But Don't Forget What You Felt
•headline: Broken Social Scene
•support: Arthur & Yu
2007, November 06th
Michigan Theater
Ann Arbor, Michigan
~21:27
01 Lucky Ones
02 Cause = Time
03 Fucked Up Kid
04 Safety Bricks
05 Tbtf
06 > Guilty Cubicles
07 > Stars And Sons
08 Hit A Wall
09 Frightening Lives (with restart)
10 Backed Out On The...
11 Superconnected
12 Hard To Find (American Analog Set cover)
13 Gangbang Suicide
14 Farewell To The Pressure Kids
15 Boy Inside The Man (Tom Cochrane cover)
16 Lover's Spit
17 Major Label Debut (Fast)
18 It's All Gonna Break
19 When It Begins (singalong w/ Arthur & Yu)
~23:43
Although I missed the first fifteen minutes of Arthur & Yu, my opinion of their music will most likely remain unchanged, just like their drumming pattern and strumming patterns for the next thirty plus minutes.
Kevin Drew stepped up to the plate and talked to the kids for about five minutes as the orgy known as Broken Social Scene assembled on stage. The family band blasted off into bedroom anthems and meditations on hippie love. On top of the pillow talk, Drew changed his pants on stage. I could use more pantless Kevin Drew in my life since it's such a wonderful view, like Venus de Milo. If it isn't apparently already, Kevin Drew doesn't care about his clothes. For example, Drew's advertisement for his concerts contain photos where his clothes cling together with the support of a single button across his chest, exposing his scruffy awesomeness, hairy chest, and an albino Canadian's belly. Kevin Drew has also appeared unclothed in the Broken Social Scene's video for Ibi Dreams Of Pavement (A Better Day) where clinging underwear has never looked better. And then there's Major Label Debut (Fast) where an undressed Drew sings "Band On The Run" outdoors. And most recently, Drew's "Backed Out On The..." shows him stripping once more in front of J. Mascis. If anyone can promote naked love, then we should appoint Kevin Drew to strip more often. Anyways...
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Kevin Drew speaks of the gigantic group love for all as if he uses drugs and we live in the sixties; we can probably prove both of those true. In fact, he spoke of the themes that make up Broken Social Scene as a giant family. He finally admitted on stage that they are one big incest. While Kevin Drew banters on about love and incest, band members start jamming into the next song. Brendan Canning is showing off his new song Hit A Wall for the next Broken Social Scene presents album. Andrew Kenny sported a song from his band The American Analog Set which I do know. Drew sweet talked us into his comfort zone as he anthemically blasts through Broken Social Scene favorites like Cause = Time and Superconnected. However, the incest experienced many technical difficulties throughout the show leading to a restart of Frightening Lives and an intermissionary jam in the middle of Backed Out On The...
The tender ending of the show began as the rest of the incest left while Canning and Drew remained to perform It's All Gonna Break with just electric guitars. After about six minutes, the remaining band members voltron into the incest once more to thunder through the powerful anthem. After Drew is told that they've gone ten minutes over (with each minute past curfew costing $500), they go through a speedy acapella singalong.
Unlike Broken Social Incest, I do not owe Michigan Theater a dime since I got my tickets for free (thank Metro Times).
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In other news, I satiated my pumpkin ice cream cravings at Cold Stone Creamery; they're promoting this flavor until the end of December.