Arcade Fire

[Homer]

On 19/11/2016 at 1:23 AM, Chawk said:

 

 

Nice! Were Will Butler and the one who now has a beard hiding under the stage or summat? The guy on rhythm is the bloke who generally drums right?

[Amy Lawn]

Imagine playing to like 5 guys in Denver one year, then the next year you're in Paris and David Bowie is on stage with you singing your tunes.

[dentalplan]

Then stealing a basketball.

[Amy Lawn]

8 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Then stealing a basketball.

*ALLEGEDLY stealing a basketball

[dentalplan]

Just now, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

*ALLEGEDLY stealing a basketball

Yes. Still unproven. We don't want the band coming in here and calling us names.

But you're right about it being nuts about the Bowie collab - I watch that video all the time and I don't think they can quite believe it. I think only a few years into their career they had also performed with Springsteen, Young, Byrne and U2. Those kids know.

[Chawk]

5 hours ago, Homer said:

Nice! Were Will Butler and the one who now has a beard hiding under the stage or summat? The guy on rhythm is the bloke who generally drums right?

Maybe Will wasn't at the gig...or he could have just been standing to the right

In this other one from 2004 it looks like looks like the six of them without him...

and also in the interview for that gig they talk about cutting the touring band down to 6. (Also Tim the beard guy beardless)

But then there's all seven of them in this other one from 2004

 

Edited November 21, 2016 by Chawk

[TheBurns]

this is also a solid css track

[Cbrinxy]

Oh I love them... I called them being a headliner for 2014 three months before they had even released the album. I just knew they were going to release something special and they would not suit anything but a headliner spot. I really hope they will headline again... however I think its more likely that it will be next year, as their album will be coming out in autumn/winter 2017, and they would want the crowd to be familiar if not obsessed with the album.

Similar to how Radiohead toured last summer with A Moon Shaped Pool, but only now that it has truly settled in everyones mind are they ready to headline Glastonbury. Glastonbury is less of a promotional festival for most artists but more of a final climax on the journey of an album/tour.

 

[FloorFiller]

4 minutes ago, Cbrinxy said:

Oh I love them... I called them being a headliner for 2014 three months before they had even released the album. I just knew they were going to release something special and they would not suit anything but a headliner spot. I really hope they will headline again... however I think its more likely that it will be next year, as their album will be coming out in autumn/winter 2017, and they would want the crowd to be familiar if not obsessed with the album.

Similar to how Radiohead toured last summer with A Moon Shaped Pool, but only now that it has truly settled in everyones mind are they ready to headline Glastonbury. Glastonbury is less of a promotional festival for most artists but more of a final climax on the journey of an album/tour.

 

if by 'next year' you mean 2018 then it's a fallow year so they won't be playing (not that they'd headline again so soon after their last headline performance anyway). if they ever do return i don't think it'll be for a while

[reflekting]

8 years at best before they appear again I suspect. They're not commercially successful and there are plenty of acts in the queue to debut before they are due a second turn. Would love it to happen. I think they would be likely to need another couple of albums under their belt at least. 

[Harmonic Prospector]

On 20/11/2016 at 7:39 PM, Homer said:

Nice! Were Will Butler and the one who now has a beard hiding under the stage or summat? The guy on rhythm is the bloke who generally drums right?

Will was in and out of the band in their early days as he was at University around the same time, so performed when he could. 

Jeremy always plays rhythm guitar on Tunnels with Regine on drums even to this day.  

[Mouseboy11]

They've a DVD coming out of the Earls Court gig

 

[home to you]

4 hours ago, Mouseboy11 said:

They've a DVD coming out of the Earls Court gig

 

Awesome news!

There was a fair amount of footage from those Earl's Court shows in Reflektor Tapes and I remember thinking how cool it'd be if they released the whole thing

[Amy Lawn]

Editing and mix makes it look/sound a bit sterile.

[bocumaroy]

Think it looks and sounds great. Pretty much every live performance of that song on youtube sounds terrible in comparison.

Shame that Echo & The Bunnymen cover seems to not be included. 

[FloorFiller]

Arcade Fire Tube (not sure if reliable or..?) are reporting that a new non-album song is gonna be released today or tomorrow

 

[Tuna]

The dude that runs it is well clued up. Suspect it's good info.

Edited January 19, 2017 by Tuna

[dentalplan]

Yeah ArcadeFiretube is the don.

I was just listening to Neon Bible yesterday and I was wondering if they'd bring out another moodier record with a political edge because of Trump. Obviously this has no bearing really as it's not on the album but still something to ponder.

Edited January 19, 2017 by dentalplan

[bocumaroy]

It's just someone who's tweeted him that info. Be a strange thing for anyone to make up, but not a particularly reliable source. 

Not sure how much I like the idea anyway. Can envisage something a bit ham-fisted. 

[home to you]

Exciting news (if true)!

+ Reflektor Tapes/Earls Court DVD is out next week

[kingcrawler]

https://listen.tidal.com/track/69491123

The new song's out now on tidal only but it's letting me stream it anyway.

[dentalplan]

1 minute ago, kingcrawler said:

https://listen.tidal.com/track/69491123

The new song's out now on tidal only but it's letting me stream it anyway.

Yeah I was like "okay might as well listen to 30 seconds" and then it played the whole song for me.

That's... a departure.

[Amy Lawn]

3 hours ago, bocumaroy said:

Not sure how much I like the idea anyway. Can envisage something a bit ham-fisted. 

Yeah, this is my worry. I don't want something dumb and reactionary, but bear in mind that this is the band that made The Suburbs, they've definitely got it in them to make a timely, relevant album about the events that led to Trump.

[dentalplan]

It's not very political so you guys will be pleased.

It's a weird little thing. Kinda fun. I hope the album doesn't resemble this otherwise it'll end up like 48:13.

[Mezhyp1]

I like it but its a lot darker than i had envisioned, also wasn't expecting a Mavis Staple collab