Review: Arcade Fire dazzles at Montreal's Bell Centre, but questions remain

المملكة العربية السعودية أخبار أخبار

Review: Arcade Fire dazzles at Montreal's Bell Centre, but questions remain
المملكة العربية السعودية أحدث الأخبار,المملكة العربية السعودية عناوين
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Music isn\u0027t experienced in a vacuum.

Full Screen is not supported on this browser version.In a set that spanned the band’s career and a performance that alternated between a main stage and a smaller, centrally placed round one, a surprise emerged, one that perhaps shouldn’t have been so surprising: Régine Chassagne was the star of the show. All night you felt that she was the engine of the band — musically, emotionally — especially when the home stretch featured a devastating one-two punch of songs on which she takes the lead.

Music isn’t experienced in a vacuum. As listeners we develop a relationship with musicians, and just as in our everyday personal relationships, we expect to be afforded the respect of not being manipulated or deceived. Win Butler has shown a rare gift for writing empathetically about the young and vulnerable, so it’s genuinely upsetting to learn that, among other things, he has been sexting young female fans.

The subtext of last night’s concert was underlined, albeit without acknowledgement, during the encore. Dropping perhaps a few too many f-bombs in the process, Butler introduced Leonard Cohen’s Bird On The Wire with an anecdote about being a new arrival in Montreal and seeing Cohen randomly on the street one day; this, Butler said, was the moment when he knew he had come to the right city.

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