Most Fun Ever… Shambhala Festival

Shambhala is by far this country’s biggest dance party – it’s a yearly electronic music festival held in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. Here, Mama Miche from Bitchin’ gives us the lowdown.

I didn’t take all these pics, but that’s why I am the Mama, I got great creeps in great places to help me document the MOST FUN EVER at Shambhala 2009! Since it was my 12th consecutive year attending the dopest party on the planet, the team at the Fractal Forest surprised me with my own stage for me and all my creeps to camp in. Not only did it include this dope sign (Mother’s Cupboard), but we had a 20 X 20 raised stage with a pyramid on top.

I think they just wanted me to keep me in my pen. (enter Mother’s Cupboard pic here – I am with Regan and Ali-B).

Friday night progressed far to quickly into Saturday morning where the sets kept getting better and better with Ali-B, Vinyl Ritchie, Smalltown DJ’s Boy 8-bit, Smoke & Mirrors and Wax Romeo holding down the Fractal Forest. Since sleep was optional I took the high road and cruised through the night light as a feather on the dancefloor, until we hit Saturday AM back at the now infamous Mother’s Cupboard camp where the real shananigans began.

First off, everyone had to get in my tickle tent and get a costume on, then we played hacky sack with the deflated thermal unrest, then we stacked about 17 hats on Smalltown Pete’s head, then he passed out and we stacked everything else we could find on him – FTW!!

We kept rolling on through Saturday and decided it was time to hang with our Gnomies. That’s right we ventured out from camp in these wicked ‘fits and posed like garden gnomes all around the farm.

Got really weird feelings peeps were staring at us a lot, but at least we weren’t naked like the topless hoola hoop girls and the shirt cocker guys we were just dying to fire a pants cannon at!

Saturday night was time for P.L.U.R. that stands for Peace, Love, Unicorns, Respect – of course I was in charge of the Unicorns. Let it be known if you are raving in the woods with 12,000 people and you dont want to A) lose your friends or B) get yourself too dirty, white coveralls and hard hats are totally the way to go – safety third!

Also included are a few of the wicked Major Lazer shots from the Pagoda Stage – eat your heart out Diplo & Switch!

So Saturday night’s top highlight sets included Nick Thayer, Deekline, Will Bailey and Kill The Noise – I know there were way more, but that’s about as far as my P.L.U.R.’d ass got me as two days of no sleep and gnoming around town really started to take it toll.

Soo Sunday let me have a 3 hour nap so I could get ready for our ultimate challenge – onsite T shirt making for the golf tourney during the Funk Jam. The Funk Jam is the best way to spend Sunday at Shams – all the boys throw down the jams and we drink the rest of the booze. Some of the best T shirts include: Kenzie with pink hair sporting “The carpet matches the drapes”, Chantal sporting: “Cuntsmasher” I think that says it all, and me promoting my new band “Velocity Raptor” Fast Clenching….\/ |3 !!

After the funk jam the ladies through a party back at camp – of course it was L’80′s!! DJ’s K-tron and A-Mac killed it with pseu pseu pseudio and more, then Pete Emes rocked the bells followed by DJ ICON from San Fran. Mother’s Cupboard was voted Best Stage Ever and we plan to continue the tradition – note costumes for this were Business Suit Sunday and The Easy Buttons proved to be 100% wicked 100% of the time….That was easy!

Monday morning came way to quickly and so did the reminder that I fell down at my L’80′s party and pulled all the muscles on the inside of my left knee. Funny I kept raving & danced harder than ever to AC Slater‘s set – woops!

Without being able to walk, packing up camp and trying to find my dignity became uber difficult. We managed and made the 2 plus hour exodus down the dusty trail to the highway. After 12 years of making Shambhala the best year ever, in all honesty this year was THE MOST FUN EVER!! If you can handle, dust, dirt, filth, skids, hosers, hippies, camping, raving, loud music, lazers and freaks – this is definitely the party for you – see you next year!