The view of Downtown from Jean Drapeau park, home of Osheaga.
My building is a couple of blocks from the one with the spikey pyramid on the top.
Last weekend I finished at 12 on Friday (the beauty of Summer Fridays!) and headed off to Osheaga.
It's your typical 3 day weekend festival involving various bands, both Anglo and Francophone, ranging from stupid middle aged men stood behind DJ decks pretending to be a)youthful and b)musicians (can you tell I have no love for dance music?) and the real ethereal and beautiful stuff. See Exhibit A:
Oh Florence, yes I will say your name.
It was more than fantastic to go to a festival where it didn't rain at all, no-one expected me to camp and I could get the metro there and back. (However good your mum is at getting you to the backdoor of a festival, it's still even better to just jump on a train and get door to door in 30 minutes including a stop for pizza).
If you'd like to recreate my festival experience (and why wouldn't you), you'll need the following:
- a whimsical park complete with worrying amounts of open water combined with (only slightly, Canada is very civilised) drunk people
- warm beer, ice lollies and poutine (more on this later)
- the following playlist (find it via Spotify lovers):
Heaven - The Walkmen
Carry On - Fun
Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club
Dirty Paws - Of Monsters and Men
No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand
Crew Love - The Weeknd
Shake It Out (Benny Benassi Remix) - Florence + the Machine
Heartlines - Flo again (she's good enough to get two)
Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
Electric Feel (Justice Remix) - MGMT
Montreal - Velo (OK they weren't at the festival but the rest of the playlist is lacking some Frenching)
Sunshine and not a pair of Wellington boots in sight. 1-0 to Canada
P.S.The hot tip on this festival came from a guy who I sort of met at a Wimbledon party, but over Skype. I think the lesson here is, never let being thousands of miles away stop you WOOing (winning others over, GAWD, you mean you've not got it in your top 5? loser) the hell out of any social gathering.
