Bell Orchestre Play Tonic, Arcade Fire Play Union Square
Let's Do This has the scoop on an impromptu Arcade Fire gig that took place down the street from Stereogum HQ late last night. (Via Brooklyn Vegan.)
We're walking up the stairs from the N,R at Union Square, bout 2a.m. Sat night. Couple street musicians are banging out some tune when we get up to the park.Jac's photo proof:Holy fucking shit.
It’s Arcade Fire.
Covering New Order. Win and Will on guitars. Regine on
guitar-case-as-percussion. Why the fuck not?
AF completists take note: Richard & Sara's sideproject Bell Orchestre play Tonic tomorrow night, with National sideproject Clogs going on first at 8 PM. These instrumentalists' ambient chamber pieces may not get your fists pumping like "Power Out," but it's pretty mood music (if you're in the mood to take a nap ... or score a film school project perhaps). This track (from Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light, out 11/8) actually sounds like an elevator music version of Arcade Fire. Elevator Fire!
Bell Orchestre - "The Upwards March" (MP3)
Clogs' lovely Lantern is out 2/6, and here's a preview of that.
Clogs - "Ostinato"/"Five:Four" Medley (MP3)
Posted at 3:34 PM
talk about right place at the right time! NY kicks ass
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The arcade fire are my wife!
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Commenter on B.Vegan says they covered "Wave Of Mutilation," "Boys Don't Cry" and "This Must Be The Place" too!
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I really really like Clogs and the Orchestre. And the Arcade-Fire-as-street-musicians? "Why can't I live in NYC?" I rhetorically ask myself sadly.
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Whoa. I saw "Bell Orchestre Play Tonic" and had the Arcade Fire/New Order cover on, and I expected to read that Belle Orchestre did a cover of that horrid, horrid Tonic song.
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This is one of the coolest stories I've heard all year, and proof of digital technology's capability to make the ephemeral permanent.
Good lookin' out.
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fucking brilliant
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Arcade fire come back to Canada we have plenty of street corners for you to play on.
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Yeah, go back to Canada, hosers!
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bell orchestre like elevator music? they aren't the greatest thing goin' on, but fuggin please.
but anyway, awesome. that would've been fun to see. regine is too cute. win is a lucky, lucky man.
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This story makes me love the Arcade Fire even more. That is just SO cool, them playing on a street corner, at 2 a.m too! That would have been so awesome to see them playing.... Come back to Canada and play on any street corner u like!
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I was really hoping for a "Counting Blue Cars" MP3.
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silly, that's Dishwalla...
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clogs sound like a bad dirty three and that's no praise...
what's up with you indie hipsters?
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Curse me, that whole era was a blur. Now I feel like a fool.
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Please don't come back to Montréal, we're sick of your brand of overrated mediocre music. Saw Rufus Wainwright last night at Théâtre St-Denis, there's a local worth the hype, he covered chealsea hotel by Leonard Cohen, again somebody worth their hype. Even those drunkards, the Dears. Sorry Arcade Fire, you just don't measure up.
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I guess that AF are simply preparing for the next step of their career...
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Rufus Wainwright is great if you want to fall into a heavy sleep. In other words—boring as f***
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big deal, regine was banging on the drum case. more fun if janet jackson was doing her ass percussion in the middle of union square. that would be a story.
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i don't think janet's current ass will fit in times square.
http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/2005/11/janet-jackson-is-sweating.html
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I have this theory that all gay white males under the age of 45 are required to listen to and like Rufus Wainwright. It has yet to be refuted.
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I'm not gay, and I love Rufus Wainwright. But, obviously being gay he has a large gay fanbase. Conversley, being retarded, the Arcade Fire have a massive developmentally handicapped fanbase.
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That makes me retarded AND gay!
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I'm gay. and i love rufus. but my boyfriend doesn't know who he is.
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Well Damien, in the name of science I recommend you do the right thing.
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I don't know who this Rufus guy is but it is hard to imagine anyone being better than the Arcade Fire. As for fans of AF being retarded, I have yet to see one mentally challenged person crooning wake up.
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