Arcade Fire are "not goodpeople" according to formercollaborator

Wed 2nd Feb, 2011 in International News

Arcade Fire are “not good people” and have “a very mainstream way of thinking” despite their indie appearance, according to former collaborator Vincent Moon who shot the band’s 2008 film Miror Noir and filmed and directed a clip of the canadian band performing in an elevator for the music video series The Take-Away Shows.

In an upfront eyeweekly interview, the director explained that “They’re not good people, that’s it. And I don’t mean the whole band—I mean the leaders of the band and their management. What I hate about the band now is that people call them an indie band and they’re not an indie band, they are a mainstream band. Maybe they’re on an indie label but that doesn’t mean anything.”

“Those guys are just making things on a very big level, a very mainstream way of thinking. The way they deal with their business is really disgusting for me. The way they deal with things is awful. Their management are awful, awful people, and I know what I’m talking about. I have some really terrible stories with them.”

According to several reports Moon’s opinion of the band is strongly coloured by his experience working on Miror Noir, when Butler overruled him about the editing of the film, apparently the original cut was a far more personal documentary about the band and their origins, where as Miroir Noir became more of an arty companion piece to the Neon Bible record.