Arcade Fire – Shrine Auditorium, LA – 10.08.10

One of the small pleasures in life is live music. There’s just something about the energy swirling around as you sing-a-long with one of your favorite bands and everyone around you is there for the same reason—love of music.

Describing Arcade Fire as energetic during the bands 2nd show in LA at the Shrine is an understatement. They had more energy than an iron man triathlete…and then some. To put it quite simply, the show was amazing. Arcade Fire has been on my bucket list of shows, pretty much from the first time I heard Wake Up, back when Funeral was first released. Needless to say, I enjoyed the show immensely and would see them again in a heartbeat. And if you get a chance to see them, definitely do!

Opener:

Colin Stetson, very cool solo saxophonist from NY. He has a really interesting sound. More about Colin here.

Set List:

Ready to Start

Keep the Car Running

No Cars Go

Haiti

Empty Room

Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

Modern Man

Rococo

In the Backseat

The Suburbs

Month of May

Rebellion (Lies)

We Used to Wait

Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

Encore:

Intervention

Wake Up

My Personal Favorites:

Ready to Start, Haiti, Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), In the Backseat, Wake Up

Songs I wish they would have also played:

Crown of Love, Black Wave_Bad Vibrations, Half Light I, Half Light II (No Celebration), Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)

Videos From the Show: (much thanks to ConcertConfessions.com, kidnapstyles, and synthetikz for taking such great video and uploading it for all of us to enjoy!)

http://www.youtube.com/v/PCqBEIHuiRQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01

http://www.youtube.com/v/ePbzP9ACpJE?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01

http://www.youtube.com/v/Ho21qa9sflk?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01

http://www.youtube.com/v/ZLJ7BH7nLzw?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01