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Win and Will Butler are currently visiting their birth state for a few shows. Last night (5/3), Arcade Fire and Texas band Explosions In The Sky played to a roughly-5000 capacity crowd at The Backyard at Bee Cave in Austin. Arcade Fire, who co-headlined Coachella just a few weeks ago, also played the other night with Okkervil River in Dallas, and they do it again with EITS in The Woodlands tonight, near Houston where Win grew up, a fact that has not gotten past the locals....
"Yes, we're all excited that Arcade Fire is playing the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Wednesday night. And, yes, it's exciting that lead singer Win Butler spent his "formative years" growing up in that community which makes this -- to borrow a title from a beloved U2 anthem -- A Sort of Homecoming.All upcoming tour dates (Bonnaroo included), along with pictures and the setlist from the Austin show are in this post, and they continue, along with a video of Will Butler & Marika recently singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" at Chicago's Wrigley field, below...But it's time all of the greater Houston area suck on the bitter pill of reality for a moment and come to grips with a very real truth: Arcade Fire is not a band from The Woodlands.
It is not even a Texas band. It is not even an American band and anyone saying anything to the contrary must also accept the equally preposterous notion that country icon Willie Nelson hails from Vancouver, Wash., or that Madonna is British."
[says CultureMap Houston]
--
Explosions in the Sky...
Arcade Fire...
ARCADE FIRE 5/3/11 SETLIST
1. Month of May
2. Rebellion (Lies)
3. Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
4. Haiti
5. City With No Children
6. Rococo
7. Intervention
8. Suburbs
9. Suburbs (continued)
10. Suburban War
11. Keep the Car Running
12. No Cars Go
13. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
14. We Used to Wait
15. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
ENCORE
16. Ready to Start
17. Wake Up
18. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
--
Arcade Fire 7th Inning Stretch Wrigley Field
Chicago Cubs fans got a bit of a surprise on Saturday when Arcade Fire's Will Butler and Marika Anthony-Shaw (what do you mean, "Who?"? She plays violin and viola in the band, you asshole!) showed up at Wrigley Field to lead fans in a rendition of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame."--We'd say it was a "rousing" rendition, except most of the shots of fans in the stands show them swaying indifferently back and forth.
Would the response have been different if Win Butler and Regine Chassagne were the ones doing the singing? Given that Arcade Fire have prompted perplexed comments of "Who the fuck?" in the past... probably not. -[ChartAttack]
ARCADE FIRE - 2011 TOUR DATES
May 4 Spring, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
May 6 New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz Festival
June 9 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
June 17 Scheessel, Germany @ Hurricane Festival
June 18 Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany @ Southside Festival
June 21 Zagreb, Croatia @ T Mobile InMusic Festival
June 22 Burgenland, Austria @ Festivalgelande Wiesen
June 24 Warsaw, Poland @ Torwar Arena
June 26 Luxembourg, Luxembourg @ Rock-A-Field Festival
June 28 Paris, France @ Le Zenith
June 30 London, England @ Hyde Park
July 2 Arras, France @ Main Square Festival
July 3 Belfort, France @ Les Eurockeenes
July 5 Milan, Italy @ Milano Jazzin Festival
July 7 Novi Sad, Serbia @ Exit Festival
July 9 Lucca, Italy @ Lucca Summer Festival
July 10 Montreux, Switzerland @ Montreux Jazz Festival
July 12 Forum Ruscino, France @ Argeles Sur Mer Les Deferlantes Festival
July 13 Bilbao, Spain @ Guggenheim Museum
July 15 Lisbon, Portugal @ Super Bock Super Rock
July 17 Benicassim, Spain @ Festival Internacional De Benicassim
July 30 Moncton, NB @ Magnetic Hill w/ U2
Aug. 27 Ballerup, Denmark @ Ballerup Super Arena
Aug. 29 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Heineken Music Hall
Aug. 31 Manchester, England @ Manchester Evening News Arena
Sept. 1 Edinburgh, Scotland @ Edinburgh Castle
Sept. 3 Stradbally, Ireland @ Electric Picnic
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - 2011 TOUR DATES
05/04/2011 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Pavillion^
05/15/2011 Edinburgh, GBR HMV Picture House *
05/16/2011 Dublin, IRL Vicar St. *
05/17/2011 Manchester, GBR Manchester Academy *
05/19/2011 London, GBR Roundhouse *
05/20/2011 Paris, FRA Bataclan *
05/22/2011 Berlin, DEU Postbahnhof *
05/23/2011 Koln, DEU Essigfabrik *
05/24/2011 Brussels, BEL Ancienne Belgique *
05/25/2011 Amsterdam, NLD Paradiso *
05/27/2011 Barcelona, ESP Primavera Festival
05/29/2011 Bologna, ITA Rocker Festival
06/09/2011 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo
06/10/2011 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo
06/11/2011 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo
06/12/2011 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo
06/17/2011 Austin, TX, USA ACL Live at the Moody Theatre
08/05/2011 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
08/06/2011 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
08/07/2011 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
08/11/2011 Oslo, NOR Oya Festival
08/12/2011 Gothenburg, SWE Way Out West Festival
08/13/2011 Gothenburg, SWE Way Out West Festival
08/19/2011 Brecon Beacons, GBR Green Man Festival
* w/Lichens
^ w/Arcade Fire
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Downside to Arcade Fire doing such massive NYC shows last summer- they probably won't come around again on this touring cycle. Annoying.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 12:55 PM
Austin Vegan!
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:05 PM
Or its cause New York sucks...yep.
Posted by Haha | May 4, 2011 1:05 PM
Explosions Take Care > AF The Suburbs
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:17 PM
"It is not even an American band"
Last time I checked, Canada is part of North America.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:21 PM
Remember the Arcade Dire guy? I wonder if he is still so angry.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:23 PM
^ semantic driven asshole. and i suppose mexico is american as well?
idiot.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:25 PM
12:55, I was wondering the same thing. They played here a day after the album came out which...didn't really allow the new material to sink in as much. Maybe they could do something on Governor's Island this summer?
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:32 PM
im still hoping for big ass Arcade Fire with the National show
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:40 PM
are we done with these fucking people yet?
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:45 PM
Arcade Fire please die of A.I.D.S.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:45 PM
Hi I'm a hater, have a nice day!
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:47 PM
1:40,
I'm also hoping The Black Keys will return for big summer show.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:47 PM
i think an Arcade Fire/National bill would blow people's minds...
...because they wouldn't be able to tell which band they're watching and their heads would literally blow up
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:49 PM
why do you guys want to AF so bad? i for one have had my fill
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:50 PM
Good grief those are some deeply unflattering photos of Win Butler. He can actually be pretty handsome when he's not making those insane faces.
Love the Don't Mess With Quebec shirt.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:51 PM
Everyone had the chance to see them at MSG. If you missed it that's too bad. The Suburbs was a letdown anyway.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 1:57 PM
I see these assholes fianlly changed thier clothes.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 2:01 PM
Does no one get the Houston=Suburbs connection.
JEZ, Houston is the Asshole of America
TELL EM WILL
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 2:06 PM
come back to nyc!!!
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 2:12 PM
remember when win came out to play north american scum with LCD soundsystem during their LAST SHOW EVER?
that was totally epic bra
it's all downhill from there
can't wait to see arcade fire play n'hood #3 at the roo, totes gonna lose my shit
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 2:21 PM
Once I tried making hummus patties but left them in the oven to long and it started a hummus fire.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 2:32 PM
Nah the National will bring "Bromance" crowd....
http://stereogum.com/696411/national-bromance/video/
p.s. shit is hysterical
no wonder why i didn't go to coachella this year....running into these kinds of people = epic fail
yea dude let's crowd surf during the national!
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 2:34 PM
that dude should grow a mustache so he would look like hitler
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 2:45 PM
They will come back to NYC. Philly on the other hand, never. Worst city ever.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 2:51 PM
who is the all girl band in one of the shots ?
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 3:08 PM
Yeah, I agree with you... it's hard to find good hummus in Philly.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 3:08 PM
Regine is an absolute angel. I'm smitten.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 3:38 PM
Did anybody bring a tissue?
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 3:42 PM
The all girl band is Schmillion.
Posted by ATX | May 4, 2011 3:47 PM
The all-girl band is Schmillion, the girl from the Suburbs video plays... bass?... with them I think.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 4:51 PM
arcade fire can kiss my ass! I can give 2 shits less where they're from or if NYC wants to see them for the 12th hundredth time.
-New York City is the ass hole of the universe.
that is all.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2011 8:28 PM
I am a professionally trained backyard recognizing expert and from my analysis I have concluded that that is not a backyard
Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2011 12:22 AM
enough fucking austin posts already
seriously
Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2011 2:01 AM
Fuck austin. Just start another site already if that's so important to you.
Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2011 8:18 AM
2:01 AM - Why are you so seriously opposed to the Austin posts? How is it interfering w/ the coverage of NY? The Austin coverage is not supplanting the NY coverage; it's just additional coverage. So really, tell us why you are so opposed to it?
Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2011 10:32 AM
these pictures showcase how hard at work they are at sucking
Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2011 11:32 AM
"don't mess with quebec"
lolz.
Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2011 11:53 AM
Out of the 4 featured galleries 2 are from Austin. Yeah. Just buy AustinVegan.com and get on with it.
Posted by Anonymous | May 8, 2011 9:32 AM
EitS @ RCMH > AF @ MSG (pit)
Posted by Anonymous | May 9, 2011 8:25 PM