anyone else like 'em?
I've just discovered them through watching BBC coverage of Glastonbury festival; I think they're great, unusual for a current band to make it through my rather rigourous internal approval committee (chaired by my Inner Leonard, of course!)
I bought their current album and am about to go out and get the first one; they have a very spiritual feel to them and very interesting lyrically too...
arcade fire
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secretchord
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Any links available, SecretChord?
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I recently discovered this band too, and I like em, organs & glock & all. I think they've gone through a lot, all the way from "Yeah, Toast" to "My Body is a Cage."
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recently discovered? what rock have you been hiding under? please keep in mind no offense is intended, i am just amazed. maybe fan-base age difference?
anywho more info on arcade fire:
2 albums released on an independant label (merge).
first album got known thanks to 2 things: bowie singing its praises as the best album he had heard in 10 years and pitchforkmedia.com giving them an amazing review. that was basically all the promo they got, until the media caught wind of it.
they got multi-million dollar offers from major record labels for their second album but decided instead to reinvest the money made with the first album by buying a small abandonned church in farnham, quebec and turning into their own recording studio. recorded the second album themselves in said church plus a couple of other places.
their is a definitive sppiritual feeling to them. they seem to enjoy playing in odd places, like when 3 of the band members started playing a street corner in new york? lately they have been opening/closing shows in a 'crowd bath'. they play the encore accoustic in the entrance hall of whatever venue they were playing.
also quite generous with their hometown community of montreal and more specifically mile-end. the mile end mission was closing and the people of the mission asked arcade fire if they could donate tickets for sale on ebay so they could acquire some funds. arcade fire gave 5 tickets and then decided to put on a last minute show (before their 5 scheduled dates in montreal, london and new york) in a church basement in mile-end. all profits going to the mission. show was secret, no pre-sale, had to freeze my feet but it was an amazing experience because the 400 person crowd consisted mostly of friends.
they also try to raise funds for different haiti support groups or whatever. played 3 sold out dates in montreal and toronto in 2004 or 5 to raise money.
also if you watch the SNL performance where the singer smashes his guitar (it was not a 'look at me the rockstar' moment but rather a symbol linked with the creol words written on his guitar).
ps: first album is waaaaaaaay better then the second album
anywho more info on arcade fire:
2 albums released on an independant label (merge).
first album got known thanks to 2 things: bowie singing its praises as the best album he had heard in 10 years and pitchforkmedia.com giving them an amazing review. that was basically all the promo they got, until the media caught wind of it.
they got multi-million dollar offers from major record labels for their second album but decided instead to reinvest the money made with the first album by buying a small abandonned church in farnham, quebec and turning into their own recording studio. recorded the second album themselves in said church plus a couple of other places.
their is a definitive sppiritual feeling to them. they seem to enjoy playing in odd places, like when 3 of the band members started playing a street corner in new york? lately they have been opening/closing shows in a 'crowd bath'. they play the encore accoustic in the entrance hall of whatever venue they were playing.
also quite generous with their hometown community of montreal and more specifically mile-end. the mile end mission was closing and the people of the mission asked arcade fire if they could donate tickets for sale on ebay so they could acquire some funds. arcade fire gave 5 tickets and then decided to put on a last minute show (before their 5 scheduled dates in montreal, london and new york) in a church basement in mile-end. all profits going to the mission. show was secret, no pre-sale, had to freeze my feet but it was an amazing experience because the 400 person crowd consisted mostly of friends.
they also try to raise funds for different haiti support groups or whatever. played 3 sold out dates in montreal and toronto in 2004 or 5 to raise money.
also if you watch the SNL performance where the singer smashes his guitar (it was not a 'look at me the rockstar' moment but rather a symbol linked with the creol words written on his guitar).
ps: first album is waaaaaaaay better then the second album
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secretchord
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well I'm just a middle-aged guy who's too old to take these young ones seriously any more so I'm a little slow on the uptake, after all, my first Glastonbury festival was 1982....dom_ wrote:recently discovered? what rock have you been hiding under? please keep in mind no offense is intended, i am just amazed. maybe fan-base age difference?
anyways, I like arcade fire a lot, they seem to have something that most bands don't, a vision, spirit, whatever you want to call it
the only thing I don't like is sometimes they veer too much to sounding like Talking Heads ( I believe David Byrne is a fan - the singer sounds an awful lot like Byrne at times) but I think I can live with it
they appeared on the Jonathon Ross show last friday (UK chat show) and at the end of the song the singer walked off the stage and smashed his mandolin into the camera, broke the glass and everything - don't know what that was about, he seemed really pissed off, which was odd cos the rest of them were all smiles
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really? wow maybe he's just going nuts...
david byrne is a huge fan. the second or third single off the 1st album actually featured a live cover of this must be the place (naive melody) with david byrne singing.
david byrne is a huge fan. the second or third single off the 1st album actually featured a live cover of this must be the place (naive melody) with david byrne singing.
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Considering that I am from their hometown Montreal and that they were on the cover of Time Magazine as Canada's Most intriguing Rock band it is probably surprising that I first heard of them just within the past couple of weeks. I very much like what I heard.
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