Calgary Music Festivals and Concerts

[dansk]

Stone Temple Pilots and The Tragically Hip to headline Virgin Festival Calgary
Canada's ultimate summer festival saddles up to take over Calgary!

CALGARY, April 8 /CNW/ - Hey there buckaroos! Virgin Festival, the
biggest rock festival in Canada, is heading west on June 21 and 22, 2008. At a
media event today the excitement kicked off with the announcement of this
year's amazing festival headliners. After traveling around the globe from Sir
Richard Branson's estate in Oxford, England, the news finally dropped that
alternative hard rockers Stone Temple Pilots will headline day one and rock
icons The Tragically Hip will headline day two.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/a.../08/c3447.html

[MonctonGoldenFlames]

Huge disappointment IMO. A Canadian band who comes thru here once every few years and a band that is slapped back together due to the fall of Velvet Revolver. I will not be attending this concert and wish I didn't live within earshot of it.

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by MonctonGoldenFlames

Huge disappointment IMO. A Canadian band who comes thru here once every few years and a band that is slapped back together due to the fall of Velvet Revolver. I will not be attending this concert and wish I didn't live within earshot of it.

Velvet Revolver broke up because STP were getting back together.

[crooked rain]

Is Richard Branson going to bring us a time-machine to transport us back to 1994 when STP and the Hip would have been relevant?

Some of the other acts look pretty good though.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by crooked rain

Is Richard Branson going to bring us a time-machine to transport us back to 1994 when STP and the Hip would have been relevant?.

Stone Temple Pilots, they're elegant bachelors, they're foxy to me, are they foxy to you?

Actually that line makes me depressed that we're not getting Stephen Malkmus...

But hey, FLAMING LIPS!!!

[jeffwhit]

Originally Posted by furrycanuck

Stone Temple Pilots, they're elegant bachelors, they're foxy to me, are they foxy to you?

Actually that line makes me depressed that we're not getting Stephen Malkmus...

But hey, FLAMING LIPS!!!

Pavement might yet reunitie for Lalapalooza, which inspired that song. By the way, the Smashing Pumkins are also not playing here, which fine by me because they don't have no function; I don't understand what they mean and I could really give a fuck.

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by jeffwhit

Pavement might yet reunitie for Lalapalooza, which inspired that song. By the way, the Smashing Pumkins are also not playing here, which fine by me because they don't have no function; I don't understand what they mean and I could really give a fuck.

I saw the Pumpkins in Saskatoon (Along with Foo Fighters, Sum 41 and Our lady Peace) in 2001 (Summersault Tour), and they were awesome! They don't play any of their old stuff now do they?

[entheosfog]

Originally Posted by johnnyc

I saw the Pumpkins in Saskatoon (Along with Foo Fighters, Sum 41 and Our lady Peace) in 2001 (Summersault Tour), and they were awesome! They don't play any of their old stuff now do they?

Ha! I was at that same show! I walked out on the Smashing Pumpkins. They were bore-ring. Catherine Wheel was the best band there that day

[crooked rain]

Originally Posted by furrycanuck

Stone Temple Pilots, they're elegant bachelors, they're foxy to me, are they foxy to you?

Actually that line makes me depressed that we're not getting Stephen Malkmus...

But hey, FLAMING LIPS!!!

I always liked that line from 'Range Life' since STP never really appealled to me.

I am going to see Malkmus this summer at Sasquatch in Washington. As much as Pavement is my favourite band (as my user name would suggest), I'd even argue that his music is irrelevant now - certainly his last couple of solo works have been mediocre.

The Flaming Lips should be a good show and, probably, worth the price of admission.

[Kevin_foster]

Circa 1995

Tragically Hip is still relevant however.

[sync]

hey it's concert in calgary - cowboys and cows and flying pigs all round!

[frinkprof]

I didn't even know STP was getting back together. Good stuff.

Also, is it just me, or should a press release about a concert state where the concert is actually being held? Feel free to point it out to me if I missed it, but the venue isn't mentioned.

[drew]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

I didn't even know STP was getting back together. Good stuff.

Let's hope they can get across the border... IIRC Scott Weiland has had some issues with that in the past, and as a result STP hasn't played much (if at all?) north of the border...

[newfangled]

Originally Posted by dansk

CALGARY, April 8 /CNW/ - Hey there buckaroos! Virgin Festival, the biggest rock festival in Canada, is heading west on June 21 and 22, 2008...[/url]

Do you people talk like that all the time?

[sync]

Originally Posted by newfangled

Do you people talk like that all the time?

dude, that's how i answer the phone at work everyday!

[Calgarian]

I think Fort Calgary is the venue. Yeah, the lineup is a little dissipointing. I hope they announce some better bands in the coming weeks. I would go to this show if tix weren't $125!

[240glt]

125 Bucks ??!! That's insanity even if you are a Hip or STP fan... addd some shitty beer and a t- shirt and you've got a $200 day

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by 240glt

125 Bucks ??!! That's insanity even if you are a Hip or STP fan... addd some shitty beer and a t- shirt and you've got a $200 day

well, it's $75 for one day and $125 for both.

[entheosfog]

Ugh. first off, what a horrible press release. Who wrote that?
But for the amount they're hyping it, it sure is disappointing who the headliners are. I'd go to see the Flaming Lips, Stars, New Pornographers and Constantines...that's pretty much it.

[crooked rain]

Originally Posted by entheosfog

Ugh. first off, what a horrible press release. Who wrote that?

One would have to assume it was written by committee at Virgin headquarters. No one local would use the term 'buckaroos'.