VIHC FEST VI

[aidan]

WARPIGS

Two in a row. Warpigs and Fucked Up would be great. More like Arty Punk and Stoner Jams Fest VI, am I right?

[keith.]

i think warpigs are playing their last shows soon though.
i only just found out about them, such a bummer

[ebony]

There are tons of bands that would want to play a Hardcore fest in Victoria this summer...lotsa bands touring this summer contacting me about Victoria shows. WHat do you guys offer though...can you even cover all the bands ferry costs???

that sounds great! you can always have them email me with a link to their songs if they are interested. we pay everybody, and how much usually depends on how far they have to travel. we like to pay equally, but if a band has come a very long way, we generally pay them more.
ebony.vihcpresents@live.com

[ebony]

Anyone actually investigated Converge coming and playing VIHC fest??? WOULD KINDA MAKE SENSE.

i think we were going for a seperate show for that. but i guess either works.

[blake schwarzencat]

3 Cats 'N Jammers
A Blind Cat Twist
Black Cat Bones
Black Cat Music
Cat Butt
Cat People
Cat Power
Cats Can Fly
Cats Under Pressure
Cat-tle Decapitation
City Of Cat-erpillar
Faster Pussycat
Hepcat
Jackie Brenston And His Delta Cats
Jim Campilongo And The 10 Gallon Cats
Josie And The Pussycats
Little Walter And His Night Cats
Madcats
Magic Cat
Polecat
Stray Cats
The Big Cats
The Cat Heads
The Cats And The Fiddle
The Head Cat
The Mudcats


And of course, Cat Stevens

[dalamar501]

adding some bands to my list
Wolfgoat - edmonton
Cope - Edmonton

[grind/bro]

Coalesce

[Andrew]

adding some bands to my list
Wolfgoat - edmonton
Cope - Edmonton

Glad you mentioned Edmonton, because I was going to recommend Maus from there. You have their demo?

[ian]

i think it would be rad to have more of the big(ger) bands, and to have less of the similar sounding, smaller, straight-ahead hardcore style bands (obviously no problem with some of those though, it is hardcore fest afterall), to draw more of a crowd and keep everyone interested. i think realistically its hard to get many people to pay 30 dollars to see a ton of bands they dont know, when it could be a few less but more well known bands. take ska fest for example (im not suggesting you go to ska fest though). its probably not possible (and im sure i dont have the best grasp on what is) to do exactly what we want yet, so take this with a grain of salt. not to try and sound like i knowany better ive only ever put on one or two shows, and i totally appreciate any version of hardcore fest. just my feelings.

bands like bison and fucked up would be perfect for this. other bands id be stoked to see are broadway calls, dangers, ruiner, living with lions, voices, bogus tokus, a textbook tragedy, polar bear club, shook ones, bane, graf orlock, converge..... blah blah blah im sure you get it.

i know a lot of people who almost always go to and pay for hardcore shows but didnt go last year because there just wasnt anyone they wanted to pay 18/30 dollars to see. throw a couple bigger names on there and im positive you could sway all those people.

[Tambro]

i think it would be rad to have more of the big(ger) bands, and to have less of the similar sounding, smaller, straight-ahead hardcore style bands (obviously no problem with some of those though, it is hardcore fest afterall), to draw more of a crowd and keep everyone interested. i think realistically its hard to get many people to pay 30 dollars to see a ton of bands they dont know, when it could be a few less but more well known bands. take ska fest for example (im not suggesting you go to ska fest though). its probably not possible (and im sure i dont have the best grasp on what is) to do exactly what we want yet, so take this with a grain of salt. not to try and sound like i knowany better ive only ever put on one or two shows, and i totally appreciate any version of hardcore fest. just my feelings.

bands like bison and fucked up would be perfect for this. other bands id be stoked to see are broadway calls, dangers, ruiner, living with lions, voices, bogus tokus, a textbook tragedy, polar bear club, shook ones, bane, graf orlock, converge..... blah blah blah im sure you get it.

i know a lot of people who almost always go to and pay for hardcore shows but didnt go last year because there just wasnt anyone they wanted to pay 18/30 dollars to see. throw a couple bigger names on there and im positive you could sway all those people.

This sums up my feelings on the subject as well, actually

[dalamar501]

Thanks for some input!

This is exactly what we want with this fest. We know only having small bands makes it hard for people to want to pay $30. This is one of the reasons we went in the direction to form a Society (we really did take a look at Ska Fest). Anyways hopefully in the coming years we can make use of all those random grants the government has. Hilarity will ensue as we will be using government money to put on a hardcore fest. We really want to get a bigger name to headline it would be awesome. Also this thread is great to get input of what bands we want people to contact. Really we want to make this the best possible fest.

[grind/bro]

Dude get Tragedy to play and get the money to fly them out from the government. THAT WILL BE LOLS.

[Hollow]

i think it would be rad to have more of the big(ger) bands, and to have less of the similar sounding, smaller, straight-ahead hardcore style bands (obviously no problem with some of those though, it is hardcore fest afterall), to draw more of a crowd and keep everyone interested. i think realistically its hard to get many people to pay 30 dollars to see a ton of bands they dont know, when it could be a few less but more well known bands. take ska fest for example (im not suggesting you go to ska fest though). its probably not possible (and im sure i dont have the best grasp on what is) to do exactly what we want yet, so take this with a grain of salt. not to try and sound like i knowany better ive only ever put on one or two shows, and i totally appreciate any version of hardcore fest. just my feelings.

bands like bison and fucked up would be perfect for this. other bands id be stoked to see are broadway calls, dangers, ruiner, living with lions, voices, bogus tokus, a textbook tragedy, polar bear club, shook ones, bane, graf orlock, converge..... blah blah blah im sure you get it.

i know a lot of people who almost always go to and pay for hardcore shows but didnt go last year because there just wasnt anyone they wanted to pay 18/30 dollars to see. throw a couple bigger names on there and im positive you could sway all those people.

Well, last year was a bit of a gamble. We had never worked as a group before, never done a two day fest before, never worked with the White Eagle Hall, etc. etc.

Basically there was a huge learning curve that we had to work with, and we definitely made some BIG mistakes. But, we pulled it off, and made it as much of a success as we could. There were also some serious unforeseen difficulties in regards to bands canceling last minute/miscommunication/border problems.

So, basically I'm saying: I get it, last years didn't have the turnout any of us wanted, but we've learned and are applying those lessons to this years.

As for bigger bands, I'd love to do that. Seriously. However, it's quite often a lot more difficult than you'd expect, and sometimes a larger band just won't speak to us because we're too small. I tried (and failed miserably) to get Ringworm to come out last year. This year, we have some headliners we want to ask, but if they don't even acknowledge our existence, there's just not much we can do about that.

I'm sure Ebony will throw those band names on the GIANT list of bands we already have. Thanks for the input dude. We'll do our best.

[ian]

haha ya i figure anything i suggested some one else has probably suggested five times. stoked for the fest whatever it looks like though. its always fun if for no other reason than john ross found a box of 20 bottles of wine or something of the sort.

[Hollow]

haha ya i figure anything i suggested some one else has probably suggested five times. stoked for the fest whatever it looks like though. its always fun if for no other reason than john ross found a box of 20 bottles of wine or something of the sort.

Oh God, I remember that year. Pretty sure that Zach doesn't.

[ebony]

i think it would be rad to have more of the big(ger) bands, and to have less of the similar sounding, smaller, straight-ahead hardcore style bands (obviously no problem with some of those though, it is hardcore fest afterall), to draw more of a crowd and keep everyone interested. i think realistically its hard to get many people to pay 30 dollars to see a ton of bands they dont know, when it could be a few less but more well known bands. take ska fest for example (im not suggesting you go to ska fest though). its probably not possible (and im sure i dont have the best grasp on what is) to do exactly what we want yet, so take this with a grain of salt. not to try and sound like i knowany better ive only ever put on one or two shows, and i totally appreciate any version of hardcore fest. just my feelings.

bands like bison and fucked up would be perfect for this. other bands id be stoked to see are broadway calls, dangers, ruiner, living with lions, voices, bogus tokus, a textbook tragedy, polar bear club, shook ones, bane, graf orlock, converge..... blah blah blah im sure you get it.

i know a lot of people who almost always go to and pay for hardcore shows but didnt go last year because there just wasnt anyone they wanted to pay 18/30 dollars to see. throw a couple bigger names on there and im positive you could sway all those people.

Well, last year was a bit of a gamble. We had never worked as a group before, never done a two day fest before, never worked with the White Eagle Hall, etc. etc.

Basically there was a huge learning curve that we had to work with, and we definitely made some BIG mistakes. But, we pulled it off, and made it as much of a success as we could. There were also some serious unforeseen difficulties in regards to bands canceling last minute/miscommunication/border problems.

So, basically I'm saying: I get it, last years didn't have the turnout any of us wanted, but we've learned and are applying those lessons to this years.

As for bigger bands, I'd love to do that. Seriously. However, it's quite often a lot more difficult than you'd expect, and sometimes a larger band just won't speak to us because we're too small. I tried (and failed miserably) to get Ringworm to come out last year. This year, we have some headliners we want to ask, but if they don't even acknowledge our existence, there's just not much we can do about that.

I'm sure Ebony will throw those band names on the GIANT list of bands we already have. Thanks for the input dude. We'll do our best.

can everyone please read and understand what Willa has said here. this is how it is.

also, yes i will add alllll of the bands listed here that i dont already have, onto my list. i will set aside an hour or so to do all of that this weekend, before we meet sunday.

[keith.]

bogus tokus need to come and get hella wasted and shred us into the atmosphere

[blake schwarzencat]

3 Cats 'N Jammers
A Blind Cat Twist
Black Cat Bones
Black Cat Music
Cat Butt
Cat People
Cat Power
Cats Can Fly
Cats Under Pressure
Cat-tle Decapitation
City Of Cat-erpillar
Faster Pussycat
Hepcat
Jackie Brenston And His Delta Cats
Jim Campilongo And The 10 Gallon Cats
Josie And The Pussycats
Little Walter And His Night Cats
Madcats
Magic Cat
Polecat
Stray Cats
The Big Cats
The Cat Heads
The Cats And The Fiddle
The Head Cat
The Mudcats


And of course, Cat Stevens

have any of these bands been contacted yet?

[reece]

get a smaller venue.

[age of quarrel]

3 Cats 'N Jammers
A Blind Cat Twist
Black Cat Bones
Black Cat Music
Cat Butt
Cat People
Cat Power
Cats Can Fly
Cats Under Pressure
Cat-tle Decapitation
City Of Cat-erpillar
Faster Pussycat
Hepcat
Jackie Brenston And His Delta Cats
Jim Campilongo And The 10 Gallon Cats
Josie And The Pussycats
Little Walter And His Night Cats
Madcats
Magic Cat
Polecat
Stray Cats
The Big Cats
The Cat Heads
The Cats And The Fiddle
The Head Cat
The Mudcats


And of course, Cat Stevens

have any of these bands been contacted yet?