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Arcade Fire perform three live tracks from 'Reflektor' on French TV - watch. November 22, 2013 8:30 Band also continue their fancy dress theme on 'Le Grand Journal' Arcade Fire performed three tracks live from their recent album 'Reflektor' on French TV yesterday (November 21). The band played 'Joan Of Arc', their album title-track and 'Afterlife', the official video of which they also unveiled yesterday, on Le Grand Journal. Click below to watch all three performances. As with all their recent shows the band donned fancy dress costumes with singer Win Butler wearing a tiger balaclava on 'Joan Of Arc'. Meanwhile, the band recently issued a statement asking fans to relax about the formal and fancy dress code at their 'Reflektor' shows. They had previously asked fans to don fancy dress for their string of intimate shows around the release of their new album, and have continued the theme for their bigger dates next year, including their huge show at London's Earls Court on June 6, 2014.

Tickets for their Earls Court show go on sale November 28. The History of Arcade Fire. Who are Arcade Fire? The band plays guitar, drums, bass guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, xylophone, glockenspiel, keyboard, synthesizer, French horn, accordion, harp, mandolin, and hurdy-gurdy, and take most of these instruments on tour; the multi-instrumentalist band members switch duties throughout shows. History[edit] 2001–03: Formation and early work[edit] The promise shown by the new band in its early live shows allowed them to land a record contract with the independent record label, Merge Records, before the end of its first year together.[5] When asked about the rumour that the band's name refers to a fire in an arcade, Win Butler replied: "It's not a rumour, it's based on a story that someone told me. 2004–06: Funeral[edit] Arcade Fire made an appearance on the BBC show Later with Jools Holland on May 12, 2005, performing "Power Out" and "Rebellion (Lies)". 2006–10: Neon Bible[edit]

Arcade Fire - Power Out + Rebellion (Lies) | Reading Festival 2010 | Part 14 of 16. @arcadefire - Twitter. Arcade Fire - Wake Up | Reading Festival 2010 | Part 16 of 16. @ArcadeFireTube - Twitter. Arcade Fire. Greenland's glaciers are lifting sea levels, but not as much as expected. A glacier in eastern Greenland flowing through a long and narrow valley carved by the movement of ice.

Photo: AFP RISES in sea levels are unlikely to be as high as worst-case scenarios have forecast, according to research that shows Greenland's glaciers are slipping into the sea more slowly than previously thought. But the scientists warned that ice loss had still increased by 30 per cent over the past decade and was driving rises in sea levels that endanger low-lying coasts. Along with Antarctica, the loss of ice from the huge Greenland ice cap is the biggest direct contributor to rising sea levels, pouring 250 billion tonnes of water into the oceans each year. But the predictions of future losses as global warming continues have been wide ranging and controversial. The new research, published in the journal Science, used satellite data for the first time to track the progress of more than 200 Greenland glaciers between 2000 and 2010.

Advertisement Guardian News & Media. Arcade Fire - La Blogothèque - Take Away Show. Win Butler had to slouch a little to fit into the freight elevator. He went directly to the back, leaned against the iron door, turned around, looked at the cramped space, and asked us, “Think we can all go back now?” Then he smiled a smile that a kid would give, pure and honest, like he had just found his hiding place. Win Butler smiled, and five weeks of work seemed to crumble before us. During those weeks, I had been in continual contact with Vincent Morisset, who runs the Neon Bible site.

Réal : Vincent Moon Shot in Paris, 2007 We knew that the Take Away Show with Arcade Fire wouldn’t be like the others. We had been playing the role of “outsider” the entire day, like a foreign body that latches onto the daily grind of these magnificent musicians. It was too cold to play outside after the show, so we initially thought about playing in the entrance hall during Electrelane’s performance, but the Olympia didn’t allow it. Arcade Fire is a unique group. The rest waits on film.

“We did it. Arcade Fire - La Blogothèque - Concert à emporter. English version here Win Butler s’est voûté un peu pour entrer dans le monte-charge. Il est allé au fond, s’est appuyé contre la porte en inox, s’est retourné, a considéré le maigre espace et nous a demandé: «Je pense qu’on peut tous rentrer, non ?» . Et là, il a souri, un sourire de gamin, un sourire pur et franc, un enfant qui a trouvé sa cabane. Win Butler a souri, et cinq semaines de travail ont été anéanties. Durant tout ce temps, j’avais correspondu avec Vincent Morisset, le responsable du site Neon Bible.

Win et Régine l’avaient chargé de coordonner notre Concert à emporter. Réal : Vincent Moon Tourné à Paris, 2007 Nous savions que le Concert à emporter d’Arcade Fire ne serait pas comme les autres. Jusqu’ici, nous avons toujours joué les virus, le corps étranger qui vient se greffer sur la journée d’un groupe, auquel il doit s’adapter, d’abord médusé ou perplexe, qui prend ensuite le rythme et joue avec nous. Arcade Fire est un organisme étrange.

Le reste est là, sur l’image. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II Live SNL Nov 2010. Arcade Fire + Cyndi Lauper - Sprawl II | New Orleans Jazz Festival 2011 | Part 4 of 4. Arcade Fire (live Paris) "Poupee de Cire, Poupe de son" Arcade Fire on Later with Jools Holland, 2005 | HQ. Arcade Fire - Ready to Start Reading 2010 - 1 of 16. Arcade Fire - Intervention | Reading Festival 2010 | Part 9 of 16. Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running | Reading Festival 2010 | Part 2 of 16. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika) | Reading Festival 2010 | Part 3 of 16. Arcade Fire - Haiti | Reading Festival 2010 | Part 5 of 16. Arcade Fire - Reading Festival 2010 | full set.