These last two nights, Arcade Fire reminded me once again why they were the band that made me fall in love with live music in the first place. The Suburbs tour was a bit of disappointment in retrospect, heavy with plodding, MOR album fillers that sapped the energy from their infamously electrifying performances, but these intimate Roundhouse shows see them reinvigorated with the matchless vitality of the Funeral/Neon Bible era. It’s amazing how a set consisting primarily of new material sparks such an intense reaction from the (unusually dapper) audience, but songs like “Here Comes The Night Time,” “Normal Person” and the title track itself are every bit as instant as “Power Out” et al. Add in the mariachi band playing 80’s pop-hits, the face-painting, the Venetian masks, the choreography lessons and an airing of one of my all time favourite songs (“Crown of Love”), and you’ve got my favourite gigs of twenty thousand and thirteen.
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