Plus, going to concerts is linked to a range of health benefits. No matter how many thousands of other people are in the crowd, it can feel like they’re performing just for you. I was at a party when my waters broke.For music lovers, nothing beats seeing your favorite band on stage. Beginning with a grinding one-chord riff before switching into sweeping anthemics, the crowd continues to sing its celestial choral line even after the band have said their goodbyes. The set closes with Wake Up - maybe the band’s best known song and certainly one of their greatest moments. It’s a nine minute Bowie-and-Beatles channelling anthem of epic proportions with endless sonic twists and, it has to be said, some of the band’s most toe-curling lyrics.Īs it reaches its conclusion, it’s swiftly dismissed as ‘pretentious’ by Butler, who declares ‘it’s Saturday night’, before the band launch into a cover of New Order’s Temptation (obligatory mentions of The Smiths and Manchester’s musical heritage have been covered earlier, for anyone wondering). The band returns to the second stage (which they have apparently christened ‘The We Stage’) for the encore, beginning with End of the Empire I-IV.
An investigation by American music website Pitchfork alleged the singer behaved inappropriately and sent unwanted sexual messages to four people between 20.Īrcade Fire at Manchester Arena (Image: Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News) Not that the Montrealean indie rockers don’t have somewhat more immediate concerns following support act Feist’s decision to quit the tour after fulfilling two Dublin dates.īutler faced allegations of inappropriate sexual interactions days before the indie-rockers embarked on their world tour. The first song on new album We - named after the Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel that inspired Nineteen Eighty Four - it’s clear that Arcade Fire are far from done with the themes of post-millennial tension they explored on their previous long player ‘Everything Now’. READ MORE : Review: Bright Eyes at 02 Apollo Manchester Building from spare piano chords to surging string-swept rock, its lyrics obliquely reference Covid (‘fight the fever with TV…’) as well as social media artifice (‘when you look at me, you see what I want you to see’). It’s from these lines by Lawrence Ferlinghetti - rather than WH Auden - that the next track, Age of Anxiety I, apparently takes its name and inspiration. As the band transfers to the main stage, a reading of poem ‘I Am Waiting’ fills the venue. Opening with Rebellion - arguably the best song from arguably their best album (that’s the 2004 debut Funeral, for the uninitiated) - is a smart move a near sure-fire way to get people hollering along and dancing as the song speeds to its ecstatic conclusion.
"LIES, LIES…’ roars back the crowd, as fans swarm around a second stage in the middle of the arena on which the seven-piece band have somehow crammed themselves. ‘Every time you close your eyes…’ sings Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler.
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