POP Montreal Live: Arcade Fire, Karkwa and Kid Koala on the Festival Plaza

By Julie Ledoux.
To celebrate 10 years of music in Montreal, Pop Montreal team hit a home run with the arrival of the darlings of the city, Arcade Fire, for a free show, open to all.
The evening began in force while the Montreal DJ Kid Koala got the ball, dressed in koala ...! In fine style, he has warmed the huge crowd that waited in front of him Arcadi Fire. Electro-jazzy rhythms and samples of songs best known (White Stripes, Outkast, etc..) Kid Koala make one of the most respected DJ in Canada, with good reason.
Karkwa then stormed the stage at Place des Festivals, the second part of providing free outdoor entertainment. The five boys, who seemed rather exhausted, have chained the success of their two most recent albums - Volume du Vent and Les Chemins de Verre - which escape the fate, Marie you cry, The Paths of glass, Tinnitus, The Frost to finish in style with the pretty room not Forget. Despite a very low number of decibels (due to laws), Karkwa provided an excellent service, at the level of talent of the group, making a perfect bridge between the performance of Kid Koala and the Arcade Fire, all waiting for.
While a marquee movie told us the last few minutes that "Coming Soon: Arcade Fire", a trailer was passing, presenting film clips and music video of The Suburbs. Finally, the group - eight tentacles for the evening of September 22 - was brought, all smiles on stage. Rarely had they seen the singer and guitarist Win Butler as happy or at least smile.
With the room Ready to Start the crowd was conquered from the beginning of the performance of Arcade Fire. Then the group all wanted to see a string of successes of his three albums, Funeral, Neon Bible, The Suburbs, three masterpieces of indie-rock of Quebec. The spectators (100 000 according to POP Montreal) were eligible for Keep the Car Running, No Cars Go Haiti and the tragic, sung by Régine Chassagne, which itself has origins in Haiti. It should also mention that the show was punctuated by calls for solidarity with Haiti in Montreal. Arcade Fire Kanpai supports the body since its inception, he is helping the Haitian people. They also presented Dr. Paul Farmer, a strong presence in Haiti, whose story is told in the book Raise the mountains and Regine Chassagne which wrote the foreword.
The group has already won a Grammy for his album The Suburbs, which has just won the Polaris Prize, continued its momentum with the Modern Man, Rococo, and even the new song Speaking in Tongues. The public, who continued to drink parts of Montreal group, also had the right to intervention, the album Neon Bible, and Wake Up Neighborhood # 2 (Laika), from their first album, Funeral, and The Suburbs and Empty Room, from the album The Suburbs. And it was not all! Members of Arcade Fire have been very generous, offering more 1:30 show, complete with video projections, which, in period films were grafted images of the show.
The group no end to stuff his music fans as they have chained the Neighborhood # 1 (Tunnels), We Used to Wait and Neighborhood # 3 (Power Out). Far from over, the show concluded with a reminder of two parts inflamed or Rebellion (Lies) taken from Funeral and Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), sung by Régine Chassagne, who had changed red suit with long fringes. Flamboyant. It is clear that the group that ended his world tour in Montreal had much to celebrate! Prices accumulate, humanitarian projects too, and love is still in the public meeting. Impossible to lose this love, if the group continues on this path, offering blistering performance as that to which we got last night on the Place des Festivals.