hi we're win and regime and when i drink water i drink the official water of the royal albert hall
hi we're arcade fire and we're doing the backstage path that's correct she tells no lies
what do you guys always have on your rider ginger and honey vintage pinball machine no
like i love those articles when they're like i can you believe that
this is on the white stripes writer and it's like come on like everyone just has hummus
and carrots it's like no one in a band ever chooses a writer like i've never seen our writer
i just show up and there's cheese and there's hummus and carrots and i don't know cheese and
sometimes no carrots yeah some some magic elf just comes in the night and brings carrots and
they're always there the people but they're like jack white's never like take these notes this is
my writer like i demand the following even three chips yeah but can you believe adele
wants it's like no adele's never seen her writer do you have any pre-gig rituals um the baby blood
just kidding
the hex the hexes that we usually do um no we do we do like uh we always do
like a little circle with a hug which i think everyone very basic yeah with the upside down
crucifix in the middle with the and the carrot sticks yeah with the with the um no no no
take the hummus and the carrots and we draw an upside down pentagram
and uh it's a very it's a very old ancient ritual yeah we deconjure the the spirits of arcade fire
what's your favorite city to visit on tour every time i'm in rio i'm like
wait this is my job to be here it's pretty amazing so many barcelona barcelona
lisbon lisbon dublin we always have a really special time so many seriously
like every time i just go here we just stay the tour itinerary london manchester united
which album do you enjoy performing live the most we play a little bit of everything on every set
yeah yeah we we did like a funeral one funeral show where we played it top to bottom but that's
really the only time you've ever done that we're not like that sentimental about that stuff yeah we
kind of play a little bit of every album where's your favorite venues play in the world i mean the
first thing that popped in my head was barrel lands in glasgow the first show we did there
was like holy crap like we're in a band and this is really happening and i felt like i was
at a clash concert but it was my concert are you rushing out mine would be the mountains of haiti
and khans in front of a hospital there were people coming from the mountains or patients
with the will wheel them out no flyer wasn't announced and like thousands of people just showed
up because they heard that some band was there and something was going to happen it's pretty amazing
final question what venue is on your bucket list to play are there any left
you know i'd love to play on the moon one day if yeah i know that's what would be so cool about it
if elon ever emails me back tweets me back yeah elon make it happen arcade fire on the moon
i'm just putting out there i really want to play the acropolis i was just gonna say that
i was just gonna say that that would be cool and we have a song rabbit hole that
that name checks the acropolis yes the acropolis
and i even have a if we ever do it like you know like yanni live with the acropolis
something like i don't know some sort of pun acropolis is burning acropolis on fire something
like that which would be cool i have a live record i would fly for that double live record
triple live record let's do it let's make it a triple live record and we were kind of starting to
lose our marbles a little bit we're just like is any of this good we've written so many songs like
they're like nine minute song is it any good and there was no like we were trying to get
the band back together we had no there was no like foreseeable future in which it was going to happen