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The Maldives are playing the always unfortunate EMP venue at 4:40. As Skynyrd taught us, the more people you have on stage playing country rock, the better. The Maldives are bringing nine.
Blitzen Trapper at 2:30 at the Broad Street stage will be a good warm-up to the Maldives. BT do country rock as well, but with a lot of modern elements thrown in to let you know they're not entirely serious, or something. We've been trying to see this band forever to figure them out and so far haven't managed it, but they have some songs that don't let go.
Hopefully some miracle of space and time will allow us to see Two Gallants between those two shows at 4:15. Two Gallants do a country blues kind of fingerpick guitar thing with some indie edge.
Death Cab closes the show on the Mainstage, if you're not back home by then, which we might be.
But there's more!
You're probably not going to schedule time for this, and you probably won't have to, but if something's going on on the halfpipe while you're at Bumbershoot Monday, stop and watch for a bit; they have some pretty good skaters. If Seattle didn't hate skateboarding so hard a demo would have been standard Bumber fare since about '95.
William Gibson wrote the only science fiction novel of the past twenty years that absolutely must be read, and John Osebold of Awesome is accompanying him somehow at the Bagely Wright Theater at 3:15 so we're recommending this highly.
The Myspace comedy show struck us as something we didn't want to know anything about until we learned what it was about. Performers do long form improv comedy based on audience members' Myspace profiles. How can that not be funny? There's a ton of comedy stuff happening on two stages throughout the day, though, and since the only thing Seattle hates more than skateboarding is comedy this might be your only chance this year to actually see it performed.
Other Seattlest people who actually know about stuff recommend Kate Tucker, Two Gallants, Arthur and Yu, Velella Velella, the Unicycle Collective's theater event and the Pacific Northwest Ballet preview.
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Uh, hello? You are totally forgetting about Battles.
i would also add langhorne slim & the war eagles to that. his live show is electric (boogey woogie woogie)!
I didn't forget about Battles. I was going to say something like "some people really love Battles, but I do not," but decided against it.
How does Seattle "hate comedy"? There are comedy shows every night of the week in this town! The entire Comedy West stage featured Seattle comedians (produced by the People's Republic of Komedy). Comedy has never been hotter in Seattle. Do a little research: Check out www.seattlecomedyblog.com or www.prokomedy.org.