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| - It was 'aight in my opinion. Depending on the experience you're looking for and are comfortable with, OSHIE can be amazing or painful.
Rapidfire good and bad points below as well as some tips:
- Not enough water stations, limited stations have excruciating line-ups (BAD)
- Line up was OK but not spectacular and those acts I really looked forward to (like Radiohead) played painfully sleepy sets that went on far too long for a Sunday night (BAD)
- Warm. Molson Beer. (Worse than BAD. Have you ever bought a "FRESH" beer from a vendor, looked forward to the refreshing cold initial sip and it's piss warm? Yeah that's the whole weekend (BAD)
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- Everyone is on drugs... everyone. If that's your scene you'll have a blast, if it's not, enjoy the people watching (GOOD/BAD depending)
- The indie acts far exceed the mainstream. Some are so niché however, you tend to only know their main radio play song, which excites you before you sit back and listen in obscurity again... refer to the importance of the "being on drugs" point above (GOOD/BAD depending)
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- Lots of food options at reasonable pricing (GOOD)
- Access to beer - Amazing. They have guys walking through the crowd (like the 7 ft guy we dubbed the Molson Monster) with cooler bags (read: warming bags) selling tall cans) (GOOD)
- Art installations, very cool and unique. I would have loved to have tried the hammock pods in the shade but it seemed like people never left (GOOD)
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- The main stages are where your skin goes to die. It's SO HOT, dehydration is inevitable, the hill is not much better but it does have a superior vantage point of the main stages (Mountain and River) (TIP)
- While most will try to tell you to take the Metro - F that noise, it's a gong-show, Take an Uber in and at the end of the night, walk the bridge across and take another Uber home (TIP)
- Go to the washrooms at the BACK of each porta-potty area. For some reason, everyone lines up at the first bank of toilets and the ones in the rear remain empty, Once you figure this out there are no standing in line waiting while doing an awkward pee dance for you (TIP)
Still at the end of the day, you're at a festival in Montreal on a long weekend so life isn't so hard :) A-OK, with experience now under my belt, I would return if the line-up was attractive
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