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Got this email today:
A woman who works at Bearance’s, our very neighbourhood store, with whom I’ve chatted about things green etc. went to Montreal for that festival you’ve been writing about lately (Music, on the expo island). I told her about Indyish before she left.
Just now she told me that, while staying in a hostel […]

How did it come to this?
After years of missing Bloc Party live in 4 different cities, I finally witnessed the awesome firepower of their fully armed and operational battle station of rock. Osheaga has been full of “hang out in the crowd and sway to the music” moments; Bloc Party provided the crashing wave of […]

I’m going to have to do a really quick one now because who knows how long I’m going to have wireless for. My roommate is just ranting away because he managed to score a laminated viking that was hiding in the woods and got the OK from the artist to “steal” and was even asked […]

After leaving Tristan and finishing my last blog, I headed over to the small stage that Marilis blogged about with its great sound and occasional feedback fuzz to see the Royal Mountain Band play. RMB are a favourite of mine, a real homegrown Montreal crew with a timeless, pure rock sound that would’ve landed them […]

Arctic Monkeys are playing right now, which… they shouldn’t be but hey, who are festival organizers to tell these British teens to get off the stage so that they can stick to the schedule? Macy Gray can wait. And she will.
So I went directly from blogging to meeting up with Lise and then headed […]

Hey y’all for my third blog of the day! Wowow, I can’t believe how time is flying by here at Osheaga and how much we’re seeing and doing! Tristan, Marilis, and I have all managed to find each other (and at this moment Tristan is just across the room from me on another computer), I’ve […]

Overzealous much? Yup, that’s me. Having a schizophrenic little afternoon? Yup, that’s me too!
After my last post, I heard the opening riff to one of my favourite songs, the song that will get me up and dancing and hyper-energized no matter how I felt before, and knew it was time to dash to see We […]

After the longest and most congested bus ride down avenue du Parc in history (thanks, St-Laurent being closed and the football game), I arrived at Parc Jean-Drapeau to meet up with Marilis, explore the lay of the land, eat some breakfast, and hear some fantastic music! Day two of the festival (well, day one-and-only for […]

I just re-read yesterday’s post and I just want to mention, I was completely sober, just very unsure with that was going on. I’m better prepared today with some food, some water, a hat, a pad of paper for jotting down notes, a USB key and a sweater. Hopefully today’s posts will be a bit […]

Osheaga, 10 pm: The bulk of the festival-goers were making a beeline from the instrumental music-box-meets-jack-in-the-box set of Explosions in the Sky, to the rock-is-dead wailings of Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins.
But a few of us were drawn off the beaten track towards the Tree Stage, where we sat cross-legged like children at story-time, […]