Show Review & Photos: The Whitest Kids U’ Know @ the Neptune

The Whitest Kids U’ Know @ the Neptune Theatre, 5/3
Show Review & Photos by Heather Fitzpatrick

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The Whitest Kids U’ Know

Trevor Moore, Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Timmy Williams, and Darren Trumeter might just seem like five ordinary guys, but they are also known as the Whitest Kids U’ Know an American sketch comedy troupe from New York who has a way of making vile, disgusting, offensive and rude stories into hilarious skits. In 2006 they were accepted into the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival and won the award for Best Sketch Group. Following that recognition, they had a hit TV show that ran for five seasons, first airing on FUSE TV, and then on IFC. They have been touring the US since 2011, and recently made an appearance at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle. The sold out crowd enjoyed numerous skits, which included “Abe Lincoln” and “Cubicle Boss,” as well as two different skits that had the group picking volunteers from the audience to assist as background performers. They also showed on a large screen some hilarious videos they made, including a music video about the Pope and scenes from a secret Blu-ray upgrade edition of Star Wars. For their finale on stage, they asked for the entire audience to participate in a “sing-along” to the Oasis song “Wonderwall,” with Sam Brown on guitar. Although WKUK are no longer producing shows for TV, you can watch many of their skits that originally aired on their TV show via YouTube. There have also been rumors of a future feature film release.

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The Whitest Kids U’ Know

Photos: Sasquatch! Day 2 – Saturday w/ Divine Fits, Robert DeLong . . .

Day 2 of Sasquatch! continued strong with acts such as Divine Fits, The xx, Robert DeLong and others. We’ve got more photos to remember the event – or to see what we missed – from Abby Williamson. Thanks Abby!

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Robert DeLong

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Akron/Family

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Devendra Banhart

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Sigur Rós

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The xx

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Atlas Genius

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Rose Windows

Sasquatch! Festival, Day 1 – Friday w/ Japandroids, Arctic Monkeys . . .

Friday’s Sasquatch! was the day you could have seen Arctic Monkeys and Japandroids. Plus Reignwolf. Today it brings us photos by Abby Williamson of those foxy rockers, and others.

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Arctic Monkeys

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Vampire Weekend

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

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Red Fang

Show Review & Photos: Wakey! Wakey! @ The Sunset

Wakey! Wakey! @ the Sunset, 5/2
Show Review & Photos by Dawnielle Rene

Wakey! Wakey!’s front man Michael Grubbs played an intimate show on May 2nd at the Sunset in Ballard. Wakey! Wakey! became well-known during his recurring role on CW’s One Tree Hill, where he played a bartender known as “Grubbs” who could guess anyone’s drink just by looking at them. Of course there was one girl whose drink he could never guess, and she turned out to be the only one who could convince him to record his music. The album, “Almost Everything I Wish I’d Said the Last Time I Saw You…,” which came out in 2010, was shown being recorded in the fictional ‘red bedroom records’ studio on the show. Whether you know him as Grubbs or Michael, he is a great performer with a way of getting quite personal with his audience at shows.

Enjoy some of the photos from the show… And check out my Flickr to see more!

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