Morning, guys. As you know, we went to see Broken Social Scene (one of our favourite bands) on Saturday night with our competition winner, Rhys Howell. Rhys has written a review of the gig for us, which you can read after the break. We”™ve embedded a live vid of “The Sweetest Kill” for those that couldn”™t make it (shame on you!). Love, Spotisfaction Crew Rhys says: On discovering I”™d won Compisfaction I thought wouldn”™t it be great to write up a review of the Broken Social Scene gig I”™d just won a ticket for. I then had another brainwave. Why not do it in the form of Haiku? So I have. Part 1. The competition and pre-gig. Late night I enter, “Mr Blue Sky” is the song. Will I win or not? Discover a text; Hypothetical, it is: If win can I go? Affirmative “Yes!”, I reply to the message. Still not offical. Check on the website – Amazingly, I have won! Ready to drive South. Ignorant of band, Wikipedia”™s my friend. Spotify, also. Listen to album, “Forgiveness Rock Record”, huh? Then go to the Gym. At work ”˜haikuing”™. Football on soon, I”™m stuck here. Few days to learn tunes. Must borrow CD – Checked out to another”¦ Damn you, library! Could listen tonight, But have to go to dance class. Damn you, busy life. Made it to the day”¦ Still no expert on the ”˜Scene. Wish I had more time. Car drive the last chance to listen to their CDs. Now I know some songs! Part 2. The warm-up act. New to the O2 – floor not as sticky as told. Booze costs so much. :( Here come Sky Larkin; Thought it was one guy alone, but lady led band. Like it, but not new. Ace performance, but music sounds stock. I”™ll explain: Well made, well done tunes, in a style heard before. And many times, too. Do not write off Sky – Good band, good sound, good all round; just been done before. Part 3. BSS! Onto the main gig. Broken Social Scene are on! Setlist a surprise. Here are the highlights as I recall them. Order could be off a bit: “World Sick” to begin – love the twiddly guitar bit! du du de du duh”¦ “Texico Bitches”: BP mooted for title”¦ Crowd look unsure. Next song has rude word! “Ungrateful Little Father” – personal fave track. “Seven Slash Four (Shoreline)””¦ Should be punctuation there, but couldn”™t fit it. Next, a new singer. Young lady singer steps up; “All to All” the song. Last song dead catchy. Moves at a pace with great horns. The title, forgot. :( Check with Dave and Thom: It”™s “Meet Me in the Basement”. Ta, David Vader :) A wonderful gig. I will follow these guys more! Five out of five stars. Epilogue. Just click on this link to hear a brief gig playlist. I hope you enjoyed! Rhys.

Post author By The Spotisfaction Team
Post date June 29, 2010

Morning, guys.

As you know, we went to see Broken Social Scene (one of our favourite bands) on Saturday night with our competition winner, Rhys Howell. Rhys has written a review of the gig for us, which you can read after the break.

We”™ve embedded a live vid of “The Sweetest Kill” for those that couldn”™t make it (shame on you!).

Love,
Spotisfaction Crew

Rhys says:

On discovering I”™d won Compisfaction I thought wouldn”™t it be great to write up a review of the Broken Social Scene gig I”™d just won a ticket for. I then had another brainwave. Why not do it in the form of Haiku? So I have.
Part 1. The competition and pre-gig.

Late night I enter,
“Mr Blue Sky” is the song.
Will I win or not?

Discover a text;
Hypothetical, it is:
If win can I go?

Affirmative “Yes!”,
I reply to the message.
Still not offical.

Check on the website –
Amazingly, I have won!
Ready to drive South.

Ignorant of band,
Wikipedia”™s my friend.
Spotify, also.

Listen to album,
“Forgiveness Rock Record”, huh?
Then go to the Gym.

At work ”˜haikuing”™.
Football on soon, I”™m stuck here.
Few days to learn tunes.

Must borrow CD –
Checked out to another”¦
Damn you, library!

Could listen tonight,
But have to go to dance class.
Damn you, busy life.

Made it to the day”¦
Still no expert on the ”˜Scene.
Wish I had more time.

Car drive the last chance
to listen to their CDs.
Now I know some songs!

Part 2. The warm-up act.

New to the O2 –
floor not as sticky as told.
Booze costs so much. :(

Here come Sky Larkin;
Thought it was one guy alone,
but lady led band.

Like it, but not new.
Ace performance, but music
sounds stock. I”™ll explain:

Well made, well done tunes,
in a style heard before.
And many times, too.

Do not write off Sky –
Good band, good sound, good all round;
just been done before.

Part 3. BSS!

Onto the main gig.
Broken Social Scene are on!
Setlist a surprise.

Here are the highlights
as I recall them. Order
could be off a bit:

“World Sick” to begin –
love the twiddly guitar bit!
du du de du duh”¦

“Texico Bitches”:
BP mooted for title”¦
Crowd look unsure.

Next song has rude word!
“Ungrateful Little Father” –
personal fave track.

“Seven Slash Four (Shoreline)””¦
Should be punctuation there,
but couldn”™t fit it.

Next, a new singer.
Young lady singer steps up;
“All to All” the song.

Last song dead catchy.
Moves at a pace with great horns.
The title, forgot. :(

Check with Dave and Thom:
It”™s “Meet Me in the Basement”.
Ta, David Vader :)

A wonderful gig.
I will follow these guys more!
Five out of five stars.

Epilogue.

Just click on this link
to hear a brief gig playlist.
I hope you enjoyed!

Rhys.

Tags Broken Social Scene, Live, Review, Rhys Howell

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AYYEpHuQOXPti3w5XdFZb

Hey guyseses,

Sorry for the super late update today – Thom and I had a ridiculously busy day at work, which isn”™t much of an excuse but will have to do. We”™ve got more of our VFTA: Broken Social Scene series incoming tomorrow, as well as a write-up of the gig by our competition winner, Rhys.

Today”™s playlist was submitted to us by Paul Pritchard on May 20th, but we”™ve been unable to run it until now. Consider it a retrospective instead of a preview.

Take it easy, you slouches.
[David]

78 Spotisfaction Monday (28 Jun) – PPritchard

Join us after the break for the tracklist and Paul”™s blurb.
Paul says:

I”™m off to Barcelona next week to got to the Primaverasound 2010 music festival. I thought it would be a good idea to post a playlist with some of the bands I am most looking forward to seeing whilst there. Perhaps others can post similarly themed playlists for any other festivals they may be attending soon. Here it is:

The Big Pink – Dominos
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Failure
Beak> – Pill
Pavement – Passat Dream
Broken Social Scene – Fire Eye”™d Boy
Wire – Too Late
The Fall – Theme From Sparta F.C.
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
Pixies – Wave Of Mutilation
Condo Fucks – Watcha Gonna Do About It
Ganglians – Hair
Atlas Sound – Walkabout
Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
Orbital – Belfast
Gary Numan – Are ”˜Friends”™ Electric
Real Estate – Basement
Los Campesinos – There Are Listed Buildings
Bis – Eurodisco
The Charlatans – Sproston Green
Beach House – Norway
Lee Perry And The Upsetters – Enter The Dragon
Low – California
Mission Of Burma – Spider”™s Web
Wild Beasts – We Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues

Unfortunately the organisers have seemed fit to put Pavement and Mission Of Burma on at the same time, grrrr.

Photo courtesy of Gigwise.com Glastonbury 2010 saw the celebration of 40 years of the seminal festival, and following the highly successful 2009 festival – which in some quarters had been the best to date following a number of slower years – this year had a lot to live up to. I arrived on site extremely early – the Saturday before, to be precise – to be a part of the festival as a volunteer steward with Oxfam. The site was bustling with event staff, other stewards, riggers, sound men, traders, all getting ready for the big event when the doors opened on Wednesday morning. The fields, though, were eerily empty. The weather forecast got better by the day, and indeed between Saturday and Wednesday the skies remained clear and baked us with blistering sunshine. Our hopes were that it would remain this way a few days longer. And it did. Glastonbury”™s 40th anniversary was a dry, hot, dusty, sun-kissed party; a bustling, noisy myriad of culture, creativity, colour, vibrancy. Shangri-La, accompanied by Kode 9, The Uncommon Ground and Arcadia, are areas of their own distinct culture. Glastonbury is not just about the Pyramid Stage acts, and it would be almost as true, when you experience these pockets of creativity and become acclimatized to the patchwork nature of the festival, to say that Glastonbury is not necessarily about music at all. This is why Jay-Z was not the surprise inclusion 2 years ago billed by some and why Snoop Dogg was accepted this year without the hysterical backlash that accompanied the Jay-Z announcement. This year, Gorillaz were a late replacement for a crocked U2 on the Friday night. Given the unabated success of Blur last year, Damon Albarn was no doubt brimming with confidence that a no-holds barred Gorillaz set, with a band made up of half of The Clash and an infinite number of possible cameo appearances at his finger tips, would give Glastonbury an opening night to remember.

Photo courtesy of Dancenova.com To Albarn”™s, and admittedly my own, surprise and dismay, the set did not translate to the crowd. A host of weaker album tracks from the more commercially successful Demon Days (Parlophone, 2005) and Plastic Beach (Parlophone, 2010) were chosen over the stronger tracks from the eponymous debut album. Only Clint Eastwood made the cut, with the lively 19-2000, the anthemic Sound Check [Gravity] and fantastic Tomorrow Comes Today missing, while less-than-upbeat tracks like To Binge and Superfast Jellyfish from Plastic Beach were on show and trespassing on set closer/encore territory. Indeed, Albarn”™s attempt to get the crowd to sing along to set-closer Pirate Jet – “It”™s all good news now / Because we left the taps / Running / For a hundred years / So drink into the drink / A plastic cup of drink / Drink with the purple / the people / the plastic eating people / still connected to the moment it began” – fell on its face, much to Albarn”™s exasperation, despite the well-intended consciousness-raising sentiment – due to its verbose and distinctly anti-anthemic nature.

Photo courtesy of The Guardian/Yui Mok/AP Muse, on the other hand, could not have proven a greater antithesis to the night before. Muse fell out of favour with this reviewer a long time ago; their music becoming ever-shamelessly bombastic, and self-awareness dropping to zero in favour of louder-than-loud riff derivatives and vaguer-than-vague political incitement. But there”™s no doubting that at whatever level you want to take Muse – the pinnacle of 21st century rock, uber space-opera gods or shameless glam-rock indulgence – it doesn”™t fail to entertain. And when The Edge joined them on stage for a cover of Where The Streets Have No Name, the highlight of Glastonbury 2010 was secured.

Photo courtesy ofÂ Gigwise.com By far the largest crowd-draw of them all was Stevie Wonder”™s Sunday night headline set, and the funk legend showed the young upstarts of the two nights before just why he can still draw a crowd of 100,000 people after nearly half a century in the business. The set was full of classics, without having to rely on guest appearances or stage-bombast to generate emotions in the audience. He made reference to Michael Jackson to great cheer, uttered an indulgence-free anti-war sentiment in two sentences – “I believe God is about the perpetuation of life, not the destroying of it; If could see, I could really kick some ass!” – and closed the 40th anniversary by serenading the audience and Michael Eavis with a rendition of his own Happy Birthday To You. Wonderous.