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Metal. Burlesque. Blues. Funk. Camping. Naked swimming. Hail Satan.

Do we have your attention? Great.

The Lookout Tripping Hazard and the Stinkeye Saloon present: That Devil Music!

July 28-29, an unprecedented collaboration between two infamous stages will take place at the Lookout Arts Quarry. That Devil Music is a diabolical mashup of the most doggedly blasphemous musical acts we could find in the county. It’ll feature a horde of local musical legends at an event which seeks to mix genres as elegantly as fine cocktails shaken in an old paint can.

The showdown begins Friday night at the Tripping Hazard, where our bill consists of Bellingham metal bands Melancholia, Dryland, and Fungal Abyss. The night rounds out with a performance by local funk-folk legend Hot Damn Scandal, whose late night set will transition the mood for Saturday’s lineup. Stumble to your tents (partypoopers) or stay up with us all night as we engage in acts of depravity, vice, and ungodly good fun (i.e. listen to metal all night).

Saturday, attendees entertain yourselves till evening time. We'll have games and activities to entrance your feeble attention. Then go fetch your dancing shoes and your sassy outfits and skip up to the Saloon where Funkways will get the show (and the dancing) kicked off. Next, Bang Bang and the Bad Medicine takes the stage to accompany the one and only, the first of its kind, the highly original That Devil Music Burlesque Show.

And since we just can’t get enough of this stage, after the burlesque the Tripping Hazard will summon the crowd back to the boneyard for a set by Three for Silver. This followed by a seamless transition back to our metal roots with appearances by Trash Casket and Oath Ov Hatred, who will grind us to a withered, dry-throated ran-out-of-acts sometime before that terrible Sunday sunrise.

B.Y.O.E. Bring Your Own Everything: food, sleeping accommodations, weather preparedness, trash bags (pack it in, pack it out, don't be a jerk), etc. We just have water and bathrooms and trash cans. And metal.

Attending the show is an implicit agreement by the attendee to be super respectful of the site, its residents, guests, and your fellow attendees. We need everyone's cooperation in making sure we get to do this again and again. Bring the party you wish to see in the world.

Nothing happens when you die. So, while you’ve still got breath in your lungs and the devil in your heart, get out here and congregate with the likes of all these irreverent fucks. Hail Satan.

Nitty-gritty details for folks who haven't bought a ticket yet but need important info:

GATE HOURS

Friday July 28th 4pm - midnight (for Friday-only and full-weekend passes)

Saturday July 29th 1pm - 11pm

Everyone go home by Sunday at 6pm (or give us $18 and stay yet another night)

GATES CLOSED = ticket sales end for the day, no unticketed entry--exits ok obviously

SHOWS START

Friday at 10pm at the Tripping Hazard

Saturday at 8pm at the Stink Eye Saloon

Friday only goers:

Thank you for attending our mostly-only-metal night! We’re especially stoked to have you because you’re probably one of Bellingham’s elusive metalheads and we need your pre-contaminated Satan-heated blood to flow through our hell. Please camp on Friday and enjoy the quarry on Saturday; wake up slowly, get some coffee, go for a swim and a wander, find someone to chat with, throw some knives. 

You must skedaddle by 4pm Saturday. We'll have unassuming-looking folks wandering around to find you and you’ll be either shaken down for a Saturday ticket or escorted to the road. Or marooned on a scratchy pool noodle in the quarry lake and prevented from making landfall by drunken devilworshippers hucking bullfrogs and bad jokes at you until Sunday.

TICKETS

We’ve still got em! Every day, every combo. Please keep spreading the word. While pre-show online sales are preferred, tickets are also available at the gate and then you don’t have to pay the robots. 

YOU’VE BEEN WARNED

This part of the email is to iterate pertinent nitty-gritties to you in no particular order to ensure that if something goes wrong for your Devil Music experience, at least hopefully "we told you so."

1. Plan to party late

The nature of our venue dictates that these shows happen only in hours of darkness. That means these are LATE NIGHTS. If you care to get your money's worth, come prepared to stay awake with our performers until like 2am….sometimes later. And then party with us afterwards. 

2.   Sleep here

Don't drive home dumb in the dome. Just don’t. Go to bed. That cozy dry bed that you set up in a cute woodsy nook right when you got to site while it was still light out and you could still see the tent poles because you’re a responsible human party goer. Camping is included in your ticket price. As is parking. The Lookout Arts Quarry* is a beautiful place to sleep in late and the quarry lake itself is top-tier hangover-soother.

*The Quarry is also home to many human residents so be super respectful of their spaces (don’t go wandering out past the gate without an approved escort) and tiny homes and the fact that they live at a place where lots of events happen and thus experience some crowds as trashy, misanthropy-inducing disasters. It’d be so cool if That Devil Music was such a great show and awesome crowd that it made the Quarryfolk want us to do it again and again.

3.   BYOE

That stands for Everything. All of it. Our on-site amenities include bathrooms, water, a dumpster, and endless protein in the form of mosquitoes. Pack in your own vittles, just in case. On Saturday and Sunday we'll have Shirlee Bird's mobile Cafe on site providing coffee, pastries, and paninis. Bring your own FOOD, snacks, headlamp, and costumes. As always: Pack in, pack out. (or use the on-site trash/recycling receptacles)

4.   Drink water

It's on site, it's what sinners crave, it helps you party, poop, and party again. Go find the spigots, they are marked on the map and on site. 

5.   Saturday Activities

We will have an actual schedule for you at the gate detailing some daytime activities we’re cooking up to keep folks entertained and relatively sober while we wait for Saturday’s Dayball to croak. Anybody interested in initiating a card game, kickball tourney, hike, skit, workshop, magic show, jam sesh, (witch)crafting corner, sharpie-tattoo booth, pirate stage ren show, life advice from crusty buskers seminar, banishing ritual on the sun, whatever – you’re welcome to step up and do so. No applications required*.

Attendance at the infamous Saloon Sunday Morning Church Service highly encouraged for all still-awake revel-rousing degenerates.

*That Devil Music staff reserves the right to veto needlessly obnoxious, offensive, overly-sloshed, or otherwise unbecoming activities. 3 strikes rule.

Definitely Confirmed Saturday activities:

• Face Painting (corpse paint only)
• Card games in the saloon (all/any hours)
• Swimming
• Knife throwing (at a specified target)
• Kubb aka Viking Bowling (it’s a fun lawn game)
• Bocci ball (also lawn game)
• Aimless meandering while drinking water and not getting wasted too soon. See map at gate for exploring prompts

6.   Do it up for the Devil—and Take Care of its Creatures

Get it on for Satan! Ungodly costumes, freaky hair, lots of runny makeup, bared teeth and tattoos—let the spirit of unholy creativity move and inspire you to adorn your corpse in memorable fashion.

Look out for each other—we’re all here on the side of the Devil, so let the blasphemy of our cause and the incessance of our party unite us in debaucherous good humor.

TLDR (you lazy fuck)

Party responsibly. Make the Devil (and your mother) proud.

NEW INFO:

There are NO FOOD TRUCKS. Hecka bummer! I guess taco trucks don’t all get down with the devil…? Sorry folks. Suggest us a lead for next year. 

There is a Mocktail bar in the saloon on saturday! $4-5 a drink. Yum yum. BYOCup. 

We’re in HIGH fire danger territory this time of year so no campfires. We’ll be building and tending a couple fires at the Tripping Hazard and/or Saloon that you can hang out at and cook your hot dogs. 

 Ok I hope that’s all. Questions etc at the gate. 

See y’all soon.

Hail Satan.

** please note:

Tickets purchased for Saturday only will erroneously display the event date as Friday July 28th. Ignore this. The ticket "name" will indicate a Friday, Saturday, or Weekend pass.

We're still learning how to use this ticketing platform and appreciate your patience. Send any inquiries to lookouttrippinghazard@gmail.com