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AFAIR it was half past ten when they finished the first encore “doom set” in Glasgow. It depends on when you leave the venue, but even if you have to miss the entire second encore “pop set”, you can still enjoy 2 hrs 15-20 mins of the blistering Cure performance. Better than no Cure. And still longer than the truncated 2-hour set in Manchester 2016 (which I had to content myself with)😅
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A monumental, triumphant return to Glasgow last night, after the memorable Bellahouston Park gig three years ago, which was their first Scottish appearance in 27 years. The show was a complete sell-out. I don’t have a complaint about the setlist, either. I, too, would have loved to hear Plainsong and Disintegration, among others, but instead we got Faith and One Hundred Years. They are usually alternated night to night, and I had heard the former in recent years, at Hyde Park and Bellahouston Park. A night of perfection.
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They played 25 songs the first night. This is akin to their festive set in 2019 (24-7 songs played in 2 hrs to 2hrs 15 mins) with some minor tweaks. On the other hand, on their 2016 tour (their last arena tour), they played around 30-35 songs in 2 hrs 40 mins to 3 hrs. Are these days gone?
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Easier said than done.
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To be fair, none of their outputs from Neon Bible onwards has been the second coming of Funeral although Neon Bible and The Suburbs are both great albums in their own right. Funeral is just sublime, untouchable — for me it is the greatest rock album released in this century up to this point. The noticeable decline of the quality started with Reflektor IMHO. As for Everything Now…better left untold (I must say, though, the title track played as the main set closer on the current tour sounded surprisingly good, even uplifting, amidst all this ongoing scandal). WE? I haven’t heard it yet (am I a worshipper?).
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We will see where the matters are going.
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Well, once the tour left the British soil, this thread, where the forum members had posted countless scathing comments on Win and the group, went into complete radio silence for over two weeks. Let alone the general public.
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Does anybody remember the allegations? Arcade Fire duly finished the European tour yesterday, on a high or not.
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Sounds like the O2 was sufficiently full, just like the other UK venues on the tour itinerary. “Well-populated show casts doubt on notions of a boycott while on stage the band fail to reach former heights” https://www.ft.com/content/9c222716-ae4f-40f5-9084-5d3886798e12 [N.B. If the link doesn’t work, search with the article title, “Arcade Fire plod on at the O2 Arena amid allegations against singer”] When AF played a one off “warm-up” gig at KOKO back in April, NME, The Guardian and Evening Standard all published glowing five-star reviews. This time the aforementioned Financial Times gave meagre two stars. Given the generally positive responses to their shows on this board, I can imagine the reviewer would have given four if not five stars had it not been for the case. This might tell how hard it can be to perceive the music or the performance for what it is, separating the art from the artist. Easier said than done.
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How big (or small) was the turnout at the London show?
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As you say, in a way, I drew the responses I predicted (“I’m afraid I may be called selfish or a dick”) therefore I have to take the consequences. You need to grow thick skin to survive in an internet social. That being said, why respond at this timing? After almost two days since my post? And amidst the news of THE PASSING? Did you learn how to pick an awkward timing from Pitchfork?
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“So self entitled” is quite a strong insult — you’d better consider the impact and hurt it gives to me, really.
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Possible. Who knows. Then again, did Pitchfork get the information and then the consent to publish it from the victims, say, a week before? The chance is slim if any.
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No. But I would have been more prepared for the cancellation had it been announced way before the tour started.