Halifax Pop Explosion announces initial lineup

Contributed by benhalifax. Posted by Meg on Sunday, September 3, 2006 at 5:00 PM (EDT)

Information regarding this year's Halifax Pop Explosion has been announced. The festival is set to run October 17th through the 21st in over ten venues throughout Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Weakerthans, Fucked Up, Randy, the Spades, Maximum RNR, Hope, Woolley Leaves (Will from the Constantines) and many others are scheduled to perform this year.

The Weakerthans
Christine Fellows
Fucked Up
Cadence Weapon
Duchess Says
We are Wolves
Jon-rae the river
Great Lake Swimmers
Maximum RnR
The Spades (Holland)
Julie Doiron
Joel Plaskett
The Bicycles
dd/mm/yyyy
Geoff Berner (with band!)
Barmitzvah Brothers
Pony Up
Raising the Fawn
Randy (Sweden)
Hope
PMK (Scotland)
The Beginners (Mike O'neil/Mike Trachtenberg)
Shotgun and Jaybird
Five Blank Pages
Risky Business
Dollarama
Garbage! Violence! Enthusiasm
The Stance
A/V
Eugene Ripper
Woolley Leaves (Will from the Constantines)
Windom Earle
The Establishment
Kelly and the Kelly Girls
Die Brucke
Be Bad
Lil Andy
Gamma Gamma Rays
Bless
Spesh-IllK
Stephanie Hardy
Jon Mckeil
Hotchiwitchi
Rembtika Hipsters
The Superfantastics

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FuckYouOiOiOi (September 3, 2006)

'orgcore orgasms for organizing weakerthans

Someone (September 3, 2006)

most of those bands are great, too bad this is in halifax where no one likes good music.

benhalifax (September 3, 2006)

ummmm...please explain where you are getting this?

el_matt (September 3, 2006)

Randy is awesome.

Someone (September 3, 2006)

The Weakerthans rule, Rumor has it, Lost Highway is trying to sign them.

Someone (September 3, 2006)

I certainly hope Randy comes to Toronto while visiting the continent.

Someone (September 4, 2006)

Nope, they're just playing the maritimes and Quebec.

Medley (September 3, 2006)

Cadence Weapon is the real deal. Jon-rae and the River are quite something live. Lots of good acts on that list there.

adam (September 3, 2006)

Jon-rae and the River are AMAZING live.

-adam

speeds (September 3, 2006)

stoked for this if i can make it

its spesh k

LevitateMe (September 4, 2006)

I saw Woolley Leaves opening for Sunset Rubdown in July and he was by far the most boring performer I've ever seen in my life. Sure he was just one guy with an acoustic guitar, but so was Beaver (who opened when I saw Sunset Rubdown in May) and he was amazing.

blake88 (September 4, 2006)

cadence weapon: the dopest mc out of edmonton

iconoclast (September 4, 2006)

christine fellows is so amazing. i love her music.

Someone (September 4, 2006)

the Creepshow are also playing

Someone (September 5, 2006)

Maximum rnr the best ever

Someone (September 6, 2006)

gamma gamma rays are great