MHCP Year In Review 2012 Overall Total bands seen: 144!  Approx annual ticket cost: about $1000

MHCP Year In Review 2012

Overall

Total bands seen: 144! 

Approx annual ticket cost: about $1000 each (does not include any travel costs)

Number of cocktails consumed: 312ish

Number of drummers A got her picture taken with: 1

Weirdest Show:Alan Resnick opening for Lower Dens at Mississippi Studios

Rowdiest Crowd: Girl Talk (both at Sasquatch and at MFNW)

Loudest Show: A Place to Bury Strangers in Portland.

Furthest Travelled:A Place To Bury Strangers in Brighton, England.

Most Anticipated:Pulp

C’s Biggest Disappointment:Cat Power

A’s Biggest Disappointment:Black Keys

Most Boring Show:War on Drugs

Most crowded show:YACHT

Stinkiest Show:King Tuff 

Surprisingly good:Nouvelle Vague (and would have been even better at a smaller venue)

Worst Attendance Yet Best Show:Cloud Nothings.

Best Band You’ve Never Heard Of:Ume

Best Venue: Doug Fir, but hoping for better bands to play there in 2013.

Up and Coming Venue: Bunk Bar! Surprisingly great bands played there this year and we can’t wait to see more.

Worst Venue: Rotture. Yikes. 

Best Set Design:Foster the People

Most Fashionable Band: Santigold at Sasquatch

Most Memorable:Jezabels. It was on a boat a required a costume. We’ll remember it for a long time. 

Worst Show:Cold War Kids (they only got one star).

C’s Best Show:Pulpat the Warfield Theater

A’s Best Show: Bon Iver at Sasquatch

Super huge thanks to: Music Scene PDX, Twisted Wire PDX, Portland Mercury, KINK, Your Mom