Every other time that 50FootWave has played Portland, I’ve somehow managed to miss them.
So imagine my self-inflicted chagrin as, over the course of Saturday evening, I began thinking twice about my intention to walk down to Loveland to catch their set during the PDX Pop Now! festival.
If I went early, I thought, I’d have to sit through bands I wasn’t interested in seeing. (No offense to those bands. I just wasn’t in the mood for several hours of live music.) If I went late, surely it would be too crowded even to bother.
That last wasn’t much of a concern, as it turned out, because half the crowd turned out to be ingrates who didn’t know any better and left altogether between Dahlia and 50FootWave. Upside for me, who likes to lurk and linger at the back of crowds: I could do so and more or less still be up front.
No chance of the full cycle, since Throwing Muses won’t be playing here. But at least I’ve availed myself of the opportunities to catch Kristin play solo acoustic (at Mississippi Studios) and now the fucking righteous noise of 50FootWave.
Addendum: FYI: Closing with Dog Days made my night. Nothing at all against any other piece of music on the mini-album, but that was the song that first kicked my ass.