Blane Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 DOubt anyone else is here, but they're playing at the corner of St. Viateur and ST. Urbain in the big church (literally 200m from my apartment). 10 bucks for a ticket if anyone is around adn wanting to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Are Arcade Fire OK with being recorded?Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 they'll have to be tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 wow!please post some thoughts when you get home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 ouch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deranger Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 fuck I wish (for that and sooo may reasons) I still lived in Montreal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 (edited) ok, so it was tons of fun.Final Fantasy opened and played 5 or 6 songs, then after a 20 minute break the band came out adn did an 1:10 min or so set. Mostly new stuff. The sound wasn't great since they were really using a makeshift PA (it WAS in the basement of a church after all), but they were definately going all out.The show sold out by about 7:30, so in total about 400 people were there. Cool wandering around and just seeing all the folks from your neighbourhood at the same show. Tapes came out as well as they can be expected to in a venue that had a PA similar to the Dominion tavern or similar makeshift show bars. I'll post a link later.Oh yeah, forgot to mention the new tunes. I'd say 60% are great 20% are decent and 20% are meh. Not quite up to the level of funeral, but definately a few kickass numbers. Edited January 21, 2007 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 the link to the show is now in the "live music" section or whatever it's called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 St. Urbain and St. Viateur!! I stayed there about a week ago. The church in question is a Polish church that I have attended on several occasions. So Blane, you must go to that coffee shop on the corner of Waverley all the time huh? I love that neighbourhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 awesome blane! good work. i hope everything is fleshed out nicely for the run of 'real' shows in february.thanks for posting all that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 There is a link off of PPhish for a recording of the show. I haven't listened yet, so who knows what it sounds like.....http://www.phantasytour.com/phish/boards_thread.cgi?threadID=1221023Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 (edited) probably the same one i posted here (my recording) now converted to mp3. More on the show here if you wnat the editorial from www.popmontreal.com:Neon Bible is opened in a church basement... Submitted by andrewrose on Sun, 2007-01-21 05:45. neon bibleOr plugged in, I guess. Friday night the Arcade Fire debuted a chunk of material from the forthcoming Neon Bible at Canterbury High School in Ottawa, (the alma mater of band member Richard Parry). But it wasn't until Saturday that the big fluorescent bible itself hung above the band as they belted out new songs--this time in the basement of the big Polish Catholic church that hovers over Mile End in Montreal.Originally planned for Thursday night, the Montreal show was packed with about 400 friends and folks from the neighbourhood (including the perogie guy!), with the band running through 12 songs. They were: Black Mirror, Keep the Car Running, No Cars Go, Black Wave/Bad Vibrations, My Body Is a Cage, Ocean of Noise->Rebellion, Intervention, Joe Simpson, The Well & the Lighthouse, encore: Haiti, Power Out.The room felt surreal at times, it having been so long since the band had graced any nearby stages (save of course Thursday's high-school only affair), with no one quite knowing how to react, wondering if it was real. It seemed almost like Funeral could have never happened; that they were another local band hoping that this might be the show to take them to that next level. It's not easy to come back from the dead...from Hades (one would assume that's where they've been, right?) Everyone expects you to have brought something back with you. Isn't that the question on everyone's lips? Just how will this band follow-up one of the most well-received debuts, um, ever?Well yes and no. In some ways, it just seemed nice to have them back. Old live staples in the set were sparse but of course welcome, and "No Cars Go" (which I'm asuming was entirely re-recorded for Neon Bible) definitely had a handful of interesting tweaks. No one would have complained had they come out and played a short set of crowd-pleasers and one or two new songs, but there's nothing I like more than seeing a band stick its neck out for new songs and new ideas (and there were plenty of both).I'm sure there are a thousand people who can't wait to compare Neon Bible to Funeral, but I won't be one of them. Funeral was a perfect storm and everyone knows it's story by now. Tonight marks the first time I've heard any of the new songs save "Intervention" and "Black Mirror", but I can say this: Neon Bible will definitely make for lots of good reading."My Body is a Cage" was a beautiful slowly building piece with smart subtle lyrics and maybe my highlight of the set. The sound in the room wasn't perfect, but both "Keep the Car Running" and "The Well & the Lighthouse" (a waltz-like epic apparently based the Fontaine's fable "the Wolf and the Fox") showed plenty of potential, both as studio gems and big room triumphs. My other peak of the night was a song more than one person suggested was a Bruce Springsteen cover, but which I can't for the life of me place in his ouevre (anyone?). The band seemed to refer to it as "Joe Simpson" (Win muttered a barely audible line about 'Joseph Simpson' as it began), and while it certainly echoed the Boss in its rambling-man grandeur and lines about working 'in a building downtown', it also had lines about planes coming two by two and a little girl being a bird in a cage, singing to get her daddy a diamond ring. Maybe Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about Joe Simpson the famous mountaineer and I've never heard it, but I kind of suspect Win Butler wrote a song about Jessica Simpson's uber-creepy father Joe. And maybe this is your "(AntiChrist Television Blues)". Maybe I'm wrong. Either way, it was as big and beautiful and sad as any song I've heard. A working American man's anthem, in the basement of Polish catholic church in Montreal, with a big neon bible at the back of the stage... Edited January 21, 2007 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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