That did mean that the band played in the daylight, such as it was on the very overcast day that thankfully never saw rain – Drew even pointed to break in the clouds over Manhattan, lit up by the setting sun, claiming, "We bought that on the band credit card" and "We’ve got sun, we’ve got health care, we’ve got everything." Oh those Canadians…īroken Social Scene playing "Shampoo Suicide" live Williamsburg Waterfrnt in Brooklyn, NY on September 8th, 2011: Also, playing at an outdoor venue meant an early close, and thus early open and start to the show, with BSS kicking off at 6:30 PM to a not-full Waterfront (Thursday the week after Labor Day has few early departures from work). While Broken Social Scene did get longer to play than your usual opening band, their set list was trimmed down from their admittedly very large usual number of songs (this is a band that can play full nights with no opener). Frontman Kevin Drew proclaimed that this would be the band’s "last New York show for a very long time," making the Waterfront performance something of a swan song to this round of the group’s Big Apple-heavy touring. Indeed, "We’ve played here five times in the last year – we haven’t played our hometown that much…" ( QRO photos of BSS at home in Toronto ). Since then, the Scene have gone on to headline such large NYC haunts as SummerStage ( QRO live review ) and Terminal 5 ( QRO venue review ) earlier this year ( QRO live review ). at Central Park SummerStage ( QRO venue review ) in 2005 – when BSS’ then-producer Dave Newfeld was assaulted by the NYPD when trying to buy weed in Washington Square Park (he later won a handsome settlement). Indeed, possibly the last time BSS opened in New York it was for the then-just-revived Dinosaur Jr. ( QRO live review ) opening for Sonic Youth ( QRO live review ). Broken Social Scene opening for anybody is a little weird, even TVOTR – kind of like Dinosaur Jr. This was a different show than other BSS performances, because they were opening for Brooklyn’s own returning heroes, TV On the Radio ( QRO live review in Brooklyn ). So they rode into town one more time, at Williamsburg Waterfront ( QRO venue review ) on Thursday, September 8th. Toronto’s Broken Social Scene are successful enough to book multiple tours that go through New York, and are so great live that even Brooklyn’s hippest borough isn’t sick of them. And they’re from North America, usually (but not always) the northeast. Not the lowly ‘barely tour out of the northeast’ or ‘have only played a few cities,’ but also not the massive ‘infrequent tours that only play the big cities.’ It’s when a band is successful enough to play multiple tours a year – not to mention good enough live and physically/mentally able enough to sustain that kind of touring – but also isn’t so successful that NYC hasn’t gotten on its hipster-hate. On this live bootleg, you'll hear a group of friends joyously performing for their community, the people of Toronto who supported them when Broken Social Scene was just a two-person instrumental curiosity, before all the awards, the late night television performances, and invites to Glastonbury and Lollapalooza.There’s a certain level at which a band that isn’t from New York plays the Big Apple a lot. Pitchfork had called the album "endlessly replayable, perfect pop" giving it a Best New Music designation and the BBC called it "absolutely, utterly essential," setting into motion the band's swift ascent to global recognition. The record had been released the previous year and was already on its journey to becoming one of the most celebrated indie albums of the decade. The band had just returned from a tour that took them across the US, UK, and Europe in support of their sophomore album, You Forgot It In People. From December 3rd to 5th in 2003, indie rock collective Broken Social Scene performed the three sold out hometown shows at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto.
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