Arcade Fire

[Hugh Jass]

9 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Doesn't linger long in the memory, tbh.  I was there and - even if I found it patchy at the time -  I really don't remember much about it.

Like most of 2014's bill-toppers, to be fair.

 

I agree, I remember walking away feeling slightly underwhelmed. I mean, it was alright, but I was expecting something truly exceptional.

[Winslow Leach]

Their Reading 2010 set is still one of my most transformative and fondly remembered live music moments. 

My friends went to see Pendulum instead. I still bring it up sometimes.

But their 2014 Glastonbury set wasn't great in comparison. I felt like LCD Soundsystem this year were everything Arcade Fire should have been in 2014.

Edited October 31, 2016 by Winslow Leach

[Winslow Leach]

14 hours ago, arcade fireman said:

In hindsight Reflektor was their weakest album IMO. Title track and a few songs were brilliant but a few too many songs that were interesting ideas but just didn't work. 

Will be interested to see which direction they go in now though. 

Disagree, the first half is a slog but the second has the best run of songs (Awful Sound through to Supersymmetry) since Funeral.

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, Winslow Leach said:

Their Reading 2010 set is still one of my most transformative and fondly remembered live music moments.

I was at Leeds that year and their set is up in the pantheon of all time great headline shows I have witnessed.

[Winslow Leach]

For your consideration.

Sound just seemed a lot bigger and they seemed a lot more energetic. 

[Tuna]

10 minutes ago, Winslow Leach said:

Disagree, the first half is a slog but the second has the best run of songs (Awful Sound through to Supersymmetry) since Funeral.

The Well and the Lighthouse -> (Antichrist Television Blues) -> Windowsill -> No Cars Go -> My Body is a Cage

[home to you]

49 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Gonna have a listen now and see. Would initially say Modern Man, Rococo, maybe Wasted Hours, Sprawl I. Let's see.

I remember Rococo never being that popular on here but I feel it really has some welly in a live setting!

[home to you]

19 minutes ago, Winslow Leach said:

Their Reading 2010 set is still one of my most transformative and fondly remembered live music moments. 

My friends went to see Pendulum instead. I still bring it up sometimes.

Same here, only 1 of my mates came with me to AF and he left for Pendulum halfway through anyway.

Definitely my favourite ever festival set 

[dentalplan]

8 minutes ago, Winslow Leach said:

Their Reading 2010 set is still one of my most transformative and fondly remembered live music moments. 

My friends went to see Pendulum instead. I still bring it up sometimes.

But their 2014 Glastonbury set wasn't great in comparison. I felt like LCD Soundsystem this year were everything Arcade Fire should have been in 2014.

Only LCD and Stones really beat Arcade Fire in my brief Glastonbury career, and even Stones might have been because it was first year and such a massive event. I imagine not having seen Arcade Fire before removes any point of comparison though so it might come off better to me, but yeah I enjoyed the shit out of it.

Having thought about it, they're not really the sort of band I can see being booked to headline twice. They're a cult band and there was previously an element of great live act finally playing the big festival but now I don't see much remaining clamour for them to headline. I mean, I don't really care about it happening again and rather new bands in similar positions were given the slot, and I suppose a lot of you think the same. Might just end up going full Springsteen in future years and play a few non-festival dates to the same fans every tour.

[home to you]

16 minutes ago, Tuna said:

(Antichrist Television Blues)

Really hope they start playing this regularly again. And Laika!

[Homer]

3 minutes ago, TomViolence said:

Really hope they start playing this regularly again. And Laika!

 

Pretty sure they played both when I saw them at Hyde Park (def ATB). I think there was a def element, though, that they'd played Glasto the week before so were mixing it up a bit (for people like me who were at both).

[reflekting]

2014 was really special for me, although I thought the first Earl's Court show was perhaps the strongest of the 4 shows I saw across the Reflektor tour. Seemingly, they are turning into the musical version of Black Mirror though. Excuse the pun. 

[Winslow Leach]

25 minutes ago, Tuna said:

The Well and the Lighthouse -> (Antichrist Television Blues) -> Windowsill -> No Cars Go -> My Body is a Cage

Is good but imo not as good as Awful Sound -> It's Never Over -> Porno -> Afterlife -> Supersymmetry

[Tuna]

That run I posted is my favourite AF run

My suburbs diagnostics: Modern Man, Rococo, City with no Children can all go. Don't really care for the double header of Wasted Hours and Deep Blue. But I forgot how many bangers this record has. I love the build up to Half Light I+II as well. 

[Winslow Leach]

Another random thought about that Reading set: at 47:00 in the video, when Win is singing "I carved your name across my eyelids", check out the way he looks up and is watching Regine. Could just be watching her for timing reasons but then why would I want to believe that?

[home to you]

1 hour ago, Homer said:

 

Pretty sure they played both when I saw them at Hyde Park (def ATB). I think there was a def element, though, that they'd played Glasto the week before so were mixing it up a bit (for people like me who were at both).

Yeah I don't remember it being played in full but Laika was for sure.

Really enjoyed that gig. Including Mumford & Sons, surprisingly.

Edit: apologies, just re read and realised you were referring to the BST show.

Edited October 31, 2016 by TomViolence

[dentalplan]

2 hours ago, reflekting said:

Seemingly, they are turning into the musical version of Black Mirror though. Excuse the pun. 

What does that mean?

[radioahed]

As I missed them in 2014 think I was watching Drenge at the Crows nest I would like them to play again. Watched their set on iplayer when I got back and regretted missing it. Oh well we all make mistakes. 

Not that seeing Drenge was a bad thing just not a "Glastonbury moment"

[reflekting]

2 hours ago, dentalplan said:

What does that mean?

Their inclusion of current social and political themes into their music. Wiki for example considers Black Mirror as "speculative fiction with dark and sometimes satirical themes that examine modern society". I feel this is probably an appropriate way to consider AF.

[Richi1988]

First saw them back in 2013 closing Benicassim and the energy and euphoria of that gig will live with me forever.

However saw them at NOS Alive this year and it just wasn't anywhere near the same. Don't know if they have gone slightly off the boil recently, or if it was just my super high expectations from Beni.

[Lubic]

Looking forward to the next era - they're due another Neighborhood/Suburbs themed album! Hope they strip the live show back a bit this time too. I preferred the 3 Suburbs tour gigs I saw, to Glastonbury.

[CHRLY]

2 hours ago, Richi1988 said:

However saw them at NOS Alive this year and it just wasn't anywhere near the same. Don't know if they have gone slightly off the boil recently, or if it was just my super high expectations from Beni.

NOS this year was my fourth time seeing them. I was at Maanchester in 2011, Blackpool and Glasto 2014 and NOS pretty much tops them all. 

I think it was a combination of the people I was with, the end of an amazing holiday and hearing those songs from Funeral again for the first time in ages. I think they did Power Out -> Rebellion -> Tunnels. I cried a lot. Very special gig for me.

[Richi1988]

2 hours ago, CHRLY said:

NOS this year was my fourth time seeing them. I was at Maanchester in 2011, Blackpool and Glasto 2014 and NOS pretty much tops them all. 

I think it was a combination of the people I was with, the end of an amazing holiday and hearing those songs from Funeral again for the first time in ages. I think they did Power Out -> Rebellion -> Tunnels. I cried a lot. Very special gig for me.

That's fair enough and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

To be fair I still really enjoyed them, there was just something really special about them that night at Beni for me that I don't think could be recreated if I watched them another 50 times.

[Hutchmaster]

Am I the only one who has a bit of love for City with no Children? I reckon it's a great track!

 

[stuartbert two hats]

8 hours ago, Johnkhutch said:

Am I the only one who has a bit of love for City with no Children? I reckon it's a great track!

 

It never seems to get going to me. Feels like a demo.