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FRIDAYEXTRA ! The Daily Astorian Friday, July 3, 2015 Weekend Edition ROCKIN’ PICKLED FISH 58 STIC 9EN8 E ATT5 ACTS BI * NA 0 ES Photos by JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian ABOVE: The musical duo Luke and Kati, of Astoria, perform at Pickled Fish at the Adrift Hotel and Spa in Long Beach, Wash., in early June. TOP: Pickled Fish is located on the top floor of the four-story hotel. Claborn wrote in an email. She and Ydstie, a couple from Asto ria, have been active members of Blind Pilot since 200. “It is inti mate and casual.” And the venue — which can hold 150 people and usually draws between 80 and 120 for dinner shows — doesn’t charge for tick ets, either. By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian W ithout rush or fanfare, the Australian guitarist Blake Noble and his three bandmates take the stage at Pickled Fish on a recent Friday evening. Even with the shades partly drawn, the cozy, rustic space on the top À oor of the fourstory Adrift Hotel and Spa in Long Beach, Wash., is saturated with sunlight. Couples perched at the windows gaze out at the e[pansive ocean front view. 7he musicians ready their in struments — guitars, Dobro, drums and didgeridoo — and check their volume levels amid the clattering of silverware and the drone of con versation. “We’re doing our best not to blast your eardrums while you’re ¿ nishing dinner, because that would be really unfortunate,” Noble tells an audience sipping beer and craft cocktails with their cuisine. F or the next two hours, the group lays down a set of funky, bluesy rock numbers charged with Aboriginal elements. Atmosphere Noble was among the ¿ rst per formers to play Pickled Fish when the hotel’s owners, Tiffany and Americana ERICK BENGEL — The Daily Astorian Ezra Holbrook, left, the music booker for Pickled Fish and one of the founding members of The Decemberists, chats with venue co-owners Tiffany Turner, center, and her husband, Brady Turner. Brady Turner, chose to add live mu sic at the restaurant in winter 2013. A Seattlebased musician, Noble is used to playing dark, downstairs venues packed with lighting rigs and short on atmosphere. “At a normal venue, you are the atmosphere, and that’s it. And if you’re not, then it’s a boring show,” he said. “Here, it’s all about the at mosphere. So rather than try and compete with the atmosphere, you try and become a part of it instead.” Noble has now performed at Pickled Fish almost 10 times . “It’s nice to play down at the beach, that’s for sure, ” he said. Kati Claborn, a guitarist and banMo player who, with her part ner, Luke Ydstie, an upright bass player, has performed at Pickled Fish the ¿ rst 0onday, Tuesday and Wednesday of each month for al most a year. “The room encourages the breaking down of the wall be tween performer and audience,” The music booker is Ezra Hol brook, a founding member of The Decemberists who has produced al bums for about 20 years and played in approximately 40 bands. He reckons that about 60 to 70 percent of the musicians that play Pickled Fish tour nationally, includ ing Fernando, Jerry Joseph, Scott 0cCaughey, Tony Furtado, The 0aldives, 5abbit Wilde, and The Wild Ones . Whenever possible, he tries to attract artists working in folk, country, blue grass, rock ‘n’ roll, vintage swing and other classic American genres. That someone like 0cCaughey — the current leader of The 0inus 5, a former guitarist for 5.E.0., and a big ¿ sh in the alternative rock community — would play such a small venue testi¿ es to how well the owners treat the talent, Hol brook said. See VENUE, Page 4C C A N N A B IS E M P O R IU M $10 - 1 g ra m B u d Co n es B IG D isco u n ts W hile Su pplies L a st B ig R idge Farm s B u d - $15 - 1 g ra m / $25 2 g ra m s e r a t e c e l e b B lew ett Pass Farm s B u d 3 g r a m s fo r the p r ice o f 2 g r a m s! O N LY P U R E H A P P I N E S S t h e 4 t h ! Typhoon Y olon da B u d • B u y 2 g ra m s a n d receive a $5 d isco u n t • H a n d ro lled D o o b ees- $2 p er 1/2 g ra m d isco u n t S u p er p ricin g o n A N Y 1/8, 1/4 , 1/2, & fu ll o u n ce B u d O n H w y 101 betw een Raym o n d & So u th Ben d 2870 O cean Ave Raym o n d W A 98577 (across from the sm all cem ent plant) D AILY 10 AM - 8 PM m rd o o b ees@ g m a il.co m 360-875-8016 Anyo ne fro m a ny sta te , a g e 21a nd o ve r, c a n purc ha se pro d uc ts a t M r. D o o be e s. This pro d uc t ha s into xic a ting e ffe c ts a nd m a y be ha bit fo rm ing . M a rijua na c a n im pa ir c o nc e ntra tio n, c o o rd ina tio n a nd jud g m e nt. D o no t o pe ra te a ve hic le o r m a c hine ry und e r the influe nc e o f this d rug . T he re m a y be he a lth risk s a sso c ia te d w ith c o nsum ptio n o f this pro d uc t. F o r use o nly by a d ults tw e nty-o ne a nd o ld e r. K e e p o ut o f re a c h o f c hild re n.
