{"id":6470,"date":"2013-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/blog\/polaris-people-for-the-week-of-august-23-tegan-and-saras-new-friend-murray-lightburns-loneliness\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T21:59:19","slug":"polaris-people-for-the-week-of-august-23-tegan-and-saras-new-friend-murray-lightburns-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/fr\/blog\/polaris-people-for-the-week-of-august-23-tegan-and-saras-new-friend-murray-lightburns-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaris People For The Week Of August 23: Tegan And Sara's New Friend, Murray Lightburn's Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, we had our first sit-down with Polaris Gala hosts Kathleen Edwards <\/strong>and Shad<\/strong> this week. It was pretty amazing. Right now we can guarantee there’ll be swearing, parody, costume changes and quite possibly some references to diarrhea. We do this stuff classy-like.<\/p>\n

Oh, and there are going to be legit famous people at the Gala. For reals. Stay tuned for more info on that.<\/p>\n

At this point we would advise that if you want to attend the Gala and you’re not a Short List nominee or sponsor that you buy your tickets<\/a> now. Since announcing who’s performing<\/a> at the Gala they’ve been selling like hotcakes.<\/p>\n

We’re going to London<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

Now let’s take a look at what some of our favourite people, the Polaris People, have been up to recently.<\/p>\n

First, our special friends and broadcast partners at AUX TV have made a profile about current Short List nominees Metric<\/strong>.<\/p>\n