everyday i write the book

About 3 songs into Saturday night's powerful Arcade Fire performance at Randall's Island, lead singer Win Butler encouraged the audience to really enjoy themselves because the band would not be returning to NY for "a couple of years." I sensed a collective "WTF?" but it was a short time before the intensity peaked again. Like as soon as they started the next song.

My last AF show at Radio City is a cloudy memory, due in no small part to the quantity of bourbon I consumed that night. So, it feels like last night's show was the first and last I will see (for a while, anyway). Personal highlight for me had to be "Headlights Look Like Diamonds" a monster song on their self titled EP. Come to think of it, my highlights include pretty much every song with a reference to cars in the title. Grammy award winning song "Cold Wind" was also excellent, as were the anthems "Power Out" and "Wake Up." Here is the full setlist:

Black Mirror

Keep The Car Running->Laika

No Cars Go

Haiti

I'm Sleeping In A Submarine

My Body Is A Cage

Cold Wind

Intervention

Antichrist Television Blues

The Well and The Lighthouse

Tunnels

Power Out->Rebellion (Lies)

Encore:

Headlights Look Like Diamonds

Wake Up