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Big Day Out '08 - the verdict?

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David_Dovey:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 05 Feb 2008, 22:16 ---Is this honestly your reason for not liking their live set? Perhaps it was all the material off the last record, or the fact that they're taking themselves a lot more seriously nowadays. You know, as Artists.

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They didn't seem to be taking themselves seriously to me. William Butler was still acting like a fool, all climbing the rigging and jumping over keyboards and bangin his drum, Regine was dancing around and just generally having about as much fun onstage as anyone I've seen (she is a hard-rockin lady, folks), and Win was charming as all hell. Most of the rest of the band smiled and joked through the entire set.

I'm guessing Scarlette probably went expecting to not like it and got exactly that. Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling like that, I've found.

Johnny C:
It's heartening to hear that as a description of one of their recent concerts. Literally every review of a live Arcade Fire set I've read since Neon Bible came out painted this picture of a band who are trying way too hard to transcend the music of us mere mortals. I'm really glad you caught a set where they were human.

Ishotdanieljohnston:
They certainly seemed human to me, looked like they were having a blast. i thought they were fantastic actually. Win had such a commanding presence, and the crowd seemed to love him as much as he was enjoying being with us. i actually thought it was the most "humble" performance I saw all day. They didn't have the arrogant air of bands like Rage or Midnight Juggernauts, where you got the vibe they thought it was such a massive privelage for you to see them- they all just aced as  though they were part of the crowd having a kickin time.

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