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Broken Social Scene returns to Olympic Island for the third straight summer, headlining a daylong, all-ages, rain-or-shine concert June 24. Also confirmed are Bloc Party, Feist, J. Mascis and Raising the Fawn, with more to come. Admission is $44.50, plus $6 ferry fare. Public sales start Saturday at Rotate This, Soundscapes and Ticketmaster, 416-870-8000. Listeners to 102.1 The Edge have access to 1,021 discounted tickets ($38.50, plus ferry) starting Thursday at 10 a.m. at the station’s website, http://www.edge.ca
Hmmmm, Bloc Party… ticket discount… friends and relatives I haven’t seen in a while… a city I haven’t been to in a while… a place I like to go to, usually… and perhaps meeting a fellow freakscener or two…
J & Broken Social Scene are playing a charity show for Amma June 23, in Toronto…
Broken Social Scene and J Mascis team up to play Dinosaur Jr. songs for an Amma Foundation benefit on June 23 at the Mod Club Theatre. Tix, $30, are on sale now at Ticketmaster, Rotate This and Soundscapes. The poverty benefit comes the day before both artists play the Olympic Island Festival on June 24.
Quote:The mouse that roarsBRAD WHEELER
At this very moment J Mascis, a grunge guitar elder and early proponent of rock that is deafening, then quiet, then deafening again, is at the subdued end of the dynamic. On the phone from his hometown of Amherst, Mass., he doesn’t have much to say about tonight’s visit to Toronto. In fact, the 40-year-old founder of seminal fuzz-rockers Dinosaur Jr. doesn’t have much to say about anything at all.
Mascis is not rude, but the unresponsiveness is a worry. A yank of the phone cord fails to remedy the man’s notorious slack. You wish you could place a mirror up to the phone, just to see if he still breathes.
He was asked about a pair of shows this weekend with Broken Social Scene, the sprawling local indie-rock collective that will back Mascis tonight at the Mod Club and tomorrow at a music festival on Olympic Island. Awaiting a response, a quick scan of the Internet reveals that narcolepsy attacks are rarely fatal, but that the occurrences can be quite frustrating.
Finally, he is roused to statement. "Broken Social Scene had said they wanted to be my backing band at some point," Mascis drawls, just as I am about to dial Amherst Emergency Services. "I’ve played with them a few times . . . they played with Dinosaur Jr."
That is true. Broken Social Scene opened for Mascis and the reunited Dinosaur Jr. in New York last year. Mascis, with original members Lou Barlow on bass and Emmett (Murph) Murphy on drums, had regrouped after years apart. (Dinosaur formed in the early eighties, became an underground sensation for its feedback-drenched rock, before splintering with the departure of Barlow in 1989, and dissolving completely by the late 1990s.)
One of trio’s early fans was young Kevin Drew, now the Social Scene front man. "I got a lot of props in my teenage years for knowing of Dinosaur Jr. before Nirvana and all those other bands broke. I was the kid that walked around saying, ‘Without Dinosaur, there would be no Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and all those bands that emulated that loud-soft sound.’ "
Years later, Drew is nothing but honoured to perform with a musician he has long been a fan of. "For myself, I’m just happy to play with him, because of the amount of time I devoted to his music."
The concerts this weekend came together when Mascis contacted Drew about organizing a concert in benefit of Mascis’s guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, a middle-aged Indian woman known to her followers as Amma, the hugging saint.
Once the benefit concert was set, Drew scheduled the Olympic Island festival for the following day and asked Mascis to stick around to play that as well. Tonight’s show features Mascis backed by the Scene, playing Dinosaur tunes. Tomorrow’s all-day festival will have more of the same, but with an expanded bill that includes Bloc Party, Feist, Raising the Fawn and more.
Which show should Dinosaur fans attend? It all depends on how you wish you to treat your ears, Drew says. "Friday will be deafening, and Saturday will not be."
Don’t worry about Mascis’s lazy phone demeanour. On stage, he’ll be heard fine. "I don’t answer people fast enough all the time," he explains when asked about his reputation for being shy, even reclusive. "So the press starts putting a lot of spins on it."
Now who would do that?
some great pics of the Olympic Island Broken Mascis Scene show June 24th up on flickr.com…
[img]http://static.flickr.com/67/175020894_869e922225.jpg?v=0[/img]
Cool slideshow from holy reverb on flickr…here
awesome … thanks for that slideshow link allison …
it must be weird for bands to play outside … i wonder what they prefer …
i guess it kind of depends on the weather …
gotta love the Dino love…
Quote:Last month, BSS teamed with J Mascis for a charity show in Toronto, during which the artists rocked through a set of Dinosaur Jr songs together. Drew is hoping the parties can get together for future charity dates when their schedules permit."It was some of the most fun I’ve ever had live," Drew said. "I mean, I used to play a canoe paddle to Dinosaur Jr. before I played guitar. That night on stage, I looked around and we were singing ‘Get Me.’ It was like, you know what? This is it. I’m turning 30 and I’ve achieved everything I’ve ever wanted to do in indie rock."
"holyreverb " wrote:thanks for posting my pics on here. Some guy on the SY forum told me about this.They’re great pics
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