Arcade Fire: Just A Reflektor - 29/10/2013

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **Kinetic** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:38 am

Seeing AF at Edinburgh Castle the last weekend of the Edinburgh Festival in August. Cannae wait, should be epic scenes!

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **sawyerpip** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:12 pm

Awesome, I saw them at Cardiff last year and they were great, you won't be disappointed! Also, thanks Crimson Clown for those new songs, I particularly like Speaking in Tongues.

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **Foxhound** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:49 pm

Scenes from the Suburbs- Short Directed by Spike Jonze inspired by the album.

Watch here: http://mubi.com/films/scenes-from-the-suburbs/watch

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **BID0** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:01 pm

Seeing these on Thursday :mrgreen:

can't wait! Hopefully the weather holds out

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **Parksey** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:07 pm

BID0 wrote:Seeing these on Thursday can't wait! Hopefully the weather holds out

So am I, though I haven't even booked my ruddy train ticket to London yet.

I had to miss Glasto this year, so this will be the closest I get to a festival for a while.

I will bring a Trollface flag for GRCadians to mass under.

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **BID0** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:16 pm

Parksey wrote:
BID0 wrote:Seeing these on Thursday can't wait! Hopefully the weather holds out

So am I, though I haven't even booked my ruddy train ticket to London yet.

I had to miss Glasto this year, so this will be the closest I get to a festival for a while.

I will bring a Trollface flag for GRCadians to mass under.

I'll keep an eye out for Ronald McDonald :mrgreen:

I'm going to miss the first bit because of work

hopefully I get there in time for the Vaccines

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **floydfreak** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:39 pm

I will also be there Thursday

last time i saw them was at Reading Festival in 2007 8-)

cant wait for thursday woooohooo

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **BID0** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:55 pm

What did you think then? I missed The Vaccines

I was told that they were quite good

Mumford and Sons were good for picking up women. Women everywhere :shock:

Arcade Fire were brilliant :wub:

I wasn't sure how their songs would translate to live performances, but I wasn't disappointed in the end :mrgreen:

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **Mogster** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:05 pm

BID0 wrote:Arcade Fire were brilliant I wasn't sure how their songs would translate to live performances, but I wasn't disappointed in the end

They're amazing live, aren't they? No Cars Go never gets old.

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **BID0** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:42 pm

It's occasions like this I'm gutted I have no friends, would loved to have gone.

I heard the sound was a bit gooseberry fool but they rocked it anyway.

YouTube

My wife went down there to see them at Hyde park with her friends. I would have loved to have gone, but I couldn't get off work and it was a girlie weekend type of deal.

She said it was great but remained unimpressed with Beirut. She's seeing Pulp there tomorrow.

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **BID0** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:23 am

I got there as Beirut were playing. It was a bit depressing.

Corazon de Leon

Kinetic wrote:Seeing AF at Edinburgh Castle the last weekend of the Edinburgh Festival in August. Cannae wait, should be epic scenes!

Same. It's September 1st, isn't it?

YouTube

Can't believe I'll miss them playing at the castle after the festival. It's just 10 minutes up the road from me as well. :fp:

I reckon i'm destined to never see this strawberry floating band!

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **Parksey** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:05 am

Just got back from London yesterday.

The gig itself was amazing. I was unprepared for how big the whole arena was (I thought it might have just been a stage, and didn't realise they were using it for a festival the day after). There were tonnes of people there and, although we got quite close, we still had to rely on the TV screens to make out the band properly. Also we were stood behind some really annoying individuals at first, but then moved slightly and got a great view.

It was a great day, all in all. The weather was brilliant after the early rain which had been thinking the whole day had gone to pot (my friend couldn't get the day off work, so we had to wait for him to finish at 5 before we went in). As a consequence, we also missed The Vaccines. Was looking forward to them as well.

Mumford and Sons were alright, though their set was a bit weird. They played all their popular anthems bar The Cave all at the start, then went on to some new material and some of their "lesser" songs, all of which were quite slow, repetitive folk ballads which blurred into each other. I felt my own attention wane massively during that point, and I could tell the crowd felt the same somewhat (people were turning around to talk to people, putting their back to the stage).

Arcade Fire were great though. My only niggle is that they didn't play Modern Man or City With No Children (two of my faves from The Suburbs), but I was more than satisfied by the set.

Great gig, all in all.

I'm going to download the Absolute Radio recording of it and listen to it again this week.

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **Crimson** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:00 am

Seems like the first single from the new album will be out on Monday. Small preview up now on Spotify.

Also, can a mod move this to entertainment please thanks?

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **Poser** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:10 am

It's been odd reading this bumped thread. I was a latecomer to Arcade Fire, despite (or perhaps because of) everyone banging on about them.

But I eventually bought their stuff last summer. The Suburbs is majestic in ways I struggle to describe. Sprawl II: Mountains Beyond Mountains is so euphoric it makes my head hurt.

I would probably shave a couple of songs out of the album as a whole, but otherwise it's a clear 10.

The news of new songs from them is excellent; thanks for drawing to my attention

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **BID0** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 12:00 pm

I forgot to post in here about the new song/album :fp:

At the beginning of the year they were selling their Church that they bought for recording in, after finishing the latest album. I think they have a big announcement for 9/9 9pm (canadian time zone?)

The album is called Reflektor, they had a big viral campaign this year: http://instagram.com/reflektor

PostRe: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs by **Mogster** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 6:09 pm

Ooh, I had no idea a new album was on the way. Excitement!

Arcade Fire: Just A Reflektor - 29/10/2013

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