Is this news? Arcade Fire exposed as frauds
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Popular beat-combo Arcade Fire, oft-described as a Montrealer band, have been outed by one of their kin as FRAUDS.
The revelations came as a certain DiS hack chatted to real Montrealers Land of Talk.
The transcript lays below. Read of your own volition, I bear no blame for the consequence of what follows.
Chris LoT: Most of the bands in Montreal aren’t even from Montreal.
Liz LoT: Just like all the Brooklyn bands.
Chris LoT: Like, not one member of Arcade Fire is actually from Montreal. When we all moved there in ’99, it was to go to university, and that’s where a lot of bands formed.
Liz LoT: Arcade Fire, they all came to Montreal to go to university.
Musicians. Students. Liars.
Read the full transcript of this encounter with Land of Talk in an exclusive DrownedinSound interview next week.
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Of Montreal also aren't from Montreal
That's news....
^
that
The Bronx are from Los Angeles
stop the madness!!!
I'm from Barcelona
No you're not!
students
are bastards though. Especially the wankers who wear flip flops, scarves in summer and have 'just out of bed' carefully coiffured hair. Cunts.
You've just described virtually every single student at Bournemouth University
If Oxford Brookes is for kids who couldn't get into Bristol/Exeter/Bath, Bournemouth is for the kids who couldn't get into Oxford Brookes.
SHOCK HORROR...
I'm From Barcelona AREN'T from Barcelona! Oh dear lord!
I didn't know there were that many people in the band!
Oh wait. Mirror.
oh yeah
those B'ham Uni twats have spread all over
GYBE
in 'digbeth' shocker.
OMG!!!
i'm never buying another arcade fire record again and burning the ones i already own because they're not actually from a city i didn't know they were from. everything i've believed to be true in life now just seems to be lies
los campesinos
not welsh??
I say
we deodorant bomb the bastards back into reality.
Someone needs to hang a banner above the entrance to the dorms proclaiming "Your fine art degree isn't going to seem so smart when you're doing data entry."
^ this ^
Kev, you're fired.
this is terrible news
next you'll be telling me snow patrol arent scottish...
Shut it
grape
eh?
"The revelations came as a certain DiS hack chatted to real Montrealers Land of Talk"
is followed by...
"When we all moved there in ’99, it was to go to university, and that’s where a lot of bands formed"
so land of talk aren't REAL montrealers either?
...
just?
DROWNED IN SOUND DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!
RÉGINE CHASSAGNE IS FROM MONTREALl! SHE WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE!!! She even is French-speaking first and foremost! You should do your research before you go publishing lies!
From a fellow Montrealer!
DROWNED IN SOUND, YOU ARE THE FRAUD (you obviously are not real journalists!)
zoe2007...
you are wrong! was it in montreal itself???? no I dont think so!
proof
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Régine_Chassagne
Do your research too!
erm
the band is from Montreal as it was founded in Montreal but the members of the band are not.
Shock and indeed horror.
REGINE IS INDEED FROM MONTREAL
PLEASE DO ACTUAL RESEARCH BEFORE YOU COMMENT!!!
I will give an explanation for those (all) of you who are not from here.
To be exact, Regine was born in downtown Montreal, went to écoles primaire et secondaire (grade 1 to 11) in Saint-Lambert, which is a suburb of Montreal (which has its own subway station in the Montreal metro), and then back to downtown. Saying Regine is not from Montreal because she went to school in Saint-Lambert is like saying that someone who went to school in Brooklyn is not from New York!!!
LIKE I SAID, DROWNED IN SOUND ARE FRAUDS!
Fellow Montrealer
you cant
exactly trust anything that wikipedia says. I could change the info on there right now so that she comes from Hereford. However, ive been banned from editing wikipedia after constant vandalism.
I'm having trouble identifying the humour.
Where it is?
"DROWNED IN SOUND ARE FRAUDS!"
Aahhahaha....best non-news story ever.
I'm confused.
i was born in birmingham but have lived in sheffield for the last 9 years.
i met members of my band in sheffield and we all live here.
but since moving to sheffield and meeting my band i have visited other cities, london, manchester, newcastle.
my nan lives in essex and my brother studied in wales and i once met a danish guy and my friend knows a french person.
i did gcse german and can point to australia on a map.
where should i say my band are from?
she's from Monte Carlo
dumbass
^^
lol
Is this news? Of Montreal exposed as frauds.
Popular beat-combo Of Montreal, oft described as a good band, have been outed by someone who doesn't really care as FRAUDS.
The revelations came as soon as a certain DiS reader chatted to a real person.
The transcript LIES below. Read of your own volition, I bear no blame for the consequence of what follows.
Some GuyLOL: Most people who are people are people.
Some other GuyLOL: Just like all the Brooklyn people.
Some other other GuyLOL: Like, not one member of Of Montreal is actually from Montreal. Or an arcade. And not one of them is an arsonist.
etc, etc, etc,...
news?
no, not really!
youthmovies
not from oxford! or even wycombe!
Exactly..
I knew the "Canadian" music scene was a sham.. Honestly, how can so much good stuff come out of place that spawned Celine Dion.
how stupid you are?
this is obviously a joke from the DiS peeps!
CRAPULOUS
I take it this was a 'No news' day?
Oooohhh
I hate them now. I only liked the music they put out because I truly thought they were from Montreal. The quality of music is totally different now, and I don't think my life will ever be the same after this shocking, heartbreaking piece of grat journalism.
*Author's Note: If spoken aloud, this paragraph would be dripping with disdain. Kev, Please provide some real news, and soon.
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