March 2010
5 posts
A wordy one!
Sled Island Joins Weird Canada and Mammoth Cave to Present Wryd Alberta
Sled Island is teaming up with Weird Canada and Mammoth Cave to present The Wryd Alberta Traveling Festival from April 30 - May 2, 2010. This mini-festival tour will include 14 genre-defying bands selected by Weird Canada. Each of the organizations in their respective city - Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge - represent a...
Fucked Up to curate in 2010
2009 Polaris prize winners and all around amazing band Fucked Up (or *ucked Up for posters) are coming back to curate in 2010. We are very happy.
Remember this?
We’re just working out details with them on what we are going to do for this year. Lots of exciting talks so far.
Here is some info on the band:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Up
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Les Savy Fav
We are going to keep leaking. One of the favourite bands to have ever played Sled Island is coming back. This June 30-July 3 Sled Islanders will get to see the return of Brooklyn’s Les Savy Fav.
http://www.lessavyfav.com/
http://www.myspace.com/lessavyfav
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Savy_Fav
Sled reps prairies in CBC contest
I feel like a newspaper editor and I like it! Check out that Headline I wrote.
Thanks to all your voting we made it to the top ten in that CBC contest. So there’s still a week of voting. It would be really cool if won.
You can read our bio we did here, then vote after.
Note the humorous photo we chose.
(Mom- you have to click on the word ‘here’ and then the computer will...
One more big leak...
The f’n Melvins.
Please start by listening to ‘kicking machine’ here:
http://www.myspace.com/themelvins
And keep voting for Sled Island here:
http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/searchlight/vote
THANK YOU!!!!
(also- thank you Team Canada and all the athletes from all over the world for your amazing work in Vancouver!! Paralympics are up next..)