Videos: 2011 Osheaga Music Festival : Day 3 ( Sunday )

Posted on | August 1, 2011 | No Comments

For this 6th edition (and first 3-day affair), I was only able to attend the last day.
There was a snafu with my media accreditation application (try saying that fast 3 times) but kind lady in charge of these things was able to let me in yesterday so big ups to her.

Highlights for me were Cypress Hill who brought their old school latino hip hop vibe to the River Stage starting at 4:20pm (clever) and brought out all the jams from the early 90’s.

Shad, our premier Canuck hip hopper, schooled us with a short but very sweet set of cuts from his Juno Award winning album 2010’s “TSOL”. A guest appearance by Dallas Green a.k.a. City And Colour on their duet “Live Together” was a pretty sweet surprise.


The Joy Formidable @ the Tree Stage (loving the new location this year) brought the energy and intensity WAY up, lead singer Ritzy had the crazy eyes again which I’ve witnessed on many occasions in the 5 or 6 shows I’ve seen them do in the last year.

The Flaming Lips, closing out the festival performing their classic late 90’s album
“The Soft Bulletin” in it’s entirety brought the usual confetti canons, HUGE ass balloons and Wayne Coyne walking in the audience in his own special plastic bubble was a nice way to wrap it all up.

The man even officiated a wedding on stage! An Osheaga first.

3 days = 80 000 people. A new record.

The 7th edition will be held next year from August 3rd to 5th.

Here be the few videos I was able to shoot.

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MVs Collection #40

Posted on | July 30, 2011 | No Comments

Björk – “Crystalline”
Directed by Michel Gondry.

Timber Timbre – “Bad Ritual”
Directed by Olivier Groulx.

LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends”  (Lego Remake)
Directed by Michael J. Green.

OK Go + Pilobolus – “All Is Not Lost”
Directed by OK Go, Pilobolus and Trish Sie.

Ladytron – “White Elephant”
Directed by Michele Civetta.

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My Osheaga 2011 Picks ( Friday / Day 1 )

Posted on | July 26, 2011 | No Comments

The 6th edition of Osheaga being only 3 days away, I thought I would give my
recommendations for each days in music video form.

What easier way to get a good sense of what those recs are about wouldn’t you
agree?

Here goes:

Tomorrow night, at the SAT, part of the “In The City” portion of the festival,
L.A.’s electro/synth pop 3some The Glitch Mob will be in town with Phantogram
and Com Truise opening.

The Glitch Mob Feat. Swan – Between Two Points
Wednesday / 9pm / SAT

Sweet Thing – “Change Of Seasons”
Friday / 4pm / Tree Stage

The Knux – “Fire (Put It In The Air)”
Friday / 4:40pm / Mountain Stage

Janelle Monae – “Many Moons”
Friday / 8:05pm / Mountain Stage

Timber Timbre – “Under Your Spell” (NPR Music – Live @ SXSW 2010)
Friday / 8:45pm / Green Stage (a must see!)

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MVs Collection #39

Posted on | July 23, 2011 | No Comments

Beastie Boys Feat. Santigold – “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win”
Directed by Spike Jonze.

Washed Out – “Eyes Be Closed”
Directed by Timothy Saccenti.

Givers – “Up Up Up”
Directed by Tim Nackashi.

Shaky Snakes – “Ozone Exciter”
Directed by Alanna Edwards.

Tom Vek – “Aroused”
Directed by Saam Farahmand.

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2011 Mercury Prize Nominations Announced

Posted on | July 21, 2011 | No Comments

2 days ago in London, the shortlist for the 20th edition of the
Barclaycard Mercury Prize Album of the Year was announced.

The list:

Adele – 21

Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi

Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!

Everything Everything – Man Alive

Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam

Gwilym Simcock – Good Days At Schloss Elmau

James Blake – James Blake

Katy B – On A Mission

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine

Metronomy – The English Riviera

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

Tinie Tempah – Disc-Overy

Obviously, my choice would be for Elbow.

They’ve released one of the best album of the year so far in the whole wide world
but they won it 3 years ago with The Seldom Seen Kid so I don’t see that happening.

Again this year we have those “who the hell are these nominees?” in Ghostpoet
(electro hip hop) and Gwilym Simcock (Jazz) which actually makes me want to
check them out.

This will be a 3 way battle between Adele, James Blake and PJ Harvey and if I were a betting man, I would say PJ for the win. Although, she won for 2001‘s Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, it wouldn’t surprise me if they went for her again as she is beloved by all of England.

September 6th is when we will find out the winner in the ceremony hosted by
Jools Holland.

The winner will get 20 000 pounds (30 000$ Canuck) in cold hard cash.

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