Arcade Fire Band

@LWjetta wrote:

Also there is a trivia question here to start off 2010 in Lu’s Forum.
In the first couple of songs a gal is playing an instrument that she is cranking on ( much like a music box ) What is it?Tremendous energy by this band and the ACL crowd seemed to love it. It is a full hour of Rock / Indie music that will get you up dancing.

A Post Script to this. Arcade Fire was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album “Neon Bible” at the 2008 Grammys.
This video features that album. It’s a Rocker, maybe not to everyone’s taste in this Forum, but then again Buick 6 Rocks.
I was impressed with the energy of these kids, also with ten people in the band ticket revenue must not go very far to each. I also noticed they have literally toured the world and have played at many of Lu’s venues.
Answer my Trivia question if you have time. “Puleeze”.
Happy New Year.
lwj

@tntracy wrote:

Is it a hurdy gurdy?

Congratulations Tnt. The answer was listed in the short Bio on the band in my original post.

@LWjetta wrote:

There is a double meaning here.

Here is why.

Quote”As with other gold rushes, entrepreneurs followed the miners. Soon dance halls and saloons sprang up to help the miners forget the hardships they endured. In Barkerville, British Columbia a troupe of Dutch and German dancing girls, the “Hurdy Gurdies”, came under chaperone, up to the Cariboo from the dance halls of San Francisco. They were featured as the main attraction in a saloon in Barkerville, where miners were charged one dollar to dance with them”. ( Rumor has it they also offered “other” services )

What is a hurdy-gurdy, and how does it work?
The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument in which the strings are rubbed by a rosined wheel instead of a bow. The wheel is turned by the player’s right hand, while the left hand plays the tune on the keys in the keybox. Two of the strings (usually), called the chanters or melody strings, run though the keybox and their vibrating length is shortened by the key pressing against it. Several drone strings are outside the keybox, and thus sound the same note all the time. For this reason the hurdy-gurdy sounds similar to a bagpipe. A small movable bridge on one of the drones can be made to vibrate rhythmically by cranking the wheel harder, and this buzzing is used for a rhythmic accompanyment to the tune. ( The instrument has been around for Centuries and there is only one Company in the U.S. that currently hand makes them )

@TOverby wrote:

There is a well know song from the 60’s about a man who played one.

Oh no-not another trivia question.

lwj

Montreal based Arcade Fire’s song “Wake Up” has been licenced to play at today’s Super Bowl. (Just the song, the band won’t be appearing.)
Lead guitarist Win Butler’s wife Regine who is in the band is from Haiti and all proceeds from the allowing of the song to be aired go to relief work in Haiti.

Here is the article.
http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2010-2-3-arcade-fire-s-wake-up-heads-to-the-superbowl
Also one of the Arcade Fire’s songs is in the trailer for the new movie “Where the Wild Things Are” a cute children’s movie for all ages and it has been nominated for awards.
Here is the trailer.
http://wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com/#/Splash

lwj
P.S.I’m rooting for the home town team to win.

The Arcade Fire (a Canadian group) are in the middle of a huge festival/concert tour in Europe promoting their new album “Suburbs”now as I reported earlier.
I’m posting this to show how far behind we are in North America in an innovative use of an old mining resource as compared to Europe.( in this case Sweden)
QUOTE:
Arcade Fire performing Wake Up at Dalhalla, close to Rättvik in Dalarna, Sweden, on June 30 2010.
Dalhalla is an amphitheatre located in a former limestone quarry. The quarry is 60 metres deep, 400 metres long and 175 metres wide. The open air theater was opened in 1995 and currently has 4000 seats. The acoustical qualities are comparable to the best outdoor stages in Europe.
Arcade Fire was great, as always!
End QUOTE:
Betcha Lu would sound great with her voice resonating off those rocks.
So take a look at this very unique venue.
By the way, yes that is a moat of sorts by the stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QXgjWgJyKw&feature=related
lwj

@LWjetta wrote:

One of my top 5 gains 3 Grammy nominations.

Arcade Fire is up for a 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year! ( for the “Suburbs”) Not Alternative Album of the Year – ALBUM OF THE YEAR! Actually, scratch that. The Montreal band is ALSO up for Alternative Album of the Year, for which it has been nominated in 2006 and 2008 (for Funeral and Neon Bible, respectively); but it has never been nominated for the most coveted category of Album of the Year.

Arcade Fire will compete against Eminem, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. In other words, they stand a chance; Eminem’s Recovery has drawn praise but is not the rapper’s best work, and Gaga’s The Fame Monster is essentially an EP. Perry’s outing is lightweight pop, and Lady Antebellum is adult contemporary country. The Suburbs is easily the most substantial release of the bunch – but then, this is the Grammys. Anything is possible.

And so they took Album of the Year.
http://inmusic.ca/grammys/53_annual_grammy_awards
Congratulations Arcade Fire.

lwj