Wary as I am to once again promise this band to Hillside audiences after the disappointment of last year.. the evidence is there, mind you it remains rumour.
The band in question is Holy Fuck. This Hillside buzz band of 2006 were originally scheduled to return to the festival last year but had to pull out due to a scheduling conflict with a Japanese gig. Now Matt Shulz, drummer for said band, is listing Hillside Festival, Guelph on his myspace tour itinerary for July 25th of this year. The rest of the gigs match up well with the Holy Fuck myspace shows (including Sappy Fest in New Brunswick the following weekend) - however Hillside and a few other shows are missing.
Here's hoping that Shulz has updated his site before the band have and that Hillside audiences will indeed be treated to the electro-experimental rock powerhouse this summer - sure would be a nice way to make up for last year!
Update:
Here is recent a quote from Brian Borcherdt of Holy Fuck regarding their upcoming tour schedule.
“It’s starting to get nice out, so I don’t blame people for wanting to be outside at festivals. We’re going to play a bunch of festivals this summer, and that’s a very random thing, we’ll be going this way then the other, so we weren’t able to schedule a proper Canadian tour at this time of the year. So when it cools off and gets miserable outside, we’ll be at your neighbourhood’s urinal-cake-smelling, rock’n’roll-sticker-covered, hole-in-the-wall club.”
Ah, he must mean Jimmy Jazz!
Source: Exclaim
Further Update:
See the first comment for a little piece of non-investigative blogging I added the other day.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
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In further rumours with little substantiation - way back on April 16th Dan Mangan wrote this on his facebook page in response to a plea to come to Hillside.
ReplyDelete"hoping to get to hillside! thanks for kind words heather :)"
Of course I'm reading waaay too much into that, due to wishful thinking.
He just confirmed to play the Calgary Folk Fest, which runs the same weekend, but it's possible to do a day or two at each. Here's hoping!