Win Osheaga Tix - MONTREAL BAND NAME SCRAMBLE!
by alanah
Know your Montreal bands? You can win a chance to see them play along with Indie-greats at Osheaga on September 8th and 9th.
There are 19 local band names hidden in the paragraph below. Post a comment with one of those band names and you will be entered in the raffle to win a pair of Osheaga tickets. One catch: you have to find a band name that nobody else has posted yet - no copying! If you need some inspiration, check out the Osheaga lineup, as well as the artists who have played at Indyish’s Monthly Messes.
Here’s an example:
“If you keep skipping work to go to the arcade, your boss will fire you for sure!”
You can surely pick out Montreal’s most obvous band, Arcade Fire in the sentence above. Now have a go at that the paragraphs below. In honour of Sunday morning, they are about the Tam Tams…
Mount Royal avenue is a parade of scruffy artist-types in bare feet, punks in steel-toes, chic chic hipsters in cowboys’ boots and an old creature in a purple snowsuit who looks like he might be from Mars. There are no fashion faux-pas where they are all heading: up to Tams tams on the mountain (ok, technically it’s a hill).
The rumble of distant drums crescendos as you near the statue where a band of a hundred drummers has united spontaneously. Cops trot by on pony-back but yer booze is legal if you pack a picnic so wolf down your baguette and break out the wine - nothing can destroy this good time. Then lay back and watch the clouds - there’s a whole zoo in the sky: a giraffe, a pelican, a chimpanzee…and then a birdie flies by and breaks the reverie. Everyone’s hot in Montreal, and on the lookout for new lovers – a summertime fuck or a beau gars fringant.
The medieval nerds (not a coward amon them) gather behind a fortress of trees, wielding duct-tape swords that gleam like silver. Then there’s the acrobats-in-training turning cartwheels and hand-springs, showing off their juggling. Even minimum-wage workers are allowed to be dreamers and they may some day (or some year, I should say) end up as famous circus stars.
Sunday is a holy day even for sinners and Tams is our once-a-week miracle, our rasta-man’s zion, our little local taste of paradise….
This contest is open until all 19 band names are found. One entry per person please. Happy hunting!
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Published on: August 26th, 2007
Terms Used: Blog, montreal bands, osheaga, osheaga raffle
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oh wow! this is clever! i don’t think i can participate though haha!
Posted on August 26th, 2007 at 5:43 pm [permalink]
Mars Hill
Posted on August 26th, 2007 at 7:22 pm [permalink]
pas chic chic
Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 11:03 am [permalink]
Miracle Fortress!
Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 11:15 am [permalink]
Pony Up
Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 11:25 am [permalink]
wow, awesome contest post!!! this is a super idea; i love it! round of applause for the lovely alanah, and also for all those entering and finding the band names! (which does not include me, because, you know, that wouldn’t be fair, and so i am not naming any bands).
Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 11:47 am [permalink]
i like how the indyish volunteer team is all self-policing, we never even discussed whether it would be cool for us to enter. but of course, it would be deeply uncool. i figure. and apparently so do they!
indyish artists are totally welcome to enter though, and so are the bands playing at the monthly mess.
OK! Now. If you still want to enter the raffle, you’ll have to try answering this question:
http://www.indyish.com/win-osheaga-tickets-colonial-guilt-time/
Bc this one band here is now Officially Expired….
Exceeeeept for this one exception I can’t resist: If you can get all 15 remaining bands in one comment before the Mess show friday, Aug 31, you’ll be entered in to win the Osheaga tickets and I’ll throw in a props-to-your-mtl-knowledge Indyish tshirt.
arright?
good luck!
Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 1:43 pm [permalink]
Holy Fuck! What a wicked game! Now, my answer: Holy Fuck!
Posted on August 29th, 2007 at 8:21 am [permalink]
Moi j’voit Les Cowboys Fringants! Pourquoi y jouent pas a Osheaga, eux-autres? Ca s’rait un hostie bon temps, quand meme.
Posted on August 29th, 2007 at 8:31 am [permalink]
Stars!!
Posted on September 1st, 2007 at 12:38 pm [permalink]
pas chic chic
Posted on September 7th, 2007 at 5:04 pm [permalink]
Arcade Fire!
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pm [permalink]
Oops! I just read the next line which advised not to use that one… dammit i got too excited to have found one
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 pm [permalink]
WOLF PARADE!
amazing.
Posted on July 11th, 2008 at 2:32 pm [permalink]
Sunday Sinners!
Posted on July 31st, 2008 at 10:44 am [permalink]