Long Live The Queen Music and Arts Festival – May 19-22, 2011
LLTQ Take Away Show with CROSSS
Photo by Scott Munn I do love a man with a guitar strapped on by a piece of chord wondering down North End streets and abandoned play yards. I think you will enjoy this one as well. Chose your own Adventure:
LLTQ Take Away Shows: Featuring Hooded Fang and Forest City Lovers
During the festival weekend several bands snuck off to film fun take away shows with our fabulous team of videographers, Dan Buchanan and Ian Gibb! I suggest you spend a couple of minutes this morning while you sip on your coffee and pray for sunshine to indulge in some internet footage. Here is the oh so adorable and hilarious video of Hooded Fang at Foxy Moon getting hair cuts while performing “Vacationation”: Hooded Fang – Vacationation from Long Live The Queen on Vimeo. Kat from Forest City Lovers crawled into a tight attic space to perform her tunes “Mailtrucks” and “Tell Me Cancer”. Forest City Lovers – Mailtrucks from Long Live The Queen on Vimeo. Tell Me, Cancer by Forest [...]
EXCLAIM Review of LLTQ
Exclaim Review: Long Live the Queen featuring Play Guitar, Bahamas, Envision, SISTER Halifax, NS May 19 – May 22 By Laura Kenins Now in its second year, Long Live the Queen wears its crown as Halifax’s shortest-distance music festival, with a stretch of a mere one block between the main venues, which proved ideal for the wintery temperatures gracing the Maritimes this Victoria Day weekend. Though many of the organizers now live in Toronto, the festival is more akin to the small-town vibe of Sackville, NB’s SappyFest than NXNE. Thursday kicked off the festival with a folk show in the early evening and a rock show at night. Sean Nicholas Savage is one of the most innovative young songwriters in [...]
Festival Highlights from the Coast!
Thanks to the coast for this lovely highlight video from the 2011 Festival. We had loads of fun this year, and we were blown away by the Chitz, Bahamas, The Round Robin, and The Neighborhood party, which started off the day with 50 kids dancing and singing to the Wilderbeats! Here is the festival reel from the Coast: Here are some beautiful videos of Bahamas with projections by Ella and Laura: Stay tuned for more LLTQ videos, and check out the festival take away shows on Long Live the Queens Vimeo Channel!!!
DAY 1
Click to view the Queen’s newspaper!! Photos to follow. Written by Resident Writer Jenner-Brooke Berger. newsday1
SISTER, OLD MAN LUEDECKE & GHETTOSOCKS in The Herald!
Long live Long Live the Queen Halifax gives the indie music festival the royal welcome By STEPHEN COOKE Entertainment Reporter Thu, May 19 – 4:54 AM Juno-nominated Ghettosocks brings hip hop to the closing concert of this weekend’s Long Live the Queen Festival, Sunday night at Gus’s Pub, Halifax. Sisters, the Toronto duo of Carla and Lynnette Gillis, will be singing harmonies only sisters can sing at Long Live The Queen in north-end Halifax. (Rynopolis Studio ) Old Man Luedecke plays tonight at the North Street Church in Halifax for the opening event of Long Live the Queen. (Jeff Harper / Staff) QUEEN’S ITINERARY: TONIGHT North Street Church: Old Man Luedecke, Kite Hill, Klarka Wienwurm, all ages, 6 p.m. Gus’s [...]
FEATURED BAND: Doctor Ew
Gadzooks! Doctor Ew is Toronto’s Drew Smith, and Toronto’s Drew Smith makes lo-fi sunny pop gems, sounding like “SMILE” era Brian Wilson through a tin can telephone as interpreted by nouveau popsike weirdos like April March or maybe even some Elephant 6 dudes or Mark Sultan. You can hear his smile in his voice and enthused handclaps. Doctor Ew sounds like your favourite care-free bubblegum garage pop, but if you listen a little closer, the macabre sense of humour Smith possesses can be heard loud and clear; “Dance All Over My Grave” is one particularly non-offensively ironic jam. There’s some bittersweetly orchestrated horns on “Stay In Place”. I like this stuff. Be sure to check the back cover of this [...]
The Starving Student, Struggling Artist Guide to LLTQ
LLTQ Preview 2011: Struggling Student Guide to LLTQ Published on May 16, 2011 by jbriggins Back by popular demand…..well really nobody demanded it, but the HPX’10: Struggling Student Guide to HPX was warmly received, so here is the Long Live the Queen edition. First of all, every show during the festival is very reasonably priced. Maybe your budget only allows for one show with cover, here are a handful of free festivities to check out. As always, maybe grab a t-shirt or cd, button, sticker, or come up with a secret handshake with the artists and tell them you enjoy their music. Thursday Who: Chief Thundercloud, Cactus Flower Where: 3:00 @ Obsolete Records Why: First of all, Obsolete Records is [...]