Again, they had just 60 minutes, and by the hour’s end, the crowd had swollen massively, drawn by euphoric brass fanfares and songs that communicated the very sense of what people go to music festivals for: one felt both alone with the music, and lost in the crowd at the same time. Leslie Feist singing ‘Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl’ that night was a quite staggering five minutes of live music.Īt End Of The Road we got the disciplined version of BSS. At their first London show, at the Barfly in Camden, early in 2003, given a slot of no more than an hour, they were simply brilliant, the very best of their songs presented concisely and with absolute definition. On the other hand, when forced into a little discipline, they could astound. Given free rein, they have been known to meander on and on – then on and on some more, before topping it all off by going on and on some more – and one show at the Astoria in London in 2006 springs to mind, a set so long and boring that Transport for London had knocked down the venue and started building the Crossrail station before the band even got to the encore. ![]() The Canadian group serve as the very definition of 'sprawling collective', with all the downsides that come with that tag. ![]() It was not without a certain trepidation that one awaited Broken Social Scene’s appearance at the End Of The Road festival last summer.
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