The Federation of Broken Social Scene is on the road, dropping singles from their July 7 due album Hug of Thunder - the gang closed out the Sat night of Field Trip past and it was a stunner with about 16 people on stage give or take and all the ladies, Amy, Emily, Feist - Ariel Engle is also part of the collective and offers her voice on the track "Stay Happy" - it was the theme of the band's F. Trip, be happy, be courageous enough to care, wear your heart on your sleeve, love laugh live hug and keep one ball of joy in the air at all times, lovely to see them all again together, lovely to hear them too and it will be lovely to see the BSS and the Arcade Fire rock out the ACC - a long time ago I called them the Canadian equivalent of Brits The Clash and the Pistols and Americans, Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Like them they've broken the trajectory, disrupted the system. They have their own festival, their own label, and now they will own the big stage with several thousand pals off and on the stage - makes one want to be 14 all over again and join a band.

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE IS: Kevin Drew - John Crossingham - Brendan Canning - Sam Goldberg - Charles Spearin - Ariel Engle - Justin Peroff - Leslie Feist - Andrew Whiteman - Emily Haines - Evan Cranley - Amy Millan - Jimmy Shaw - Lisa Lobsinger - David French - Ohad Benchetrit - Jason Collett