Vfest Montreal

[wml7]

Virgin Festival Montreal, which as we learned today, will offer a lineup featuring the likes of the Black Eyed Peas, New Kids on the Block, Simple Plan, Akon, Hedley, Live, Lights, The New Cities, Eva Aliva, and Divine Brown between June 19th and 20th in Parc Jean-Drapeu. Tickets for the weekend will go on sale beginning Saturday, May 9th.
We have always received word that details of Baltimore?s Virgin Mobile Festival will be unveiled soon as well.

Wow, that festival looks craptacular. 

http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/05/06/virgin-plans-five-canadan-festivals-details-first-one/

[andyrichter]

I and Hugh Grant are not pleased. 

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

I would kindly suggest to Seth having absolutely zero talent overlap between VFest Baltimore and VFest Montreal.

[azaghal1981]

Oh my God. That festival looks too horrible to be real.

[sweetcell]

if you're going to visit montreal for a music festival, it's all about the the jazz fest.  there is no other.  http://pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2009/05/06/665608.aspx and http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/default-en.aspx

[betao]

good god. that is awful.

like, really awful.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

if you're going to visit montreal for a music festival, it's all about the the jazz fest.  there is no other.  http://pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2009/05/06/665608.aspx and http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/default-en.aspx

Osheaga is usually pretty good too.

[Got Haggis?]

hahaha! that lineup is AMAZING.

[sweetcell]

that is a perfect example of a line-up by (corporate) committee, with nary a person from the music industry in sight.  i can see a bunch of old men sitting around a table and trying to come up with a line-up.  between looking at album sales charts and reading a few bad blogs, they probably think they have "exactly what the kids want!!!".  ugh.

[wml7]

Ok Seth let's see you top that lineup in Montreal. 

[distance]

at least parc jean-drapeu is not a bad place to see a show.

[Firebutt McGee]

Pop Montreal is where it's at, people!

[MonkeyPants]

that is a perfect example of a line-up by (corporate) committee, with nary a person from the music industry in sight. 

ummm...this statement confuses me.  the music industry is a corporate industry about making money.  that's why it is called the music business.  it may be a shitty lineup from my perspective and yours, but it will probably make tons of money, and that's the point.  plus, festivals suck anyway.  Let all the sucky people spend too much money to go to their stupid festival.

[Vas Deferens]

Osheaga Fest.... www.osheaga.com

[sweetcell]

really?  that was hard to understand?

ok, lemme try again: that is a perfect example of a line-up by (no-music corporate) committee, with nary a person from the music business in sight. the idea here is that a bunch of non-music marketing executives, or telco bosses, etc made these decisions - not someone who actually knows how the music industry works.