me, actually, being that it implies a specific style of music and all.
18
Hey if you want a block party, come to "Beacon Rocks!" on July 31st and August 28th. Its on the Festival Street (the only Festival Street in Seattle so far) next to the Beacon Hill Light Rail Station. It's free and the festival street is only one block long (and actually a pretty short block) so it is a TRUE "block" party. Hey, maybe in 10 years we can work our way up to a Capitol Hill Block Party kind of thing (I'm no hater of success, good for them!) but for now you can come to Beacon Hill to experience that old school (yea, that DOES mean low budget) block party experience on the last Sunday of July and August 1-5 pm.
19
i don't complain...i just don't go....i'll leave it to the high school kids from kent or whatever
20
This article totally ignores the fact the Cap Hill Block Party WAS FREE for years and years. It was just local music and people hanging out. Now this is just more-trendy Bumbershoot.

Plus....nice conflict of interest here. Stranger writer telling people not to complain about pricing at "The Stranger's Capitol Hill Block Party."
21
"neither folksy nor populated by the living" is gold
22
"โ€”then just HAVE A FUCKING BLOCK PARTY ON YOUR OWN PRECIOUS FUCKING BLOCK. " sure let me just OH FUCK! Someone blocked off the streets and is charging money to go through!
23
Hey lindy- Do your homework. I realize the block party has gone corporate. That's fine. But at least acknowledge how it began.

Yes, I hate block party. HATE it. You know why? Because people come and trash my neighborhood and at the end of the day, the caphill community/music scene is no better off.

Might I also add, if the Stranger weren't behind this and reaping it's benefits, it too would be condemning what the block party has mutated into.

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