By its very nature as a festival celebrating new music The Great Escape is about bands fighting to find a new audience and carve out a corner in the national music scene.

So it is rare to see a band so effortlessly accomplished as Canada's Broken Social Scene on the bill, and even rarer to see them play so early on in the evening.

As a loose collective of musicians based around the talented multi-instrumentalist Kevin Drew, the band's line-up on record swells and recedes according to what a song requires.

And this was matched onstage, as the band went from being a ten-piece complete with horn section for 7/4 (Shoreline) the highlight from 2005's self-titled album, to a tight five-piece rock band elsewhere in the set.

As he opened the show Drew announced the band only had 45 minutes to rock out, and promised they would play their guts out.

And as the packed Corn Exchange found out, he wasn't about to welch on that promise, creating one of the most memorable shows of the festival's three days, with the frontline of musicians giving every bit of energy out to the crowd, and constantly throwing new surprises into the set, from guest vocalists to the extended, but by no means self-indulgent, jam that closed the show.