Editorial: Don’t let booze drown out the music at Quadstock

OK, we know. Drinking at Quadstock is on par with eating turkey on Thanksgiving.

And as Seattle U's annual music festival turns 21 this year, toasts are in order.

Just keep your celebration in check.

At most all-day music festivals, the crowd around the main stage swells as the headliner's set nears. But as night falls at Quadstock, worn-out partiers trickle off Seattle U's Quad like raindrops sliding down an umbrella.

By the time crews start tinkering with amps for the main Quadstock performers, some students are already at home clicking TV remotes, searching for an old movie to watch as they crash after a passport party-packed day of boozing.

If this happened to you last year—and even if you were that guy who was found passed out on a bench in Subway on 12th Avenue around 3 p.m. last Quadstock—we forgive you.

Just don't let it happen again this year.

Quadstock XXI's lineup is way too good to miss. This year SEAC scored not only local hip-hip king Macklemore—it's also bringing Dan Deacon, a big-name electronic guru, all the way from Balitmore, Md.

Tokyo Police Club—who comes to headline at our school in between rocking Coachella and jetting off to tour the nation with Passion Pit this summer—deserves an audience.


SEAC had to scrape up an additional $15,000 this year to pull off big names like these. ASSU and other clubs pitched in to help them cover the costs, which helped us get one hell of a deal.

Though Quadstock's performers don't always make every student at Seattle U squeal, let's face it: Most of us will never again get an all-day music festival pass for just $10 in our entire adult lives.

So don't spend May 15 slumbering on a friend's couch surrounded by crushed cans of Rainer. Go to Quadstock, and don't go so wasted you won't remember it.

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