Arcade Fire @ Place Longueuil parking lot 06/09/2010
Last Wednesday, Montreal-based Arcade Fire played a free show right outside the city in a Longueuil Shopping Mall’s parking lot for nearly 10,000 fans. Frontman Win Butler expressed the band’s astonishment at the humbling and overwhelming crowd, thanking everyone from the fans for coming, to the city of Montreal for supporting the band for the past seven years, to Osheaga for allowing them to play a free show less than two months before they headline the Montreal festival. Clearly touched by the turnout, the band poured as much energy into the crowd as the crowd poured back, each feeding off the other and making for an all around great show and party. With grandparents rocking out next to infants, hipsters as far as the eye could see, and people of all ages and walks of life represented, there was a communal feeling of excitement and happiness to be seeing this band so proud to represent Montreal. It was one of those shows where you couldn’t help but love this city, and wonder if Montreal actually has any public drinking laws (turns out it does), as cops were meandering around, chilling and chatting with fans and generally digging the music; it looked like they came out just to see the show too. The show was a sweet gesture from an amazing band, and I felt very fortunate to have been able to see it (partially because I had only heard about it a few hours before it went down — HUGE thanks to David). On the way out, police began to play their roll as they herded the thousands of satisfied fans, still dancing and singing, through blocked off highways and underpasses on their way to flooding the subway.
Much to the delight of the crowd, Arcade Fire played plenty of older hits as well as a few selected songs from their upcoming album The Suburbs. They best represented Funeral with Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels), Haiti, a crowd-backed rendition of Wake Up, and (to great cheering and screaming of LIES! LIES!) Rebellion (Lies). Highlights from Neon Bible were Intervention and Keep The Car Running, the latter of which came in the encore and began nice and slow before building up to a rocking dance party both on stage and in the crowd, making it clear that neither group wanted the show to end. If you have the opportunity to go to Osheaga or any Arcade Fire show, do it. It is well worth any trouble. And now, some tunes: the first four are fresh(ish) tracks from The Suburbs. Enjoy!
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We Used To Wait – Arcade Fire (radio rip)
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Rebellion (Lies) – Arcade Fire
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My Body is a Cage – Arcade Fire
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