An Evening with Broken Social Scene
9 Mar 08, SunConcert Hall
Canada
"Stunning third album from Toronto's underground supergroup. An effervescent rush of melody, invention and magic." - Mojo
"Absolutely stunning." - NME
Through raucous jangling, spacey melodies, hyper-kinetic beats, and ragged lullabies, meet the aptly named music collective Broken Social Scene.
At its core are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning who started the group in 1999. Kevin was an unknown musician who specialised in lovely bedroom instrumentals. Brendan was a vet of almost-made-its who became a prominent Toronto after-hours DJ. In the dead of winter 1999-2000, the duo worked on their debut, Feel Good Lost, a recording that would set up an important template for BSS's growth.
Around this pair orbited friends and talents from bands like Metric, Stars, and Do Make Say Think to name a few. BSS was a side project, an escape, an experiment, and for a while, BSS was whoever showed up, playing whatever was written the day before. Till now, with over 18 members, the line-up of the band changes from leg to leg - no BSS tour ever being the same.
In 2002, BSS released You Forgot It In People to rave reviews and toured the US, Europe and Japan. Kevin then co-founded record label and management company, Arts & Crafts, which became home to the Juno award winning band and its satellite acts. In 2005, the band released Broken Social Scene, a fitting title for the band's third full-length record, as the album was an apt aural representation of the band's friendship - messy, overrun, irregular but spirited, passionate, honest and hopeful.
Concert Hall
7.30pm (90mins, no intermission)
$58* (SOLD OUT), $88** (SOLD OUT), $118
Limited concessions for students, NSF and senior citizens: $40*, $60**