Virgin Festival Toronto

VFest Toronto Day Two

By Jen White (CHARTattack) September 9, 2008 1:58 pm

Day two of the Virgin Festival started out a little shaky as a light but annoying rain threatened to keep up all day. I got to the island rather painlessly this time, and reached the Virgin Mobile Stage just as Spiral Beach began. They played a pretty solid power-pop set for a bunch of teenagers on a pylon-littered stage, but their age shone...

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VFest Toronto Day One

By Jen White (CHARTattack) September 8, 2008 4:46 pm

There are a few steadfast indications that it's the end of summer in Toronto: university kids are running rampant downtown, the streets are abuzz with film nerds for the Toronto International Film Festival and the Virgin Festival invades Toronto Island for two days. After a horrendous ferry ride over (media had access to a VIP ferry, but it was...

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Virgin Fest Day 1 - M.I.A. Invites T.O. to Dance while Bjork Dazzles

By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 10, 2007 4:30 pm

Hey, remember this? Wait, scroll 12 paragraphs down. Now remember? Yes, a year after starting with the biggest whimper imaginable, the legendary Flaming Lips disaster was somehow still the talk of Toronto's second Virgin Festival. The events that preceded this year's weekend event did nothing to quiet the negative attitude towards a festival that...

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Virgin Fest Day 2 - Killers Bemuse while Smashing Pumpkins Confound

By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 10, 2007 11:38 am

I thought the second day's cloudy skies would keep last-minute attendees away from the island. In fact, the rain stayed in the clouds after an overnight downpour and V-Fest's attendance went through the roof. This can be attributed to two or three bands, and not so much to the haphazard scheduling that had festival-goers running back and forth...

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V-Fest's Second Day Nearly Erases Day One Disaster

By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 11, 2006 4:30 pm

Toronto has been yearning for a big festival for a long time. While they seem to be popping up around the U.S. with staggering frequency, the best we've gotten has been Broken Social Scene's now annual June event. That all changed when "rebel billionaire" Richard Branson's Virgin Festival announced it would do two North American shows,...

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Toronto Virgin Festival Location Mistakenly Revealed?

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 22, 2009 2:08 pm

The Toronto edition of the Virgin Festival could be moving to Burl's Creek Family Event Park in Oro, Ont. this year. Burl's Creek is between Barrie and Orillia and hosted a show by Jack Johnson last year. A listing (which has since been removed) was published on the Toronto Virgin Festival MySpace page stating the festival would take place at...

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Stereophonics Hungover At Virgin Festival

By CHARTattack Staff December 5, 2008 12:40 pm

Those Welsh boys sure do love to drink! CHARTattack's Jen White caught up with Stereophonics' Kelly Jones and Javier Weyler backstage at the 2008 Toronto Virgin Festival to talk about their solo albums, what it's like being The Tragically Hip of Wales, and how much they love drinking with Oasis.

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Virgin Festival 2008: The Fratellis

By CHARTattack Staff September 26, 2008 1:21 pm

ChartAttack's Jen White caught up with singer/guitarist Jon Fratelli backstage at the 2008 Virgin Music Festival to talk about how he loves to turn it up to 11 and get his Robert Plant on.

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Virgin Festival 2008: The Kooks

By CHARTattack Staff September 19, 2008 11:59 am

ChartAttack's Jen White talked to The Kooks drummer Paul Garred about his injury, their new bassist and how they just want to have fun.

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Please Sir, I Want Some More!

By CHARTattack Staff September 18, 2008 11:57 am

ChartAttack field correspondent Dranksi gets to the heart of the 2008 Virgin Festival in Toronto by tracking down Sir Richard Branson and asking him the burning question on everyone's mind: Where's my free drink ticket?

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Virgin Festival 2008: Day Two

By CHARTattack Staff September 16, 2008 1:34 pm

Check out Day Two of ChartAttack's coverage of the 2008 Virgin Festival on Toronto Islands, including performances by Oasis, Stereophonis, Danko Jones, The Weakerthans and many more!

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Virgin Festival 2008: Day One

By CHARTattack Staff September 15, 2008 12:51 pm

Check out Day One of ChartAttack's coverage of the 2008 Virgin Festival on Toronto Islands, including performances by Foo Fighters, Bloc Party, MGMT, The Fratellis, Wintersleep and many more!

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VFest Highlights

Submitted by Jen White on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 3:08pm

By Jen White (CHARTattack) September 9, 2008 3:08 pm

So I'm sure you keeners out there have read both reviews from last weekend's Virgin Festival in Toronto, but I still had some personal highlights to share. So, lo and behold the first ever ChartAttack VFest Awards (as chosen by Jen White): Best Set: Wintersleep Best Overall Stage Banter: Danko Jones Best Singalong: "Dont Look Back In Anger...

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