I know, just thinking about all the bands in the Broken Social Scene family tree gets dizzying at times. It’s okay, grab a seat, sip some tea and relax! The Singing Lamb staff has put together our collective efforts to break down every member and their side projects! But since the list of band members is longer than my grocery list sometimes, we’ve decided to turn this into a five part series – to go perfectly with our week-long BSS celebrations!
Part 1
Kevin Drew
Before co-founding Broken Social Scene with Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew and current band mate Charles Spearin were part of a short lived group called KC Accidental. Drew has also managed to release an exception solo album (we’ll use the word ‘solo’ loosely) entitled ‘Spirit If…’ and directed a number of videos for the likes of Feist and Gentleman Reg, as well as Broken Social Scene.
We Suggest: The Water (short film directed by Kevin Drew)
Brendan Canning
When he’s not dazzling fans with his amazing beard (or lack thereof nowadays), Brendan Canning is co-fronting Broken Social Scene. But Canning has also played in bands like By Divine Right, Blurtonia, Valley of the Giants, hHead, and helped produced a little Len track in the 90’s called “Steal My Sunshine”. Similar to Drew, Brendan also released a “solo” record entitled ‘Something For All of Us’.
We Suggest: “Come For A Ride” by By Divine Right (video)
Charles Spearin
A member of quite an eclectic collection of bands like the experimental/instrumental rock group Do Make Say Think (with such BSS members as Julie Penner and Ohad Benchetrit) and Valley of the Giants (see: Brendan Canning, Sophie Trudeau of GY!BE, et al.) Spearin’s solo album The Happiness Project uses the recorded voices of his neighbours talking about what happiness means to them and a variety of instruments to create beautiful melodies. This album recently won the Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year.
We Suggest: The Happiness Project MySpace
Justin Peroff
When he’s not keeping Broken Social Scene rhythmically in line, drummer Justin Peroff is in a group called Junior Blue, which boast members from Broken Social Scene, Do Make Say Think and By Divine Right…see the family tree begin to intertwine?
We Suggest: Junior Blue MySpace
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