Please, visit your national bars!

To all those celebrating the bask-worthy sunlight, as well as the seemingly endless creative well that the uncut grass and vagrant trash has provided for our city: I salute you! To all those sitting inside (as I am at this very moment - hypocrisy abounds...): please go visit your national parks. This post, which will be invariably short in nature, is to inform you on the lovely topic that is Phog Phest. Read on!

A few months ago, CBC Radio 3 (Their Searchlight section, in particular) held a poll to discover an establishment worthy of the title, "The Best Live Music Venue In Canada". Thousands of entries heaped in, from B.C to Newfoundland, and by the end of the month only 10 entries remained. The most surprising of these entries was Windsor's own The Phog Lounge. Housing only a meager 75, compared to the some-odd-hundreds of the other entries, The Phog Lounge was the smallest venue on the list. The shocked lingered on after this minuscule establishment took home the gold, which included the promise of a national touring band playing a show at the victorious establishment.

One moment, the ice cream truck just drove by my house.

Anyway, Windsor is a city of extremes, I live here after all, from the minimal wages to the maximum number of strippers per square foot. Bearing this in mind, The Phog Lounge has decided to throw a festival where said group will play, along with almost 30 other bands, ranging from the local to the... not local. The corner of Victoria and University will be blocked off for this show. This free ($15 for the licensed), 13 hour festival will include the likes of Holy Fuck (our prized band), The Pack A.D, The Arkells and Chatam's own Square Root of Margaret. These are just four of the near 30 bands who will be performing through the evening.

I present to you the schedule for this HIGHLY-anticipated event (by myself, and Windsor-ites in particular):

Ron Leary & Kelly Hoppe | 1:00pm - main stage
Square Root of Margret | 1:30pm - main stage
(WH)Y.M.E.(??) | 2:00pm - phog stage
Eric Welton Band | 2:30pm - phog stage
Tara Watts Band | 3:00pm - phog stage
ASK | 3:30pm - phog stage
James O-L & the Villains | 4:00pm - phog stage
The Locusts Have No King | 4:30pm - phog stage
Yellow Wood | 5:00pm - main stage
Green Go | 5:40 - main stage
Arkells | 6:30pm - main stage
Holy Fuck | 7:30pm - main stage
Michou | 8:30pm - phog stage
Pat Robitaille | 9:00pm - main stage
Megan Hamilton and The Volunteer Canola | 9:30pm - phog stage
Field Assembly | 10:00pm - main stage
Peace Leeches | 10:30 - phog stage
The Kramdens | 11:00pm - main stage
Orphan Choir | 11:30pm - phog stage
Fjord Rowboat | 12:00am - main stage
The Pack AD | 12:30am - main stage
Citywide Vacuum | 1:00am - phog stage
What Seas, What Shores | 1:30am - phog stage
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This event is going to be monstrous, so until then, let this video of Holy Fuck's greatest track "Lovely Allen" hold you over...

Have a lovely day, and I can confidentially tell you that there will FINALLY be a new post tomorrow!

By the way, visit www.thephogblog.blogspot.com for more Phog Phest information,

and if you possess a sterling set of ears, go listen to Neko Case's new album, Middle Cyclone.