Petite-Nation Rockfest
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010–
On the course of the weekend of June 18th and 19th, 2010, The small city of Montebello in the province of Quebec Canada, saw over 17 000 pairs of feet trample their grounds. The year 2010 being its fifth edition, this Heavy Rock and Alternative festival was a huge success for the founder of Rockfest and President of Outaouais Rock, Alex Martel, who is also the lead singer of the Deadly Apples.
Over fifty bands performed during those two days including well renowned acts such as Alexisonfire, Misfits, Anti-Flag, Die Mannequin, Voivod, Grimskunk, Silverstein and Quebec’s own French bands Vulgaires Machins and Malajube amongst many others. The Rocker 2010 Contest also had over 200 bands competing for a spot to perform during the Rockfest and thus gain more public interest.
The event was hosted by ex Musique Plus (Montreal’s music video station) VJ, Mathieu Marcotte, the very unique Jean-François Labonté and also included numbers from stand up comic Maxim Martin.
CONFRONT Magazine was there and interviewed tons of bands for you and also took hundreds of pictures of the interviews and live performances! So during the month of August, stay constantly tuned because every couple of days a new interview will be posted with new pictures as well!
Alex has tons in store already for next year’s sixth edition so make sure to visit the Rockfest site often and also subscribe to their Facebook and Twitter pages!
http://outaouaisrock.org/pnrockfest.com/
http://twitter.com/outaouaisrock
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1381655978577#!/group.php?gid=7909377211&ref=ts
Alex Martel’s band couldn’t be interviewed during that weekend but we caught up with them again as they performed later in July at Montreal’s HEAVY MTL 2010 at Parc Jean Drapeau. See the other August featured article for more on Deadly Apples and also the full interview transcript.
http://www.confrontmagazine.com/web/2010/08/05/heavy-mtl-2010/
Here are the bands interviewed at Petite-Nation Rockfest 2010, you will be able to click on them to read the interviews and view the pictures as days go by! Enjoy and don’t hesitate to give us your feedbacks! See you next year for the 6th edition!
Anti-Flag
Silverstein
Die Mannequin
Despised Icon
Vulgaires Machins
Malajube
The Sainte Catherines
Fuck The Facts
Inepsy
Kamakazi
Exterio
OK Volca
Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for live updates on the posting of the interviews! @CONFRONTMag
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