*

taken with the tiny camera in my computer…drew kowalski and karie jacobson, aka the dagons. they’re presently in our belle province! they totally rocked the cabaret at pop montreal last week and have three more dates here before heading back down to los angeles. drew just worked on the soundtrack of an upcoming horror flick called roman, from the folks who did may! A few of the duo’s songs will also be featured. so check’em out!

Long time awaited performance tonite from Beirut who did there first Montreal show as a part of Pop Montreal festival. A great show which ended up setting the crowd on fire off stage. Watch video for more – i’m still burning.

High quality of this video is here:

Listen to Beirut on december 2005 podcast.

Listen here.

At first, it seemed obvious that i was surrounded by what we now call ‘music bloggers’ – hey people, you can now label us : are you a blogger, podcaster, videoblogger, music blogger, new media blogger? hm. I tried to make clear that i am all of the above, but first of all i’m a human being using the web as a medium to share about what moves me, music wise, artwise, technology wise and so on. I may even start an entry on knitting soon, if i feel like.

I am not a journalist, i am a creative person playing, experimenting with creative tools. I am creating a new media, my own one. Its interesting and disturbing.

***

We talked alot about the hype made around ‘mp3 blogs’ – not so my thing. Are mp3 blogs the new Napster? I think so yes, i much prefer creating my own show and comment on the songs than posting single mp3s.

***

Diversity : why is there no one blogging on the culture of and music history? we’ve got so many of these indie rock mp3 blogs, where are the mp3 blogs specialized in jazz, african, or classical music? I think, its a question of time before a certain ‘non internet’ class of people get into the web and use it as a medium. Plus, its not everyone who needs to share about a passion. I think blogging tools are still reserved, and made for, a generation of internet users – something which is not for the 40 + people, yet. The Web still has to grow.

Gonzales’s performance tonite @ pop montreal was a perfect example of reahmicksing. Re-use a church for a music performance, use a screen to project the image of the artist dressed as a monk, performing remixes of 80’s pop songs on a organ (artist who btw could have been anywhere in the world but in mtl). Add to this the fact that this same artist is performing at the back of the church, in a recluse place where the organism usually playing is not supposed to be seen as being the main act.

All mixed up, but how good.

With barely no interaction with the public, but still, all elements where there to capture our attention. Gonzales’s organism talents are obvious, looking like a child playing on his 4 levels keyboard, experimenting for himself, and for an audience who cant see him. Amen.

Link to the .mov file here, more pictures here. Subscribe to the Vu d’ici – Seen from here Videocast on itunes.

Pop Montreal Music Festival, Oct. 4-8 2006. Come and get drunk, see your city by nite, featuring the most alive souls.

Schedule.
Pop Montreal 2-0-0-5 blogposts.
Pop Montreal 2-0-0-5 pictures.

Meanwhile, i’ll be speaking at the following events:
Futur of Music Policy Summit, program to come, oct 5th-7th;
Webcom, L’internet de demain panel;
Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Web 2.0 panel;

.

And we’ll also be happily blogging from:
Pop Montreal Festival;
Nujaz Festival, oct 10th-14th.

‘Rock’n Roll will never die‘
F.Rappaz, 2005.

‘Je reprend ma vie en main dès demain‘
M-C Turgeon, Septembre 2005.

L’équipe qui a partagé ses aventures avec vous ici depuis 1 semaine aimerait remercier particulièrement Pop Montréal et Jay Watts The Third. From Montreal, with love – m-c

(m-c vie sur le woueb via son blogue et podcast Vu d’ici – Seen from here, ainsi que sur myspace. Elle aime tout sauf la Gibelotte, les nouilles ramen, TQS, TVA, francis ready, la lotto, les télétons, Latuque, Drumondville, Les Autobus Bourgeois, Réal Giguère et se lever avant que le facteur soit passé).

Montreal is on fire. Pop Montreal is the slice to be.

We were just getting out of the Zoobombs show after being refused at the entrance of Island (ex unicorns) at the Academy Club (’but she’s doing the blog and poooodcasting thing‘ Nika told the guy – ‘Yeah, but we are totally sold out, sorry‘).

Earlier, The Most Serence Republic (pod#46) and The Lovely Feathers (pod#44) were first part of Metric at Club soda. Both 2 first act were awesome even if the place was filled by teenagers and was way too asepticized for me – i much prefer seeing bands in small venues. All this into the spirit of Rock, and Roll.

Wednesday: crazy 5@7 for the opening of Pop Montreal. We drank, laugh, took silly pictures, lost fred, went to see Gwenweb and Malajube, found fred, then went to la Sala Rossa to see Enon.

Thursday: Chromeo at the Main Hall followed by Devin the dude. I (heart) Chromeo (podcasts #36). Ended the night with Illuminati at Le petit campus. suffered.

We are now friday september 30th 2005.

Fred’s frenchy coverage of the festival.

Les Dragonnettes (Toronto) ont ouvert le festival Pop Montréal. Annie a du suivre quelque part, je sais plus trop, j’ai cru l’entendre marmonner quelque chose…

Le son était à ch**r,
Éclairages : ya tu quelqun qui peut pointer l’éclairagiste vers le stage du théâtre plaza?

*

The Dragonnettes (Toronto) opened the Pop Mtl fest yesterday followed by Annie who’s performance was dramatically compromised by the snd system. Let’s hope there will be another venue for the diva in 2006 – she quite deserve it.

Cette entrée est aussi publié sur le blogue de Pop Montréal suivi des commentaires de Frederic Rappaz.

*

Uh oh! Tout devient plus clair, vrai, limpide. Le brouillard s’estompera avec Annie qui ouvrira ce soir le bal du festival Pop Mourial sur la scène du Théâtre Plaza. J’y serai, brillante telle une boule disco, fraîche et dispose, prette à recevoir tout ce que la diva aura à donner.

Aux lecteurs qui tout comme moi useront leur semelles à courir d’un show à l’autre cette semaine, n’hésitez pas à faire signe si vous me croisez – exception près si je suis en train de frencher Beck.

À écouter dans vos écouteurs – Get this podcast right here :
- mp3 (pas de chapitres/chapters not supported)
ou/or
- m4a (avec chapitres, photos cliquables/chapters suported)

00:00:00: Annie’s in da hood, Greatest Hit
00:03:36: Chromeo’s vocoder, Mercury Tears
00:07:12: m-c’s intro
00:14:59: The Adam Brown, Hungry thirsty newer
00:19:08: Heroes & Villains, esa-2000
00:22:03: Pop Montreal!

Dans ce podcast je parle de Julien qui a un podcast à mtl. Andrew is doing an english podcast for the festival, find out more about it here!

Subscribe to this podcast/s’inscrire à ce podcast via , itune. Myspace page.