Sort of: the first in a series of Broken Social Scene presents... LPs will be Kevin Drew's Spirit If.... It comes out on September 17 via City Slang.
BSS's Brendan Canning - i.e. The Other Main Guy - is currently working on the second release of the series. Drew's record features contributions from the many members of BSS. Like we didn't see that coming.
Spirit If... has been recorded in stops and starts over the past two years, and also features a guest spot from Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis. Anyone see him play with BSS at ATP? Shit, wasn't it?
Kevin Drew plays a London show in September, too, at the Scala. Tickets for the September 5 show are priced at £13.50 and are on sale now. Add date to your gig calendar here.
Spirit If... tracklisting:
'Farewell To The Pressure Kids'
'TBTF'
'F--ked up kid'
'Safety Bricks'
'Lucky Ones'
'Broke Me Up'
'Gang Bang Suicide'
'Frightening Lives'
'Underneath The Skin'
'Big Love'
'Backed Out On The...'
'Aging Faces / Losing Places'
'Bodhi Sappy Weekend'
'When It Begins'
A free download of 'TBTF' is available here.
This will be FANTASTIC
Anything to do with BSS is good.
^ true, true ^
And 'TBTF' sounds v. nice, just like BSS but v. nice all the same.
where are tickets on sale?!?!?!?¬?!?1"?3?234
omgomgomg
yes. i win at knowing how to work
the boards
seetickets.com
probably... usual places I guess.
tbtf is great
it reminds me of swimmers from the BSS s/t.
but better
Ooooooooooooooh
Interesting!
Argh
Tickets aren't on any of the usual ticket sites (seetickets, gigsandtours, aloud, ticketmaster even), nor is it on the listings page of the Scala.
You sure he's playing over here? I heard it's going to be a rolling thunder revue-type setup over in the states, with a series of solo shows augmented with other BSS musicians, with a random mix of songs from each solo album so you'll never know what you'll get on each night. Sounds awesome to me, BSS at the Astoria last year is still the best gig I've ever been to.
It's on sale at wegottickets
but billed as Broken Social Scene. Ooooh...
scala
had to be a fucking over 18s venue didn't it?? i have to go..somehow...
Mike - were you saying BSS w/ J Mascis was shit at ATP?
I find that very difficult to believe.
I was a little worried that the 3rd guitar player might fall off the stage cos there were so many damn canucks on the stage at once... but other than that, me loved BSS (couple years ago at an LA gig)!
Koko gig > Astoria Gig
...as it was the first time in the UK with the full line-up.
also listed on Seetickets
as Broken Social Scene
Yes, but
we had a much bigger setlist. All we were missing were the people from Metric, and the rapper (I forget his name). Some friends of mine went to the Koko gig as well and said they weren't as whelmed.