This past weekend was busy in the city of Toronto, not only was the amazing NXNE festival happening all over the city, there was also the Northern Ink Exposure convention, the MuchMusic Video Awards, not to mention the Taste of Little Italy festival. With so much happening in TO it was hard for a Torontonian to decide what to do! No matter the choices made, they would almost definitly translate to an amazing weekend to bring in the official summer. Let me tell you how my weekend went.

NXNE

So many amazing musicians came to Toronto this weekend to showcase their talent to the growing crowds, with a number of free shows available outside of the paid gigs, not having a wristband didn’t mean you would miss-out! I was lucky enough to be part of hosting one such free event that happened throughout the whole weekend: “Live in Bellwoods: NXNE picnic series” saw 20 bands over 4 days play intimate acoustic performances for a growing crowd and for our cameras, I have not been able to stop listening to the recordings yet. Nacho House was an experience I will never be able to recreate, walking down a back alley following our ears we came across our good friends, Dinosaur Bones, rocking out to an electrified crowd on a rooftop, with free nachos to boot, this was a free show worth paying for. NXNE saw some big names play at Dundas Square, which i fortunately did not attend any of, tho I hear Iggy rocked the city.

NIX

the “Northern Ink Xposure” was a Tattoo convention that I attended one day, solely to get some new work done… and I couldnt be happier!! This truely is the place to get tattooed with so many Artists in one place, the Hilton was buzzing with excitement and tattoo guns at work, below is what i acquired from Joe Johns. here is what I acquired from the Convention.

MMVA’s

My experience with the MMVA’s was more of an annoyance than anything, Hedley was performing their soundcheck when I was trying to get to the Horseshoe Tavern, needless to say, they arent perfect, and neither was my planned route to the Horseshoe. A very impressive sound, light, and stage set up redeemed the MMVA’s absurdity for me. I did however catch a glimpse of the event on a news segment, and saw Miley Cyrus’s perfomance attire… all I could think was “shes 17, shes 17, shes 17″

After this amazing weekend, the only thing that can top it is this weekend approaching, the dreaded G20 summit. This should be “interesting”

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