Hideout Block Party
Chicago, Illinois
9/8/07
I haven’t yet finished all of my Hideout Block Party pictures but I thought it was a great day Saturday. To bring bands from England and Ireland to play with local bands and to give them all a great audience of people wanting to hear them is really a great thing…surely makes the music world feel a little closer! What is also amazing to me is the fact that all of the money goes to charity. Honestly, the Hideout Club has always been part of a community that celebrates all kinds of music from punk rock to jazz. It has a friendly lo-key environment, reasonable prices, and good sound. It was really strange to me last summer to have the Block Party be something as huge as the 25th Annual Touch & Go Party (though some of it was admittingly amazing.) This year, it was sort of a cross between that and the way it used to be…I remember seeing Andrew Bird play a block party a few years ago in the middle of the afternoon, actually. Basically, it felt right.
Click here to see the partially finished set on flickr. (I will have a few descriptions and the full set up tomorrow or Wed.)
So far there is:
Art Brut
Mucca Pazza
Dan Deacon
O’ Death
Cass McCombs
Head of Femur
Punk Band
and Guitarkestra
in the set
Also…because I love Art Brut so incredibly much, I set aside a special flickr set devoted just to them!