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What The Heck Fest 2007

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Adrian Orange, Laura Veirs, The Blow, Mount Eerie and 31 more

www.whattheheckfest.com

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30 attending | Lineup (35 artists) | 6 shouts | Added by alexmahan

Thursday 19 July 2007 – Sunday 22 July 2007

Anacortes, Washington

Seattle
United States

A what the heck manifesto embraces the ethics and aesthetics of ambiguity. We invite revelers whose leaps of faith are granted the benefit of the doubt until jarred by the ground. How do you land this thing?

WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?
Then, in response to oneself: What the heck, I might as well.
It can get sketchy.
By extension, civility occurs when we freely talk toward understanding & respect.
This requires that we surrender even the fantasy of beating up an intellectual adversary.
Realizing there are no philosophical differences in politics other than:
SHUT THE FLUX UP
&
Feel Free To Speak.

Does taboo keep us one big happy family, or keep us from being one big happy family?
What price unity?
What price hypocrisy?
What price humanity?
What price song?

Unless directly acquired, the musical product is often a ruse if the consumer supposes the musician is rewarded by the purchase. If I hear a song and enjoy, it obligates me to pay attention to the source by forming a contribution respecting past and future output. I can believe enough to subscribe yearly until I no longer care.

What the heck fest is how we care; an unconventional gathering in warm traditions of food and music. New and old friends who give as much attention as they get, while keeping plenty in reserve until this marathon of song.

Production values increase as the artist’s respect for the audience’s imagination decreases…and in direct proportion to the replacement of Idealism with titillation.

The Attention Economy redefines wealth as a state of mind—quite literally self-possession of territory almost involuntarily ceded to corporate colonizers. The “goods” economy having turned into so much emotionally and environmentally toxic landfill. Acquisition of goods via debt demands IV extraction of our humane attention. Unless attention ceases to be an obligatory payment and is instead revered & preserved: Spent as if one were voting for the meaning of life.

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Lineup

Adrian Orange, Laura Veirs, The Blow, Mount Eerie, Y.A.C.H.T., Old Time Relijun, Karl Blau, Jason Anderson, Calvin Johnson, Valet, Lake, Your Heart Breaks, Woelv, Graves, Mecca Normal, Kickball, D+, Guy Blackman, Peace, The Lonely Forest, Privacy, The Poison Dart, Nate Ashley, The Watery Graves, The Gift Machine, Fire Island AK, Al Larsen, To bad catholics, The Oregon Donor, Tom Blood, mouseheart factor, Well Done Dragon, To Spite Mike, Juice Team DJs and Bryan Elliott Band

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icicles wrote:
July 2007

SO stoked!

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puckish wrote:
July 2007

still lots of shows to go to, though, ryan! so weird without kimya.

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RealRyan wrote:
June 2007

It's sold out. This suxxxxx

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richjensen wrote:
June 2007

really in-arresting descripto text essay thing. cool!

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sarabarra wrote:
June 2007

haha, Seattle?!?

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Waqcku wrote:
May 2007

I'M the one who uploaded this event! >:[

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