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Arcade Fire Cover The Smiths

With Morrissey fresh on our minds and Arcade Fire never far away, we bring you some footage of the Butlers & Co. tackling the Smiths' "Still Ill" in Manchester on Friday night. Guess they're picking up on the home-territory-homage bit from the Boss (sans guest appearances, unfortunately).

According to NME, Win introduced the the performance by calling it a song "that made me want to play music," adding "I have been sick and better this year and sick again. This song is called 'Still Ill'." Turns out Win's got a good Moz voice! And Régine handles the chorus croon. Sorry for the muted audio; we'll replace with better when it comes, but these things take time.

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And bonus fun, the Smiths doing "Still Ill" live on The Tube back in '84. Moz goes down! But not how KristeenYoung meant.

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