The UMS: 4 incredible days, 300+ bands, memories that won’t soon fade

The UMS: 4 incredible days, 300+ bands, memories that won’t soon fade

July 27, 2010 Off By Billy Thieme
Nathaniel Rateliff and his band performed a late day set as the UMS drew to a close - after the biggest weekend it's ever seen! (Photo: Joe McCabe/Reverb)

Nathaniel Rateliff and his band performed a late day set as the UMS drew to a close - after the biggest weekend it's ever seen! (Photo: Joe McCabe/Reverb)

One impossibly acceptable truth: four days and nights of anything might be just about too much. This is what I found myself thinking last night as I carried pieces of a guitar, smashed onstage at the 3 Kings Tavern by a member of the local band Gangcharger, from venue to venue at the end of the best rock festival in the west. After over 300 bands had played their hearts out to thousands of Denver’s music lovers, the effort at the end looked still unfinished, still full of promise, melody, pounding rhythms, desperate screams and wild howls. All of that formed the beginnings of memories that will never fade.

Read this entire review – and loads of more UMS coverage, including videos, interviews, slideshows and more – at Denver Post Reverb!!

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  • Billy Thieme

    Aging punk rocker with a deep of all things musical and artistic, enough to remain constantly young and perpetually mystified. Billy has journalistic dreams, but of a decidedly pastoral, Scottish nature.