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Broken Social Scene, The Belle Game

Fri. August 31st 2018 Capital Ballroom $39.50

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“I don’t want to go out there being presumptuous,” Kevin Drew says, “bec...
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Fri. August 31st 2018 + Add to Calendar Capital Ballroom (No Minors)
7:00pm $39.50

Artists

Broken Social Scene
from Toronto Ontario
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The Belle Game
Dark-Pop from Vancouver BC
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Presented by:

Atomique Productions
All Genres, All Venues, mainly leading touring acts. We are ...
Victoria BC
Open / Operational
The Zone 91.3
The Zone @ 91.3fm
2750 Quadra Street Victoria BC

Hard-copy tickets

Physical tickets at: Lyles Place

Event Description

“I don’t want to go out there being presumptuous,” Kevin Drew says, “because, I’ve worn those presumptuous shoes before, and you don’t want it to feel like, ‘Oh, what a let-down.’” That’s the fear when you bring back one of music’s most beloved names seven years after their last album. But with Hug of Thunder, the fifth Broken Social Scene album, Drew and his bandmates have a right to feel presumptuous.

They have that right because they have created one of 2017’s most sparkling, multi-faceted albums. On Hug of Thunder the 15 members of Broken Social Scene – well, the 15 who play on the record, including returnees Leslie Feist and Emily Haines – refract their varying emotions, methods and techniques into something that doesn’t just equal their other albums, but surpasses them. It is righteous but warm, angry but loving, melodic but uncompromising. The title track on its own might just be the best thing you will hear all year

- a song that will become as beloved as “Anthems For a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl” from their breakthrough album, You Forgot It In People.

Its title, Drew says, captured what he wanted people to feel about the group’s comeback, and how they sound playing together again: “It’s just such a wonderful sentiment about us, coming in like a hug of thunder.”

Broken Social Scene had reconvened, in varying forms, several times over the past four years - the odd festival show here and there, preferably ones that involved the least possible travelling. But the idea that they might turn their hand to something more than greatest-hits sets had been stirring since November 2014, when producer Joe Chiccarelli told Drew the group needed to make a new record.

“He started showing up at our label, asking if we were going to make an album,” Drew recalls. “He just didn’t give up; he just kept saying, ‘You’ve got to strike, you’ve got to do this, the time is now,’ and so finally we agreed.”

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Capital Ballroom
858 Yates Street
Bar / Nightclub
Capacity600
Open / Operational

Event Poster

Broken Social Scene, The Belle Game @ Capital Ballroom Aug 31 2018 - Mar 19th @ Capital Ballroom

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