Georgetown Music Festival

Gooseninja.com is back at it. Live from the Georgetown Music Festival with reviews to come. Let's get right into it.

I'm here in the beer garden with my spiritual advisor, Rob Tacoma, and the grooves (and ales) are rocking all. The crowd definitely approves and has gravitated to the adjacent Ranier Stage. The sun and the band have transfixed the crowd like an early Dandies show. The band is Hypatia Lake, a four piece from Seattle. With the backdrop of an I-5 Freeway on-ramp overpass and a giant clearance sign reading 12ft 6 in., Hypathia Lake are getting this festival started. With a vocalist bass player in the middle and the guitarist in orange hat busy with Morello-esque effects, this was anything but your typical indie band. The first bit of the set was like a jammy U2. My other two impressions: 1. The middle of the set would have been perfect around the pool. 2. These guys would go over well in the UK.

On the way in Rob Tacoma and I caught H is for Hellgate. No one I asked in the crowd had heard them before, and the general consensus was, "they aren't bad.". Ok, not a rave review, but everyone was talking about the female leads performance and Hellgate's low-key, even-tempo'd Cranberries cool. Check them out on the www.