For those of you that are missing the Pemberton Music Festival for the MOMAR Shawnigan and need your music fix, then check out Surrey Canada Day! I’m part of the organizing team that is putting this monster together and we have Loverboy and the Payola$ headlining this year. Did you know that this event drew over 90,000 people last year making it the biggest Canada Day festival outside of Ottawa?

Now we don’t have the $5 million talent budget that Pemberton has but we did manage to also book in some great indie talent like Wil, Aliqua, and Five Alarm Funk. We also managed to bring back Rymes with Orange for a reunion and for you Beat listeners, you’ll want to check out Elise Estrada. Who knew that there could be this much fun in Surrey?!?!

Anyway, I’m sad to be missing the Pemberton show because I would love to see Interpol, Death Cab, and Wintersleep but I’ll just have to wait until next year. Oh, and check out the DCFC “I will Possess Your Heart” video — it should make you an instant fan.