Shanneyganock is playing on George Street tonight and it is deafening...
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So, tonight is a unique one in Canada. It's "Regatta Roulette". The Royal St. John's Regatta, North America's oldest sporting competition, COULD be tomorrow. We all go mad tonight, it's a fucked night downtown, at the strip clubs, at the brothels, even regular boomer parents are playing crib in their garages and having a few too many. It's a truly savage night. It if it does ahead, tomorrow is a holiday in St. John's. If it doesn't go ahead, we all have to go to work:
It is the only public holiday in Canada that is decided by a non-governmental body (the volunteer Regatta committee will make the call around sunrise tomorrow. Wind is the biggest concern, and a legitimate concern here, so even a 20C sunny day can be a No Go), and the only public holiday in North America that is weather-dependent.
Probably about 60% of municipalities in the province had this past Monday off instead. The rest pepper them at random (but locally significant, of course) times throughout the year. Basically, here it's Regatta Day, and everywhere else it's the equivalent of Canada's "Family Day".