When thinking outside the box just isn't enough
Osheaga’s under way and, as you may have heard, it’s in a new location, or rather a revamped version of its old location. Cem Ertekin covered Heavy Montreal for FTB last weekend at the new site and lets our Osheaga team and you what to expect: Osheaga runs August 2-3-4 at Parc Jean-Drapeau, tickets at […]
Osheaga‘s back this weekend for 3 full days of music, art, food and fun in what is likely to be very hot sun. The lineup this year is as impressive as ever with some very big names sure to draw big crowds. Here at FTB though we try not to focus on any of those […]
While this year’s line-up at Osheaga is heavy on the electronic and hip hop acts, there are still plenty of bands for those of you who want to rock out. And personally, while it’s nice to have the mix, sometimes you just want to rock out. Here my picks for the best indie rock performers […]
We talk to the members of the world’s only Heavy Metal Mariachi band, Metalachi! Join as they talk about how to transform metal songs into Mariachi bangers, Montreal’s metal scene, and more! Facebook Comments
Following my interview with Shaun Majumder, I had the chance to see HATE. The almost sold-out audience happily shared in Majumder’s frustration and confusion to the continued hate that surrounds the Trump presidency, and its effect even up in the Great White North. Majumder opened with the acknowledgment that yes, it has been a year […]
Have you ever had one of those 3am conversations with a fellow music aficionado, sitting on the floor with vinyl records strewn about, debating the merits of certain genres of music in a kind of stream-of-consciousness free-flow of observations and criticisms? If not, Fred Armisen can give you the full experience. Saturday night at the […]
Would You Bang Him? is a show with a funny premise. Hosted by the Nasty Show’s Bonnie McFarlane and her husband, Rich Vos, it is a mock game show in which a panel of female comedians assesses a group of male stand-up comedians and decide whether or not they’d have sex with them. It’s one […]
I woke up this morning and saw my weather app tell me that there was going to be thunderstorms today. Luckily, that was a lie. Under the somewhat cloudy sky, the bands played on. My personal highlight of the day was Metalachi playing three Iron Maiden songs in a row in their unique “Heavy Metal […]
Michael Che is the first Just for Laughs Gala host, or at least the first host I’ve seen, to fully embrace all aspects of the job. It’s not just having a solid standup set for the beginning, which he did. It’s also not just having the ability to riff on and with the audience, which […]
Toronto based metal band Cancer Bats played Heavy Montreal yesterday and we had a chance to sit down with vocalist Liam Corimier and bassist Jaye R. Schwarzer. They spoke about Montreal construction, our designation as a heavy metal city and playing the festival: Facebook Comments
Heavy Montreal 2019 started off on one of the hottest Saturdays of the year so far. But the organizers were prepared, because there were water sprinklers literally everywhere to keep the metalheads cool. That being said, the amount of long-haired headbangers would probably also be enough for that. If you’ve ever stood in front of […]
To say Trevor Noah has abundant energy would be an understatement. After four days of hosting The Daily Show he flew to Montreal and delivered over an hour of standup at the Bell Centre. I’ll admit our hockey palace seems like an odd venue for a comedy show, but it worked. This one night only […]
Those who have checked out this year’s raucous edition of The Nasty Show will have any number of haunting/hilarious visuals replaying in their heads in the days that follow: Jessimae Peluso’s reenactment of how women spend their lives fighting off an endless barrage of dicks constantly rushing them from all angles…or perhaps host Bobby Lee using the mic stand to […]
Adam Cayton-Holland is a comedian who endured something terrible. Shortly after his previous appearance at the Just for Laughs festival, he found that his sister Lydia, his best friend, had committed suicide. A couple of weeks later while he was destroyed by grief, he and his friends sold their first pilot. He went to therapy […]
While this was not technically a comedy show in the traditional sense, rather a promotional panel of writers and TV personalities, it still garnered laughs from the audience, mostly resulting from Jann Arden’s brash humour and witty jabs. Going into their sophomore season on CTV, the group was at Just For Laughs to promote the […]
Heavy Montreal 2019 is right around the corner, so metalheads all around this beautiful Heavy Metal City™ that we call Montreal are trying to figure out which bands they want to see. Slayer? Anthrax? Evanescence? Slash? Godsmack? Skillet? I mean sure, yeah, you can go watch the bands that we all know. But this loud […]
