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Arcade Fire
Canadian indie rock band
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, and Jeremy Gara.
The band's touring line-up includes former core member Sarah Neufeld and multi-instrumentalists Paul Beaubrun and Dan Boeckner. Most of the band's studio albums feature contributions from composer and violinist Owen Pallett, who has also served as a touring member.
members: Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara, Josh Deu
formed in: Montreal
labels: Merge Records
genres: indie rock, chamber pop, alternative dance
awards: Juno Award for Group of the Year, Juno Humanitarian Award, Libera Award for Best Live Act, Libera Award for Video of the Year, Libera Award for Record of the Year, CASBY Award
Win Butler and Josh Deu founded Arcade Fire in Montreal around 2001, having first met at Phillips Exeter Academy as high school students. Butler and Deu's musical ideas began to develop and the first incarnation of the band was born while they were attending McGill University and Concordia University, respectively. The duo began rehearsing their material at McGill where they met Régine Chassagne, a music student whom they asked to join them. Deu recalls, "Win and I played guitar. Everyone played guitar. We had no music to show her, but she ended up saying yes to joining us, and I don't know why. Maybe there was a little spark with Win." Halfway through 2001, the band consisted of Butler, Chassagne, Deu, multi-instrumentalist Tim Kile...
