Oct 14, 2014 – It’s festival time again. Indie Week Canada starts tomorrow through Sunday night. Indie Week is a competitive format with each band endeavouring to win their respective venue for the night and move on to “semi-final playoffs” on Saturday night. This year the week wraps up at The Mod Club (722 College St.) for the Finals.
Last year’s Indie Week gave us two great discoveries of Open Air and Frankie McQueen, both of whom are returning this year, and we hoping for more this year. As always, there are lots of bands and lots of venues so to simply, we present our condensed recommendations list of bands that rock. There will inevitably be multiple good bands playing at the same time, but that is a good problem to have.
Wednesday | |||
Start | Finish | ||
Hideout | 1:30 | 2:00 | Frankie McQueen |
Thursday | |||
Start | Finish | ||
Detour | 8:30 | 9:00 | Blackdog Ballroom |
Detour | 10:00 | 10:30 | OPEN AIR |
Adelaide Hall | 9:15 | 9:45 | Honeyrunners |
Adelaide Hall | 10:00 | 10:30 | Last Bullet |
Cherry Cola’s | 10:00 | 10:30 | Blind Race |
Silver Dollar | 10:00 | 10:30 | Fallen Heirs |
Bovine Sex Club | 10:00 | 10:30 | Riot Club |
Underground Garage | 10:30 | 11:00 | Frankie McQueen |
Cherry Cola’s | 10:45 | 11:15 | Heavy Early |
Silver Dollar | 10:45 | 11:15 | The Rathburns |
Silver Dollar | 11:30 | 12:00 | The Bloody Five |
Bovine Sex Club | 11:45 | 12:15 | Lost Cause |
Underground Garage | 1:20 | 2:00 | OPEN AIR |
Hideout | 2:00 | 2:45 | Frankie McQueen |
Friday | |||
Start | Finish | ||
Hard Rock Cafe | 8:30 | 9:00 | Laugh At The Fake |
Cherry Cola’s | 9:15 | 9:45 | Contour |
Bovine Sex Club | 10:00 | 10:30 | Machines Dream |
Cherry Cola’s | 10:45 | 11:15 | The Maysides |
Cherry Cola’s | 11:30 | 12:10 | Kumonga |
Cherry Cola’s | 12:30 | 1:00 | Black Collar Union |
Cherry Cola’s | 1:20 | 2:00 | Frankie McQueen |
Rivoli | 2:20 | 3:00 | OPEN AIR |
Saturday | |||
Start | Finish | ||
Bovine Sex Club | 11:00 | 11:40 | Stuck on Planet Earth |
Bovine Sex Club | 12:00 | 12:40 | The Unchained |
Bovine Sex Club | 1:00 | 1:40 | The Anti-Queens |
Cherry Cola’s | 9:00 | 9:15 | Fri Cherry Winner |
Cherry Cola’s | 9:30 | 9:45 | Fri Hideout Winner |
Cherry Cola’s | 10:00 | 10:15 | Thur Cherry Winner |
Cherry Cola’s | 10:30 | 10:45 | Thur Cherry Winner |
Cherry Cola’s | 11:00 | 11:15 | Fri Bovine Winner |
Hideout | 8:30 | 8:45 | Thur Brooklynn Winner |
Hideout | 9:00 | 9:15 | Thur Adelaide Winner |
Hideout | 9:30 | 9:45 | Thur Hideout Winner |
Hideout | 10:00 | 10:15 | Thur Rivoli Winner |
Hideout | 10:30 | 10:45 | Thus Silver Dollar |
Rivoli | 12:30 | 1:10 | Micronite Filters |
Sunday Finals | |||
Start | Finish | ||
Mod Club | 9:30 | 9:45 | Cherry Cola’s Winner |
9:55 | 10:10 | Brooklynn Winner | |
10:20 | 10:35 | Hideout Winner | |
11:10 | 11:35 | Underground Winner | |
9:30 | 9:45 | Cherry Cola’s Winner | |
Bovine Sex Club | 12:00 | 12:40 | Sumo Cyco |