Comments on: CONTEST – Osheaga 2009

By: Suzy Proteau

Suzy Proteau — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:24:50 +0000

contest is good

By: Dany Daignault

Dany Daignault — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:36:53 +0000

in the subject line (yes I used that in last year’s contest but I like it)

By: FrostBiteBoy

FrostBiteBoy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:07:10 +0000

Here’s to ChromewavesFest 2010!!!!!

By: paul

paul — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:41:55 +0000

here’s hoping next year’s island fest will happen….(was really looking forward to Beach House and EITS)…but what we really need is a Chromewaves festival to rival Pfork. Frank?

By: Frank Yang

Frank Yang — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:10:33 +0000

not necessarily disagreeing with you – the announcement is coming some four months later than last year – but Virgin has little to do with the actual booking and running of the festival. They’re all branding and marketing. Branson has as much to do with these V fests as he does the actual flying of the planes in his airline.

It’s been a weird summer for fests – stuff has been cancelled before it was even announced, others after the fact, I think everyone is just playing it fast and loose and hoping for the best.

By: FrostBiteBoy

FrostBiteBoy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:38:49 +0000

Fuck Virgin!
Their marketing “geniuses” decided it was better to make the Ontario audience wait half the summer to find out about this year’s festival. Well, it’s too late…

I’m sure most of us have gone ahead and planned our summer shows based on offerings by Promoters who understand that, in a time of economic downturn, audiences need to be careful where they spend their entertainment dollar. We can’t all go to every single show we’d like to see. So, for many of us, by the time Virgin’s lineup is announced, we’ll have already purchased our summer concert tickets.

Obviously, the corporate fat cats (and their madcap middle-aged-crisis-driven leader) at a company like Virgin have been personally untouched by the recession, and don’t feel the need to make allowances for their potential audiences financial concerns. I hope they enjoy sitting in an empty Oro-Medonte field in late August, patting each other on the back for their “brilliant” marketing move.