July 2010
10 posts
Interviews, Live Videos and More!
Check out this rad interview with Randy from No Age taken at Sled Island 2010 by our pals at Lifetime Collective.
For more videos visit our featured videos section to relive all the awesomeness that was Sled Island one clip at a time! Thanks again to everyone who attended and captured the mad excitement at Sled Island 2010. We’d love to see all of your live videos posted and linked to...
Thanks for an All-Around Amazing Festival!!! You...
Thank you to everybody who attended Sled Island! This was our best year in terms of audience turnout and wristband attendees! We owe a lot of appreciation to all of the fantastic volunteers, bands, artists, filmmakers, patrons, curators, staff and everyone else who helped contribute to make this festival so wonderful! Expect to see plently more exciting announcements for Sled Island 2011!
In an...
Sled Island Bonus Day Reminder!
To let everyone know there’s a PIG ROAST happening at Republik today from noon to 4pm.Come down to hang out, enjoy the food and cheap drinks courtesy of Sailor Jerry’s Rum and the following Panache roster bands, No Means No, Unnatural Helpers, So Cow, Tyvek for an awesome afternoon!
In case you missed the sweaty & packed Legion show with No Age and GZA last night, both will be...
Day #4 Final Frontier
Yesterday was nothing short of wild and rambunctious from a main stage lift-off featuring Fucked Up lead-man Pink Eye getting fully naked, many mind blow-blowing performances and an all-out Girl Talk dance party. Olympic Plaza will be reaching new heights today with an incredible fun-packed lineup featuring Black Lips, The Bronx, NoMeansNo, Big Business, The Melvins, Hot Water Music, and...
Lifetime Collective Video Zine with Hard Drugs
Check out the first of the Lifetime Collective Video Zine series from Sled Island featuring an interview with Vancouver-based Hard Drugs who performed at the Ship and Anchor last night and will be at Local 510 tomorrow night!
Day #3, 2, 1 Lift-off! Main Stage Takes Flight!
Wow! What an incredible Canada Day of multiple shows happening all day and well into the weeeee hours of the night. Highlights being The Thermals (photo above) tearing it up, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists putting on a clinic, Cheeseburger steaming up the Nudie showcase, Deerhoof drawing the crowd wild, and Black Lips capping it off at the Legion!
Starting at 4pm, Get your ass to the Main...
Coffee & Tea Time Courtesy of...
Big thanks goes out to Higher Ground for supplying Sled Island with mixed teas, ground coffee and other goodies to stave off band hangovers and sooth artist voices. Also, check out the all-ages show going down there tomorrow night!
Bonus Show Announcements!
We hope that everyone is having an incredible time out there, and just so you know the fun won’t completely stop on Saturday night, because we’ve added two very special BONUS shows on Sunday, July 4th.
Canadian post-hardcore legends NoMeansNo will be performing at an afternoon Pig Roast at the Republik! Come by and hang out with all your new and old time favourite pals in the...
Day #2 Canada Day at Sled Island!
What an amazing kick-off night to Sled Island! Deerhoof blew mind’s with their own brand of bumble gum psych pop at Central United, Turbo Fruits tore it up at Tubby Dog, Braids put on a stunning performance, Nu Sensae shredded through an incredible set, Lesbians on Exctasy had everyone dancing up an sweat storm and Big Freedia capped it all of with bass heavy bounce extravaganza at the...
Customize your festival schedule!
With so many amazing options happening each night and day of the festival, we thought it might help to give you a sense of what a couple local music scene players have planned out with a custom schedule. Fill out your own custom schedule here.
Also, FYI - the latest Sled Island official schedule can be found online and in the new issue of Beatroute Magazine out now!
Kat Dornian, Music Director,...