Quarta-feira 22 Out 2008, 23h:55

wow. as a last minute thing to decide to go to, this was an intense, intense experience. they played close to 3.5 hours, from 1015 to like 130 in the morning. i dont know i can say besides it was an experience more than a show. there were some really really bad parts and some really great parts too. bad first: as much as i love you forgot it in people's instrumentals, i think opening the show with a drawn out late 90s/shampoo suicide one-two was a painful 15 minute slow burn. though maybe that was the point. anyway kc accidental right after that made me forget about it. also, incessant noodling and jamming took up, id say about 30 minutes of the show (a lot of it based around whiteman). speaking of whiteman, that guy is painful to watch. his excessive pantomiming, rockstar poses, and adding van halen solos to any open space he could find destroyed parts of a lot of songs (particularly, the beginning of major label debut and the quiet middle part of ibi dreams of pavement, and the guitar wanking before cause=time was also pretty painful). at one point during fire eye'd boy, and ill never forget this, whiteman did this dramatic thing where he fake ripped his heart out and fake took a bite out of it like an apple. i hope other people witnessed this too. he did sing really well on "looks just like the sun" and the apostle of hustle thing he performed was pretty good as well, however, so im on the fence about him. the noodling during the "turn the lights off!" jam thing they did before stars and sons was hard to stomach as well.

now for the awesome, it was a broken social scene show. they played tons of their good songs (no almost crimes, lovers spit, lucky ones, when it begins, possible grenade or safety bricks though) but they played so many songs its pretty impossible to complain about what they didnt play. they forgot lots of lyrics but it didnt matter, and there was a music experiment in the middle of it featuring a recording of a jamaican woman's voice (seriously). kevin drew is a pretty charming front guy, though he did say "ladies and gentlemen" probably 30 times the whole night, and he did introduce every member of the band nearly twice per person, and the whole drunk rockstar thing is wearing thin, though the demanded audience screaming on ibi dreams of pavement is as awesome and necessary as ever. there was political banter ("this is a swing state tour") and regular old weird banter (canning: "i put someone on the guestlist today, and they gave me free bags of coffee. thats what i like. the exchange of gifts and services.") the land of talk girl has a really nice voice and did a good job the whole night. its all gonna break was particularly epic, so was the end of frightening lives. it was an awesome night, a 3 and half hours really well spent. the more they played, the more i was in disbelief, until it was at the 3 hour mark. the whole "we didnt play 3 hours yet? okay, lets make it 3!" and then coming back onstage to play longer is the kind of thing that makes them great.

as i describe it to everyone else, the best/worst night of my life, but i guess thats a broken social scene show.

setlist: in (no order, i just grouped them from on the albums theyre on)

kc accidental (played 3rd)
stars and sons (with a long, annoying jam with the lights off for 5 minutes before it)
looks just like the sun
pacific theme
anthems for a seventeen year old girl
cause=time (played 4th)
late nineties bedroom rock for the missionaries (opened)
shampoo suicide (played 2nd)
i'm still your fag (last song)

ibi dreams of pavement
7/4
major label debut (fast)
fire eye'd boy
superconnected
its all gonna break

farewell to the pressure kids
fucked up kid
frightening lives

chameleon
hit the wall
churches under the stairs
love is new
(1 other brendan canning song, forgot which)

also played:

-hawaii (the band) song- (kevin drew: "the term sexual harassment doesnt exist for the next six minutes, ladies and gentlemen")
-some apostle of hustle song
-charles spearins vocal cadence saxophone experiment
-i might have even forgotten a song or two