![]() ![]() In 2010, Bruce McDonald made This Movie Is Broken, a movie about the band's Harbourfront show during the 2009 Toronto strike. Stuart Berman's This Book Is Broken (2009) covers the band from its inception to its critical acclaim. It includes grand orchestrations featuring guitars, horns, woodwinds, and violins, unusual song structures, and an experimental, and sometimes chaotic production style from David Newfeld, who produced the second and third albums. The group's sound combines elements of all of its members' respective musical projects, and is occasionally considered baroque pop. These associated acts include Metric, Feist, Stars, Apostle of Hustle, Do Make Say Think, KC Accidental, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, Amy Millan, and Jason Collett. Most of its members play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly in the city of Toronto. A friendship was formed with Hudecki and after he joined the band for a jam and a show at the Rivoli in Toronto, Caledonia was set on making him a part of the album.īuilding on the influence of 70's post punk and Gates' earlier folk works, Caledonia's first full-length is a story of life against the grain and the joy of seeing it through.Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. The band came across the experimental sounds of "Junior Blue", a studio project produced by "By Divine Right's" former bassist Dylan Hudecki and "Broken Social Scene" drummer Justin Peroff. Yet, with members still scattered across the globe – Yukon to Uganda – the EP was a year in the making.īy September 2007, after sleeping in the van at -40C in Dryden Ontario, brooding over the landscape between Winnepeg and Thunder Bay and trying to avoid being trampled by France's Whitewater Kayak team (a show at the World Freestyle Kayak Championships that ended in a riot), Caledonia developed a unified vision. Growing up he had jammed out to Pearl Jam with his high school buddies and hoped the success of Lost Balloons would encourage his friends to collaborate with him.īy the fall of 2005 plans were underway for the first Caledonia effort, "Waiting to Burn", a five song EP that combined all the members' influences and tastes, from the post punk of the late 70s to the break beats of the mid 90s. However, Gates never wanted to write music alone. Lost Balloons landed Gates a nomination for "best album of the year" from Music Nova Scotia in 2004. The result was 2004's Lost Balloons, written and delivered in a style that reflected Gates' singer songwriter approach, alternative country and folk rock. To record his songs of isolation and love on the Atlantic Coast, Gates cobbled together a band with bassist, Zac Crouse, performance pianist, Ian Bent and drummer, Steve Reble. ![]() The Canadian indie rock darling's roster fluctuates the band currently is an eight-piece but has had as many as 12. Then the spring of 2002 found Nova Scotia Biologist Steve Gates at a crossroads that would lead him back to Nova Scotia to quell the fire in his soul. 4 Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle Check for ticket availability 86, People attending the Broken Social Scene concert should be prepared for a large crowd and that's just onstage. For two years he had been stranded on deserted west coast islands counting bird eggs and battling the isolation of life as a street performer in Vancouver. But regrettably, Spires would be its only album-internal disagreements led to Caledonia's breakup in 1999.Ģ. The band's debut album, Spires, came out on Clocwyse in 1998, and one got the impression that Caledonia could have become a big name in goth with the right exposure. Caledonia started playing the Manhattan club scene in 1996, when the half-female, half-male quartet outfit consisted of lead singer Mikaela Pearson, guitarist Scott Varol, bassist Kit E. Gloomy and darkly melodic, Caledonia was a promising but obscure goth-rock/alternative rock band that was active in New York in the late 1990s.
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