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As you may or may not know, Arcade Fire has built a strong reputation for being one of the best live bands out there today. Since their release of "Funeral" in 2004 they have been building an arsenal of captivating, energizing, and flat-out intense music that in my opinion was made complete (at least for now) with "Reflektor" in 2014. On their "Reflektor Tour" they epitomize all set lists with their perfect mix of past and present Arcade Fire.

At the concert I attended in DC they opened with "Afterlife" perfectly setting the mood for the rest of the show; it was energetic but not over the top (we needed to save our energy for songs like "Normal Person" "Month of May" and "Ready to Start") and all the fans were able to sing along to the chorus, connecting us to the band right from the start. Needless to say, we were all giddy with excitement after the opener.

While there were a fair share of intense songs you can't help but loose control during, there were also some beautiful moments, specifically during "It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus)." Win begun the song as usual at the stage up front, but Régine (Win's wife and co-lead singer for those that don't know) had mysteriously disappeared. Then we heard her voice from a different stage in the center of the GA area. This was cool because Win and Régine were separated and then during the really beautiful part of the song they would reach out for each other, only to be unsuccessful in reuniting, bringing the meaning of the song to life in a way.

Through all of the intense and beautiful moments, Arcade Fire, after two hours of practically non-stop music, arrived at the finale. Let me tell you, this is something so majestic, so empowering yet humbling, so down to earth, it doesn't deserve to be written about. You need to experience it. Live. All that was left for me to say after the show was that Arcade Fire truly deserve their reputation for being perhaps the best performers out there today.

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"It's a bunch of geeks playing ****ing art music. It shouldn't have been any ****ing good. But they were ****ing amazing". Such was the reaction of the gentleman behind me after my first Arcade Fire gig, at Manchester Academy in 2005, and I certainly wouldn't disagree.

Back then, the most successful alumni of the mid-Noughties golden age of Canadian music really were stereotypical art-school types, all embroidered blazers and harps and stilted, awkward banter. But my word, put them on a stage and they'd blow your ****ing mind.

"Wake Up", with its peerlessly anthemic chorus delivered with almost religious fervour. The cacophonous, punky "Laika", with Richard Reed Parry using every hittable object on stage as an impromptu drum kit. "Haiti", with its eminently danceable groove belying the darkness of its lyrics. And "In The Backseat", a song that rendered a 1500-strong audience utterly mute, and concluded with the audience spontaneously carrying on its closing refrain for two full minutes after the band had left the stage. It was exhilarating. It was revelatory. It was sublime.

Since then, I've seen them in churches and stadiums and muddy fields and on one memorable occasion, a BBC studio. I've seen their sound change and evolve with each album (the disco influenced "Reflektor" is a whole different beast to the stripped back Americana of "The Suburbs", which in turn is a massive shift from the dense and ostentatious "Neon Bible", not to mention the rough-edged beauty of "Funeral"). I've seen their audiences grow bigger each tour, not to mention their collection of industry awards. But what has remained a constant is their dedication to putting 110% into their live shows.

Last night, I saw Arcade Fire for the 27th time. It was just as joyous and vital as the first.

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Arcade Fire at the Forum was an amazing experience. This was my first time seeing them live and I think they were meant to play big venues. Seeing as this was a part of their "Reflektor Tour" I thought this was going to be mostly new songs, but they made sure to play a wide range of songs, even a few from Neon Bible, which surprised me.

I knew it was going to be a good show when the announcer came out to introduce the band in a full mirrored disco ball suit and the band opened with Reflektor, making sure anyone who had just recently heard of them would get into the show. They continued with plenty of hits from each of their albums like "The Suburbs", "Ready to Start", "No Cars Go", etc. But for each of the songs from their newest album had little fun tidbits like guys in high heels vogue dancing to "We Exist" and Regine appearing on the secondary stage in the middle of the crowd for "It's Never Over." But they really brought it home when in the middle of "Here Comes the Night Time" they completely covered the crowd in the most confetti I have ever seen. It was definitely a dazzling spectacle.

There were a few other strange tidbits like having "The Reflektors" play Rage Against the Machine before Arcade Fire came back out for their encore as well as dedicating a song to Axl Rose. All in all the night was amazing and came to a very climactic end when the whole stadium echoed with the audience singing "Wake Up" at the top of their lungs. It was probably one of the best concert experiences I have ever had. In summation, if you want to see something very different and have stories to tell for years to come, I would highly recommend seeing Arcade Fire live. They were born to play stadium shows and I think they will only be playing bigger and bigger venues from now on.

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Arcade Fire was absolutely amazing. Half an hour before the doors opened, a tour guide recruited me to dance for them and she took me backstage. I saw Regine Chassagne in a hallway and I said Hi and she was a little surprised but said Hello back. Then I got to put on a Regine bobblehead and opened the pit at Barclay's Center and danced to the opening act for about fifteen minutes. When AF came on, they opened with Reflektor, possibly their top song in that album and everyone was boiled over to see someone in a full on Reflektor suit on the little elevated stage in the middle of the arena. The set list consisted of crowd favorite songs from the Suburbs and Reflektor, a little rendition of My Body Is A Cage and of course the famous Wake Up from the album Funeral. Regine Chassagne was graceful and adorable everytime she danced, especially wearing a silver cape as Joan during Joan of Arc. Win Butler was very friendly with the crowd, trying on a fan's masquerade mask and shaking everyone's hand at the barricade when the show ended. Arcade Fire had lots of surprises and treats for their fans, great band with incredible talent and yet still so humble.

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Although I was quite far away from the stage, Arcade Fire did not fail to blow my mind at Verizon Center in Washington DC last night. The show was full of surprises with outstanding costumes, and moving sets with synchronized lights. Even from 50 feet away from the stage I felt the excitement from the band, as well as the rest of the arena and I could not stop singing, dancing, fist-pumping... It was an experience I'll never forget. Only a band like Arcade Fire could make an entire arena of hundreds of people feel connected. Their albums, all unique, have such beautiful songs with powerful lyrics. You can feel the soul they put into the words as they sing them to the crowd.

Watching the crowd move as one and sing as one when the band started Wake Up gave me chills and I couldn't help but smile and pour my soul into singing along, (even though the band was so far away from me). Even without the lights, the costumes, the decorations like mirrors and a disco ball, the colorful, intense backgrounds, and the glitter and confetti, Arcade Fire would've been just as amazing.

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They say perfection doesn't exist, well that's wrong when it comes to Arcade Fire. The show was perfect, almost surreal- definitely the concert of the year by far. The set list on the Wednesday show was as of it was made for me, playing songs I never thought I would hear live, it was an emotional experience. The lighting, costumes, music transitions, props was amazing, and the boxing type ring stage was incredibly clever, allowing them to be closer to the fans and yet providing a different show on every side. Words can't explain what I felt during and after the concert, it was playful, clever, emotional, energetic- Such an amazing band, I'm so glad I found them- I don't know how I was alive before finding them. They have such an incredible stage presence, I really truly recommend seeing them if you have the chance- they unite all ages and create magic and unity.

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Night #2 of Arcade Fire's Brooklyn stand at the Barclay's Center did not disappoint. The massive arena show proved that Arcade Fire has successfully translated the energy of their indie early days to the big and shiny stages of the masses. The set list, leaning heavily on the new Reflektor and the now classic Funeral album was energetic and driving interspersed with a few of the more popular tracks from The Suburbs. The band did not let off the gas from the halfway point on, and the encore saw New York's own Marky Ramone take the stage to play drums as the band ripped through Ramones classics "I Don't Wanna Go Down in The Basement" and "I Wanna Be Sedated." As the confetti fell and the last notes of "Wake Up" rattled off the rafters a satiated NYC crowd was invited to stay and dance, though most quickly filed out into the night time, buzzing.

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Arcade Fire played an absolutely electric show at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, leaving the crowd buzzing with more energy at the end than it already had at the start. Arcade Fire began their set with a Devo cover, which was a very nice tribute since Devo had to cancel that night due to a "kayaking accident." They covered all the bases, even playing older hits such as Rebellion(Lies). It truly was one of the best musical experiences I've ever had; the sound quality was unparalleled, the light show and visuals were engaging, and the jamming at the end of songs like Reflektor, Here Comes the Night Time, and Wake Up is what going to live shows is all about. The paper mache heads and ridiculous confetti just added to the effect. 10/10 would see again. Thanks Arcade Fire, best Wednesday night ever.

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Well, as a show, it was one of the best ones I've ever been to, with spectacular mirror plays and great enphasis from the members of the band, who move from side to side of the stage (I think at least one of them was high on drugs, or was it just part of the show?). "It's never over" was fantastic to watch live, you can feel the synthony between Win Butler and Régine Chassagne. Problem is, I was so close to the stage that I couldn't enjoy the music itself: the soundcheck had been done badly, so that the bass would cover every other sound sometimes, and it seemed to be overdriven. But the way the crowd was taken by the concert was amazing, never seen anyone so close to their fans. I would have liked to follow their dress code, but, as you know, Rome is quite hot in summer.

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Arcade Fire Announce Dates for 2022 European & North American ‘WE’ Arena Tour

The outing is slated to kick off on Aug. 30 in Dublin at 3Arena.

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After a triumphant Saturday Night Live set, Arcade Fire have announced the dates for the upcoming tour in support of the group’s new album, WE . The U.K./European leg of the outing will launch on Aug. 30 in Dublin, and runs through dates in London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Berlin and Warsaw before jumping to the U.S. for a fall swing.

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The North American dates will kick off on Oct. 28 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C., with slated stops in Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, B.C., and a Dec. 1 date at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. The U.K./European dates will feature opening sets from Feist, with Beck on board to perform acoustic sets on the North American gigs. Tickets for the shows will go on sale on Friday (May 13).

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The band’s fifth appearance on SNL for the Mother’s Day show included a pair of songs from their just-release sixth album, as well as a powerful message about abortion rights. Their first performance ran through “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid),” which contained a special Mother’s Day tribute, as well as a second, titanic, run through the scorched earth rocker “The Lightning I, II,” which ended with singer Win Butler making a statement about abortion rights in light of the May 2 leak of a Supreme Court draft decision signaling the possible overturning of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.

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“A woman’s right to choose, forever and ever and ever. Amen,” Butler said.

Check out the band’s tour dates below .

  • Aug. 30 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena
  • Sept. 2 — Birmingham, England @ Utilita Arena Birmingham
  • Sept. 3 — Manchester, England @ AO Arena
  • Sept. 5 — Glasgow, Scotland @ OVO Hydro
  • Sept. 8 — London, England @ The O2
  • Sept. 11 — Lille, France @ Zenith
  • Sept. 12 — Antwerp, Belgium @ Sportpaleis
  • Sept. 14 — Cologne, Germany @ Lanxess Arena
  • Sept. 15 — Paris, France @ Accor Arena
  • Sept. 17 — Milan, Italy @ Mediolanum Forum
  • Sept. 18 — Munich, Germany @ Olympiahalle
  • Sept. 21 — Madrid, Spain @ WiZink Center
  • Sept. 22 — Lisbon, Portugal @ Campo Pequeno
  • Sept. 23 — Lisbon, Portugal @ Campo Pequeno
  • Sept. 25 — Bordeaux, France @ Arkea Arena
  • Sept. 26 — Nantes, France @ Zenith de Nantes
  • Sept. 28 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome
  • Sept. 29 — Berlin, Germany @ Mercedes-Benz Arena
  • Oct. 1 — Warsaw, Poland @ COS Torwar
  • Oct. 28 — Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem
  • Nov. 1 — Camden, NJ @ Waterfront Music Pavilion
  • Nov. 4 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
  • Nov. 8 — Boston, MA @ MGM Fenway Music Hall
  • Nov. 10 — Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
  • Nov. 12 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
  • Nov. 13 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
  • Nov. 16 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Kia Forum
  • Nov. 19 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
  • Nov. 22 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
  • Nov. 25 — Vancouver, British Columbia @ Rogers Arena
  • Nov. 27 — Edmonton, Alberta @ Rogers Place
  • Dec. 1 — Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena

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Arcade Fire World Tour Announce North American Dates To Feature A Special Acoustic Performance By Beck, European Dates To Feature Special Guest Feist

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Following the universally rapturous reception to singles “The Lightning I, II” and “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid),” Arcade Fire’s “excellent sixth album” ( The New Yorker )  WE  is released to the world in its entirety today, May 6th 2022, via Columbia Records at  http://af.lnk.to/_we .

WE ’s release coincides with the announcement of  Arcade Fire’s fall world tour . In the wake of surprise underplays including New Orleans’ Toulouse Theatre, New York’s Bowery Ballroom, Coachella’s Mojave Tent and KOKO in London, the WE world tour will bring the full production of Arcade Fire’s “must-see live act” ( Variety ) experience to global stages, launching in Dublin on Tuesday, August 30th and running through December 1st in Toronto. The North American leg of the WE tour — featuring very special guest  Beck  playing a nightly acoustic set — will kick off October 28th in Washington D.C., while Europe will include special guest  Feist  for all shows.

Tickets for all dates will be on sale to the public beginning Friday, May 13th at 10am local time. Arcade Fire has partnered with PLUS1 ( http://www.plus1.org ) so that $1/£1/€1 per ticket goes to KANPE ( http://www.kanpe.org ), and their work bringing support to the most vulnerable communities in Haiti. For further information on this initiative, visit  www.arcadefire.com .

Presale:  Verizon will offer an exclusive presale for the Arcade Fire 2022 tour in the U.S. through the customer loyalty program  Verizon Up . Members will have first access to purchase presale tickets for select shows beginning Monday, May 9th at 10am local time until Thursday, May 12th at 10pm local time. For more details and to sign up, visit Verizon Up. 

Citi is the official card of the Arcade Fire WE tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets for all U.S. dates beginning Tuesday, May 10th at 10am local time until Thursday, May 12th at 10pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit  www.citientertainment.com . 

VIP:  Arcade Fire will offer VIP packages for each show that include premium tickets, pre-show VIP lounge, specially designed and exclusive merchandise & more! Package contents vary based on the offer selected. Fans can visit  www.VIPNation.com  for more information! 

Make sure to tune into  SNL  tomorrow as Arcade Fire join the  Saturday Night Live  5-timers club. 

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European Tour 2022 

08/30/22 – Dublin, IE – 3Arena * 

09/02/22 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena Birmingham * 

09/03/22 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena * 

09/05/22 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro * 

09/08/22 – London, UK – The O2 * 

09/11/22 – Lille, FR – Zenith * 

09/12/22 – Antwerp, BE – Sportpaleis * 

09/14/22 – Cologne, DE – Lanxess Arena * 

09/15/22 – Paris, FR – Accor Arena * 

09/17/22 – Milan, IT – Mediolanum Forum * 

09/18/22 – Munich, DE – Olympiahalle * 

09/21/22 – Madrid, ES – WiZink Center * 

09/22/22 – Lisbon, PT – Campo Pequeno * 

09/23/22 – Lisbon, PT – Campo Pequeno * 

09/25/22 – Bordeaux, FR – Arkea Arena * 

09/26/22 – Nantes, FR – Zenith de Nantes * 

09/28/22 – Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome * 

09/29/22 – Berlin, DE – Mercedes Benz Arena * 

10/01/22 – Warsaw, PL – COS Torwar * 

North American Tour 2022 

10/28/22 – Washington, DC – The Anthem ^ 

11/01/22 – Camden, NJ – Waterfront Music Pavilion ^ 

11/04/22 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center ^ 

11/08/22 – Boston, MA – MGM Fenway Music Hall ^ 

11/10/22 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena ^ 

11/12/22 – Chicago, IL – United Center ^ 

11/13/22 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory ^ 

11/16/22 – Los Angeles, CA – The Kia Forum ^ 

11/19/22 – San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium ^ 

11/22/22 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena ^ 

11/25/22 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena ^ 

11/27/22 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place ^ 

12/01/22 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena ^ 

* with special guest Feist 

^ with special guest Beck (acoustic) 

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How Arcade Fire Found a Way Back

After a meteoric rise that built a passionate fan base, the band had trouble connecting on its last album. A new release, “We,” links the group’s past to its hopes for the future.

From left: Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Régine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara and Win Butler of Arcade Fire. Credit... OK McCausland for The New York Times

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There are a few indicators that Win Butler, the singer and guitarist who fronts the rock band Arcade Fire , might be a professional somebody: the flat-brimmed, cream-billed bolero hat atop his head or the shock of slicked-back, bleached blond hair that materializes when he takes it off. He’s also exceptionally tall, a trait that helped him to win MVP at the 2016 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game over Jason Sudeikis and Nick Cannon.

On a warm day in March, Butler and his wife, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Régine Chassagne, were walking through Times Square when Butler was conscripted into a tourist-trap performance where someone would vault over a group of men. It was safe to say that Butler was the only participant who’d once accepted a Grammy for album of the year.

In the end, the performers chose to leap over someone else. “Discrimination against tall people is real,” he noted with humor returning to Chassagne, who’d pressed a wad of bills into a collection hat.

This trip represented a musical homecoming, of sorts. The night before, Butler, Chassagne and Arcade Fire, a band that has headlined to more than 100,000 at Glastonbury, performed at Manhattan’s 600-capacity Bowery Ballroom for the first time since 2004. David Bowie and David Byrne attended that performance 18 years ago, and the joint patronage of two art-rock legends helped anoint the band as The Next Big Thing .

“Right out of the gate, it was like, ‘I think our lives might be a bit different,’” Butler recalled.

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What followed was one of the sharpest ascents in recent rock history. Arcade Fire’s debut, “Funeral,” became the fastest-selling record in the history of its indie label, Merge. Its 2010 LP, “The Suburbs,” debuted at No. 1 and was the surprise album of the year winner, beating out Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Eminem.

The group’s music has combined delicate interiority with expansive Springsteen-esque rock ’n’ roll, and pulled from classical, disco, chamber music and Haitian rara. Onstage, where the large ensemble’s ecstatic performances could resemble a tent revival, it has sounded like a shuffling street band, a tight rhythm machine and a superstar rock unit capable of filling out a football stadium.

But when “Everything Now” arrived in 2017, an LP that hybridized the band’s dance and rock sounds, something shifted. The record was accompanied by a trollish press campaign where the band created several websites that intentionally spread false information about its activity, as a sort of commentary on the nascent “fake news” era. This did not go over well. For whatever reason — the darker political climate, the quality of the record itself — “Everything Now” was a commercial and critical misfire.

“We,” the group’s sixth album, due May 6, is a reset. The lead single “The Lightning I & II” returns to soaring, big-sky rock, and the existential concerns threaded through the band’s career. (“I heard the thunder and I thought it was the answer,” Butler sings. “But I find I got the question wrong.”) “Age of Anxiety I” and “Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)” start as solemn, piano-driven ballads before slowly building toward explosive, rhythmic release. Other songs veer into stripped-down, singer-songwriter territory: “End of Empire I-IV” is a multipart epic about life during American decline, while “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” wouldn’t sound out of place at a campfire singalong.

“I look at Paul Simon, and look at the breadth between ‘Graceland’ and what he was doing with Simon & Garfunkel — to think that’s the same person who made that music, that’s extremely inspiring,” Butler said. “I was always more interested in seeing if there’s a way to do whatever you want, musically, and still have it feel like the band.”

As the group performed some of those tracks at the Bowery — and led elated fans on a mini-march into a nearby subway station — the new songs bled seamlessly together with older favorites like “Rebellion (Lies)” and “Ready to Start.” But the band that made “We” has undergone significant changes.

“It’s a less physically unified life than it was once upon a time, which you can look at however you want to,” Richard Reed Parry, one of the band’s multi-instrumentalists, said in a video interview, with a knowing chuckle. “Very, very different life these days.”

SITTING AT THE Midtown restaurant Patsy’s, where Butler’s grandfather Alvino Rey used to perform with his jazz band, Butler was chattier than Chassagne, but they regularly finished each other’s thoughts, and shared knowing glances across the table.

“I’ve come to believe that music is literally a spirit,” Butler said. “Not figuratively. There’s something that gets inside you, and it can get passed on to different people.”

For more than 20 years, Arcade Fire has thought deeply about the forces, spiritual and otherwise, that connect people. On some level, its music wagers, all of us feel that society is stupefying, and modernity is terrifying. Only by acknowledging this can we be liberated from the paralysis that accompanies adulthood, and recapture our uncontaminated appreciation of the world.

“The music is good, but I think it’s also about what they represent,” David Byrne said in a video interview. “They don’t seem too slick; they take the slightly chaotic aspect of their shows as a virtue. I think people appreciate that they’re not getting a super-duper polished pop product — it feels like this is something they really believe in.”

In the band’s early years, the band gained and shed members, settling into a lineup that included the multi-instrumentalist Parry, the bassist Tim Kingsbury, and Butler’s brother, Will, on various keys, strings and football helmets; the drummer Jeremy Gara began as a tour manager, and joined full-time in 2004. They remained remarkably self-contained, and resistant to the external pressures of rapid success.

“When things blow up, the sharks come around,” Chassagne said with a laugh. “We know what we want to do, and so you don’t get impressed by checks and promises.” (Butler noted they “probably met about 20 people” who claimed to have signed Nirvana after “Funeral” blew up.)

After the 2013 album “Reflektor,” Butler and Chassagne relocated to New Orleans, where they’d fallen in love with the local culture (as well as its relative proximity to Haiti, where Chassagne’s family originates), while the rest of the band remained in Montreal. The backlash to its follow-up, “Everything Now,” didn’t prompt “massive internal change,” Parry said, but noted, “It was the first time we’d been outside of an arm’s length from each other, and that had much more of an impact on the band.”

Kingsbury agreed. “It coincided with the time in everyone’s life when we were in our mid-30s, and children were appearing,” he said in a video interview. (Butler, now 42, and Chassagne, 45, have a 9-year-old son.) As a result, he said, on the band’s most recent albums “there’s certain aspects that are less all of us and a little more of them.”

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, border restrictions prevented the group from meeting in person, and working over Zoom proved fruitless. Butler said he and Chassagne challenged themselves to envision every song on “We” without production or drums, in case they were forced to make the album without the rest of the band. (Early on, Josh Tillman, who performs as Father John Misty, flew in from Los Angeles to act as a sounding board.) The band was subsequently able to convene in El Paso, Texas, in the fall of 2020, and again the following summer in Maine.

Butler and Chassagne are constantly working on new music. “Our process is just our life,” he said, noting that Chassagne doesn’t receive enough credit for the band’s output. “Régine has this magical ability to remember almost anything we’ve ever done. It’s always coexisting at the same time; some songs take 20 years to write, some songs take 20 minutes.” During our conversation, Butler spoke often about time, musing about what it takes for a restaurant to stay open for 100 years (“There’s something to be said for just executing something”), and lamenting the strict standards that new artists are judged by (“I hope there’s still a space in the world for a band to make a bunch of crappy records, and have their fifth record be genius”).

“The common path of almost every artist that I respect is very circuitous — it’s not a straight line, and there’s a lot of ups and downs,” he said in a separate video interview. “It takes 20 years to know if anything’s good or bad, anyway.”

Butler also resisted the idea that the reaction to “Everything Now” provoked any extended contemplation about the band’s identity. Still, “We” feels like a subtle recalibration that both revisits the past, and pushes forward. The band is “always mixing the old with the new,” Parry said. “Things kind of surface and resurface.” Parts of “The Lightning I and II” date back to the “Funeral” era. Chassagne said one movement of “End of Empire I-IV” was written when she and Butler first met in college; it’s immediately followed by something they wrote the week of recording. Parry said a lot of music was left on the cutting-room floor. “There were other records we were working on at the same time as this one that I would like to exist,” he noted.

For “We,” Arcade Fire brought in the British producer Nigel Godrich, who’s known most for his work with Radiohead. The title harkens back to Butler’s childhood memory of his grandmother reading him a book with “We” stamped on the cover. That book was Charles Lindbergh’s autobiography, but the name is more directly drawn from the Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel of the same name, which takes place in a future society that exists entirely under mass surveillance.

Butler said he made a physical mood board of inspirational material, and was drawn to both “dystopic images of a boot stepping on someone’s face, everyone in masks, really kind of anxiety, fever dream stuff” and “images of our son, family, old pictures of the band, and the piece of concrete outside of our old apartment in Montreal where we wrote our names in 2003.” (It’s still there, he proudly noted.)

“It took a while to understand why they were related to each other,” he said. “But we started to realize that it was more like the light and the shadow. It’s tempting to separate them, but they’re actually sort of the same thing.”

The first half of the record is shot through with dread about the modern age, with Butler lamenting the palliatives — television, medication, algorithmic-generated content — that don’t seem to make us any happier. But it gives way to a more tender perspective, with Butler and Chassagne singing directly about their son, Eddie (who’s credited with providing “whispers” on “End of Empire”), and the way that love forges meaningful kinship. Peter Gabriel sings on “Unconditional II (Race and Religion),” and they said it was gratifying to talk shop with another artist with the same dogged approach to pursuing music.

“It was so special to hear that because I was like …” Chassagne said, trailing off.

“ … we feel crazy sometimes,” Butler said, finishing the thought. “It’s nice to meet other people that know what we’re talking about.”

“We” signals a new era for Arcade Fire in some more formal ways. The day after the first of what turned into four Bowery shows, Will Butler announced he was leaving the band. “There was no acute reason beyond that I’ve changed — and the band has changed — over the last almost 20 years,” he said in a statement .

Kingsbury said, “He was just ready to take a break.” Parry added he was “devastated” by the move: “I think there’s just a lot of things that he has to do, while he’s still in the prime of his life, that are not being in a rock band on tour.” (Will Butler declined to comment.)

Arcade Fire’s membership has always expanded in a live setting, and with a tour tentatively scheduled for the fall, it has brought in Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner and the Haitian multi-instrumentalist Paul Beaubrun. “Even though they’re one of the biggest bands in the world, it always feels like we’re the underdog,” Beaubrun said. “We have to give it our all, all of the time. I’ve never felt that from anyone.”

The group’s ambitions still stretch beyond putting out more records. Chassagne cited her philanthropic work in Haiti as a major focal point of the next few years. Butler said he and Beaubrun are working on launching a digital label focused on importing Haitian artists. He brought up his grandfather Alvino, who continued playing music into his 90s. “The scope of his career, and those relationships, is so long. Even with my brother — if he hadn’t been in the band, we just have so many shared experiences that I’m really proud of.”

He wanted to stay present, he said, no matter what the future held. “This whole process of people judging a record, and is this good or is this bad — I don’t give a [expletive] about any of that,” he said. “I play music to stay alive.”

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Arcade Fire dropped WE , their sixth studio album, today, and they've now followed its release with the announcement of an international tour this fall. Scheduled well in advance, the European and North American runs follow a string of surprise and short-notice sets — in their adopted hometown of New Orleans and on the first night of Coachella last month. They're also slated to perform on this week's episode of Saturday Night Live .

Their newly announced WE tour is set to start August 30 in Dublin with special guest Feist , who will move slowly east with the band until the start of October. They'll pick up again stateside in Washington, D.C. at the end of the month with Beck playing acoustic sets in support of the trip's North American leg.

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August 30 - Dublin, IE - 3Arena * September 2 - Birmingham, UK - Utilita Arena Birmingham * September 3 - Manchester, UK - AO Arena * September 5 - Glasgow, UK - OVO Hydro * September 8 - London, UK - The O2 * September 11 - Lille, FR - Zenith* September 12 - Antwerp, BE - Sportpaleis * September 14 - Cologne, DE - Lanxess Arena * September 15 - Paris, FR - Accor Arena * September 17 - Milan, IT - Mediolanum Forum * September 18 - Munich, DE - Olympiahalle * September 21 - Madrid, ES - WiZink Center * September 22 - Lisbon, PT - Campo Pequeno * September 23 - Lisbon, PT - Campo Pequeno * September 25 - Bordeaux, FR - Arkea Arena * September 26 - Nantes, FR - Zenith de Nantes * September 28 - Amsterdam, NL - Ziggo Dome * September 29 - Berlin, DE - Mercedes-Benz Arena * October 1- Warsaw, PL - COS Torwar *

October 28 - Washington, DC - The Anthem ^ November 1 - Camden, NJ - Waterfront Music Pavilion ^ November 4 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center ^ November 8 - Boston, MA - MGM Fenway Music Hall ^ November 10 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena ^ November 12 - Chicago, IL - United Center ^ November 13 - Minneapolis, MN - The Armory ^ November 16 - Los Angeles, CA - The Kia Forum ^ November 19 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium ^ November 22 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena ^ November 25 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena ^ November 27 - Edmonton, AB - Rogers Place ^ December 1 - Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Arena ^

* with special guest Feist ^ with special guest Beck (acoustic)

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Arcade Fire announce ‘WE’ world tour for 2022

Win Butler recently told NME he hopes it will be "the definitive Arcade Fire tour"

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Arcade Fire have announced details of a new world tour, set to take place later this year in support of their new album ‘WE’ . Check out ticket details here .

The band released the record – their sixth so far – earlier today (May 6) and will hit the road in September, following on from one-off dates in New Orleans , New York , Coachella , and London in the run-up to the LP’s release.

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The tour will kick off in Dublin on August 30, taking the group across the UK and into Europe throughout September. The North American leg of the tour will begin in Washington D.C. on October 28, running until a final stop in Toronto on December 1.

Arcade Fire will be joined by special guest Feist for the UK and European dates, while Beck will join them to play acoustic sets in North America.

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Tickets for all tour dates will go on general sale to the public at 10am local time next Friday (May 13). Arcade Fire has partnered with the social and environmental justice non-profit PLUS1 on the tour to ensure that £1/$1/€1 from every ticket will go to KANPE , a foundation committed to supporting the most vulnerable communities in Haiti.

You can view ticket details and further information here for the UK  and here for North America .

VIP packages will also be available, offering exclusive merchandise, access to pre-show VIP lounges, premium tickets and more. More information is available here.

Arcade Fire will play: 

August 2022 

30 – Dublin, IE, 3Arena

September 2022 

2 – Birmingham, UK, Utilita Arena Birmingham 3 – Manchester, UK, AO Arena 5 – Glasgow, UK, OVO Hydro 8 – London, UK, O2 Arena 11 – Lille, FR, Zenith 12 – Antwerp, BE, Sportpaleis 14 – Cologne, DE, Lanxess Arena 15 – Paris, FR, Accor Arena 17 – Milan, IT, Mediolanum Forum 18 – Munich, DE, Olympiahalle 21 – Madrid, ES, WiZink Center 22 – Lisbon, PT, Campo Pequeno 23 – Lisbon, PT, Campo Pequeno 25 – Bordeaux, FR, Arkea Arena 26 – Nantes, FR, Zenith de Nantes 28 – Amsterdam, NL, Ziggo Dome 29 – Berlin, DE, Mercedes-Benz Arena

October 2022 

1 – Warsaw, PL, COS Torwar 28 – Washington D.C., The Anthem

November 2022

1 – Camden, NJ, Waterfront Music Pavilion 4 – Brooklyn, NY, Barclays Center 8 – Boston, MA, MGM Fenway Music Hall 10 – Uncasville, CT, Mohegan Sun Arena 12 – Chicago, IL, United Center 13 – Minneapolis, MN, The Armory 16 – Los Angeles, CA, The Kia Forum 19 – San Francisco, CA, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium 22 – Seattle, WA, Climate Pledge Arena 25 – Vancouver, BC, Rogers Arena 27 – Edmonton, AB, Rogers Place

December 2022 

1 – Toronto, ON, Scotiabank Arena

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The band have also spoken to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story , discussing the making of ‘WE’, the departure of band member Will Butler and their upcoming tour plans. In the interview, frontman Win Butler said he hopes the 2022 dates would represent “the definitive Arcade Fire tour”.

Arcade Fire will serve as the musical guest on tomorrow’s (May 7) episode of Saturday Night Live , which will be guest hosted by actor Benedict Cumberbatch. In a new promo clip, the actor attempts to present the segment according to the script , but his efforts are scuppered by cast member Ego Nwodim and the members of Arcade Fire.

Last week (April 29), the band played the reopening of London’s iconic KOKO venue – marking their first live appearance in the UK since 2018. You can read the NME review of the gig here .

In a four-star review of ‘WE’ , NME said: “Our global journey from fear to appreciation is played out in what Arcade Fire themselves accurately describe as a “concise 40-minute epic”. Philosophically, they haven’t been so focussed since 2010’s ‘The Suburbs’, nor so musically dramatic since 2007’s ‘Neon Bible’. Subscribe.”

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How to Get Tickets to Arcade Fire’s 2022 Tour Dates

The upcoming jaunt features special guests Feist and Beck

How to Get Tickets to Arcade Fire’s 2022 Tour Dates

Arcade Fire have announced a 2022 tour in support of their newly released album, WE , featuring Feist and Beck as special guests.

Get tickets here , and read on for more details including pre-sale information.

What Is Arcade Fire’s Next Tour?

Arcade Fire’s upcoming tour begins in the UK and Europe starting in late August, including shows in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, and The Netherlands. Arcade Fire will then embark on a North American leg, playing dates in Washington, DC, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and beyond.

Who Is Opening for Arcade Fire on Tour?

Leslie Feist is providing support for Arcade Fire’s UK/European leg, while Beck is opening each date of the band’s US run by playing a special acoustic set.

How Can I Get Tickets for Arcade Fire’s 2022 Tour?

A Live Nation pre-sale for the North American dates will take place on Thursday, May 12th at 10:00 a.m. local time (using code FINALE ). A public ticket on-sale will follow on Friday, May 13th at 10:00 a.m. local time. Get tickets via Ticketmaster . Tickets links for the UK/European shows can be found below.

Arcade Fire have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1/£1/€1 per ticket goes to KANPE, and their work bringing support to the most vulnerable communities in Haiti.

What Are Arcade Fire’s 2022 Tour Dates?

Arcade Fire 2022 Tour Dates: 08/30 – Dublin, IE @ 3Arena * ( Tix ) 09/02 – Birmingham, UK @ Utilita Arena Birmingham * ( Tix ) 09/03 – Manchester, UK @ AO Arena * ( Tix ) 09/05 – Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro * ( Tix ) 09/08 – London, UK @ The O2 * ( Tix ) 09/11 – Lille, FR @ Zenith * ( Tix ) 09/12 – Antwerp, BE @ Sportpaleis * ( Tix ) 09/14 – Cologne, DE @ Lanxess Arena * ( Tix ) 09/15 – Paris, FR @ Accor Arena * ( Tix ) 09/17 – Milan, IT @ Mediolanum Forum * 09/18 – Munich, DE @ Olympiahalle * ( Tix ) 09/21 – Madrid, ES @ WiZink Center * ( Tix ) 09/22 – Lisbon, PT @ Campo Pequeno * 09/23 – Lisbon, PT @ Campo Pequeno * 09/25 – Bordeaux, FR @ Arkea Arena * ( Tix ) 09/26 – Nantes, FR @ Zenith de Nantes * ( Tix ) 09/28 – Amsterdam, NL @ Ziggo Dome * ( Tix ) 09/29 – Berlin, DE @ Mercedes-Benz Arena * ( Tix ) 10/01 – Warsaw, PL @ OS Torwar * ( Tix ) 10/28 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem ^ ( Tix ) 10/29 – 10/28 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem ^ ( Tix ) 11/01 – Camden, NJ @ Waterfront Music Pavilion ^ ( Tix ) 11/04 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center ^ ( Tix ) 11/08 – Boston, MA @ MGM Fenway Music Hall ^ ( Tix ) 11/08 – Boston, MA @ MGM Fenway Music Hall ^ ( Tix ) 11/10 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena ^ ( Tix ) 11/12 – Chicago, IL @ United Center ^ ( Tix ) 11/13 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory ^ ( Tix ) 11/16 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Kia Forum ^ ( Tix ) 11/19 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium ^ ( Tix ) 11/20 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium ^ ( Tix ) 11/22 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena ^ ( Tix ) 11/25 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena ^ ( Tix ) 11/27 – Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place ^ ( Tix ) 12/01 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena ^ ( Tix )

* = w/ Feist ^ = w/ Beck

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Arcade Fire: ‘I can’t believe I still live in America. But there’s something about it that I can’t quit’

After the high-concept hijinks around their last record turned off fans, the indie troubadours have gone back to basics with a rousing new album about Trump and togetherness

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M id-morning in New Orleans , and outside an Uptown coffee shop, Win Butler is talking of life in his adopted city – the basketball, brass bands, and the poisonous caterpillars of the buck moth that, in late spring, fall from the city’s trees on to unsuspecting passersby beneath. He surveys the mighty oaks across the street, broad-branched and strung with moss. “Trees run this city,” Butler says. “They’ve definitely seen some shit, those trees.”

With his wife, Régine Chassagne, Butler is best known for fronting Arcade Fire. The band formed in Montreal at the turn of the millennium, quickly gained a reputation as one of the world’s finest live acts, and over the course of five albums became indie music aristocracy. They were anointed by Davids Bowie and Byrne; they won a Grammy, a Juno and a Brit; they played Obama’s inauguration; and frequently used their platform for political activism, promoting healthcare nonprofits , indigenous protesters and a number of Haitian charities (Chassagne is of Haitian descent). More recently, the band raised $100,000 for the Ukraine Relief Fund by playing a series of small club shows across the US, including cult New York venue the Bowery ballroom.

At times they have irked their audiences: the hijinks that surrounded the launch of their disco-tinged 2013 album Reflektor – secret gigs, street parties, audience dress codes – brought faintly unsettling echoes of U2’s Zoo TV campaign. But it was the release of their last album, 2017’s Everything Now, that rattled fans the most. The album was accompanied by a high-concept promotional campaign claiming that Arcade Fire were now part of a multinational corporation. They named their tour Infinite Content, and posted parodic record reviews, fake news stories, ironic product placements. To some, it was a glittering commentary on the consumer age; to others it seemed sneering, over-earnest and ill-conceived. To many, it was uncomfortably removed from the visceral heart-swell of their live shows.

This month, the band release their sixth album, We, a record they describe as being about “the forces that pull us away from the people we love … [and] the urgent need to overcome them”. This being Arcade Fire, there is a hefty intellectual backstory, nods to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* and a guest turn by Peter Gabriel. But it also stands as the band’s most tender record since their early output; spacious and simple and sweet, an album born out of the steady closeness of pandemic days.

Butler, Chassagne and their son moved to Louisiana six years ago, captivated by its mingling of cultures and unbridled passion for music and creativity. “What’s that Mark Twain line about there being only three cities in America?” Butler asks as we walk along Magazine Street. “New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. Everything else is Cleveland.”

Butler cuts a conspicuous figure: basketball player-tall, with bleached blond hair, today he is wearing cream-coloured jeans, a tie-dyed white T-shirt and black bomber jacket. There is an intensity to the way he speaks, whether he is talking about a Mardi Gras spent playing cowbell in New Orleans’ TBC Brass Band, or the hanging chads of the 2000 US presidential race. But he seems to fit comfortably in this neighbourhood, greeting the coffee shop barista warmly and gleefully relating the history of Miss Mae’s, a 24-hour “dirtbag bar” that stands on the corner of Magazine and Napoleon.

Down the street, Butler leads us into a former luncheonette, now home to Peaches Records. Peaches, he says, is some way removed from the record shop he frequented as a teenager in the suburbs of Houston, Texas – a chainstore in the mall that mostly sold CDs, and where he tried to nourish his love of New Order and the Cure. He talks of how his mother played jazz harp, his grandfather played the pedal steel, and how the first time he heard Smokey Robinson sing, he couldn’t quite believe that this music had been made by human beings.

“Look at this,” Butler says, holding up an octagonal copy of the Rolling Stones’ compilation Through the Past Darkly, and holding forth on the qualities of a good record sleeve. His attention alights on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, and the merits of the short album. “There’s like four songs on it and a lot of connective tissue,” he says. “And they sort of stretch it, so you have this space to hear stuff. That’s not even my favourite record, but it’s an example of coherence. You look at the album artwork, you listen to it, it’s very coherent.” He was seeking something similar on We, he says, paring back more songs than ever before to make a taut 40-minute record. “We cut some really good shit,” he says. “That’s how we did it.”

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We walk along Napoleon to a Creole-Italian restaurant to meet Chassagne. This afternoon, the rest of the band will arrive in New Orleans to begin tour rehearsals, and Butler is eager to be back out in the world again after the restrictions of lockdown. He recalls the band’s recent show in New York, how good it felt to be before a crowd once more. “One hundred people spitting in my face,” he says. “It felt like being baptised.”

At the counter in Pascal’s Manale, the oyster shucker Thomas “Uptown T” Stewart stands beside a mound of silver shells, discussing the peaceful pleasures of Cyrano de Bergerac, jazz, poetry and softly spoken people. We are drinking martinis, and Butler is trying to persuade me that the best way to eat an oyster is to sit it atop a saltine cracker, with horseradish, ketchup and a little lemon juice. Chassagne stands beside him and unceremoniously slugs black a Gulf oyster from its shell. Stewart is impressed. “You knocked that down like you just did a shot of good bourbon!” he tells her. “I caught your rhythm. You have a lot of good energy.”

Chassagne’s energy has always been undeniable. When Butler first saw her she was singing jazz standards at an art opening in Montreal, and he immediately asked her to join his fledgling band. The strands of what she has described as her “grandmother music” – opera and Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf, somehow melding with Butler’s art pop influences. On stage, they perform a similar feat: Chassagne singing, dancing, shifting between accordion, keys and xylophone, seemingly existing in her own orbit as the rest of the band play on.

Back at the table this lunchtime, she sits in a black batwing top and black jeans, her dark curls jigging along to the theme to Captain Kangaroo, inexplicably playing on the restaurant stereo. “I haven’t heard this song in for ever!” she says, suddenly distracted. Chassagne does this often – a sentence drawing suddenly to a halt so she can sing along with a chorus, then dart back to the conversation.

Before the detour into Captain Kangaroo, she was recalling how the new album took root in pre-Covid America, in the days of the Trump presidency. “It was pretty turbulent times in the US,” she says. “You would wake up and you had no idea what was going to happen.” The band began work on a record they hoped might reflect that turbulence: tracks such as the slow, syrupy End of the Empire reflecting the decline of western power, with references to the cauterising effect of television, the urge to unsubscribe and watching the moon on the ocean “where California used to be”.

The album opens with Age of Anxiety I and II, tracks that take their name from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 1958 poem I Am Waiting. When Butler was 15, his beatnik English teacher invited his good friend Ferlinghetti to read at his school. It was a life-changing moment for Butler; so much so that he stole a copy of the poet’s Coney Island of the Mind from the school library. Not so long ago, he found the book in a box of his belongings at his parents’ house and began rereading. When he came across the poem I Am Waiting, “I just started weeping,” he says. “All the themes in that poem, it’s like all the shit I write about. Like looking for the soul of America, waiting for the American eight ball to straighten up and fly right. It got so deep in me. Like a spirit got in me.”

Butler’s relationship with his homeland has always been complicated and contradictory and highly charged. “This shit is fucking rotten, but there’s beautiful things about it,” he says. “I live in America, I can’t believe I still live in America. But there’s something about it that I can’t quit. And as an artist you’re trying to break something open and let the light in.”

He talks about the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine. “And it’s poor people who suffer,” he says. “Always, everywhere, always poor people suffer. Russian oligarchs are losing one of their boats, like boo hoo. Which boat did you lose? They’re all fine. But all the money is blood money, it’s all from the suffering of poor people.”

What role can music play? Butler pauses. “We’re the court jesters,” he says. “We’re performing in the court. The infrastructure of the thing is money. I don’t know the answer. But you can kind of undercut it.”

Across the table, Chassagne frowns. “It’s not the court,” she says firmly. “There’s no prerequisite on who to play music for. We play music in hospitals, for dying patients, we played at the inauguration. It’s food for the soul. It’s not that the music cures the community, but the music is the evidence that there is a community. It’s like evidence of life.”

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Arcade Fire’s lineup has shifted over the years, but for We it numbered Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Butler’s younger brother Will, who has since amicably left the band. When the pandemic began, they had all flown to New Orleans to begin work on the new record. “And then our phones keep beeping and we’re getting texts saying flights are getting cancelled, borders getting closed,” remembers Chassagne. “So we had to do an emergency plan for them to go back immediately. Everything was falling apart.”

When everyone departed, Chassagne and Butler were left with three days’ worth of demos. “Glorified writing sessions”, as Butler puts it. “But at a point, I thought: ‘Well, this might be all there is so I’m going to work on this as if we’re never going to play music again,’” he says. “And I realised that even just three days, there was so much music in there. So it was like: well, that’s all we have. This is it. It’s DIY.”

For months, the pair stayed home and wrote with an intensity that they had been unable to find since their debut album, Funeral. “We were stuck in our house and so what do you do?” says Chassagne. “I guess the interesting thing is that when you’re stuck with yourself you ask: ‘What am I here for?!’ So we just wrote and wrote and recorded … ” The songs soon began to pile up. “We just worked every day,” says Butler. “All night, as if it was due the next day, but for like, a year.”

On Butler and Chassagne’s first date they went to see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon . Chassagne had failed to mention that the film would have French subtitles, and so she spent the movie whispering translations to Butler in the dark of the cinema. Today over lunch, there seems a similar connection; a closeness to their dynamic that I have not seen since I interviewed them back in 2005 for Funeral. Their sentences frequently overlap, Butler picking up where Chassagne leaves off.

Their new album might come with a clever marketing campaign, slick videos, an artful mission statement that mentions Carl Jung and Martin Luther King. But at its heart lies something really quite simple: the connection that spans between the extended family of a band, that exists between a band and its audience, that binds two people over the course of a 20-year relationship.

There are two distinct halves to this record: the first tells of isolation, the second is about resolve. “It’s about unconditional love, love that’s not merit-based,” says Butler. “That’s not about loving someone because they’re such a good person, or they’re so talented. It’s love that has nothing to do with what you did, it’s something that’s freely given, and that’s why it’s the most precious thing.” He begins to sip Chassagne’s untouched martini. “Loving someone is hard,” he says. “It’s up and down, it’s a tough thing, but it’s also the shit.” Chassagne nods. “And the beauty’s in the commitment.”

Outside, the city is closing down under a tornado warning, shops shuttering, restaurants hurrying away their patio chairs. We drive back along Magazine Street with the windows down and the high winds blowing, listening to a top-secret remix of Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole), a call-and-response track between the pair. “Nothing can ever replace it / When it’s gone you can still taste it,” runs the lyric. “Going on this trip together … ”

In the front seat, Butler shakes his head; behind him Chassagne pats her hands rhythmically into the air, silently finding her way into the song. We drive on through the Garden District, past a seafood boil and the alligator museum, and on towards Arcade Fire’s rehearsal space. Outside, against the darkening sky, the tops of the oak trees wave wildly.

We is released on 6 M ay.

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Following Friday's release of their sixth album We , Montreal band Arcade Fire announced a world tour marked for later this year.

This will be the Grammy-winning group's first tour since 2018, and tickets are set to go on sale May 13.

The tour will kick off in Dublin in August and will see the band make its way across Europe and North America, with a final stop in Toronto in December.

Announcing The “WE” Tour !!! Can’t wait to see you all soon, along with our friends <a href="https://twitter.com/FeistMusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FeistMusic</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/beck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@beck</a> <br><br>General tickets on sale Friday, May 13 at 10am local time. <a href="https://t.co/nVVCLCIXnt">https://t.co/nVVCLCIXnt</a> <a href="https://t.co/sb8kvauumN">pic.twitter.com/sb8kvauumN</a> &mdash; @arcadefire

Other Canadian stops include Edmonton and Vancouver.

Canadian singer-songwriter Feist will join Arcade Fire on all U.K. and European dates, while Beck is scheduled to support for all North American dates.

It's a big month for the band, who are also set to perform on Saturday Night Live  this weekend, and at the Juno Awards on May 15 in Toronto.

The group will be down one original member — co-founder Will Butler announced in March that he left the group late last year.

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