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Stars - April 12

  • Light House Arts Centre 1800 Argyle Street Suite 301 Halifax, NS, B3J 3N8 Canada (map)

BIO/EVENT
STARS –Set Yourself On Fire –20th Anniversary
By all accounts, the process of creating Set Yourself On Fire, Stars’ third full-length album –for Arts & Crafts, home to their dear friends and sometime collaborators and bandmates Broken Social Scene –played like scenes from The Shining. During one of the coldest winters on record, the soft revolutionaries set up shop in a cabin offered to them by an odd man they’d met in a local pub, a chap named Alan Nicholls. Turned out he used to play in a classic Montreal garage band in the sixties and currently writes tunes for Robert Altman. Over the mixing board in his country home studio, there was a photo of Alan giving John Lennon a hug. While the snow fell outside, Stars nestled in their cocoon, drank rivers of booze, smoked things they shouldn’t, had bloody arguments, slid down icy hills on the bellies of their snowsuits, kissed and made up and nearly went insane. They steeped themselves in Sam Cooke and the Super Furry Animals, hash cakes and champagne, DuMaurier Lights and library books, the Apostle of Hustle and skating. Serious emo shit went down. When they were done letting themselves completely fall apart, Stars channeled all that cabin feverish intensity into writing brilliant songs. James Shaw, their old pal from Metric, showed up to help record some tracks. They think he survived unscathed 

INFO
Doors:
7p.m. || Show: 8p.m.
19+ valid ID required. GA Floor/ Reserved seating

SOCIALS
FB - Sonic Concerts (@sonicconcerts) // Stars (@starsstars)
IG - @sonicconcerts // Stars (@montrealstars)
Twitter - @sonicconcerts // (@youarestars)

QUESTIONS
Questions about the event & ticketing? Reach out to info@sonicconcerts.com

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