• Win Butler - vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards
• Régine Chassane - vocals, synths, drums
• Richard Reed Parry - organ
• William Butler - percussion, synths
• Timothy Kingsbury - bass
• Howard Bilerman - drums, guitar

Members fled from Texas and Ontario at a young age and joined with local youth, making their home in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Somehow they survived the first terrible winters, and in August 2003 at the dusty Hotel2Tango they made some preliminary recordings for a new album.
Partially due to the intense heat, two of them married each other. The time in the sun was short lived however, and soon the terrible winter of 2004 was upon them. To keep warm they recorded the remaining nine tracks, at the Hotel and in Win and Régine's apartment, on 24 track 2" tape, 1/2" 16 track, 1/2" 8 track, optimus ctr-108 and God-forsaken computer.
When family members kept dying they realised they should call their record "Funeral", noting the irony of their first full length recording bearing a name with such closure.

(Taken from 'Funeral')

Releases

• Intervention - single, out 21/05/2007 on Sonovox. (post review)
• Neon Bible - album, out 05/03/2007 on Sonovox. 1 review (read/post)
• Coachella (DVD) - album, out 19/06/2006 on Anti. 1 review (read/post)
• Wake Up - single, out 14/11/2005 on Rough Trade. 1 review (read/post)
• Rebellion (Lies) - single, out 05/09/2005 on Rough Trade. 1 review (read/post)
• Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - single, out 23/05/2005 on Rough Trade. 1 review (read/post)
• Neighbourhood #2 (Laika) - single, out 28/03/2005 on Rough Trade. 1 review (read/post)
• Funeral - album, out 28/02/2005 on Rough Trade. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Mon 19 Nov at London Alexandra Palace. (post review)
• Sun 18 Nov at London Alexandra Palace. (post review)
• Sat 17 Nov at London Alexandra Palace. (post review)
• Wed 31 Oct at Nottingham Arena. 1 review (read/post)
• Tue 30 Oct at Cardiff International Arena. (post review)
• Mon 29 Oct at Newcastle upon Tyne Metro Radio Arena. (post review)
• Sat 27 Oct at Manchester Evening News Arena. (post review)
• Fri 26 Oct at Glasgow SECC. (post review)
• Carling Weekend Leeds Festival - Sunday, Sun 26 Aug at Leeds Bramham Park. (post review)
• Carling Weekend Reading Festival - Saturday, Sat 25 Aug at Reading Little John's Farm. (post review)
• Latitude Festival - Sunday, Sun 15 Jul at Southwold Henham Park. (post review)
• Oxegen Festival - Sunday, Sun 08 Jul at County Kildare Punchestown Racecourse. (post review)
• T In The Park '07 - Saturday, Sat 07 Jul at Kinross T In The Park. (post review)
• Glastonbury - Friday, Fri 22 Jun at Glastonbury Festival. (post review)
• Sat 17 Mar at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Fri 16 Mar at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Thu 15 Mar at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Wed 14 Mar at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Mon 12 Mar at Glasgow Barrowlands. (post review)
• Sun 11 Mar at Glasgow Barrowlands. (post review)
• Fri 09 Mar at Manchester Apollo. (post review)
• Thu 08 Mar at Manchester Apollo. 1 review (read/post)
• Tue 06 Mar at Dublin Olympia. (post review)
• Mon 05 Mar at Dublin Olympia. (post review)
• Fri 02 Feb at London Porchester Hall. (post review)
• Mon 29 Jan at Westminster St John's Church. 1 review (read/post)
• Thu 01 Sep at Sheffield Leadmill. 1 review (read/post)
• Tue 08 Mar at London King's College. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 14/05/2008: Arcade Fire soundtracking new film from Donnie Darko director
• 30/01/2008: Definitive? Hype Machine compiles top 50 artists, singles, albums of 2007
• 16/11/2007: What a year for Yeasayer: Brooklyn boys now added to Arcade Fire bill
• 01/11/2007: Arcade Fire boycott Nottingham after missile attack
• 19/10/2007: Is this news? Arcade Fire exposed as frauds
• 15/10/2007: Arcade Fire join Springsteen onstage
• 21/08/2007: Floods put dampeners on Reading
• 14/08/2007: Hot wax: LCD and Arcade Fire release joint 7"
• 11/07/2007: Latitude: sold out
• 06/07/2007: Glastonbury line-up leaks

Features

• 24/01/2008: The Weekly DiScussion: Brits at the bookies, and our favourites
• 23/01/2008: DiS does the Big Day Out
• 23/12/2007: The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007
• 23/12/2007: DiS's features of 2007
• 04/12/2007: DiS's albums of 2007: 20-16
• 26/11/2007: DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!
• 31/08/2007: Reading & Leeds '07: DiS down the front
• 25/07/2007: Latitude Festival 2007: the DiS review
• 19/07/2007: Summercase 2007: the DiS review
• 18/07/2007: Glastonbury: Sean's Blog - Day 1

Links

• The Arcade Fire - Official Site.

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