In hopes to remove the negative press off the city of Montreal’s decision to dump 8 billion litres of waste into the St.Lawrence river; the city is turning the dump site into a venue for it’s latest electronic music festival.
Branded as Flush Fest 2015; the new electronic music festival hopes to ease the transition between Piknic Electrionic and Igloofest.
“We feel like there’s no real electronic music festival for the fall season so we’re looking to add one and this is a great venue to do that. It’ll at least help with the anxiety of waiting for Igloofest,” says Brian Sprig, the head organizer of the event. “Fall is a time when things turn brown and die, you start to realize winter is coming, you rarely see daylight, you have to put winter tires on your car, and you just stop wanting to do things anymore. We feel nothing expresses that more than a pipe dumping 8 billion litres of shit into our river. So we’re saying come here and celebrate all that fall represents.”
That’s not all Monteal is planning to do with the excess sewage. Montreal’s mayor, Denis Coderre, has plans to extend the Old Port skating rink. “Hey, if Jean Drapeau can use the excess dirt from building the metros to make an island – I can use excess sewage to build a skating rink.”
Flush Fest is every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 2pm – 12am and ends when all 8 billion litres of waste have been dumped into the St.Lawrence river.
The skating rink is slated to open once the weather is cold enough to freeze the human waste currently slathered over an open space in the Old Port.