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<\/a><\/p>\nMonday morning I found the ticket office and handed them rather a lot of Euros in exchange for tickets. Tuesday evening, Dan and I headed to the Junge Garde<\/a>, a large-ish outdoor venue in Dresden’s equivalent to Central Park. We got there in the middle of the opening act, Owen Pallett, a violinist (who also plays with Arcade Fire) who does some really cool things with multitracking. Between the opening act and AF there was a DJ who turned out to be Steve Mackey from Pulp (which explained why AF started singing Pulp’s Common People<\/a> at one point during the show [bonus Shatner link<\/a>, just because]).<\/p>\n The concert was amazing. Arcade Fire put on a great, high-energy show. At one point during the concert there was a person dressed as a giant glitter disco ball standing in the middle of the audience with a bright light shining on him, reflecting (see what they did there?). Here’s the\u00a0setlist<\/a>\u00a0they played; at the end, they shot massive confetti cannons into the air, completely covering the audience towards the front.<\/p>\n This was after about two-thirds of the confetti had settled!<\/p><\/div>\n Between the last song and the encore, people came out on stage wearing giant bobbleheads, with one of the heads being a square video box with an image of David Bowie singing “Heroes” in German. Inexplicably hilarious.<\/p>\n The moral of the story is: sometimes, you go to Dresden and end up seeing the Arcade Fire.<\/p>\n Statistics: On Sunday evening, when we arrived in Dresden, we were setting up the internet in our hotel room when somehow, serendipitously, I must have accidentally opened an app on my phone that tells me what bands are playing nearby. (This … Continue reading <\/a>
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