JUNE 27^thREVIEW: A BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY

Photo credit: Jérôme Suard.
For the complete photo album: Nightlife.ca

This past Sunday came as close as ever to how we really love ‘em: sizzling with ultraviolet heat, manly man muscles, women who wear clothes as skimpy as jewelry, and music that put smiles on all our faces.

OVERHEARD
Tomorrow I'm gonna write a blog post about procrastination.
Alan B.

THE BASS PIKNIC REVIEW
Despite the few scattered showers in the early afternoon that hinted at a rainy day, last Sunday was another bright and sunny Piknic. For those who looked out their window and called it quits too early, here's what you missed out on this delightful Father's Day.

Photo credit: Gwen Heliou

SKINJACKIN is a French artists' collective newly installed in Montreal that sets up soirées and events that explore unique performances featuring collective ephemeral drawing. Illustrators, typographers, graffiti-artists, painters, and colourists by foundation, they share in common an attraction to live and spontaneous creation, the project of art as performance.

For the June 13th version of Piknic Electronik, SKINJACKIN took their creative assault to a Scion, colouring it all over with crayons, Photos available online!

Here's a video teaser and an interview from the NIGHTLIFE with Green Velvet, preacher DJ coming out at Piknic on June 27th!

On Sunday, the first 800 people on site will receive the Scion compilation, by the New York label Plant Music, featuring NROTB. Don't miss them, they take the Piknic stage at 5pm!

A PIKNIC FOR THE COURSE!

Photo: Jasmin Le Blanc

No matter which way you look at it, Ile Ste-Hélène practically sank under the weight of all the Formula Électronik Grand Piknic action this past weekend. Right, so they tell us that the Grand Prix may have been the main attraction at Parc Jean Drapeau right up until Hamilton’s big win, but even he was looking in the direction of The Calder the moment Ostrich dropped the needle and the first beats of the afternoon began to round the track.

RETURN OF THE WET WEEKEND

Photo: Jasmin Le Blanc

Oh shizz, Mother Misfortune slapped us upside the head one more time, egging Dame Nature to let loose twenty millimeters of rain over the course of the MUTEK @ Piknic weekend. On Saturday, without hesitation and with fingers crossed, the Piknic team went ahead and decided to hold the event outside. Umbrellas, those little trendy rubber rain boots and K-Ways were all onsite to protect our stealthy dancers, and despite the mini-monsoon we endured, our invited guests that day were able to pull off some remarkable performances.

DOUBLE WEEKEND!

This weekend, MUTEK takes over Parc Jean-Drapeau for the classic MUTEK @ Piknic double-day onslaught, bringing in tow a bevy of artists from the four corners of the world. Pépé Bradock shows up in Montreal for the first time, and Minilogue sets foot on Canadian soil. And Paul Kalkbrenner, a performer we've been waiting on for years, finally graces us with his presence. (...)