Very Close to, if not actually in, the CD player:
seen/heard ° stream album ° buy
seen/heard ° stream album ° buy
seen/heard ° stream album ° buy
seen/heard ° listen ° preorder
seen/heard ° listen ° preorder
She Don’t Make False Claims (Arcade Fire/David Bowie, Central Park Summerstage)
God bless the Arcade Fire kids; they’re still having fun with it.
But there’ve been some changes since I saw them last year:
They’ve adopted a couple players from their post-rockin’ opening act: Bell Orchestre’s viola player is now AF’s 2nd violin, and their French hornist has dragged his backwards instrument up along with him...
...it seems that Napoleon Dynamite has gotten an understudy...
...and the band has added a Thin White Duke.
David Bowie, as had been rumored, re-joined the band (after having gotten them on to prime time network television late last week). The band and he had a good go at “Queen Bitch;” then he and Win traded off on “Wake Up” the same way they did on “Fashion Rocks.”
I don’t know whether to be impressed or embarrassed that I managed to get red eye in my Bowie pics. I wasn’t that close; my flash is out of control... Or Nic Roeg was right: He really is an alien.
Jeez: Arcade Fire, David Bowie, and Cloud Cult (I went to 169 Bar afterwards and caught them for the second time this week) in a single day. Perhaps there’s an upside to this CMJ nonsense after all. More pics and words if ever I get a chance. Check back post-CMJ. Until then, you can find more pics at Brooklyn Vegan (naturally) and at arcadefire.net.
For more photos, go to my Flickr account.
if I had realized i could have still made cloud cult's show I would have so
gone. :(