The Arcade Fire Live
Win Butler has dirt underneath his finger nails. Régine Chassagne has shiny sparkles on her arm that shine like diamonds, or headlights. Richard Parry has a big, goofy smile that lights up a room. And he loves to beat on everything in sight, from the pipes on the ceiling to the amps lying next to him.
These are the sort of things you notice when you're standing so close to the stage you have to lean against it, when your friend is so close to the stage he's nearly getting stabbed by Win's mic as Win careens like a drunken Preacher through their first song, "Wake Up". If there were more Preachers who could produce the experience that the first song the Arcade Fire play, the fire, the beauty, the sheer protoplasmic wave of musical noise that goes louder than anything you've ever let your ears touch, and yet, it's touching you like a lover, like a choir, like an energy fulfilling your existence, travelling the length of your body until it burns in your brain, well if Church did that for everyone, we'd all be Christians.
They played 11 songs, then three more for an encore, last night, in Iowa City, at Gabe's Oasis.
1. Wake Up
2. Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
3. No Cars Go
4. Une Année Sans Lumiere(I think this was it; I snagged the set list and it says F. Song)
5. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
6. Rebellion(Lies) (though really they never stopped in between five and six)
7. Burning Bridges (listed on the set list as B. Bridges, and Win, after asking his band mates who wrote this song, said it was a Leonard Bernstein song. I've searched and found nothing. It's been rumored it might be a new song. Whatever it was, it was damn fine).
8. Naive M. (I don't know the Talking Heads, and so I'm listing it as it was on the list)
9. Haiti
10. Crown of Love
11. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Encore:
When they came back on stage, Win asked if we wanted to hear a new song or an old one. Everyone started shouting new. Then Richard took a coin from an audience member, and said he'd flip for it. He let the coin hit the floor, saying he lost it, so they'd just have to play both.
1. New song(something about soldiers? I have no idea)
2. Headlights like Diamonds
3. In the Backseat
Seeing everyone on stage rushing around, changing instruments mid song, playing guitars and bass, playing drums or keyboards, hitting everything in sight, stomping on the floor, making the bar shake, making everyone their own gospel choir, doing this every night, across North America, makes one want to convert. Maybe all it takes is moving to Canada?
These are the sort of things you notice when you're standing so close to the stage you have to lean against it, when your friend is so close to the stage he's nearly getting stabbed by Win's mic as Win careens like a drunken Preacher through their first song, "Wake Up". If there were more Preachers who could produce the experience that the first song the Arcade Fire play, the fire, the beauty, the sheer protoplasmic wave of musical noise that goes louder than anything you've ever let your ears touch, and yet, it's touching you like a lover, like a choir, like an energy fulfilling your existence, travelling the length of your body until it burns in your brain, well if Church did that for everyone, we'd all be Christians.
They played 11 songs, then three more for an encore, last night, in Iowa City, at Gabe's Oasis.
1. Wake Up
2. Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
3. No Cars Go
4. Une Année Sans Lumiere(I think this was it; I snagged the set list and it says F. Song)
5. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
6. Rebellion(Lies) (though really they never stopped in between five and six)
7. Burning Bridges (listed on the set list as B. Bridges, and Win, after asking his band mates who wrote this song, said it was a Leonard Bernstein song. I've searched and found nothing. It's been rumored it might be a new song. Whatever it was, it was damn fine).
8. Naive M. (I don't know the Talking Heads, and so I'm listing it as it was on the list)
9. Haiti
10. Crown of Love
11. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Encore:
When they came back on stage, Win asked if we wanted to hear a new song or an old one. Everyone started shouting new. Then Richard took a coin from an audience member, and said he'd flip for it. He let the coin hit the floor, saying he lost it, so they'd just have to play both.
1. New song(something about soldiers? I have no idea)
2. Headlights like Diamonds
3. In the Backseat
Seeing everyone on stage rushing around, changing instruments mid song, playing guitars and bass, playing drums or keyboards, hitting everything in sight, stomping on the floor, making the bar shake, making everyone their own gospel choir, doing this every night, across North America, makes one want to convert. Maybe all it takes is moving to Canada?
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