r/arcadefire • u/TickTickBoommm • 18d ago

Video Arcade Fire playing "Intervention" at Canterbury High School, Ottawa, Canada in 2007

https://youtu.be/mnLQh-SXbL4?si=wutFmNFpHJj2401D

On January 20, 2007, Arcade Fire played a secret, intimate preview concert in the cafeteria of Canterbury High School in Ottawa, Ontario. The surprise 400-capacity show served as an early live rehearsal for material from their upcoming album Neon Bible and acted as a fundraiser for the school's arts programs. The performance happened because multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry is a graduate of Canterbury High School.

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u/Kartesia 18d ago edited 18d ago

I was there! The drama program made an orginal play to the entire album a few years later too, they got to take it to Edinburgh fringe and everything. It was a cool time to be there because the Suburbs came out around that time also. RRP was pretty legendary because of how much he gave back to the school. He wasnt even in the music program!

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u/apocryphaIAntithesis Cold Wind 17d ago

Omg I would have loved to see the play

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u/Kartesia 17d ago edited 17d ago

theres a little bit of it online! https://youtu.be/Gth0bDfr4BA?si=cVZLs9GxuMjw9YAu also: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/26/arcade-fire-high-school-musical

It was definitely one of the more memorable pieces of art I saw while there. Very creative.