(Not Really Controversial) “Win Before You Can Buy” Ticket Giveaway: David Byrne + St. Vincent
June 25, 2012 | 9:30AM
Ok, so we’re not going to lie – when we heard that David Byrne and St. Vincent:
- a. have an album coming out this September TOGETHER
- AND b. were coming to Strathmore on September 30th to promote said album
we peed ourselves a little bit due to the overwhelming happiness that came over us upon this discovery.
So–the tickets go on sale this Friday (wooot) BUT! we have a pair to give away which you can win by doing the following:
Leave us a comment with a musical pairing you’d like to see come to DC (fantasy or otherwise) and a great ticket giveaway question you’d use if you had to write a ticket giveaway for that show. It can but doesn’t need to be controversial.
COOL? Cool.
(We’ll notify the winners come Thursday.)
How about Guided by Voices and Black Lips join forces for a night of slop rock/flower punk passion. Who knows, maybe they’ll even make out with each other.
To win, contestants must distill the most soulful moonshine they can and send it to this band combo, who will taste test and pick the dankest swill. The moonshine will then be used as fuel for the performance.
Marvin Gaye and D’Angelo.
I’d like to see Jack White team up with Neko Case for a dark, heavy, alt country noir joint.
Mr. White is vampire-pale and Ms. Case is a ginger goddess, so to win tickets tell us your best sunburn story.
Ben Gibbard/Dntel
your most cherished pre-hipster memory.
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Bjork / ANYONE
Photograph yourself with the # of bjork CD-single’s you own.
I want to see George Clinton and Andre 3000 on stage together. To win tickets, type “Go funk yourself!” as many times as you can in your comment. Whoever types it the most wins! No copy & paste allowed!
I’m in no way responsible for deciding the winner for this contest but just want to say that that scenario is what my dreams are made of.
Fugazi and Wu Tang Clan so Wugazi could become a reality.
In order to win tickets someone would have to come up with the best name for themselves if they were a member of Wu Tang Clan.
Prince and Paul Westerberg. I WIN!
Husker Du and Los Lobos.
To win tickets, what non-English language phrase would you most like to see a band use as its name?
Julian Casablancas and Alex Turner
To win tickets, what is your opinion the best alternative band that has risen from the oughts, and why?
Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) & the National
Joanna Newsom and Andrew Bird
David Berman & Jonny Corndawg Present: A Country Western Evening
If you could have anything made out of (or covered with) leather, what would it be?
let’s go with the dynamic swedish duo of lykke li and jens lekman – she gives him the haunted electronic influence, he provides the poppy kick.
question: is there any swedish music (or anything else, really) that truly makes up for abba?
hologram tupac and a mariachi band
who’s hologram would you most like to see with a mariachi band?
Jenny Lewis & Sarah Silverman
Beatles and Bobby McFerrin
For the win: Who is the walrus and who is the eggman and why?
The Incredible String Band + Richard Thompson
Give us your best name of an ISB album that never was
Death Grips & Yusuf Islam
You wake up on a desert island and find out that you have been stranded there with Alec Baldwin. You two are the only people on this island. In order to survive you must communicate with one another, however Mr. Baldwin only responds to lines he has previously spoken in his movie or television work. The night is approaching and a fire must be built. What is the first thing you say to him?
Tupac and Aaliyah
Ladyhawke and Skrillex.
Pink Floyd and Air
To win tickets, what would you name the next manned vehicle to be sent into space, if given the opportunity to do so?
DAVID BOWIE AND JOSEPH AND THE TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. FREAKY RIGHT?
TO WIN TIX- IF YOU HAD TO DESIGN THE “BLACK SHEEP” of the muppets, what/who would it be?
the most stylized (and funny) one wins. bonus points for pics and famous oneliners from the character!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Nirvana.
Ticket Giveaway Question: Which singer, dead or alive, has the best scream/yelp?
The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Other than a time machine, in order to win tickets:
What would be the subject of your Andy Warhol-esque pop art painting?
Justin Timberlake circa 2002 and Justin Bieber circa 2015
If you were given five minutes with Justin Timberlake, how would you convince him to abandon his acting career and return to dancing and making face-meltingly good pop albums with Timbaland?
Tom Waits & PJ Harvey headlining with Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos opening at the Bohemian Caverns for 6 nights. To win, tell us about your last whiskey-soaked, cigarette-perfumed, rainy night in an American city or London. No break-up stories or spiritual awakenings.
Umm, David Byrne putting on anything near me already is already dream of mine. Anything that could be better would have to include Talking Heads, but that’s not really a collab so…
Royksopp & Peaking Lights
To see this dream team, what’s the most ethereal experience you’ve ever had?
The Flaming Lips and of Montreal so that my brain could fry on the inside and flow out my ears.
To win tickets you would have to come up with the best name for a new psychedelic drug and describe the effects. Then manufacture it and take it.
Grizzly Bear and Panda Bear playing an entire set with live bears in a zoo. It would be both incredibly chill and on the edge of your seat excitement to see Noah Lennox fend of wild animals with his vibes.
To win tickets come up with the best bear related pun.
Musical pairing: Eddie Murphy and David Hasselhoff
Question: The old pair of jeans you wore to that Talking Heads show in the 80′s has surfaced from the bottom of your closet. What item you find in the front pocket?
I would want to catch David Bowie and Twin Sister.
You’ve got a coked up Martin Scorsese and David Bowie has taken some acid and assumed the identity of Ziggy Stardust. Where do you take them in the District and at what point do you draw your gun for the mercy kill?
Musical Pairing: Mayer Hawthorne and Al Green
Contest Question: Which panty-melting hits of these two artists would you play to set the mood?
who’s the winning pair?
David Byrne and St. Vincent.