Broken Social Scene & Stars = Broken Nose Scene & Seeing Stars

Always good to see promoters organise extracurricular sideshows for bands playing festivals in Brisbane – in this case with both Broken Social Scene and Stars playing the following day at the Laneway Festival. And even better that the sideshow at The Zoo sold out; one step closer to hopefully convincing more promoters that it is worth putting on the extra shows that Sydney and Melbourne always get. On the downside, a sold out Zoo is never the best place to photograph bands…

Had been listening to the Stars album on their myspace page and sounded ok; some songs better than others. And was same experience seeing them play live. They started well, but lost a bit as their set went on. The trouble is that whilst at their best they have an air of The Postal Service about them, at their worst, with the male/female joint vocals, they creep just too close to Deacon Blue for comfort.

Amy Millan

Torquil Campbell

For Broken Social Scene positioned myself near the front but a couple of rows back. Trouble was that I was behind a guy who as soon as the band hit the stage felt the need to constantly punch the air, which meant an elbow-camera-nose interface twice in the first song which didn’t put me in the best of moods…

I had planned on doing 3 songs and getting out but found it very hard actually getting clear shots with the combination of the air-punching guy and all the people at the front with their P&S cameras held above their heads…

Kevin Drew

Did 4 songs, didn’t get anything very good. Went to the bar…

Tried a few shots from the other side of the stage later in their set but the view was just as bad. Spiral Stairs from Pavement made a guest appearance; I don’t think he has the same Picture of Dorian Gray thing that Malkmus has got happening…

Spiral Stairs

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