Arcade Fire – October 25th – Pepsi Center

Photos by Jim Mimna

Last Wednesday Arcade Fire lit up the Pepsi Center with one of the most energetic shows of the year.  Despite the fact that the arena was vastly undersold, the band poured their heart and souls into a two hour performance that touched on all eras of their 16 year career.  Staged in a boxing ring (complete with ropes) at the center of the floor, Win Butler and crew opened the show with the Disco laced title track from their most recent album, Everything Now, and the show took off from there.  Songs like “Rebellion (Lies),” “Haiti,” and “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)” from their debut Funeral, fit in perfectly alongside more recent tracks like “Ready To Start,” “Sprawl II (Mountain Beyond Mountains),” and even a very rare take on “Modern Man” from their Grammy winning The Suburbs.  The lights dazzled alongside stadium sized screens that seemed to twist and morph reality as the band threw themselves around the ring.  Arcade Fire has always been a powerfully unique band to see live, and this tour proved to be no exception.