OTTAWA — Tens of thousands of Osheaga attendees were hot, tired and annoyed when rap superstar Travis Scott finally sprung onto stage nearly one and a half hour late for the closing set of the 2018 festival.

“Sorry I’m late, I got held up at customs, you know how it is,” the rapper told the crowd, according to the Montreal Gazette . He played a truncated 40-minute set that began after the festival’s strict 11 p.m. curfew.

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Scott’s tardiness to the rigorously punctual Montreal music gathering was a nightmare for festival organizers who had never dealt with a headliner showing up an hour and a half late and then bust curfew, a fineable offence in Montreal.

Droves of disappointed fans left the site before Scott jumped on stage. Within days, one festivalgoer had filed

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