Osheaga 2009
You know, you’re not a big city if you don’t have your big music festival. The formula is pretty similar across the globe: unique name, full week-end event, outdoors and most importantly tons of bands, with at least one really big bands to headline each day of the festival. Montreal’s own Osheaga follows this recipe to the letter: full week-end event, (Saturday amd Sunday the 1st and 2nd of August), outside venue at the Parc Jean-Drapeau and Coldplay and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (replacing the Beastie Boys who can’t make it because of MCA’s need to take time off to fight cancer).
Where Osheaga falls short is that it is not exactly like a European-styled rock festival extravaganza, where people stay on the site for the whole duration of the festival, usually in tent-cities, and basically transform the festival into one spontaneous and enormous commune. There is no camping allowed at Osheaga, basically you just go in the morning for the beginning of the shows and leave when the concert ends. That’s kind of sucky, itjust makes Osheaga a big day-long concert, something I wouldn’t really call a festival. But hell, it’s as close as we will get to such an event here.
Regardless, the lineup looks really promising, and Girl Talk will be there on Saturday, guaranteeing a crazy night out at the park.
