Arcade Fire dowsed by bad weather
Mother Nature’s wrath this summer has wreaked havoc on festivals all over the world, claiming her latest victim in France at the Rock En Seine Festival held last weekend in a Parisian suburb.
Arcade Fire was just getting into the groove of their set when a sudden rainstorm blew through the area, forcing the band to take shelter and cut their performance short. Despite best efforts to mop up, organizers deemed the equipment too wet and unsafe to play considering the electrical hazards, much to everyone’s disappointment. Undeterred, Arcade Fire’s Win Butler brought out the band anyway, and led them through an acoustic version of “Wake Up.”
“It took them five minutes to become heroes for a year,” Rock En Seine chief Salomon Hazot told Pollstar, describing the reaction the band got from the 35,000-capacity, sold-out crowd.
Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 1:41 pm by michelle
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