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Arcade Fire came on at the Genting Arena in pugilstic form – lead singer Win Butler, was equipped to go for the full ten rounds from the start dressed as a boxer & suitably mobbed by the crowd he enter with a boxers intro which melted into an instrumental version of’ Everything is Now’ as he headed to his ring

We had a crazily good view of the set from mid tier and from start to finIsh a Sympony of sound cascaded across the stage – simply multicoloured backed up with with New Orleans preservation hall Jazz Band ( who i had seen years ago in their home state)

The screens above the boxing ring worked brilliantly and the mix between Win and his wife Régine Chassagne, worked very well and the 7 piece with violinist Sarah Neufeld) worked effortlessly through the set switching styles with stand out deliveries of ‘Here Comes The Night Time’, (Reflektor) ‘Electric Blue’ and ‘Put Your Money On Me ‘…all brilliantly executed. Front row seats with purist sound – made in heaven

Arcade Fire in the ring…

Richard Franks Review is here – https://counteract.co/reviews/live/arcade-fire-genting-arena-birmingham/

ARCADE FIRE
• A Fifth of Beethoven
(Walter Murphy song)
• Everything Now (Continued)
(instrumental version with boxing intro)
• Everything Now
• Rebellion (Lies)
• Here Comes the Night Time
• No Cars Go
• Electric Blue
• Put Your Money on Me
• Neon Bible
• Rococo
(with Nirvana’s “Smells Like… more )
• Normal Person (tour debut)
• Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
• The Suburbs
• The Suburbs (Continued)
• Ready to Start
(Damien Taylor Remix outro)
• Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
• Reflektor
• Afterlife
(with Leonard Cohen’s “So Long,… more )
• Creature Comfort
• Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
(with ‘I Give You Power’ snippet)

Encore:
• We Don’t Deserve Love

• Everything Now (Continued)
(with Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
• Wake Up (with Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
• Wake Up Chorus
(with Preservation Hall Jazz Band) (played live from the floor in… more )