Because it’s the 21st century and because technology, a music festival has leaked its 2015 lineup in one of the most innovative and straight-up coolest ways we ever done seen.
Canadian music festival Osheaga has taken a very different approach to announce what artists will be playing on its highly anticipated bill, creating a mobile phone game entitled The Road To Osheaga, as Consequence Of Sound report.
The Road To Osheaga puts users in driver’s seat of a car that’s hooning down a city street, the aim of the game to collect as many “musical notes” as possible, the more one gains the more Osheage Music Festival artists are leaked, the musician’s song actually being played each time you unlock them.
What makes this very interesting is that the full lineup isn’t actually revealed until Tuesday 24 March, however avid gamers have already uncovered a massive list of performers including The Black Keys, Florence And The Machine, The War On Drugs as well as Aussie acts Chet Faker and Angus And Julia Stone.
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To some naysayers that may find this a little annoying, there of course is incentive to playing the game, the top 10 scorers of the game will win double passes to the festival, whilst the the skilled person who slots in at #1 will win the ultimate Golden Festival Pass which provides free accommodation, travel and tickets for two people from anywhere in the world. Not so annoying now, is it?
The application can be downloaded for free and is readily available in Aussie app-stores for anyone to play so jump on it – you could nab you and your best mate a free trip to Canada.
The festival takes place July 31st – August 2nd at Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau.
Osheaga Music Festival 2015 Lineup (So Far)
A Tribe Called Red
Action Bronson
Alt-J
Alvvays
Anamanaguchi
Angus And Julia Stone
Arkells
Bahamas
Ben Harper And The Innocent Criminals
Brand New
Brodinski
Broods
Caribou
Catfish And The Bottlemen
Chet Faker
Christine And The Queens
Daphini
Dusky
Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros
Father John Misty
First Aid Kit
Florence And The Machine
Future Islands
G-Eazy
Gary Clark Jr.
George Ezra
Glass Animals
Goldroom
Hot Chip
Interpol
Jessica Hernandez And The Deltas
Kendrick Lamar
Kygo
Ms Mr
Marina And The Diamonds
Milky Chance
Of Monsters And Men
Oliver Hedens
Patrick Watson
Philip Selway
Rl Grime
Raury
Robin Schulz
Run The Jewels
San Fermin
Schoolboy Q
Shakey Graves
St. Vincent
Strand Of Oaks
Sylvan Esso
Ten Walls
The Avett Brothers
The Black Keys
The Decemberists
The Kills
The Rural Alberta Advantage
The War On Drugs
Toro Y Moi
Tove Lo
Twenty One Pilots
Twin Shadow
Tyler The Creator
Viet Cong
Weezer
X Ambassadors
Young Fathers
Young The Giant
Yung Lean And Sad Boys
