Beer Festival
Toronto - If you live in Toronto, you know about the Beer Festival. With every year, anticipation grows and every year, the festival gets bigger and hard to get into. Why? It’s a damn good time thats why. Sure, naysayers will say it’s just an excuse for adults to get blitzed out of their minds and stumble around the confines of Fort York. To the beer drinker though, it’s a chance to sample some of the finest microbreweries around Ontario.
The fine folks at the Beer Festival also have put together a slate of musical acts to provide pleasant tunes thru out the festival and tonight, it starts off with the English Beat. I myself, am not too familiar with the English Beat, but it appears that they have been around forawhile and are quite popular. I am sure our 80s music expert correspondent Josh will be able to chime in with some random information as soon as he reads this post.
Click Here to see a list of the relatively unknown bands that are playing.
07 Aug 08 8:48 am
The Practically Hip? Who knew they had cover bands for shit bands. Oh yeah, I went there.
07 Aug 08 9:37 am
oh man, you just unleashed canadiana hate.
07 Aug 08 10:07 am
Soon this will no longer be a beer festival but a music festival.
07 Aug 08 6:14 pm
The English Beat is a COOL band! Albeit they had most of their hits in the late 80/90’s, their music is awesome. “I Confess,” “Stand Down Margaret.” “Save It For Later,” are just a few of their songs. Man…I would go to the festival JUST to hear the English Beat play! The lead singer you see above on U-Tube lives here in Southern California, in a beachside community called Ventura. I have seen him on the street and singing in local clubs. ROCK ON Canada!
10 Aug 08 7:03 am
Fantastic band but the beat these days have been rinsed down to just that, the lead singer. The two members who went on to form Fine Young Cannibals have never come back to the fold for a reunion. I believe they all hate each other. However, I’m sure it would have been a fun show. I use to have a wonderful English Beat T-Shirt back in my teenage years. I think my mother threw it out on me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04il74pijpY