With classic instruments such as violin, piano, viola, cello, double bass and accordion among other amalgamation of sounds, Arcade Fire will be presented this Sunday, March 24 at the Estéreo Picnic Festival, in Bogotá. The Canadian band, considered one of the most influential of alternative and indie rock of the 2000s, hopes to unleash all its musical power on the Festival’s Adidas stage between 11:15 pm and 12:45 am
Arcade Fire is made up of Win Butler (vocals and guitar), Régine Chassagne (vocals and accordion), Richard Parry (Bass), Tim Kingsbury (Keyboards) and Jeremy Gara (Drums). Although some instruments are mentioned, this Montreal band experiments with a diversity of musical artifacts that give it its touch of originality and unprecedented sound experimentation.
Regarding the name of the band, Esquire magazine from Spain quoted Butler: “It is based on a story they told me, about a fire in an arcade. In fact, it didn’t even happen, but I believed it was true.”
This is how you experience the third day of the Esterero Picnic Festival.
Photo: Cesar Melgarejo. THE TIME. @cesarmelthere’s me
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After the marriage of Butler and Chassagne, the band began its artistic journey with the self-titled EP, but mostly known as ‘Us Kids Know’. However, it was between 2003 and 2004, with the release of the album ‘Funeral’, that his success germinated.
With a good result from critics, ‘Funeral’, named after the multiple deaths of several of the band members, is composed of ‘Une anne sans Lumiere’, ‘In the Backseat’, ‘Haiti’ in the latter Régine, anticipating the current situation of the nation, narrates her love for the Caribbean country from which her grandparents had to flee.
In fact, it didn’t even happen, but I believed it was true
The Canadian group has seven studio albums in which ‘Funeral’ and ‘The Suburbs’ stand out, which tells the memories of Win and William Butler’s childhood and youth in the suburbs of Houston, former member of the band and brother of the current one. leader of the quintet.
In 2017, Arcade Fire visited Bogotá amid a flash of lights and Caribbean bagpipes that sealed a show that left the capital’s residents even more eager for the occasion to be repeated. The Estéreo Picnic is back and it will be the second time in Colombia that the Indie group Arcade Fire will play a possible setlist like in the last festivals in the region:
Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)
Creature Comfort
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Rebellion (Lies)
Reflector
Afterlife
The Lightning I
The Lightning II
Intervention
Ready to Start
The Suburbs
Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Everything Now
Thanks to life (Cover)
Wake Up
Alejandro Zapata Peña
School of Multimedia Journalism EL TIEMPO
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