broken social scene

I first heard "Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl" when I was sixteen, at Oxbow, the art school I went to junior year of high school. The band had forever been primarily associated with that place for me, but in the last 5 years (jesus, I can't believe it's been that long) the group has stayed with me and I've stayed with them.

But I'd never seen them in concert before tonight.

I went with Zach, and we walked up to the venue to see a bunch of be-checkered and be-tsunami'd and be-other-bullshitted teenagers. We both groaned. NOT inwardly. Then we noticed that "Cobra Starship" the one-hit-wonder novelty band associated with "Snakes on a Plane" was also playing, and all the idiots were in line for that concert. We breathed a sigh of relief. Not inwardly.

We found out that the doors opened an hour early, so we bought a bottle of Tesco brand (I shit you not) wine, and drank it outside in a gazebo together while we waited for the show to start.

We went in and watched "The Brunettes" from New Zealand (I think). They were cool as they had a chick singer who PLAYED THE CLARINET! AND THE HARMONICA! So cool.

BSS went on and they were just awesome. Unbelievably humble, not pretentious, clearly loved the music and just wonderful at it. They opened with "Pacific Theme" and "7/4 (Shoreline)" and closed by asking us to all scream out our heartache and angst. It was crazy cheesy, but they beautifully swept into "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Half)," which is just a wonderful, passionate song. They played lots of new stuff too, but I remembered the stuff I knew already much better. Also, Feist was not there to sing "Anthems for A Seventeen Year Old Girl," which they did play, but Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell (I think) from their friend-band Stars were there, and Amy did sing, and she was great. All in all it was an amazing show, and the night ended wonderfully with more friends, a hookah, and then I found a cute-ass toad. Oxymoronic? No, cute. Seriously.

Pictures:


"Taking a picture of the marquis" but actually taking a picture of tools.




Kenyon kids will laugh at this.




Zach + "Australian" wine.




Me + Same



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The Brunettes


Broken Social Scene:








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And the perfect end to my night: