Wow, there are a lot of you!

That was an intense couple of hours.

After the hard-rocking, skinny-tied Junkface set brought the outside batch to a close, the inside of Audio Cinema really started to fill up. In fact, as The Blow were coming on, it got so full that we reached the capacity of 600 people that was set for us by the Fire Marshall this morning and were forced to stop additional people at the door.

While it's thrilling to have so many people so excited about our event that it fills up, it's not a good feeling to work for a year to make so much great Portland music available to everyone only to have to turn people away.

Thankfully, you Portlanders were pretty darned sweet about it. Most of you listened to our instructions and were understanding about the situation. Some kids even formed an awesome dance party in the street and sang along with every lyric from Parentheses:

While it's hard having to explain to people why they can't come into a free show when they can see open space just inside the door, it's great to live in a city where everyone is so civil and positive about it. Instead of any grumpiness, we got a big coffee klatch of people hanging out and enjoying a beautiful summer night in Portland.

In the chaos of it all, I pretty much entirely missed Braille's set.

But, on the upside, there's an awesome lady with a tambourine leading a dance-and-clap circle in the back of the room right now to Hey Lover!

I'm gonna go catch the last of their set and then get ready for the March Fourth procession...

Here's what The Blow and Junkface looked like: