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  1. Arcade Fire

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    Just now, kaytee... said:

    First half I wasn't keen on but they kill the transitions every time. I pre-ordered the vinyl and there's only 7? tracks on the record but looks like the end of the first side will be a lengthy track. It's been so long could we rule out them putting out another release within the year?

    They said they spent a longer time than ever creating it and it's turned out to be their shortest record. I don't feel like they're readying another release - it seems like this one might have really took it out of them if they're losing bandmembers (if only in a 'live band' sense) along the way. They did cut Generation A off the album but that seems like it'll be forever a loosie - created for the time it was played - rather than a holdover to the next album.

  2. Arcade Fire

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    4 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

    I don’t get this at all. You can like an act and not think they are a Glastonbury headliner. Sometimes this place is like stan Twitter.

    The post I quoted was you saying "why can't headliners come back lower?" which isn't a complaint against what we (the stans) think but what the festival actually does. The last one to come back lower was Manics or someone like that a million years ago - a British band who were taking non-headline slots while headlining Glastonbury. If it happened all the time then people may be receptive but it's just your fantasy at the moment.

    And, as always, you've pulled the old "hey, I'm objective - you're delusional!" like you haven't just claimed to be the one true mind that knows the way of the Glastonbury lineup and are often caught plotting a festival shaped by your own ideals.

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  4. Arcade Fire

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    3 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

    I don’t get why. Any band that had their peak in the 00s/ early 10s and has been plateauing since shouldn’t be kept as headliners because of nostalgia. I don’t like the case that once you’re a headliner you’re a headliner for life no matter how your career goes.

    Because those bands still have lots of people who enjoy seeing them live and, quite importantly, you don't pick the lineup.

  6. Arcade Fire

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    Just now, chazwwe said:

    Them being the missing sub headliner would make my year, but I just can't see it happening. The change over between Arcade Fire > Billie or > Kendrick would be insane. 

    As @FloorFiller said, they're at a place where they might not be the first port of call for Pyramid headliner but they're still gonna be chosen to headline plenty of other festivals so it'll just mean they don't play Glastonbury for a while. Stepping down the bill this year, or in the near future, is pretty much out of the equation.

    Arguably, nostalgia and their acknowledgement of it will drive up their demand like it does with most artists along a twenty-year cycle. Like when Bono put away Mr. Macphisto and when Bruce got rid of the "Other" Band. I could see them headlining again in the next ten years but probably towards the later half of that period (if they stick around, which I doubt).

  7. Arcade Fire

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    26 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

    Y’know, that new song(s) is hardly anything mind blowing or particularly new for them, but damn does it give me all kinds of nostalgic feels to back when I was first really getting in to them in the lead up to and release of The Suburbs. For all the stick I’ve given them on here over the last couple of years, it sure does feel great to have them back. 

    I do agree and I admit it is a good avenue.

    People will have seen me saying that they should just make whatever they want and fuck the naysayers and Everything Now was actually great (it was) but a lot of the fans are getting to the age where we're looking back fondly at such a period in our lives hearing those songs for the first time and yeah, maybe treading old ground is a good thing. The tracklist suggests they're doing it in an interesting way as well.

    What you're feeling is what I expect a lot of fans will be feeling. While it's not their boldest statement, it should give most of us the warm fuzzies. Total heritage band move but they're nearly twenty years down the road now. It should bring people back in who might have rejected Everything Now and Reflektor, and I think their next tour will be more popular than the last.

    Besides, they kinda jumped on the indie rock Springsteen thing before anyone else, rose up the lineups and then ditched it for others to play with. Might as well come back and get what's theirs.

  9. Arcade Fire

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    Didn't recognise that Will's replacement in the video is Dan Boeckner from Wolf Parade. That's a pretty perfect fit. But I guess they're dabbed down for a couple of years then.

  10. Arcade Fire

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    Just now, Matt42 said:

    I feel like you want to argue with anyone who doesn't think they’ve shrunk since 2014.

    They’d be a great other headline. 

    We're enjoying the new song and return of a band we like. Go away.

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  12. Arcade Fire

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    I did actually see a rumour on Reddit about there being inner turmoil in the band and doubt cast over the Nigel Godrich produced album. Seems like it mighta been true after all - but we're getting an album at least!

  14. Arcade Fire

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    Just now, Hugh Jass II said:

    They’ve been doing that for ages. Suburbs, Reflektor, EN all had tracks split into parts 1 and 2.

    They were all distinct songs though, as @kingcrawler said. Not two essential parts of the same song.

  17. Ban flags in front of the stages

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    On 3/14/2022 at 1:28 PM, gfa said:

    I meant for when your in the middle of the pyramid/other crowd during busy acts. Bar entrances usually do for me when it comes to finding people outside the crowd or whatever

    Get a big long bit of string. The person going to the toilet holds one end, the person staying in the crowd holds the other. Ez game.

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  22. Arcade Fire

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    6 minutes ago, internetjef said:

    How many new tunes there ?
     

    Are age of anxiety and rabbit hole new tunes? or are they old deep cuts / b sides or something 

    lightning being the new single coming , and I think generation a was the one they previously did live on US telly 

    Memories of the Age of Anxiety was also a name used for some 45 minute instrumental piece they released for Headspace or something, which is why the name might sound familiar. It’s not that though (the reason I checked it out, in hindsight it obviously wasn’t that).

    But yeah they’re both new with The Lightning. I really enjoyed Gen A but we heard that in 2020 so I would rather that isn’t on the album.

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  23. Arcade Fire

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    29 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

    Listened to a shitty phone recording of the new single from last nights show and although I’m sure the studio version will sound a bit different, it certainly sounds like they’ve gone back to a Neon Bible-ish sound, for this song at least. No real hint of disco thankfully.

    I just watched a clip of Age of Anxiety because of this and it’s pure synthrock. Get gutted.

  24. Lizzo

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    3 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

     

    Have I missed something?

    She did some shitty things in the time between now and the Glasto set, like putting a delivery driver on blast on Twitter and expressed her adoration for domestic assault felon Chris Brown backstage at his show. And the plagiarism case too. It just kinda flew in the face of how great a person she seemed to be back in 2019.

    It's a bit odd because I'm sure, to most people, those incidents didn't even register and it shouldn't be enough to slide-tackle her run towards the big leagues, but things have certainly gone quiet on the Lizzo hype and her single last year landed with a thud. Maybe it's just because there's no album or massive banger to get excited about.

  25. Who’s Playing What Day?

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    1 hour ago, MaxPower said:

    Big stage for them - will they be during the day?

    Love them I’ll be there regardless

    Metronomy? Yes, definitely, if they're on the Other Stage. They've played the Pyramid before so not the biggest stage they've done.

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