Sasquatch Music Festival

Today I took a gander at the 2009 Sasquatch Music Festival roster and I nearly pissed me-self! What a hell-of-a-great line-up! The only thing missing-is-more-hyphens!

No! Just Kidding! The only thing missing is THE FENBI INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTARS!

Now, if any one is to blame for Fenbi not being as popular as Blitzen Trapper or The Shaky Hands or even the Builders and the Butchers it is probably me. I am the one that has been changing my ideas and thoughts about this recording process, versus just getting our album out there. We have a fantastic product ... the Fenbi brand has never been stronger ... we have people clamoring for our as-of-yet uncreated products ... and people from as far away as China are writing us letters of appreciation! (Side note, we only recently discovered "Fenbi" is the Chinese word for chalk and apparently if you get over 1 billion people some of them are going to be googling chalk)

At any rate Portland, Oregon's sweetheart darlings THE FENBI INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTARS are not going to be performing at the Sasquatch Festival 2009 and it is my fault and for that I apologize.

But check out this lineup:

Saturday, May 23th

Kings of Leon / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Decemberists / Animal Collective / Bon Iver / Devotchka / M. Ward / Doves / Sun Kil Moon / The Gaslight Anthem / King Khan & The Shrines / Ra Ra Riot / Shearwater / Passion Pit / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Vince Mira / Blind Pilot / Owl City / Arthur & Yu / Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele / Death Vessel / Hockey / People's Republic of Komedy / James Pants / Todd Barry / Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Sunday, May 24th

Jane's Addiction / Nine Inch Nails / TV On The Radio / The Murder City Devils / of Montreal / The Avett Brothers / Calexico / M83 / The Airborne Toxic Event / The Walkmen / The Wrens / St. Vincent / The Dodos / John Vanderslice / The Submarines / Viva Voce / The Builders And The Butchers / AA Bondy / Fences / Point Juncture, WA / The Red Wine Boys / Zach Galifianakis / Deadmau5 / Natalie Portman's Shaved Head / People's Republic of Komedy

Monday, May 25th

Ben Harper and Relentless7 / Erykah Badu / Silversun Pickups / Fleet Foxes / Gogol Bordello / Santigold / Grizzly Bear / Explosions In The Sky / Girl Talk / Blitzen Trapper / The Knux / Monotonix / Bishop Allen / Black Moth Super Rainbow / Beach House / Mugison / The Dutchess And The Duke / School Of Seven Bells / Horse Feathers / The Pica Beats / Loch Lomond / BLK JKS / Demetri Martin / God's Pottery / Chromeo / Tobacco / People's Republic of Komedy

Unfortunately my friends, the bands I want to see are spread out over all three days (coincidence, I think not) and I can't even afford to go to one day, let alone all three (thanks recession) ... but at least in Seattle I know there is the low cost alternative (free) Folklife Festival ... and while I am not going to go on a rant about how ridiculous it is that we aren't playing there (cause we are the NW preeminent world music band, after 3 Leg Torso apparently) - I will say that I ... lost my train of thought ... shite!