ROIO of the Week [Recordings of Indeterminate Origin]

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Arcade Fire
First Avenue [no label 1CD]
Live at First Avenue club, Minneapolis, MN, Sept 29, 2005

The Arcade Fire made great leaps forward in 2005, finally managing to release their debut album, Funeral, worldwide. The band also remastered and re-released their self-release 2003 demo EP, Us Kids Now, in the US and UK in 2005.

The band then went on tour to promote Funeral. This show at First Avenue was broadcast on KCMP 89.3 FM - The Current - in St. Paul, MN on December 4, 2005. The show itself was recorded at First Avenue on Sept 29, 2005. At least one paper has called this show one of the best of 2005. Arcade Fire played large chunks of Us Kids Now and Funeral during this show. The DJ introducing the songs is Mary Lucia. This band has been endorsed by no less than David Bowie who also has performed live with them.
- The Little Chicken

Note: Thanks to jkoffman for contributing the tracks.

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released.

* from the EP Us Kids Now, the Arcade Fire’s self-released demo EP of 2003. The remastered EP was re-issued on Rough Trade (UK) on June 13, 2005 and on Merge Records, US, July 12, 2005.

+ from the album Funeral released between Sept 2004 and July 2005 on various indie labels worldwide.

Artwork track numbers and CD's tracklist do not match but the whole show is here.

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