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But we’ve always relied on our friends and our community and the bands, and just the idea of what the festival is - regardless of the bands just the two days, the environment it creates. We live in times where the difficultly across the board is what attracts people to come out and spend their money and buy tickets and attend shows, and there’s just so much at all times. The Canadian dollar is low too, compared to when you started. And it’s one of those things where you see things closing down left, right and center, and that’s just because this is the nature of the times that we live in. It’s very hard to try to attract people to the festival. There is such a huge team behind it every year.

Everything is a struggle, and doing five years of this festival has always been about the people, to try to bring this show to the people. And Live Nation has been such a fantastic partner on this, because they believed in it the whole time. Try to convince people to spend money to come out and spend money on music is not an easy task these days. Value is the biggest challenge right now.

It’s a huge undertaking to put on a two-day festival like this to add to the busy summer “festival season.” What were the biggest challenges for you? As you mentioned, kids under 12 in for free. We just took that and ran with that in Fort York.Īrts & Crafts, Home of Broken Social Scene, Signs U.S. This is really based on Amy Hersenhoren doing the island shows that we were such a part of. It’s just designed for people to come down in their town and have a great time. It’s catered towards communities, catered towards families, catered towards Toronto. Well it’s not that different from something that’s quite close to us - Hillside. You’ve played many of the big festivals around the world. I know that Jeffrey’s goal was to make something that we all wanted, to design something that bands would love to play and people would love to come to. The Man, Cloud Nothings and Matt Mays on Saturday and Phoenix, Feist, James Vincent Morrow, BADBADNOTGOOD, Thundercat and Timber Timbre on Sunday.ĭrew spoke with Billboard about where Field Trip fits in the international festival scene, the difficulties of putting on such an extravaganza and the possible future of Field Trip.įield Trip started as a 10 th anniversary celebration of your label, Arts & Crafts.

This year’s line up includes Broken Social Scene, A Tribe Called Red, The Pharcyde, Portugal. And there are other perks: kids under 12 get in free, and there are in-and-out privileges. Fans will also be able to catch Broken Social Scene at the Meadows Music & Art Festival in NYC, Midpoint Music Festival in Cincinnati.The setting, which can accommodate 10,000 people a day, is down at the historic Fort York and Garrison Common, against a backdrop of the city skyline - including the iconic CN Tower.

A full rundown of dates can be found below. The much-anticipated American tour takes in DC, Chicago, LA, Seattle, Portland and more. Following the release of their fifth album Hug Of Thunder, Broken Social Scene have today released the video for single “Skyline.” Directed by Kevin Drew, the video follows Brendan and Dimitri Karakostas on their quest for momentary survival, through peanut butter, mouth guards, friendship, skateboarding and Foreigner.įollowing a European tour that saw the band play London’s Brixton Academy and Primavera Festival in Barcelona before culminating with a headline set at Field Trip in Toronto, Broken Social Scene prepare to hit the road again, this time in North America.

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