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  Highlights from the 2002 festival are below.
Whaling Days is a 22 year old community celebration, and the Shedboyz are in their 2nd year of helping to book entertainment at this great festival. A Sea Fair event, this festival draws over 20,000 people over three days of fun and music. This years line up promises to be magical. Last year...over 300 people paid $10 a head to see Otis Day & the Knights. This year, the Boyz are bring them to you for FREE. Otis and band will be playing Whaling Days 2002 on July 28th at whaling days and yep...it’s FREE! We can also confirm that the AMAZING Seattle funk outfit, MAKTUB is confirmed to play on Sat., July 26th in what promises to be a highlight. Check out the below for some great sound clips, pictures and info about MAKTUB...Take our word for it, THIS BAND ROCKS! Don’t forget to check out the www.whalingdays.com site for a complete line up and more info.
MAKTUB
Click here to download an MP3 from MAKTUB’s New Album “Khronos”
 A quick study of Maktub (pronounced mock'-tube, Arabic for "it is written") reveals a band deeply rooted in the west coast music scene. Dan the Automator (Gorillaz), Saul Williams, Brad (side project of Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard), Pigeonhed and Wayne Horowitz have all recently benefited from the talent of Maktub members. Band members have lent their instrumental talents to Sub Pop's Give the People What We Want - Songs Of The Kinks, with the entire band offering up a new Maktub track "Uptown Feeling" for the follow-up Home Alive compilation, Flying Side Kick. Impressive, considering this all occurred in 2001, the same year in which Maktub wrote and recorded the album Khronos (release date 4-16-2002).
 Khronos (produced by Steve Fisk) features 11 new soul-drenched and raw cuts. With Khronos, Maktub has created an album which spans time - a perfect blend of classic Soul brought to bear with modern influences. The music itself combines new music technology - synthesizers, electric drums, sitar guitar and plenty of sampled sounds - mixed with the classic sounds of the Hammond B3 organ, Fender Rhodes piano, acoustic drums, guitar talkbox, and Reggie Watts's trademark 1950's modified telephone mic referred to as the Regg-a-phone. The front half of the album explores soul, pop and the up-tempo tunes which fuel much of Maktub's scorching live shows. The second half settles into the darker side of Maktub's unique brand of psychedelic soul rock. In both modes Maktub delivers pure SOUL all the way through Khronos. You feel the room and the crunch of vintage instruments. You nearly see the players sweat as you listen to them pour their passions to tape. The songs are about matters of the heart, our modern experience with the quickening of time, and patience for the motherfuckers that miss it all.
Reggie Watts, known within music circles as an agile improviser and powerful singer, commandingly fronts the band with a soulful baritone. Most often compared with Marvin Gaye and Al Green, Watts's style also reveals the influences of Chris Cornell and Robert Plant. Reggie's soulful baritone and wild creativity have earned him the title "soul technician".
What others say about the band:
“Maktub came to Portland for North by Northwest and proceeded to knock the festival audience flat on its collective ass.” [Willamette Week, Portland]
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“..engaging lover's funk kissed with subtly placed contemporary updates ...great musicians working through tunes that are both well conceived and forcefully executed” [Amazon.com Editorial Review]
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“Maktub is the inimitable Reggie Watts backed by some of the finer, funkier musicians in Seattle, serving up a heavy, dark, soulful brew that grabs you by the spine (grunge soul?).” [The Stranger, Seattle]
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“All they need now is for the rest of the country to stand up and take notice.” [Feedback Magazine
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“phenomenal live shows and a stellar new album” [The Stranger, Seattle]
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"Subtle Ways... one of the most remarkably original yet accessible records to surface from the Seattle scene in years." [The Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
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“Subtle Ways is fresh and original” [Billboard Magazine]
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“...overwhelmingly commercial and radio-friendly album that is as slickly performed and produced as any album presently clogging the Billboard charts but without sacrificing its "soul." [The Rocket, Seattle]
Visit the bands site at www.maktub.com
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