Arcade Fire Blogotheque Take Away Shows Video
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By Mark Traphagen on February 12, 2011
Recently I wrote in praise of the Take Away Show series at Blogotheque (“Spoon Videos on Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows“), and how their videos exemplify the theme of this blog: reveling in out-of-context contextualities. Blogotheque accomplishes this by taking bands off the stage and having them play in places or situations where you would never expect to see them.
Here’s another excellent example: Arcade Fire playing “Neon Bible” in a cramped freight elevator, and then “Wake Up” in the middle of a pressing concert hall crowd waiting for their stage show. Enjoy!
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for
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