Lushy is very excited to announce we will be performing at BUMBERSHOOT this year!  

Sunday, August 31, 12:30PM on the Fisher Green Stage.

Seattle’s three-day Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, to be held August 30-September 1, the headliners are Beck, the reunited Stone Temple Pilots, Lucinda Williams and Neko Case. Also on the bill are Jakob Dylan, Lee “Scratch” Perry, the Walkmen, Ingrid Michaelson and more. Tickets are sale now: Buy Tickets

One of America’s largest urban international music and arts festivals, Bumbershoot takes place at Seattle Center, the glorious 74-acre park built to house the 1962 World’s Fair. The Festival takes full advantage of Seattle Center’s fantastic amenities, including indoor theaters, outdoor stages, a world-class opera house, sprawling green lawns and a rockin’ outdoor stadium.

More than 250 scheduled events provide 150,000 Bumbershooters with an engaging mix of entertainment and spectacle. Thousands of artists, including poets, painters, dancers, divas, comedians, filmmakers, musicians, performance artists, acrobats, DJs, thespians and more perform at the Festival in a three-day feast of music and art.

illustration by rod filbrandt

We were pretty much playing in the walkway of the German Chancellery. Quite amazing, the equivalent to playing on the lawn at the White House but I don’t believe this could ever happen at the White House…remember they sell beer, wine, cocktails and bockwurst…even in the walkway of the German Chancellery! The House of Culture is located in the former House of Commons whose next-door neighbor is the German Chancellery. Amazing Berlin live and let live they seem to say.

After the show we were whisked away on a 90 minute open air party boat ride up the Spree (which at night, the view can look like scenes from Blade Runner) to an after party at popdeurope festival where Marseilles band Massilia Sound System was performing.  And later, we visited several bars and clubs in the cool and colorful Kreuzburg neighborhood dancing all the way. The birds were chirping and the sun was coming up as we finally made our way back to our hotel in Tiergarten.

The crowd was wonderful our opening band Coconami was so soothing with it’s two ukuleles, it was a pleasure to see Don Tiki, Waitiki, Latin Lovers and I Belli Waikiki.  The Wassermusik festival staff…Gabrielle, Corrina, our sweet driver Simone, the sound crew–all excellent.  Cheers!

Just to let you know, they serve beer and wine at political rallies in Berlin, no matter how small or large the crowd!

Lushy arrives in Berlin. We made it in time to check out Barack Obama’s speech in Tiergarten yesterday. I have never seen so many people in one place.  The news says over 200,000 - here is a photo that shows the crowd - we were well, well back down the boulevard.

Germans that we have talked to don’t seem sad to get rid of Bush and by the turnout here are clearly ready to welcome Barack as a leader.

Here we are having a typical Lushy meeting.   Something about running out of bourbon.

Come see us for a nice happyhour show Friday, June 27th at Hi Dive. We’ll start playing around 6:30.

Lushy has been invited to perform in Berlin! We are traveling there via Lufthansa on July 23th and playing @ 8:30 on the 26th.  Here is the info: WASSERMUSIK MYSPACE PAGE We will be doing some blogging while we are there, so check back often.