On July 11th Broken Social Scene were due to play their famous almost yearly Toronto Island show, unfortunately due to a Toronto work strike they had to cancel.  As BSS always seems to do, they got lemons and made champagne.  To keep their strong fan base happy they decided on a free show at the Harbourfront stage.  It is already being remembered as one of the greatest shows they have ever put on.  As it became a makeshift This Is Your Life  the crowd got as crazy as ever for their hometown band.

More after the jump including a fan shot mash up of Kevin Drew’s Safety Bricks and Feist’s I Feel It All…they’re dating btw!

Local filmmaker Bruce McDonald has his cameras present and asked the public to help out.  He is putting together a film titled This Film Is Broken, though not to be confused or connected to the recently release This Book Is Broken mentioned earlier on this blog.  Mr. McDonald’s plan is to take all the raw footage submitted by the fans and edit it into the movie.  Whether it was an HD Cam or a flip phone, the footage will be evaluated and the clip submitted will come with a screening ticket to the camera person.

I have seen my fair share of epic BSS sets around the globe, in my hometown and theirs, but this one was of great proportions and I would have died to be a part of it.  Thankfully it will be forever alive in digital cameras a IPhones!