Another Roadside Attraction (festival)

Another Roadside Attraction is a now defunct travelling music-and-arts summer festival developed by The Tragically Hip, the first of which took place in 1993. It promotes little-known bands, and travels all across Canada, each show usually lasting about eight hours.

The name was taken from a Tom Robbins novel, although The Hip were originally thinking of calling it "Heksenketel", which is Dutch for "witches cauldron". Although that name was not used for the concert festival, it was later used as the title of a Tragically Hip concert video.

Over the years, the festival has featured bands such as Matthew Sweet, Rheostatics, Crash Vegas, Midnight Oil, Hothouse Flowers, World Party, Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers, Spirit of the West, Eric's Trip, The Inbreds and Pere Ubu. The tours often end up in unconventional places; fairgrounds, racetracks, sometimes just open fields. However, almost every festival appearance has been a sell-out.

The first Another Roadside Attraction, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was held at the Winnipeg Stadium. The acts performing included The Tragically Hip, Midnight Oil, Crash Vegas, Hothouse Flowers, and Daniel Lanois. These five acts also collaborated on a one-off charity single, "Land", in 1993 to protest forest clearcutting in British Columbia.

External links

* [http://www.thehip.com/HipArchive/roadside.htm Another Roadside Attraction 1995 website]