Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
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Arcade Fire bassist Tim Kingsbury has said that the Montreal band won't play any more UK shows until their next album is completed.
Kingsbury said: "We want to start making a new record. We've got a lot of writing to do too. We've been touring these songs for a couple of years so we're ready to move on. Hopefully it will be out within a year but it's hard to say."
Bandmate Richard Parry commented that the band, as yet, have no idea as to what the follow up to their breakthrough Funeral will sound like, but did say that the band have the luxury of being able to spend as much time as they like on the next album:
"...We have our own studio space now so there's no time constraints. We spend as much time as we want and then see what happens."
DiScuss: Pressure's on, eh? What are your expectations for the next Arcade Fire album? Will it see their high-profile position cemented, or are they the sort of band that might fall from mainstream critical favour?
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Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
bugger - I still havent seen this band - oh well I can console myself by watching re-runs of Pie In The Sky or something whilst crying uncontrollably into a dirty pillow
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
Funeral was made so long ago now that the next one is probably well on the way, no matter what they say.
I don't expect it to be anything less than bloody bwwwwiliant.
I don't expect it to be anything less than bloody bwwwwiliant.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
I expect it'll be rubbish. Funeral seems like one of those one off albums to me. I could be wrong though. They just have to go in a different direction* and not just immitate it methinks.
*Bangra, acid jazz, Steve Reich/Philip Glass like minimalism, delta blues or happy hardcore seem to be the only options other than a mixture of all 5.
*Bangra, acid jazz, Steve Reich/Philip Glass like minimalism, delta blues or happy hardcore seem to be the only options other than a mixture of all 5.
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I still haven't seen them either.
I bet they're shit anyway.
</denial>
I bet they're shit anyway.
</denial>
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
The guy who hits random stuff is CLEARLY Napoleon Dynamite.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
The live band to see this see is what anyone who has seen them would probably say.
i haven't seen them this year. I hate you all.
i haven't seen them this year. I hate you all.
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I've had the luxury of seeing them twice this year. :-P
A twice in a lifetime experiance!
A twice in a lifetime experiance!
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They're not, they're brilliant. Especially live!
</rubbing it in>
</rubbing it in>
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Me too!
Fanfuckingtastic both times.
Their self titled EP, which I heard around the same time as Funeral last year, indicates there will be no let up in quality.
I know the pressure's on more due to all the acclaim but there are some new tracks floating around that sound more than promising, even in their primitive, or live, state.
Fanfuckingtastic both times.
Their self titled EP, which I heard around the same time as Funeral last year, indicates there will be no let up in quality.
I know the pressure's on more due to all the acclaim but there are some new tracks floating around that sound more than promising, even in their primitive, or live, state.
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If you heard it then, it wasn't self titled as when it was originally released it was under a different title.
And the three occasions on which I've experienced the Arcade Fire, I've fallen in love with my own life about 56 times, just because I felt so good.
And the three occasions on which I've experienced the Arcade Fire, I've fallen in love with my own life about 56 times, just because I felt so good.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
they are absolutely ace, i saw them three times this year so i'm expecting some more good things from them.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
having seen them at kings cross and the astoria they are probably the best live band ive seen...and i was hoping they'd do a big tour later in the year...i think they've played maybe 7 - 8 gigs in the UK (not including carling festival) which isnt enough.
even though im a huge fan, it'll be hard to top funeral - though maybe im being a pessimist.
even though im a huge fan, it'll be hard to top funeral - though maybe im being a pessimist.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
Bugger, i was counting on an autumn/winter tour.
Bandits.
Bandits.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
i heard they bought a church in their home town to record the new album in.
i'm sort of hoping some of the older tracks floating around will emerge fully formed on the new album - 'cars & telephones' and 'intervention' especially.
but then again, i'd be happy if they never made another record ever again. funeral is strong enough to stand on it's own for years and years.
i'm sort of hoping some of the older tracks floating around will emerge fully formed on the new album - 'cars & telephones' and 'intervention' especially.
but then again, i'd be happy if they never made another record ever again. funeral is strong enough to stand on it's own for years and years.
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You are hoping older tracks emerge fully formed on the next record? WHY? Is it not new songs we desire? Anyone can download those songs If they wish to...Neither are in the same league as 'Tunnels', 'Wake Up' or 'My Hearts Is An Apple' (Which I wish they'd play live...I even asked for it at Shef Leadmill...Win was stood beside me and my girlfriend as The Kills droned everyone into a tinny bored trance...)
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
Bums. I really wanted a winter tour, haven't got the chance to see these yet.
Bums.
Bums.
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Pedant. I knew what I meant.
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I meant I'd heard that before I fully got into Funeral, before all the hype. I had no idea what the EP was or wasn't called, someone just sent it to me. I've since bought it at a gig (and the remastered version that's now in the shops - yes I am that gullible)
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Wasn't Intervention introduced as a 'new song' on the KCRW session they did though?
Not sure of the relative ages of other tracks, like 'Asleep At The Wheel', 'Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts' or 'Virgin Mary Highway' though.
Not sure of the relative ages of other tracks, like 'Asleep At The Wheel', 'Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts' or 'Virgin Mary Highway' though.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
Oh, btw, they've still got a couple N American dates left. Naa naa na naanah!
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haha, steve didn't know what the arcade fire EP was called last year! loser! crablin is so right.
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"I've fallen in love with my own life about 56 times, just because I felt so good"
:'o(
:'o(
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i want to hear them because right now, yeah - you can download them - but all of them are so awfully recorded it's as if they aren't fully realised yet. reworking and interesting production like heard on 'funeral' would probably make them entirely different songs.
new songs are nice too, though.
new songs are nice too, though.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
saw them at leeds.
shat my pants.
shat my pants.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
I saw them a couple of weeks ago at the Carling. The single best gig I've ever been to in my life. Period. When they came out with Wake Up I don't think anythink has been so uplifting. I even saw a few people crying. And when they played Power Out I near died. Incredible.
Arcade Fire: no more gigs 'til next album
If you haven't seen them live yet (like me) there is a gig of theirs in the fabchannel.com archives.
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absolutley agree
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