As pictures are worth a thousand words each, I thought I'd keep it short.
Longest line-up: Mother Mother
Most improved: Aidan Knight
Best banter: Tegan and Sara
Grooviest: Zeus
Worst venue: Sugar Night Club
Best venue: Alix Goolden Hall
Best word-of-mouth: Holy Fuck
Most photogenic: Zeus (/Hey Rosetta!)
Surprisingly awesome: Timber Timbre
Most mesmerizing: Champion
Shortest set: Hey Rosetta!
Must see: Pink Mountaintops
Regrettably absent (sick): Final Fantasy
Regrettably missed: The Pack A.D. (friend's text: "Holy moley rock and roll just happened")
Rifflandia worth your money?: YES
Photos of each night at Rifflandia:
Thursday Night: Hannah Georgas, Timber Timbre, The Racoons, Shad, DJ Champion and his G-Strings
Friday Night: Aidan Knight, Tegan and Sara, Zeus, The Most Serene Republic
Saturday Night: CHAR2D2, Jon and Roy, Jets Overhead, Hey Rosetta!, Pink Mountaintops
Showing posts with label Rifflandia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rifflandia. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Plotting & Planning for Rifflandia
Exciting times; new school year (with new research endeavors), new bachelorette pad (with the sister), new job, new breath of fresh air. And through all that, concert / festival season continues!
Next weekend (Sept. 24-26) I'll be in fair Victoria, BC to cover the Rifflandia Music Festival for NxEW. Likely lots of tweets, lots of pictures, and lots of setlists (I've gotten pretty good at grabbing those).
Next Wednesday night before I depart for the weekend, I'll be going to Basia Bulat's show at St. James Hall, hosted by the UBC Alta Mater Society. This saves me the grief of missing her set in Victoria.
I love her Facebook fan club page name the more I think about it -- Basia Bulat Fan Club: We Love These Woodland Nymph Songs! (It's pretty descriptive.)
So here's my tentative game plan, not taking into consideration how I'll get around ...
Thursday Sept. 24
Hannah Georgas @ 8:00 @ Metro Theatre (1411 Quadra Street)
Final Fantasy (picture, left) @ 9:30 @ Alix Goolden Hall (907 Pandora Avenue)
Shad @ 10:15 @ Market Square (560 Johnson Street)
Friday Sept. 25
I'll likely just stick around at either Sugar night club or Market Square. Most likely Sugar. (Choices, choices...)
Sugar (858 Yates Street)
Library Voices @ 9:30
Zeus (picture, right) @ 10:15
Cuff The Duke @ 11:15
The Most Serene Republic @ 12:00am
Market Square
The Dudes @ 10:30
Mother Mother @ 11:30
Saturday Sept. 26
A toss up between Market Square or Metro Theatre. If it's possible logistically I'd catch Char2d2's set then get to Jets Overhead after.
Market Square
Jon and Roy @ 9:00
Jets Overhead @ 10:00
Hey Rosetta! @ 11:00
Buck 65 @ 11:45
Metro Theatre
Char2d2 @ 8:45
Jon-Rae Fletcher @ 9:45
And now I gotta run this schedule past my good friend Roger who is graciously housing me for a weekend, entertaining me while putting up with my relative absence. He'll be able to tell me if my schedule involves running across town in an impossibly short amount of time...
Next weekend (Sept. 24-26) I'll be in fair Victoria, BC to cover the Rifflandia Music Festival for NxEW. Likely lots of tweets, lots of pictures, and lots of setlists (I've gotten pretty good at grabbing those).
I love her Facebook fan club page name the more I think about it -- Basia Bulat Fan Club: We Love These Woodland Nymph Songs! (It's pretty descriptive.)
So here's my tentative game plan, not taking into consideration how I'll get around ...
Hannah Georgas @ 8:00 @ Metro Theatre (1411 Quadra Street)
Final Fantasy (picture, left) @ 9:30 @ Alix Goolden Hall (907 Pandora Avenue)
Shad @ 10:15 @ Market Square (560 Johnson Street)
Friday Sept. 25
I'll likely just stick around at either Sugar night club or Market Square. Most likely Sugar. (Choices, choices...)
Library Voices @ 9:30
Zeus (picture, right) @ 10:15
Cuff The Duke @ 11:15
The Most Serene Republic @ 12:00am
The Dudes @ 10:30
Mother Mother @ 11:30
Saturday Sept. 26
A toss up between Market Square or Metro Theatre. If it's possible logistically I'd catch Char2d2's set then get to Jets Overhead after.
Jon and Roy @ 9:00
Jets Overhead @ 10:00
Hey Rosetta! @ 11:00
Buck 65 @ 11:45
Metro Theatre
Char2d2 @ 8:45
Jon-Rae Fletcher @ 9:45
And now I gotta run this schedule past my good friend Roger who is graciously housing me for a weekend, entertaining me while putting up with my relative absence. He'll be able to tell me if my schedule involves running across town in an impossibly short amount of time...
Monday, September 14, 2009
Guess who's going to Rifflandia?
This girl!
Follow my tweets over the weekend of Sept. 24-26 to catch a textual update of my aural pleasures.
Was that meant to sound sexual? Well, tell me, when you hear Mother Mother, aren't you turned on just a little bit?
No?
Then I've got nothing more to say to you.
Follow my tweets over the weekend of Sept. 24-26 to catch a textual update of my aural pleasures.
Was that meant to sound sexual? Well, tell me, when you hear Mother Mother, aren't you turned on just a little bit?
No?
Then I've got nothing more to say to you.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Rifflandia Anticipation
Gahhhh!!! So much musical awesomeness crammed into a weekend!!! I don't even have words for my excitement, only noises. eep.
A select list of artists that I'd looooooove to see: (complete line-up here)
Holy Fuck, Final Fantasy, Mother Mother, Tegan and Sara, Pink Mountaintops, Hey Rosetta!, Said The Whale, The Dudes, The Most Serene Republic, Shad, Basia Bulat, Jets Overhead, The Raccoons, Dan Mangan, Jon-Rae Fletcher, The Pack AD, Zeus, In-Flight Safety, Hannah Georgas...
and I had to narrow that down a bit too.
Sitting, waiting, wishing...
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