NEWS
By wavelength ~ Posted Friday, September 2nd 2005Live in Montreal or Ottawa? Got U2 tickets? Turns out you're gonna see Arcade Fire, too. Bono himself invited them to open all Arcade Fire's hometown-esque shows. Also, if anyone has extra tickets, my parents are looking'¦
There's one last big music festival happening at the CNE band shell September 16 thru 18. Ear To The Ground features lots of Wavelength favourites like Holy Fuck, Republic of Safety, Jon-Rae and The River, Final Fantasy, and Julie Doiron, as well as some big name out-of-towners like Sleater Kinney, Brendan Benson and Kid Koala. Tickets are $20 for Friday, $25 for Saturday and Sunday respectively, or you can get a $50 weekend pass at Rotate This, Soundscapes or Pages. For full details go to www.eartothegroundfest.com
September 8-17 is the 30th Toronto International Film Festival. And, for the second year in a row, you can go to the Drake Hotel for their film-festival special 4am last call, where there'll be celebrities bigger than Jeff Martin and Belinda Stronach. For full details go to www.bell.ca/filmfest
Speaking of celebrities, a couple of big ones showed up at The Boat August 13. Dan Aykroyd and Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood and their respective entourages tapped their toes at the Goin' Steady dance party happening that night. The jury is still out as to if it was The Boat's review on martiniboys.com that was the catalyst for their star cameos.
Long-time Wavelength contributor, Smokey Campbell, was married to his long-time ladyfriend, and also long-time Wavelength contributor, Pussy Powers, on August 13 in Bright's Grove, ON. Congratulations motherfuckers!
The Bagel had quite the show August 19. Quite the show in fact, that No Dynamics had to move their second CD release show the next night to The Tranzac. We here at Wavelength aren't sure what the exact story was, but there was messageboard whisperings of 'œover-capacity'? and 'œundercover cops.'? But shows at The Bagel will go on.