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Friends,
countrymen- hail and well-met!
Your
introduction to the official NXNW '99 guide
Music fans of America, we care about you.
We lucky, happy few who've worked to put together the 1999
North by Northwest Music Festival have taken several steps
to ensure that your Portland pursuit of life, liberty and
a little piece of action goes smoothly. God willing, there
will be none of the contretemps or shenanigans that can
make music festivals so very unpleasant.
We have declined the kind offer of the Doomtown One Percenter
Outlaws Motorcycle Club to provide security for the festival.
We have endeavored to ensure that water will be available
for reasonable prices. We scratched--reluctantly, ever so
reluctantly--Limp Bizkit off our list of dream headliners.
Though we have been unable to set up "chill out" tents in
the streets of Old Town, we're sure that Portland's friendly
and helpful citizens will calm visitors overcome by the
power of rock. Most importantly of all, we've assessed more
than 300 bands--many young, all of them hungry--for your
edification and enjoyment.
At Willamette Week, we take our music very seriously.
This is not an office in which you want to be caught trifling
with another writer's Dead Can Dance CD or funky fresh copy
of Alternative Press. Naturally, then, we're delighted
to welcome this horde of bands to our fair city.
What follows is a comprehensive official guide to NXNW
'99, prepared by a hand-selected task force of experts here
at WW headquarters. Descriptions of bands are arranged
by the date, time and location of their performance. For
a more concise itinerary, a simple grid schedule has been
included as well. If, after reading our pithy prose, you'd
like to know how we're planning to spend the festival, look
for the previews and picks insert in next week's issue of
WW. That section will include late additions to the
festival roster as well.
A limited run of handy pocket-sized booklets will be available
at Music Millennium locations during NXNW; the much-respected
Portland record store will also sponsor free buses linking
the various clubs drawn into this happy madness.
Please, do take these guides and enjoy them in all safety
and comfort. We've lined up the smorgasbord of rock, hip-hop,
techno, country, jazz and unclassifiable noise--the rest,
sweet swingers, is up to you.
--Zach Dundas, Music Editor
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