Canadian rockers Broken Social Scene announce Vicar Street tour date

Canadian rock band Broken Social Scene are set to perform at Vicar Street on 17 August. Tickets will be released on Friday 5 April.

The show will wind down the group’s spring and summer tour, which kicks off in their hometown of Toronto next month.

With two new EPs out this year to add to their prolific discography, this indie-rock band are ready to return to Dublin after a sold-out stint at the Tivoli Theatre last May. This 2018 gig marked the group’s first performance in Dublin in a decade.

Made up of an ever-changing cast of singers and musicians, the two constants in the band are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, who founded Broken Social Scene in 1999. Because of the group’s mutable nature – its size ranges from six to nineteen members – their music is speculative and collaborative, altering with each set of performers.

Since the band’s first album, Feel Good Lost, debuted in 2001, Broken Social Scene have worked with a plethora of artists, including Feist, Jason Collett, rapper k-os and rock band Metric’s James Shaw and Emily Haines. The band has earned two Juno Awards for Alternative Album of the Year, one for 2002’s You Forgot It in People and another for 2005’s self-titled Broken Social Scene.

The group’s latest EP, Let’s Try The After Vol. 2, will be released on 12 April. Let’s Try The After Vol. 1 is out now.

Listen to Broken Social Scene's "All I Want" from Let's Try The After: Vol 1 below.