(I got the idea for this series while sifting through the ‘piles’ of digital photos on my laptop. It occurred to me to share some of these great pics from some of my favourite concert sets from time to time. Until I get around to the next one, I invite you to peruse my ever-growing list of concerts page.)
Artist: Wild Nothing
When: August 3rd, 2013
Where: Green stage, Osheaga, Jean Drapeau Park, Montreal
Context: Ten years ago this summer, I attended Montreal’s Osheaga arts and music festival with my good friends Tim and Mark. It was an unforgettable weekend and we saw countless amazing performances over the festival’s three days. I’ve already posted photos* from some of the weekend’s sets and plan to share a few more of these in the months leading up to this year’s edition, which I will sadly not be attending. Some of these posts will have fewer photos than my normal galleries, including today’s, but this should not be taken to be indicative of the quality of the performances, but of the difficulty of obtaining quality pics while being so completely in the moment.
After a good night’s sleep and a filling brunch of Montreal smoked meat at Schwartz’s deli, my friends and I got back to the festival grounds early to catch a few bands we’d had our eyes on. Tim excused himself to the next stage over to catch Canadian country singer Corb Lund and Mark and I went to the Green stage to take in hyped up indie rockers, Wild Nothing. The shimmering guitars and washes and soft soothing vocals put me right back into the shadows of 90s shoegaze. The band blasted through their set of delicious and syrupy sweet guitar pop to get to as many of his songs as possible in their short, early set. It was a nice warmup for what would turn out to be another great day for live music.
Point of reference song: “Paradise”
*Past galleries from this festival weekend have included the following:
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