Nothing quite says “August in Philly” like standing in the sun by the muddy banks of the Delaware, sweating all good sense away and burning your flesh straight crispy. And, nothing quite says “the ought years” like the way in which we started out utterly loathing The Killers to where we wound up blasting that “He doesn’t look a thing like Jeeeeeeeee-zusssss” at living room parties and shouting out EVERY LYRIC at the top of our lungs. (Day Street holllller!!!) All of this, of course, is contained within the Philadelphia edition of the Download Festival this Saturday at the Susq, brought to you by a full-on logo soup of corporate sponsors but having a pretty decent lineup anyway. Also in on the great rock ‘n’ roll swindle: Iggy & The Stooges, Man Man, The Duke Spirit, Louis XIV, Eli “Paperboy” Reed and a whole bunch of other bands we basically do not care about enough to type here. We’re pretty sure they’ve all been on Conan at least, though. And heyo, Your Captain, Your Captain has tickets. To enter to win, send an email to ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “YOU SIT THERE IN YOUR HEARTACHE/WAITING ON SOME BEAUTIFUL BOY TO/SAVE YOU FROM YOUR OLD WAY/YOU PLAY FORGIVENESS/WATCH IT NOW, HERE HE COME!” in the subject header. We will be using Larry Mendte Keystroke Technology to make sure you actually typed this and did not cut and paste. Cut-and-pasters will be summarily disqualified, and then given “writing” gigs at Phawker. Hiyo! It really was a great lunch.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 3:52 pm.