Montreal's Osheaga festival runs August 3-5 this year at parc Jean Drapeau. I've been waiting for the 2012 lineup ever since I left the park for Osheaga 2011, but this flyer floating around this week seemed to be highly suspect. It seemed a stark departure from last year's lineup. Also, the billing structure seemed slightly off. Newmarket heartthrobs Serial Joe receiving higher billing than Feist, The Weeknd, Skrillex? Soundgarden and Slash just floating around quietly the smaller acts ghetto section of the flyer? It also seemed pretty heavy on nineties acts, and kinda low on Canadians. An insane amount of big "headliner" acts. Just seemed really weird. Check out last year's lineup to compare:
There's a reason for the weirdness: the 2012 line up has been reported as fake by Osheaga's twitter folks. According to them, the real line up is mieux, (better, for those who failed)soooo PARTY! BONUS!
Only one act has been announced this year and that's California's Young the Giant. The band'll also be making an appearance at Toronto's Edgefest July 14th alongside CV favourites Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker and Death from Above 1979. YTG has a Montrealais drummer and recently played a sold-out show at the Sound Academy last Thursday, with a cameo by Osheaga alum Tokyo Police Club.
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