Blog > Stars Live! @ Esplanade, SG, 7 Jan

Fri, 31/10/08 - 11:45AM Filed in Blog by april | Tags: stars,esplanade,singapore,gigs | Comments: 2

Here's what we got in the mail and we're excited!

Greenhorn Productions presents STARS Live! at the Esplanade Concert Hall on 7 January 2009 at 9 p.m.!

STARS is a critically acclaimed Juno Award-nominated Canadian indie band that has taken the indie world by storm. Amy Millan, Torquil Campbell and Evan Cranley are also members of the indie band Broken Social Scene, with whom they currently share the record label, Arts & Crafts. Campbell is also an actor and has appeared on the television shows Sex and the City and Law & Order.

In Our Bedroom After the War, the name of STARS' fourth and latest full-length album, is mysterious, grand, and multi-faceted.

Set Yourself on Fire, STARS' previous studio album, provided the Montreal-spawned quintet with their international breakthrough single "Ageless Beauty", five years after the band was first formed by Campbell and keyboardist Chris Seligman while they were living near-penniless in New York City. Now gold certified in Canada, Fire proved so enduringly popular in so many parts of the world that the band left on tour following its 2004 release and barely stopped for the next two years. Suddenly, this most sophisticated of pop groups was required to adapt to the life of something its members never expected to become: road warriors.

Ticket prices (excluding Sistic charges) are $68,$88,$108, $128 and $148. Fans of Greenhorn Productions' Facebook page will receive passwords entitling them to a 10% discount. Fans of Greenhorn Productions Facebook page will also receive a password entitling them to priority booking one day prior to public sales launch. Detailed ticketing information will be available by 7 November 2008.
 
"On their fantastic third album, Set Yourself on Fire, Stars build cerebral torch songs out of boy-girl vocals, strings, synths, guitars and the occasional French horn. The music is ornate yet light on its feet, with a communal and almost hippie-ish friendliness behind the lonesome lyrics ("When there is nothing left to burn/You must set yourself on fire"). When Amy Millan sings the dreamy "Ageless Beauty," the effect is psychedelic, like somebody put too much cumin in your valerian-root tea. Stars sound confident enough to set anything on fire."
- Rolling Stone (4 star review of Set Yourself on Fire)

Stars - 'Ageless Beauty' (from Set Yourself On Fire)

Check Stars' MySpace page here, or surf their official site or their label Arts & Crafts.

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