Back from Sasquatch! 2012

I’m browned from the hot sun like a potato chip left out for too long and it’s not a good look for me … During the nights the Gorge cools up so fast it gets really cold but the days are sunny as hell - quite like Singapore except without the humidity and with a lot of wind. Pretty ideal actually! Sasquatch was great. We didn’t realize our tent was only a 3-person tent so we all (5) had to squeeze into it. I slept horizontally in the space between their heads and the end of the tent - but that just adds to the experience. We never showered during the nights - wet wipes to the rescue. In the mornings it got so hot in the tent we’d be up by 8 - 9 AM and queuing up for mobile showers. Girls would be naked and toweling their intimates dry. Girls would be almost naked out on the grounds; some wore such nasty clothes I felt bad for the kids there. Everyone smoked so much pot I could throw up if I saw another joint. Ate so much canned food, peanut butter and jam sandwiches, chips, free beef jerky … crapped into buckets that didn’t have flushing systems … The Gorge is massive, enormous, GIGANTIC. You had to walk for a bit / take the shuttle bus from the camping grounds to the main area. It is also breathtakingly beautiful, overlooking the Columbia River; plateaus, big blue sky, heaps and heaps of clouds, so much grass … I never thought a desert land could be so beautiful. Every performer couldn’t get over how amazing the view was so it was pretty cool that they felt special to be there. The Amphitheatre at the main stage has quite a precarious design, it slopes downhill all the way to the pit and the stage. You could either be in the pit, or on the hills of grass or carved stone levels fashioned out to be sitting areas. Imagine that space, and multiply it by 5000. I cannot figure out how not one pothead tumbled down the hill. Everyone had superior balance during those 4 days or something. Even our tent on the camping ground was on tilted ground - when you wake up in the morning and stand up you’d feel a little oozy.

WATCHED BON IVER, THE CIVIL WARS, DRY THE RIVER, BEN HOWARD, METRIC, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, BLIND PILOT, TENACIOUS D, PRETTY LIGHTS, JACK WHITE, JOY THE FORMIDABLE, WALK THE MOON, BEIRUT, FEIST, THE HEAD AND THE HEART, SANTIGOLD, THE SHINS, etc. Watched old favourites, and found new music, friends and experiences. Brilliant!