CPC Gangbangs
Osheaga Festival
Montreal
September 8/07

Fingers & Glover

There are bands you pay to see that inevitably disappoint you and there are bands you stumble upon that you’d pay in blood to see again. Fans, meet CPC Gangbangs. Montreal’s CPC Gangbangs are bangers, but not gang bangers per se, just straight up fubarred head bangers. Fucking wrap the mic cord around your neck and jump into the crowd only to emerge with infectious and catchy jams that make you want to wrap a cord around your own neck and go jumping. These folks were by far one of the most exciting shows in an otherwise anti-climactic night of big-name performances and one of the most exciting acts of the festival. Word of advice for next year: take the folk singers from the main stage and put them on the small stage (or in the water) where this show happened and let a band like CPC Gangbangs take advantage of you on the main stage and fire some life into this city. Oh, and cut the line for the corn down somehow. You shouldn’t have a corn roast if you don’t have butter and a short line. Take heed, Vice. There may not have been corn, or rather, there may not have been patience to wait for corn, but we chewed on CPC jams and slid around the floor on the butter of better jams.