Arcade Fire: a magical evening Festival Plaza

Arcade Fire has won over the crowd that filled the Festival Plaza Thursday night for a free show

The journalist can sometimes be very frustrating. It made the experience Thursday, while forcing off time, we had to extricate himself from pain and misery of the truly magical atmosphere that reigned on the Festival Plaza before the end of the performance of Arcade? Fire. We then remembered all the success that had not yet heard, listening to catch bits when we headed for the office.
You guessed it: as usual, the excellent training led by Win Butler did not disappoint the 75,000 people gathered to attend the free concert, on the contrary. Even the warm weather seemed to put the game to make the evening perfect.
From the first notes of a very timely Ready to Start - because "ready to go", the group was, no doubt - the ground began to vibrate under foot tapements public conquered .
This was followed by a series of hits - Keep the Car Running, No Cars Go, Haiti, Modern Man, to name a few - without interruption: one could not help but rave every time the one of them began singing in chorus with the rest of the crowd.
And there was a real spirit of communion in the church: we must say that the Montreal is second to none to compose hymns to the melodies that everyone can sing with them. As is the case in most of their shows is when Wake Up started the fellowship came to a head.
During the show, Regine? Chassagne and Win Butler made several references to Haiti - the country of origin of the singer - highlighting how Montreal was "connected" to the pearl of the Antilles and helped greatly in the reconstruction of the it.
Speaking of Montreal, Butler has also launched: "We had an English-speaking group, a French group, and a DJ ... I feel really at home is a perfect night! "We could not be better said, and they would have listened all night.

Kid Koala & Karkwa: treats inputQuestion "Part I", the public has been especially spoiled Thursday: first, the DJ? Canadian Kid Koala - wearing the costume of that animal - a service offered playful and absolutely délicieu is in line with our expectations. Thirty minutes electrifying who warmed up the crowd in time to say it.
In great shape, guys Karkwa for their part played eight of their great songs, very much in the tone of the evening. Louis-Jean Cormier and his band - which provided "the French speaking part of the evening" - gave a performance so good you could almost leave sated after those 45 minutes ...

first free festival of Cambrai: the program, urban culture and street art

| FACES OF THE NEWS |The city of Cambrai promises its residents a beautiful festival this Saturday against the Garage Café, the festival "The street belongs to Cambrai" dedicated to urban culture and street art. ...
Music Promotion Association (MPA), chaired by Arnaud Rosendo, is already working with the help of its volunteers for concerts and events of the day."We wanted to organize a festival in September, said the official, to fight against the gloom of this month mean school! This festival is also an opportunity to extend the holidays always too short! "One way therefore to the APM to close the festival season. A free festival, why? "For one simple reason: we want a maximum number of people having fun and participating in the festival without the brake of the cost. Participate, are the only fun slogans! "A delicious and varied musical programA popular event of quality but with what program? "Many activities await spectators, interspersed with concerts including the arrival of the group Ace Out, a native of Lille, which has also just finished a tour in the United States. The group members have such presence and such energy on stage! "A rock-tinged funk and some electronic elements. They will be preceded by three other groups. At first the sounds and rhythms of the Sharks Junkie as well as the Division Nada, both of Cambrai. Then Eclectek "a group Lille electro-influenced burlesque," as described by Arnaud Rosendo.And animations of street artDemonstrations of stilts, exhibition, magic, simulated glider, hip-hop, prevention ... will be offered. Youth indéBD fest will also be present with their fanzine. "A play is also planned and will be played in the Garage Café in the afternoon, said Rosendo Arnaud, and a second stage devoted to electro Vijing. Note also the involvement of SEJC, service the Voluntary and the library of Cambrai. "This festival is a challenge that members of the association has opted for APM: Cambrai show as a young and dynamic city ... So you bet? •

Nearly 100 000 people for Arcade Fire

MONTREAL - For the last concert of their world tour that lasted a year, members of Arcade Fire could not ask for better than this human tide of almost 100,000 people flooded on Thursday night, Festival Plaza, the center- Montreal.
The organizers of the event, headed by the POP Montrealfestival, expected to attract 75,000 people, and finally, it is between 75,000 and 100,000 fans who came.Impressive, the crowd overflowed the St. Catherine Street and extends towards the Place des Arts and the surrounding streets.TITLE ENCARTLe show in picturesGiant screens were also placed at strategic locations to accommodate people attending without a doubt one of the biggest concerts in the history of arts and entertainment district, produced under a mild sky, to boot.Just before the concert, which cost about $ 1 million to produce in the artistic director of Pop Montreal, Dan Seligman, the security officials reported no major problem, despite the number of spectators gathered on the outskirts of the gigantic stage erected at the intersection of Boulevard de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance.

A show that warms the heartAfter offering a sold-out performance Wednesday night at Metropolis, the cast of Win Butler has rewarded the loyalty of his Montreal audience with a performance free and memorable. The singer has repeatedly stated how it was good to come home to sing with his family. "Our heart is full," said Butler, smiling.
As for his sidekick Régine Chassagne, she added: "Even after having toured the world, Montreal is really cool. "
It is important to remember Arcadi Fire has been very rewarding one year, winning a host of honors for his album The Suburbs, now considered a classic in the world of rock. These include the Grammys, the Juno and the Brit in the album of the year, not to mention the prestigious Polaris Music, the award for best Canadian album.
The stars were aligned for this celebration so large. Thousands of fans, who did not want to miss this event for anything, have even presented early in the afternoon.
After the first song Ready To Start, catchy, Arcade Fire continued with a Keep The Car Running and No Cars Go, delivered with an energetic final coated violins, electric guitars and drums. The group, in great shape, played a couple of songs from his three albums (one must add the disks Funeral, released in 2004, and Neon Bible, launched in 2007), keeping in mind certain works from The Suburbs.

A myriad of successThe repertoire chosen by Arcade Fire for the evening like in large part to that offered at other shows of the tour: Haiti, Empty Room, Intervention, Rococo, The Suburbs, Month of May (rendering electrifying and dancing), We Used to Wait, Neighborhood # 3, Modern Man were among the pieces offered. We even had a new play Speaking in Tongues.
In return, the charismatic singer was first sent Rebellion (Lies). At that time, all group members have the package. In conclusion, it Régine Chassagne who played Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), wearing a pink dress eccentric. In the crowd, the balloons change color from blue to red in the air strikes in the audience.
Won in advance, the public took advantage of every moment of the show. Virtually throughout the concert, the audience sang, clapped hands and feet, hopped, applauded, whistled, screamed ... On occasion, you could hear a roar well aware that repeated the words of Win Butler said during Performance: POP Montreal, we love you.
Between 19 am and 21 pm, Kid Koala and Karkwa ensured the first two parts brilliantly. The band of Jean-Louis Cormier gave a solid performance, with its definitely more rock than usual. The proof of the electrifying final Forget it.
The show was broadcast live on radio SiriusXM.

Toronto Film Festival: praise of the minor

Toronto has emerged in recent years as one of the biggest international festivals, with the size of its market, as well as its selection bloated and uncompetitive. Among the more than 300 selected, there were any, often cheered by an audience well-behaved: prestige movies en route to the Oscars, raw red carpet, film international authors looking for a niche U.S. ...
But the most beautiful films were to be found in another category, a category could not be described by borrowing a term to music in a minor key. Is quietly brilliant films, free from the usual expectations of the international festival eager to punch, made by filmmakers rather old, having nothing to prove but still to play. Films for fun, then.
The most impressive of all, you are talked about, it Twixt Francis Ford Coppola, Film Jokes and humorous child, as well as a poignant elegy to the memory of his son died, Giancarlo. The inverse of a masterpiece, just a great film.
The crude portraits "20 Cigarettes"
To be more difficult then freed the American James Benning (experimental film giant, still little known in France until his retrospective at the Jeu de Paume last year) who signs a film with 20 Cigarettes on one of the few landscapes he had not yet explored: the face. The device is, as often at home, elementary twenty of his friends, leaning against a wall, smoking a cigarette, still shot, close, twenty portraits no frills, referring to Warhol's famous Screen Tests, and twenty times the incomparable joy to experience the beauty of the world picked up on a meditative face, as if the entire history of cinema fell back on those 99 minutes fag in mouth.
Also to find joy, thirteen years after The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman of New York at the helm of a new film, his fourth: Damsels in Distress. This "Woody Allen's gay" - or "Rohmer New York", it depends - and somewhat forgotten in France, signed a campus movie hilarious dialogues chiseled, brushed, with tender irony, the portrait of the gilded youth east coast.