Photo Credit: Matt Packman

ZOMG! Where to begin!? THANK YOU to all of the bands, fans and festival sponsors for creating such an amazing festival vibe over the last five days. We owe huge support to all of our great venues, amazing volunteers and festival staff for doing an incredible job over the course of the week. Attendances numbers were great, the festival had a real energy to it, and talk about a week of amazing music!!

What are your highlights? Did you get to meet your favourite band? Crowd surfing for the first-time? Hanging out with great pals from out-of-town? Send us an email to stories@halifaxpopexplosion.com to tell us your favourite moments at Halifax Pop Explosion 2010. We promise to read every submission and possibly even post your story on our website. Your feedback is very important to us!

Many of you have already started to post photos, videos and recordings from Halifax Pop Explosion online! We strongly encourage you to post and check out our Facebook fanpage linked [here], or our twitter account right [here]. Thanks!

The 2010 festival staff is ready for bed, and we’re already dreaming up a bunch of rad ideas for the HPX 2011. It was an absolute pleasure from our end and we hope that all of you had an amazing experience discovering new and exciting music in Halifax.

Get involved with your local music scene by attending shows on regular basis, volunteering your time, starting a band, writing reviews, etc… The effort that you put forth will go along way into building a bigger and better HPX in the years to come!

Welcome to the last day of the festival! We’ve got plenty in store for you. Going on now is the Just Friend’s Brunch, Zine Fair, Cokemachineglow Showcase and the Secret Show featuring Cuff the Duke and Great Lake Swimmers at the Seahorse.

The conference is also in full swing with more panels and keynote speeches from Sarah Saturday and Martin Atkins at the Citadel Hotel. Come down if you’re interested in finding out more about what it takes to become successful in the music industry and what success actually means today.

This evening is the GRAND finale to all the excitement this week!! Starting off at the church is Silly Kissers and Handsome Furs from Montreal. Bring your egg shakers and dance all along! Ghettosocks is doing an intimate performance at the Company House, Scotch Tapes Showcase is going to kill it at Gus’ with a free cake and record shop. Loud fans will have their fill with Black Moor at the Pavilion and Martyr at Coconut Grove tonight. Plus so much more awesome music including North of America, Rockets Red Glare, Tokyo Police Club all performing tonight!! Get out and enjoy the last of the festival! Have fun everyone!

We’ve been having an incredible time and hope you are to! We can’t thank you enough for all of the awesome support! Let’s make the most of our last night together!!

Hey hey hey! We’re three days into HPX! and ready to step it up notch!

Advanced sold out shows will have tickets available at the door subject to venue capacity. Wristbands are still available at the Citadel Hotel (1960 Brunswick Street) from 11am to 7pm! Show up early to ensure you and your friends can get in A-okay!

We have 11 venues on the go including the newbies Coconut Grove, Company House, The Foggy Goggle, Centre for Arts & Technology Stage at St. Matthew’s Church and Tribeca. Even if you don’t get into the BIG shows (show up early!!) there’s tons of great stuff happening all over the city!

We’ve got a bunch more FREE All-ages shows today! Cousins + Forest City + Dog Day are performing at the CKDU Lobby. Tune in to 88.1FM from 4 to 6pm if you can’t make it down. Bring down your best stuff for the mixtape swap at 5pm at the Citadel Hotel. Followed by the Boss Loops Station National Competiton from 6 to 9pm. It’s going to get loopy up in the Citadel tonight!

Start your evening at a church performance with Old Man Luedecke + Jon Mckiel, or something more intimate at Company House featuring Tasseomancy (formerly Ghost Bees), or kick it up with a rock/dance party at Tribeca featuring Ten Kens, Writer’s Strike Modern Superstitions starting at 8pm,. After that, it’s really up to you! with so much amazing stuff happening all over Halifax!