dave-O

agreed - easiest ticket purchase I have ever made online! Tickets were checked out by 12:01.

I'd advise checking in advance if you can fill in the customer info fields. The evenko website doesn't play well with all browsers.

Ah yes, the good ol' evenko waiting room. Prepare to be disappointed with this ticketing system.

This is going to be awesome.

Good advice, thanks.

If anyone sees a link for $85 tickets for Mtl, please post!

And if that Mangan asshole was even remotely sincere he would have posted his grant applications for everyone to see.

It's not a conspiracy, it's fraud plain and simple. And it's widely practiced.

Also, here's Paul's rebuttal.

http://slaggingoff.tumblr.com/post/47700319389/dan-mangan-interviews-the-guy-whos-slagging-off-the

"I actually seriously doubt that you could do a better job."

The first problem is the grant system has a giant weighted boner towards acts that it deems "Export Ready". This is why you see a band like Metric continue to receive funding while they are playing arenas in Canada. (i.e. "if we keep giving Metric money, maybe they'll eventually break internationally and be self-sufficient")

The flip side is a guy like Jason Collett who has been handed a QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS in Factor grants and yet still continues to play venues about the same size that I do. A decade worth of funding later, is he still considered "export ready"? Shouldn't something have happened by now? etc, etc? No offence to Collett, who I genuinely like, but he's an easy target for critics of the system.

The second major problem I have is the legendary amount of fraud that happens because of the Factor system. Factor will only provide a maximum of 50% funding for a project. The artist is on the hook for paying the other 50% out of pocket. This ends up propping up a whole side industry of managers, grant writers, PR douchebags, etc writing fake quotes and invoices for their friends to ensure that the actual total cost of a project doesn't cost the artist anything out of pocket. The artist, in turn, gets to pay their friends/associates with grant money.

Everybody wins, right?

Everybody except the defrauded taxpayers of Canada.

The lack of transparency on the whole thing used to drive me nuts (until I stopped giving a shit about any of it). If Bumstead Management is so good at writing grant applications, why can't I see what they are doing right so I can learn how to do it too? As soon as somebody has penned a successful grant application, they can set up a sideline business writing grants for others and funnelling some that sweet sweet gov't grant $$$ into their own pockets.

As a guy who has sat on a FACTOR jury, let me tell you, the system is completely fucked.

That's hilarious because, with obviously no disrespect intended towards Brad, I think the Barrymore's show he posted is one of the worst shows I ever attended in my life.

Oh shit that's terrible news. Rock Ranger was a great band.

shit

Montreal tickets here - http://blueskiesturnblack.com/show/241

Since when does Bangor, Maine have an outdoor amphitheater that can host the Phish?

Follow up question - And why didn't they have it when NorthernWish and I were living in New Brunswick?

I have no idea if you are being sarcastic or not.

Does Phish still sell out shows? Honest question.

It certainly makes the prospect of dropping $120 on the "Osheaga presents" XX/Grizzly Bear and The National/Barr Bros shows more palatable.

What I don't get though is Lollapalooza and Osheaga have almost identical lineups and they're on the same weekend?!? That has to be a logistical nightmare

As I understand it, this is on purpose. Festivals on the same weekend team up and book acts in tandem. It's easier to move a bunch of people between two fixed locations (with big airports) than it is to fly in bands from all over the place.

Anyway, I knew Phoenix would be headlining a night but the rest of the lineup doesn't do much for me.

In a pretty cool move, they had that poster up when we were exiting the Tame Impala show tonight.

I don't know anything about this Dan Deacon opening the Animal Collective show, but I've heard he's supposed to have a great live show.