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Riot Fest Toronto - anyone want tix?


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I just won a pair of tickets through the NOW magazine contest, for the 3rd year in a row. Last year it looked like anyone who entered the contest (via multiple contest outlets) was a winner - when I gave my name at the will call there was a several pages long list of names just for NOW mag contest winners, and a several pages long list of Exclaim mag winners.

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From the Star today.

"Riot Fest co-founder Mike “Riot Mike” Petryshyn definitely seems committed to moving into this market.

A native of Buffalo, he fell hopelessly in love with punk rock at an early age through mix tapes given to him by cool cousins from Brantford, would routinely “shoot up to Toronto” for shows and now considers Ontario a “second home” largely because of the musical influence it has exerted upon him. He name-checks Toronto punk pioneers the Viletones and the Diodes and Hamilton’s Teenage Head as formative favourites, and stresses that he doesn’t want the local Riot Fest to be seen as a callous branch-plant operation.

“It’s really expensive and a huge risk on our end,” he says. “We wanted to show our appreciation this year for a lot of the Toronto bands and Canadian bands, like City and Colour and Metric and Tokyo Police Club and Pup and stuff like that. Billy Talent should be huge. They’re a great band, you know, and it’s really hard to cross the border for a lot of Canadian acts. And if we can help bridge that a little bit — if people in Chicago or Denver are looking at what we’re doing in Toronto and seeing, like, City and Colour, who are huge in Toronto, right next to The Cure and going ‘What?’ — so be it. Same with Billy Talent and Metric.”"

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 “We wanted to show our appreciation this year for a lot of the Toronto bands and Canadian bands, like City and Colour and Metric and Tokyo Police Club and Pup and stuff like that. Billy Talent should be huge. They’re a great band, you know, and it’s really hard to cross the border for a lot of Canadian acts."

Those bands have no issues crossing the border, not sure what he is talking getting at.

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