Arcade Fire kicked off the brand new leg of their ‘WE’ tour final evening (July 29) after they headlined the Osheaga Festival in Montreal, Canada.
During their efficiency, they lined Wolf Parade’s 2005 observe ‘This Heart’s On Fire’ – take a look at footage and the whole setlist under.
Since the discharge of ‘WE’ in May, Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner has been taking part in dwell with Arcade Fire, filling the hole left by the departure of Will Butler that very same month. Last evening, they carried out ‘This Heart’s On Fire’ from Wolf Parade’s debut album, ‘Apologies To The Queen Mary’.
So this occurred #HeartsOnFire #ArcadeFire #WolfParade pic.twitter.com/0FJsZIAvEY
— Michael Barclay (@mmmbarclay) July 30, 2022
Taking to Twitter after the present, Boeckner stated that “headlining Osheaga was amazing”, earlier than sharing a backstage picture.
G’evening people pic.twitter.com/Fp5oaqWsjS
— Jabroni and the Air-rifle (@DanBoeckner) July 30, 2022
Arcade Fire beforehand lined Wolf Parade’s ‘I’ll Believe In Anything’ at their remaining, homecoming ‘Reflektor’ tour present in 2014. The two bands have toured extensively collectively, with drummer Arlen Thompson contributing to Arcade Fire’s ‘Wake Up’ and synth participant Hadji Bakara serving to with three tracks on ‘Neon Bible’ – the title observe, ‘Black Mirror’ and ‘My Body Is A Cage’.
Elsewhere throughout their first full present in Canada since 2018, Arcade Fire performed tracks from each one in every of their six studio albums, together with seven from ‘WE’. Check out the whole setlist under:
‘Age of Anxiety I’
‘Ready to Start’
‘The Suburbs’
‘The Suburbs (Continued)’
‘Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)’
‘No Cars Go’
‘Afterlife’
‘Reflektor’
‘Creature Comfort’
‘Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)’
‘End of the Empire I-III’
‘End of the Empire IV (Sagittarius A*)’
‘The Lightning I’
‘The Lightning II’
‘This Heart’s On Fire’ (Wolf Parade cowl)
‘Rebellion (Lies)’
‘Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)’
‘Everything Now’
‘Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)’
‘Wake Up’
Arcade Fire’s world tour for ‘WE’ kicks off correctly subsequent month, with the band set to carry out extensively throughout the UK, Europe and North America. You can view ticket particulars and additional info right here for the UK and right here for North America.
Arcade Fire has partnered with the social and enviroIMN Music Newsntal justice non-profit PLUS1 on the tour to make sure that £1/$1/€1 from each ticket will go to KANPE, a basis dedicated to supporting essentially the most susceptible communities in Haiti.
Speaking to IMN Music News, Win Butler stated he hopes the 2022 dates would symbolize “the definitive Arcade Fire tour”.
