June 2009
15 posts
SLED ISLAND WRAP-UP PARTAAAYYYYY
Swing by Broken City today between 2-5pm for the Sled Island ‘09 wrap-up party. You all deserve the hugest of hugs. Also, don’t forget to catch the last films of the festival tonight!!
YOU GUYS! LET'S HAVE FUN TODAY! AND TONIGHT! ...
This happened last night. Tonight it happens again at Tubby Dogg and again at Dicken’s. In addition to lots of fun times like that, we’ve got the main outdoor stage at Olympic Plaza (tickets on sale at the front gate!) w/ Breeders, Liars, Biz Markie, Holy Fuck, Anvil, Malajube, Summerlad and quite possibly the best show of the festival…M5!! We’ve got a stacked bill...
THE END OF THIS SONG IS THE BEGINNING OF...
Colin Newman, Sled Island guest curator, and his Githead bandmate and wife, Malka Spiegel, join us on the final episode of the Sled Island podcast for 2009. It’s been a life-changing experience working with Colin these past few months, and even more of an honour to hear him talk about his experiences in Calgary. We talk about how minor observations about the festival turned into a...
SLED ISLAND KICKS OFF NOT WITH A BANG BUT A...
You guys! Last night was kinda’ revelatory! And the crowds were PERFECT! Final Fantasy at Central United Church was perfection, Colourbook was so fun, The Superfantastics were indeed super-fantastic, Christian Hansen and the Autistics rocked the Factory Party hard with Andrew WK, Japanther, Sit Still and a whole lot more, Excision and Dieselboy killed it with dubstep and drum and bass...
SLED ISLAND PASSES ON SALE UNTIL THURSDAY AT NOON....
Folks, now is the time to buy your passes! We’re taking them offline tomorrow (Thursday) at noon!! You’ll still be able to buy main site passes at Olympic Plaza on Friday (that features The Breeders, Liars, Holy Fuck, Anvil, M5, Biz Markie, Malajube and the Summerlad!). The festival is kicking off today with a Final Fantasy church show, Factory Party 6 (complete with Andrew WK and...
A TASTE FROM ABROAD #4 AND #5: TRICKY WOO AND BIZ...
Ack, the food analogies are really, really getting tough after 10 of these write-ups! But folks, we’ll say this. If we’re treating bands like meals, then Tricky Woo and Biz Markie would be contenders for our last meal before we die! It is an absolute honour to have both of these acts playing the festival.
TRICKY WOO
Watch: Tricky Woo “Fly the Orient” (youtube clip)
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THE LOCAL DISH #4 AND #5: PUBERTY AND DRAGON FLI...
So, uh, we missed a couple of Tuesdays introducing local bands playing the festival. Mainly because we were running out of food analogies. We were on a bit of a hunger strike, if you will. Or that 12 day cleanse where you eat nothing but a cayenne-water-lemon mixture. Well, I hope you’ve worked up an appetite, because we’ve got two big servings for ya’…so ALLEZ...
QUESTIONABLE TASTE IN FOOD, NOT IN MUSIC! EPISODE...
(left to right: Richard Freeman, Drew Marshall)
So, let’s get this straight…not all of us here at Sled Island agree that Nellie’s is the best breakfast in town. Just putting that out there for all of the Chowhound regulars who might also be podcast listeners. With that out of the way, the Sled Island podcast welcomes its newest member, Brittany Taylor and highlights some of...
CONTEST GEEKDOM #3: PICTIO-NARY-A-BAD-DRAWING IN...
(Editor’s note: Twyla only drew the picture on the left!)
Our trilogy of geeky game contests comes to a close with the least geeky of them all: Pictionary! This coming Tuesday, June 16th on the Broken City patio (or inside if it’s raining), we’ll be giving out a Sled Island pass during a game, or games of Pictionary. Considering that both Zak and I are tournament-level...
NO VEST FOR THE WEARY, VEST WE FORGET, THE BEST OF...
The results are in from Contest Geekdom #3! In the end, the pinpoint accuracy, hunter hero scores and killer instincts of the Sled Island staff proved too tough to beat, as no one was able to claim a festival pass by winning against both Zak Pashak and myself (“Zak” and “CCF” respectively on Buck Hunter Machines) in a game of Big Buck Hunter Pro. That said, knowing that...
CONTEST GEEKDOM #2: HUNT SOME BUCK, WIN A SLED...
With the festival just under two weeks away, we’re needing to blow off some stress, and there’s no better way to do it than to gratuitously murder virtual animals with a pump action shotgun for no purpose other than to rack up some high scores. Join us (Festival Director Zak Pashak and myself, Shawn Petsche…and maybe the whole Sled Island crew?) in our celebration of the...
DOCS AND SHORTS AND VIDEOS, OH MY! BEHOLD: SLED...
Hey guys! We’re overjoyed to unveil our Sled Island Film Festival 2009 schedule happening from Tuesday, June 23rd to Sunday, June 28th! The one-woman, self-contained film-festival-making machine that we like to call Jeanette Burman (uh, because that’s her name!) has outdone herself and carefully curated 30 of the best in independent films worldwide from international award-winning...
CONTEST GEEKDOM #1: GATHER WITH US THIS WEDNESDAY...
This Wednesday, June 10th, the word ‘tap’ takes on a whole new meaning in clubs as festival director Zak Pashak and myself, Shawn Petsche, will be revealing to the world that we are not just music nerds…we’re also full blown nerds (but in the cool way, like that episode of Freaks and Geeks when Daniel played and enjoyed Dungeons and Dragons and Bill named his character...
ROCK, ROCK, ROCK N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL! ENTER THE...
Who wants to do homework in the summertime? The coolest kids in school, clearly. Sled Island’s annual high school poster contest returns! Last year, no joke, the entries we got from high school students were on par with most of the professionally designed posters we had made up. Here’s hoping that last years’ winners are either still in high school, or now prospering as...
SLED ISLAND 2009: FULL FESTIVAL LINE-UP...
Whoa. Our full line-up features over 250 bands spanning the globe, proudly including over 120 from Alberta (!), 100 + from the rest of Canada (!) and more than 30 international bands from Tel Aviv to Australia to Edinburgh and more (!). And it all comes in at less than $25 a day. Hoo-boy!
Acts added to the Sled Island 2009 lineup include: Hip-hop icon Biz Markie, New York weirdo-pop act...