2009 Ontario Virgin Music Festival ( Lineup Announced )

Posted on July 14, 2009 |

At long last, the Ontario (not Toronto’s) Virgin Music Festival lineup
has been unveiled.

It shall go down August 29-30.

Goodbye Toronto Islands Park, hello Burl’s Creek! which is near Orillia,
Ontario, down highway 400, an hour trek from downtown Toronto … or so
i’m told.

The reason for the move?

“We’ve always wanted to bring the European festival experience to Canada,”
says Virgin Festival director Andrew Bridge. “[Virgin President] Richard
Branson has always told us, ‘you guys throw a great party, it’s just too
bad you can’t do camping.’”

Here’s the lineup (with more to be announced in the coming weeks):

Saturday, August 29

Pixies
Franz Ferdinand
Ben Harper & The Relentless7
Paolo Nutini
Grizzly Bear
Mates Of State
Sloan
Lights
Plants & Animals
Down With Webster
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Iglu & Hartly
Anjulie
Candy Coated Killahz

Sunday, August 30

Nine Inch Nails
Pet Shop Boys
Our Lady Peace
N.E.R.D.
Cold War Kids
Mute Math
Mew
Thunderheist
Coeur De Pirate
The Von Bondies
Datarock
HyperCrush
Trouble Andrew
Silver Starling
The D’Urbervilles
Sean Kingston
Melanie Fiona
The New Cities

Pretty eclectic lineup fo’ sure.

The biggest draws for me and i’m sure most of the people who
will show up this year will be NIN (their last show on Canuck
soil) and Pixies. Franz Ferdinand, Grizzly Bear, Sloan, Mute
Math, Mew … are bands I’d see headline a show any day of the week.

Now, as for the whole camping situation? gotta say, not my favorite
thing to do but it would be something interesting to experience.
More interesting will be to see how many people will actually
go for it and rough it out with thousands of their fellow Virgin-goers.

Each camp sites will cost you 100$ for 2 days (135$ for 3).
Get the lowdown here.

Virgin as also provided a list of hotels near the site where you can
set up shop.

There will be shuttles leaving from the Barrie Bus Terminal to get
to the festival site.


Weekend Passes are 99$ and the VIP Weekend Passes will set you back
275$ bones.

They go on sale this Saturday @ Noon.

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