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Thursday, February 28, 2008

News Win Tickets to See Great Northern!

Posted by Ezra Caraeff on Thu, Feb 28 at 11:21 AM

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We’ve harped on and on about our fanboy obsession with the Gutter Twins, but we haven’t said a peep about their tour partners Great Northern. Their debut recording Trading Twilight for Daylight is an absolute gem, a grand throwback to (guilt-free) ’90s radio alt-pop that has, naturally, garnered many a spin locally on 94.7fm.

In honor of Great Northern, we are giving away a pair of tickets to see them (along with the sensitive crooners, Dulli/Lanegan) on Monday, March 3rd at the Wonder Ballroom.

As always, the rules are simple. Just comment below and explain why you deserve the tickets to see Great Northern more than anyone else does. The best comment by this Friday at 5pm will win the tickets and be the envy of all their petty friends.

MP3:
Great Northern - Telling Lies

VIDEO:
Great Northern - Home

Comments

Why do I need to win tickets to see great northern? Beacuse I turned weeze weeze choke, 30 on Feb 26th and this ageing hippster needs to see what all the cool kids are listening to.

Hello Ezra,
1) I love free tickets
2) I just picked up a rad American Apparel hoodie and I can think of no better place to pop its concert cherry then the Wonder.
3)(*blatant ass kissing ahead) I just added End Hits to my Google home page.
4) I'm not above begging.
Love,
Rex

WIn Let me win:) Law

Because otherwise I'm going to have to work.

I refuse to suck ezra's tit to get tickets to see a band I am indifferent to. However, it would be fun to see the look on ezra's face when I show up at the PM office to pick them up.

Girls want to be carnal with me, because I am a premium dancer? Okay, that was a lie. But free tickets = one night of forgetting the lack of carnality that follows me around like a raincloud does Charles Brown. Love ya'll.

I deserve the free tickets 'cause I want to take my guy out for a change. He always does the treating. Ya see, I'm a kept woman, but for once I'd like to dazzle my masterly man (Bob) to an evening out, my treat...we'll be listening to some Great Northern grooves, flashin' the pda's, makin' people sick...Won't Bob be surprised! xo

I should win Great Northern tickets because:
1. the Gutter Twins are playing the same show and they are the most important supergroup in the world.
2. Mark Lanegan is my father and Greg Dulli is my mother.
3. Mark Lanegan is the devil and Greg Dulli is also the devil, and I love the devil like the devil loves sin.
4. Both Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan owe me money. Mark, $40 and Greg $1600. I would like a chance to get some of it back.
5. I don't think these "sensitive crooners" are as sensitive as you say. I would like a chance to see just what level of sensitivity they convey through their music.
6. The next time one of my friends says you (Ezra) don't know doodley squat about music, I will verbally defend you loudly enough for everyone present to hear and will do so with all due conviction.
6. Great Northern sound like a 4AD band with an expensive producer, which intrigues me something fierce. I would like to ask them how standing in a tunnel affects their textural sound, if at all.

Last time I was up there I got the Star Trek communicator symbol tattooed on my chest. I did so in hopes of being someday, in some way, recognized by both the Portland Mercury and Great Northern. I also love Twin Peaks.

1) I am in love with Great Northern after seeing them at the Crystal a few months ago.
2) My own local band just played the Wonder with Liars and I would freak out to see one of my fave bands play on the same stage I recently strutted my stuff on.
3) I will bring the inspiration I get from this show to my own music, hence bringing similarly awesome music to our scene
4) Gutter Twins are gods and I've never had the privilege of seeing them live
5) I'm a devoted Mercury fan and read your ingenious rag cover-to-cover every week, skipping that other weekly that caters to yuppies
6) I will plug the Mercury at my next show if I win
7) I can spell perfectly and have good grammar

Give me tickets or perish in a hell of teen pop for all time!

I deserve the tickets because I'm having a great time reading your bloggy! Just give me them... Enough of this I deserve shit more than the next person. Buncha B.S. anyways. What ever happened to getting something because you were lucky huh Ezra? Funk dat... that is all.
Ending transmission...
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So who won? Naturally you'll ANNOUNCE the winner so the losers can hunt them, right?

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