This January and February, Arcade Fire will play Australia/New Zealand's Big Day Out festival along with Rage Against the Machine, Björk, LCD Soundsystem, Dizzee Rascal, Battles, Spoon, and many others. Sounds like a great lineup; too bad it's in Australia. If you're not planning a New Year's trip down under, don't fret; Arcade Fire have also scheduled three headlining dates in February! So you could catch one of those... if you live in Japan.
If you are still reading, g'day and konnichiwa. Enjoy the shows.
If you are still reading and you are not Japanese or Australlian, I feel bad for you. And to make up for your lack of North American Arcade Fire shows, I have put together this very special mix tape culled from songs on their MySpace friends' pages. Enjoy.
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Title: "What Arcade Fire's MySpace Friends Are Listening To"
Side A:
01. Big Casino - Jimmy Eat World (from Tom... isn't your picture enough to let people know you're a dork)
02. The Host of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance (from CeLeSTTiaNi)
03. My Final Fantasy - Robert Phoenix UK (from Rob From The UK, who is a 38-year-old DJ)
04. Song Has Been - Deleted By The Artist (from Shaun Park)
05. The Crave - Jelly Roll Morton (from Humble B. Wonderful who tells the world to "cram it, sucko")
06. Starting Line - Ingrid and Andrew (from Poonarific)
Side B:
01. Drivin' Me Wild - Common (from Michelle, who would like to meet Angelina Jolie and Ryan Gosling)
02. I Want to Live - Silver Seas (from Christin, whose mood was hopeful at press time)
03. Remedy - Hot Water Music (from Mr. James T. Norman, Esquire, who believes "Sometimes you have to roll a hard six")
04. An Ending Ascents - Brian Eno (from Daniel, who actually lives in Australia and might be able to tell us how those Arcade Fire shows were)
05. Caravan - Husky Rescue (from han, who has 286 friends)
06. Main Titles - John Ottman (from zenbetty; Superman theme song... well played, zenbetty)
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And the dates:
$ Big Day Out festival