Crikey, this makes me feel old. Sub Pop, the independent Seattle-based record label who will probably always be most widely remembered as the label that launched Nirvana into stardom, turned twenty years old this month.
To celebrate leaving their troubled teenage years behind them (ahem), Sub Pop are doing what anyone with good music taste and a major anniversary to celebrate would do - they’re throwing a party.
Of course most twenty-year-olds can’t call on their friends from bands like Foals, Low, Mudhoney and Kinski to come play at their birthday party … nor comedians with the stature of Patton Oswalt. Nor charge for entry and give the proceeds to charity, for that matter.
[Hell, my twentieth birthday involved going to a mid-week alternative club night with my mates and scowling through hours of the Britpop rubbish that was so popular back then. Sub Pop got luckier with their timing as well as their contacts and location, I reckon.]
But it’s all a bit academic - the Sub Pop Twentieth Anniversary Festival is being held in Seattle on the 12th and 13th of July, so there’s less chance of me attending than there is of me marrying Ida Maria.
Those of you located on the correct continent (or simply better endowed in the money/private jet department than myself) can find out more about the Sub Pop Twentieth Anniversary Festival at the label’s website.
If you have a particularly large suitcase, let me know - if you can get me to the show, I might be able to hustle us some backstage passes …
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