When thinking outside the box just isn't enough
Osheaga’s under way and, as you may have heard, it’s in a new location, or rather a revamped version of its old location. Cem Ertekin covered Heavy Montreal for FTB last weekend at the new site and lets our Osheaga team and you what to expect: Osheaga runs August 2-3-4 at Parc Jean-Drapeau, tickets at […]
We talk to the members of the world’s only Heavy Metal Mariachi band, Metalachi! Join as they talk about how to transform metal songs into Mariachi bangers, Montreal’s metal scene, and more!
I woke up this morning and saw my weather app tell me that there was going to be thunderstorms today. Luckily, that was a lie. Under the somewhat cloudy sky, the bands played on. My personal highlight of the day was Metalachi playing three Iron Maiden songs in a row in their unique “Heavy Metal […]
Toronto based metal band Cancer Bats played Heavy Montreal yesterday and we had a chance to sit down with vocalist Liam Corimier and bassist Jaye R. Schwarzer. They spoke about Montreal construction, our designation as a heavy metal city and playing the festival:
Heavy Montreal 2019 started off on one of the hottest Saturdays of the year so far. But the organizers were prepared, because there were water sprinklers literally everywhere to keep the metalheads cool. That being said, the amount of long-haired headbangers would probably also be enough for that. If you’ve ever stood in front of […]
Heavy Montreal 2019 is right around the corner, so metalheads all around this beautiful Heavy Metal City™ that we call Montreal are trying to figure out which bands they want to see. Slayer? Anthrax? Evanescence? Slash? Godsmack? Skillet? I mean sure, yeah, you can go watch the bands that we all know. But this loud […]
In April, the Montreal City Council officially dubbed it a “heavy metal city”. The whole thing seems to be City Councillor Craig Sauvé’s idea – or at the very least, it was Sauvé who brought this to the Council’s attention. Sauvé’s motion basically says that Quebecois heavy metal – with Montreal at its center – […]
Video games are the storytelling media of the future. They allow for a depth and nuance that no other medium can provide. Watching a movie, you can only see what’s happening to the characters. You see their emotions, hear their conversations (sometimes, even their thoughts); but your immersion ends there. You never truly become the […]
Rushing from watching the fireworks at Montreal’s Old Port, I was almost late to Cameron Esposito’s show at Montreal Improv. I’m glad I wasn’t, because it was perhaps one of the most entertaining and different sets I’ve ever seen. What do I mean? For one, you know how stand-up comedians usually try to seem candid because […]
Here’s a little behind-the-scenes secret about how media accreditation works. You usually ask to get as many tickets as possible to review as many shows as possible. And if you’re a relatively smaller blog like FTB, you don’t expect to get into the big shows. That’s just showbiz, as they say. So you can imagine […]
Warning: The second half of this review ended up being more of a rant about Mike Ward. The Midnight Surprise shows are a staple of Just For Laughs. Part of OFF-JFL, the only thing audiences are told is the host. Apart from that, people buy their tickets without knowing ANYTHING about the line-up. And I […]
July is here with all its humidity. It was disgusting outside yesterday, but that was the only thing I could complain about, really. In fact, the whole of Montreal should be squealing with glee right now because the world’s funniest festival is back in town! Of course, I’m referring to the one and only Just […]
It’s no secret that Montreal is probably the comedy capital of Canada (if not the world). The city alone is full to the brim with funny people, and maybe that’s why hilarious folk from all around the world just keep coming back here. Right now, we are in the middle of the Montreal Sketchfest, the […]
What is nonviolent resistance? Is it actually better than violent resistance? These two questions are at the heart of the documentary Everyday Rebellion produced by the Riahi Brothers. The very first quote in the film sets the mood for the discussion: “Throughout the history of mankind, people have been fighting for their rights. But contrary […]
It all started with a diarrhea joke. After hearing the all too familiar JFL warning telling the audience to put their phones on silent-mode and berating people who might not have seen a show in the past ten years, we were expecting Rachid Badouri to jump on the stage and immediately start pulling faces and […]
Imagine a room full of pleasantly drunk people, chanting in primal grunts and stomping the floor, with a middle-aged man mumbling the word ‘rap’ over and over again, as a naked Black Jewish man dances seductively in a comedy club located in an attic on Bishop street. Just keep that image at the back of your […]
