Day 1 in pictures

Figured it might be good to put up some visuals to my words. The pics are in the same order as the review, so from the first show I saw to the last.

Not my own photos, they're via Osheaga and property of the actual photographers.

La Roux

this is the MEG stage, where I spent a good chunk of my time and saw my favorite acts.

an actual pic of that hair she was rocking

Eagles of Death Metal

Dick McGee. Not his real name, but certainly not my favorite person there

Dick plays guitar too

...this is not Josh Homme as I found out later

The Stills

the all-red combo

the all-blue combo

...and give it up for the both of them

The Rural Alberta Advantage

the ever-cute Amy, and their drummer (also of Woodhands)

lead singer Nils...though I wanna call him Jason, cause he looks like Jason Statham of "The Transporter" fame

Lykke Li

the woman knows how to work a drumstick

the perfect dusk show

kudos to the photographer, as this shot is just perfect

Girl Talk

...though no girls are actually in Girl Talk - that's Greg of GT on the left with the dancers who were brought up for the entirety of the show

he has a penchant for getting more and more undressed as the show goes along, so this is early on

Woodhands

yes, they're as geeky as they look, but hell can they perform

eager is one way to put it

So a weirdo and a softy walk into a bar...

Possibly the weirdest song I have, both musically and based on a video my father described as "sick," and most definitely not in a good way. And he's maybe only said that about 3 things in my life...all of which I can't remember right now. The song has a Middle-Eastern feel to it, but starts with what sounds like African tribal chanting; take that as you may.

I watched the video before I heard the song itself, and I'm not one to watch videos much in the first place. Just to let you know however, the video will give you much more to visualize whenever you hear the song by itself afterwards.

And I won't lie: I frankly have no idea what they're saying for most of the song.

Omar K - Rainbow Arabia

MP3 / youtube

Now this one I've had even longer, but I still remember the first night I heard it. Put it on repeat until the late hours of the morning, and it never lost its feel. Beautiful singing by Lykke Li; the way she drags out her word endings is such a hard thing to put into words. 

It's like slowly pulling sand out of an ocean, then letting it flow back through your hands to where it came from. (Writing and re-writing that sentence took me nearly as long as the song itself.) Kleerup provides a pulsating beat to keep the song moving, but the strings add an element of class to the whole thing.

Until We Bleed - Kleerup & Lykke Li