Seen Your Video: Arcade Fire Rocks SNL on Saturday

Arcade Fire brought their 45 members dressed as brightly as their infectious melodies to Saturday Night Live this weekend. Playing "We Used to Wait" and "Sprawl II" from the new record, The Suburbs, I was never a big AF fan, but after humming "Sprawl" all of Sunday, I think it's safe to say they've found their way into my brain matter. Win Butler is the thinking man's frontman, and I loved that he's so into connecting with the audience; Had he been able, I think he may have climbed through the camera and into our living rooms to sing to us personally.

But who dresses Regine I wonder, the Olympic Committe for Ice Dancing?

Arcade Fire Movie Shot at MSG by Terry Gilliam Being Rebroadcast in Full Until Noon Tomorrow

Like Arcade Fire? How about live? For the next 19.5 hours now, you can knock yourself out with some live Arcade Fire and not even leave your couch. The live show movie the Fire shot at Madison Square Garden in NYC on 8/5 this year, will be streaming below for the next 19.5 hours (basically until noon tomorrow). Directed by Terry Gilliam-yes that Terry Gilliam-it's steaming in HD and is pretty spectacular to look at. Set list is below.

Now Gilliam and Arcade Fire, how on earth did that love connection happen? Well, it seems the first Win Butler and Régine Chassagne to-the-movies date was to see Gilliam's 1985 movie Brazil. Gilliam comments on his getting involved with the project and offers Brazil is a way to test date match compatibility...

“I’m trying to find out what this f—ing thing is,” admits the director and Monty Python comedy team member. “I keep reading that I’m directing this thing, but I’m not sure that’s what I’m doing. Their manager called my agent less than two weeks ago and said, ‘We’re doing this webcast and the band would love it if you got involved.’ [The MSG show] will be the fourth that I’ve been with them. I’m a groupie, basically! If I see somebody doing something stupid I’ll probably mention that to them. But their show’s really good, and they’ve got really good video stuff already. So we’ll stick with what they’re doing and I can sit back and take credit for everything.”

One thing Gilliam con confirm is that he is a big fan of the Canadian outfit: “I do think they’re very special. I’ve felt that since Funeral.” That admiration is apparently reciprocated by band members, and married couple, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne. “Win said something to the effect that the first movie they ever saw together was Brazil,” reveals the director. “It’s a good way of finding out if your date is going to be part of your future! When Brazil came out I remember some married couples practically splitting over it. One would like it and the other would just despise the film.” Gilliam says he is regarding the webcast gig as an extended “date” during which he and the band can get to know each other, with an eye on collaborating properly at a later point. “It’s really about seeing if there’s a future between them and me,” muses the director. (Source)

Show runs about 1:30 and set list is below:
Ready to Start
Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
No Cars Go
Haiti
Empty Room
The Suburbs
Crown of Love
Rococo
Intervention
We Used to Wait
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Rebellion (Lies)
Month of May
Keep the Car Running

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Wake Up

Arcade Fire Announce Summer Tour Dates, Four to Include Spoon

Arcade Fire announced a slew of July/August tour dates today in support of their forthcoming record, The Suburbs, out 8/3 (Merge Records).

This is Arcade Fire's first US headlining tour since 2007's Neon Bible, but what's also cool is that Spoon will be special guesting at four of the dates (NYC; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA) for this leg of the tour.

$1 from every ticket sold will be donated to to Partners In Health, an organization helping impoverished communities around the world combat disease and poverty.

ARCADE FIRE, TOUR DATES 2010
* = w/ Spoon
6/7: Sherbrooke QC – Theater Granada
6/8: Sherbrooke QC – Theater Granada
6/30: Rättvik, Sweden – Dalhalla
7/2: Tromøy, Norway – Hove Festival
7/4: Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
7/9: County Kildare, Ireland – Oxegen Festival
7/12: Quebec, Canada – Quebec City Summer Festival
7/13: Ottawa, Canada – Ottawa Bluesfest
7/31: Montreal, QC – Osheaga
8/1: Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavillion
8/2: Philadelphia, PA – Mann Centre for the Performing Arts *
8/4: New York, NY – Madison Square Garden *
8/6: Washington, DC – Merriweather Post Pavilion *
8/8: Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
8/9: Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
8/11: Atlanta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre *
8/14: Toronto, ON – Olympic Island
8/27: Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival
8/28: Reading, UK – Reading Festival
8/29: Saint Cloud, France – Rock En Seine
9/2: Bologna, Italy – I-Day Festival

Public onsale for Boston, Philly, and Montreal dates starts here on Friday, 6/4, with presales via fanclub and such earlier. Brooklyn Vegan proclaims that the NYC tickets have a public onsale of Saturday, 6/12, with an AmEx presale 6/9 and fanclub presale 6/10. Ticketfly doesn't have the date up on their site for the 8/6 DC date at Merriweather, but you'd assume it should be this week with details.

We were told that pre-sale tickets for six of the dates (see below), including three of the four with Spoon, are supposed to be available now at the Arcade Fire website; however, no links are up yet so keep checking back there too.

8/1– Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion
8/2 – Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center for the Performing Arts w/ Spoon
8/4 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden w/ Spoon
8/6 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion w/ Spoon
8/9– Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
8/11 – Atlanta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park w/ Spoon