bouche Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/folk-festival-finale-gets-most-noise-complaints-yet Sunday night’s headliner, the Mellotones, were anything but mellow, according to the 56 complaints filed against the Ottawa Folk Festival by angry citizens. “Last night all of a sudden it was back on again. And it wasn’t just the bass sound. I could hear guitar riffs, I could hear everything,” said Bhagwant Sandhu, the president of the Dow’s Lake Residents Association. If this guy listening to it, I think he should have to pay Folkfest for the right to hear the music, or get fined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartamophone Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 Ugh. Embarrassing. Further ammo for the "Ottawa is a sleepy government town" argument. I could hear most of this year's Bluesfest headliners with crystal clarity inside my house - which surprised me given that I don't love anywhere near the site - and my only complaint was that I wasn't there in person. If I could live with it for two weeks with three-month-old twins to take care of, then surely the killjoy wankers who griped about Folk Fest could have sucked it up for five days.I hope they pay their by-law fine in pennies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 Perhaps if people stop bringing up the false "ottawa is a sleepy govt town" stereotype people will stop buying in to the false "ottawa is a sleepy govt town" stereotype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartamophone Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 Well, it's hard to argue that we're a culturally engaged, fun-loving city when people barrage the municipal government with complaints about a weekend folk festival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edger Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 I could hear guitar riffs...the horror! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 73 complaints over 5 nights; 50,000 attendance at the music festival. Multiple other events and festivals happening all over the city. Maybe some additional complaints about those. Still they are negligible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 And as a bonus it looks like the city is serious about revisiting the bylaw as the section FolkFest was charged under is ambiguous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 I wonder how many 'unique' complaints there were. Was it 73 from 70 different people, or 73 from 8 citizens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 Sunday night’s headliner, the Mellotones, were anything but mellow, according to the 56 complaints filed against the Ottawa Folk Festival by angry citizens. I just clued in that they listed the Mellotones as a headliner. They were playing in the free zone of folkfest and they blazed like 4 free sets over the weekend. So basically people were complaining about free live music. They should be shamed. Or that's just horrible fact checking by Robin the Reporter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 It was a lazy sentence by the writer no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 http://sunkilmoon.com/mkwod/index.html bouche 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 http://thebaybridged.com/2014/10/01/mark-kozelek-war-drugs-showdown-fillmore/#.VDRWyPldWSo Like any successful musician, Kozelek has been hitting the festival circuit, but he ran into some problems when The War on Drugs‘ sound was bleeding into his at the Ottawa Folk Festival. Can you guess how he reacted? According to Exclaim.ca:Kozelek attempted to launch into the album’s confessional “Dogs” before noise from the main stage drew the singer into a couple of false starts, prompting him to address the crowd with, “Who the fuÇk is that?” When audience members jovially informed him that it was Philadelphia band the War on Drugs, Kozelek replied by saying, “I hate that beer commercial lead-guitar sh!t” before exclaiming, “This next song is called, ‘The War on Drugs Can Suck My fuÇking Dick.’” bouche 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Not Bob Posted October 15, 2014 Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 Jeeze, is it mandatory that happen to Mark Kozelek every time he comes to Ottawa? Both times he played Bluesfest, he got hammered with sound from another stage. It is a wonder he even comes back here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted October 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 It's a music festival, and that happens. It's rare that an artist is so vocal about it though. Most just do their gig and move on, all professional-like. Not sure how War On Drugs are responsible for the hissy fit and certainly don't deserve the directed the anger at them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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