Concert in Canada B.C. in 1980s-90s?

Motzy5

I'm trying to remember the name of a HUGE concert that happened in the 1980s or 1990s in Vancouver BC I believe it was. Any ideas??

noir_blood

Seriously? That's all the info you can provide us.

If someone can get this, I will never doubt PA's ability.

Trillian

There were a lot of concerts in that twenty year span.

Monoxide

Trillian wrote: »

There were a lot of concerts in that twenty year span.

cite your sources for this please

Corvus

You're going to have to narrow that up for those of us from Vancouver area to even have a clue as to what you mean. Bands? More specific dates?

This is the H/A equivalent of being in Europe and someone asking "Do you know Bob from Canada?" :P

Kuroi Ookami

Towards the end of the 90s they would have had Edgefest. I suppose that could be considered a huge concert.

chocolove

There was expo 86. Not really a concert but on its wiki page it does cite a lot of different musical acts.

Bartholamue

There was also that 'Us' festival that happened in I believe in '83, but I don't think it was in Vancouver.

TaGuelle

Are you talking huge on the scale of "The Last Waltz"? or was it just huge attendence?

Serpent

SummerSault was in 2000 or so.

Anyways, vancouver has some big stadiums and a population of 2 million. There are large concerts and festivals here every year.

AtomBomb

Lollapalooza ran from 91 to 97. I think right before that it was called QFest or something.

eternalbl

Hullaballoo was on a couple times, but I don't know if that would be huge. Could've been early 00's too

And no mention of Warped Tour? Come on!

Motzy5

Yeah i dont have much info on it, my girlfriend asked me the same thing using that description and figured someone on here might know. She asked me because there was controversy with it due to the houses that were flattened and forced people on to the street. She was using it as an example for whats happening in Vancouver now in prep for the olympics next year, and i think the same thing where they're ripping down houses to make room.

cooljammer00

Eminent domain sucks. Not to mention the secret police who kicked people out of their homes and flattened their houses before the sun came up.

Papillon

Motzy5 wrote: »

Yeah i dont have much info on it, my girlfriend asked me the same thing using that description and figured someone on here might know. She asked me because there was controversy with it due to the houses that were flattened and forced people on to the street. She was using it as an example for whats happening in Vancouver now in prep for the olympics next year, and i think the same thing where they're ripping down houses to make room.

The biggest controversy I remember is the 1997 APEC protests, but I would only remember things from mid-late '90s onward. Other than causing a huge controversy at the time, it doesn't fit any of the rest of your description though -- the controversy was over the use of excessive force to quell protests.

As mentioned previously, Expo '86 is a possibility, although the only controversy mentioned is related to influence peddling by then premier Vander Zalm.

Edit: I haven't heard of any expropriation (eminent domain) controversy surrounding the Vancouver 2010 Games. As far as I've heard controversy seems to be more around tenants of low-cost housing being evicted so the building can be renovated into (temporary) hotel rooms for the Games.

Trillian

Papillon wrote: »

Motzy5 wrote: »

Yeah i dont have much info on it, my girlfriend asked me the same thing using that description and figured someone on here might know. She asked me because there was controversy with it due to the houses that were flattened and forced people on to the street. She was using it as an example for whats happening in Vancouver now in prep for the olympics next year, and i think the same thing where they're ripping down houses to make room.

The biggest controversy I remember is the 1997 APEC protests, but I would only remember things from mid-late '90s onward. Other than causing a huge controversy at the time, it doesn't fit any of the rest of your description though -- the controversy was over the use of excessive force to quell protests.

As mentioned previously, Expo '86 is a possibility, although the only controversy mentioned is related to influence peddling by then premier Vander Zalm.

Edit: I haven't heard of any expropriation (eminent domain) controversy surrounding the Vancouver 2010 Games. As far as I've heard controversy seems to be more around tenants of low-cost housing being evicted so the building can be renovated into (temporary) hotel rooms for the Games.

Except they're not even doing that, I think. The hotel rooms are being renovated now to make them livable for a person; they're filthy pits right now. The controversy now is over the police cracking down on the open-air stolen goods markets and sidewalk-side crack smoking in the DTES.

Corvus

Trillian wrote: »

Papillon wrote: »

Motzy5 wrote: »

Yeah i dont have much info on it, my girlfriend asked me the same thing using that description and figured someone on here might know. She asked me because there was controversy with it due to the houses that were flattened and forced people on to the street. She was using it as an example for whats happening in Vancouver now in prep for the olympics next year, and i think the same thing where they're ripping down houses to make room.

The biggest controversy I remember is the 1997 APEC protests, but I would only remember things from mid-late '90s onward. Other than causing a huge controversy at the time, it doesn't fit any of the rest of your description though -- the controversy was over the use of excessive force to quell protests.

As mentioned previously, Expo '86 is a possibility, although the only controversy mentioned is related to influence peddling by then premier Vander Zalm.

Edit: I haven't heard of any expropriation (eminent domain) controversy surrounding the Vancouver 2010 Games. As far as I've heard controversy seems to be more around tenants of low-cost housing being evicted so the building can be renovated into (temporary) hotel rooms for the Games.

Except they're not even doing that, I think. The hotel rooms are being renovated now to make them livable for a person; they're filthy pits right now. The controversy now is over the police cracking down on the open-air stolen goods markets and sidewalk-side crack smoking in the DTES.

The OP's girlfriend is talking about Expo 86. There would not have been houses flattened for Expo though, since it was largely built on the then vacant land in False Creek. I suppose there might have been expropriation for Sky Train construction related to Expo, but there would not have been many cases of that, and no one would have been forced to live on the street because of it.

A more apt criticism is that private landlords in the City raised their rates to take advantage of the temporary influx of visitors for a major world event, which probably reduced housing availability for those at the bottom end of the rental market. I believe that was an issue during Expo 86, but as I was 9 at the time, social issues weren't top of my agenda.

Trillian is correct, there has been no expropriation of housing for the Olympics, really, there's very little construction period for the 2010 Games as nearly all the major facilities already existed. The speed skating site and I think a curling rink are really the only thing in urban Greater Vancouver that needed to be built. The BC government is actually buying up the slum hotels in the downtown of Vancouver and making them fit for human habitation, and preserving them as low cost and social housing.

And Expo 86 is probably the single best thing ever to happen to Vancouver, it transformed this city. False Creek was an industrial waste land which might never have been rehabilitated without that event, Sky Train, BC Place, Science World, all that stuff was the result of Expo 86. Its the event that made Vancouver a world-city.