Surprise Arcade Fire gig inHaiti

Fri 1st Apr, 2011 in International News

Last weekend Arcade Fire dominated yet another awards night, by picking up the gongs for Album of the Year, Group of the Year, Group of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year at the Candaian equivalent of the ARIAs – the Juno awards.

The band celebrated the wins by heading to the disaster ravaged Haiti Arcade Fire performed a surprise 45-minute set earlier this week at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

The set included four covers – Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Who’ll Stop the Rain, The Tide Is High by the Paragons/Blondie, the Rolling Stones’ The Last Time, and Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – and appropriately closed with Haiti from the band’s debut album Funeral..

Arcade Fire singer Régine Chassagne’s family emigrated to Canada from Haiti during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier in the 1970s and the band has been involved in the earthquake relief efforts ( and presidential elections ), raising over $1 million so far to help the country’s earthquake relief effort.

Setlist:
Who’ll Stop the Rain
Keep the Car Running
The Last Time
Crucified Again
Ocean of Noise
The Tide Is High
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
Rebellion (Lies)
Haiti
Wake Up