Final Fantasy, Meligrove Band Headline Brampton Indie Fest

12/07/06 4:00pm

I'll tell you what the world needs more of: indoor winter festivals with good music. Organizers of the Brampton Indie Arts Festival are savvy to this fact, and their 2007 edition, which has been curated by the always-weird Friendly Rich, features a lineup as diverse and wonderfully weird as ever. It takes place from Feb. 14-17.

In addition to performances from the likes of Final Fantasy, The Meligrove Band, Uncut, The Sour Keys and The Bicycles, there'll be film presentations (go to the website to see how to contribute) and a Q&A with Mark Mothersbaugh. Who's that, you query? Oh, he's only the composer of the scores for all of Wes Anderson's films. That's so cool, it's almost enough to get me to go to Brampton, which for those who don't know, is located near Toronto. Almost.

(I mean, have you ever been to Brampton? It's as close to a black hole on Earth you'll ever see. It's right up there with Napanee, Ontario, the smallest city in Canada that you can actually get lost in.)

Here are some of the bands playing the BIAF:

Feb. 14
Ultramagnus
Diableros
Raised By Swans
Shotgun Rules
Grand Fir
Bebop Cowboys
Romeo Liquor Store
Uncut
Andy Kim

Feb. 15
The Houseplants
DD/MM/YYYY
The Bicycles
Violet Archers
Polmo Polpo
Plush
Geoff Berner
The Sour Keys
Kevin Breit
The Postage Stamps
Meligrove Band
Marc Ribot

Feb. 16
Belladonna
Courtney Wing
Kids On TV
Ohbijou
Laura Barrett
Cain And Abel
Steve Lambke
Still Life
The Acorn
Pinnacle People
Jon Rae And The River

Feb. 17
Girl & The Machine
The Scramblies
Arcs
The Paper Makers
Rockwell Resolution
Touch Me
Airborne
Plague
The Kettle Black
The Nihilist Spasm Band
Mark Mothersbaugh Q&A
The Flints
Giant Killer Shark
InsideAmind
Matias
Elliot Brood
Ghost Is Dancing
Mission District
Loitering Heroes
Patrick Watson
Barzin
Final Fantasy