Pickathon 2008 - Day 2 from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
The weather became our friend, the rain stopped and the sun came out…here’s a video of a chat with Big Mike from Kentucky, Langhorne Slim and then live footage of Langhorne on the main stage. Pickathon’s 10th anniversary rolls along. Jolie Holland closed the night and [...]
Pendleton Rock Camp 2008 Video Scenes from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Another day, another dollar. Pendleton Rock Camp just wrapped day 2. This is a video of the kids playing in their various group set ups with The Thermals “Your Future” dubbed to the footage.
Day 2 and the kids are still turning up in droves so we must all be doing the right thing. Tonight some of them will perform downtown and I’m looking forward to it. Casey and I had a class this morning on rock journalism and had the budding rock critics write a review of a [...]
Another PDX POP NOW! is ‘in the can’. Once again it came, it saw, it kicked our ass.
I took some behind the scenes pics on Saturday and Sunday. Also, here’s a group of ‘POP’ pics I put together (for you, baby), including the one above of Fist Fite’s Jonnie Monroe. Aw Yeah. [...]
The Road Trip to Pendleton’s Rock Camp from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Road trip! A video of my journey through the Columbia Gorge to Pendleton in Eastern Oregon. Soundtrack by Glass Candy and Mauxuam.
This week the Third Annual Pendleton Rock Camp takes place. It’s a week-long event and I am out here in Eastern Oregon volunteering along with members of Point Juncture, WA, Laura Gibson, Casey Jarman, Paul Collins of Beirut and many more. It’s free for the kids and they love it. This morning, Day 1, I [...]
It’s day (and night) three of PDX POP NOW!, arguably Portland’s best damn music festival ever (and it’s FREE!). I snapped a few pics of yesterday’s behind the scenes action, including the above shot of Norfolk and Western drumkit specialist Rachel Blumberg. What started out as relatively gentle Saturday afternoon culminated around 2 am inside [...]
Builders and Butchers. Pic by AtDuskGreg
AtDuskGreg has started to load up his Flickr Photo stream of PDX Pop Now! 2008. From the few photos I’ve seen there are large crowds, the Portland Radio Authority is all set up and folks are having fun.