{"id":27377,"date":"2017-05-24T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27377"},"modified":"2017-05-24T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T21:30:11","slug":"the-day-after-in-manchester-watch-broken-social-scene-with-johnny-marr-perform-elegiac-anthems-for-a-17-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-05\/the-day-after-in-manchester-watch-broken-social-scene-with-johnny-marr-perform-elegiac-anthems-for-a-17-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day-After in Manchester: Watch Broken Social Scene (with Johnny Marr) Perform Elegiac &#8220;Anthems for a 17 Year-Old Girl&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSMan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSMan-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSMan-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSMan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSMan-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSMan.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words cannot express&#8230;.but music can. Despite Monday night&#8217;s heartbreaking events in Manchester, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brokensocialscene.ca\/\"><strong>Broken Social Scene<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0show had to go on in Manchester last night. For the sake of Manchester. And on the first night of their European tour the band even managed to add to its grand numbers Manchester&#8217;s own\u00a0<strong>Johnny Marr\u00a0<\/strong>on guitar. With all the effected teenagers at the <strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong> show, <strong>Broken Social Scene<\/strong> opened appropriately with an elegiac performance of <em><strong>Anthems for a 17 Year-Old Girl<\/strong><\/em> that added gravitas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-07\/broken-social-anthems-that-fall-from-the-sky\/\"><strong>beyond our normal takeaway from the anthem<\/strong><\/a>. And rightly so.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the affecting performance below. Our prayers and best wishes to all affected by this nightmare.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nraA039SeZU\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words cannot express&#8230;.but music can. Despite Monday night&#8217;s heartbreaking events in Manchester, the\u00a0Broken Social Scene\u00a0show had to go on in Manchester last night. For the sake of Manchester. And on the first night of their European tour the band even managed to add to its grand numbers Manchester&#8217;s own\u00a0Johnny Marr\u00a0on guitar. With all the effected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27384,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27377\/revisions\/27384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}