Last week greenT had the privilege to see one of Canada's finest contemporary bands melt faces and cause an entire stadium to remain on its feet for the duration of a near perfect set. The setlist included most of the Arcade Fires brilliant new album The Suburbs, six tracks from their even better debut Funeral, and four tracks off of their dark sophomore Neon Bible.
Setlist:
1. Ready to Start
2. Month of May
3. Keep the Car Running
4. Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
5. No Cars Go
6. Haïti
7. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
8. Half Light II (No Celebration)
9. Rococo
10. The Suburbs
11. The Suburbs (Continued)
12. Ocean of Noise (with Calexico)
13. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
14. We Used to Wait
15. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
16. Rebellion (Lies)
Encore:
17. Intervention
18. Modern Man
19. Wake Up
Now when I say "near perfect" I do not mean that the sound wasn't clear as crystal or that the crowd was as subdued as a group of swaying zombies, but if you glace at the setlist and are as enthralled with the new album as greenT is, then you must notice the lack of the arguably best song from the new album, "Suburban War" (live in Bologna). I was in disbelief that the Montreal group aren't playing this track as much as they possibly can.
That being said we did snag some video of our second favourite track from The Suburbs called "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)":
Do what you can to catch this band live if you aren't planning on it already. They may not be the animated child-like group of friends and lovers that ecstatically first toured the globe in 2005, but they have grown into a band that are knowingly making music that will be remembered as the staple example of music from the decade of double zeroes.
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