one of my favorite bits of music on video – two great arcade fire moments

October 13, 2009 in Music, Video | 7 comments


#41 – Arcade Fire – Neon Bible & Wake Up
par lablogotheque

If you’ve never seen this 15 minute video then you’re missing out. It contains two wonderful musical moments.

The first is Arcade Fire playing Neon Bible in an elevator with instruments, both classic and improvised. It’s hard to know what it’s like to be caught in a small elevator with a group of musicians playing music but this gives you a glimpse of that experience. After a short walk from the elevator to the floor of a concert, the second is a rendition of Wake Up in the middle of a crowd, off-stage with only instruments and megaphones.

It’s hard to describe how these performances differ – one small, constrained and private – and the other in the most public place you can imagine, surrounded by thousands of people, pushing music out through a megaphone bolted to the top of a mic stand. These two experiences are only connected by a short walk. Pretty amazing.

  2. Matt Enright’s avatar

    Matt Enright on October 13, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    Really, really thank you for that. Made my night.

  3. stereoit’s avatar

    stereoit on October 13, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    thanks, that was the most enjoyable 15 minutes of today!

  4. iain’s avatar

    iain on October 13, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    La Blogotheque do some really good videos.
    They had a very good performances by The National and A Silver Mt Zion I think.

  6. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on October 14, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Oh, that’s interesting – do you have a link to The National video? I haven’t seen that one.

  7. Andrew Conkling’s avatar

    Andrew Conkling on October 17, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    Yes, thanks for this video; impressive talent in all of them.

    I think this is the video with The National? http://www.dailymotion.com/popular/user/lablogotheque/video/x1fwmf_403-the-national-start-a-war_creation