Arcade Fire - 3Arena 31 August

Won’t be shocked if this show is cancelled

“In his statement, Butler responds: “I googled her and knew that she was 18”

“Butler offered to put Pitchfork in contact with different women who had consensual sexual experiences with him in the past”

stand out in his PR crisis firm statement.

The top tier will be curtailed off on the 31st and lots of good seats still on sale as well as standing.

Ah sure their special guest probably be Damien Dempsey or Glen Hansard/Damien Rice or something

At least 1 of those guys has his own win style skeletons

Somewhat looking forward to Tuesday's gig, but really it's at a pretty busy time for me...the latest album and the Win stuff is not exactly encouraging stuff.

Where can I find the stage times?? No interest in seeing the support act

you'll get a ticket for 30 or 40 euro tomorrow on adverts or toutless if still interested.

I'm going to see them in Manchester this weekend (didn't want to have to take 2 days off work for midweek gig, plus flights + hotel in Manchester still less than a hotel in Dublin) and I'm a bit conflicted yet will still go see them - probably due to cost incurred really more than anything - might be selfish but there you go!

I also think it's the last time we will see them on stage together.

Will be interesting to hear how they are tonight.. to be honest, the quotes from Win and Regine in Pitchfork practically read like "ah shur, we all have bad times, and make mistakes" and it's all a bit grim - the money-making machine in full effect!

90 quid is in no way standard for 3 arena

It is for any of the well established acts. I can only speak for the ones I was at or know off. Eddie Vedders has been €100 a pop - that's going back a number of years. Radioheads was €90 (I think), or very close to it anyway. Justin Bieber is €125 standing (when you throw in the fees). Crazy stuff. David Chapelle is €100 a ticket. James Taylor - €120. Kendrick Lemar - €130. I'm sure Bob Dylan and Robbie Williams are around the tonne mark as well .

I think you're dead on about tonight's gig. If it wasn't someone so central to the band, perhaps I could look forward to tonight's gig more. Coupled with that a lot of their music is so earnest, and hand on heart, that all feels a little flat now.

It has sort of meant I'm going to the gig with a 'let's just get this over with' attitude.

That sounds a bit over the top. I’m pretty confident that if every member of a famous music group (in particular the lead singer) were to take a lie detector test to identify if they have had a quickie on the side with a groupie, I’d say the machine would explode. Way too many temptations over time to keep saying no. If it were a minor, then definitely string him up. But it seems these ladies were all 18 and over. He did nothing wrong legally wise. He took the chance to have a fling outside of marriage. He’s caught now and it is out in the open and his wife and son know. Up to the wife if she gives him a second chance. Nothing to do with me anyway. I hope to head along tomorrow night if I get a cheap ticket, and will look forward to it.

I read alright that there is an allegation that he did something untoward with another person, who is described as gender-fluid!!! Which I understand is someone that doesn’t know if they are a man or a woman!!!  I’ll be taking that with a pinch of salt…..

I get what you're saying and the lie detector thing, is probably true to some degree.

If this were some hard rock band, I would just go and headbang, but Arcade Fire have this virtuous aura. Anyhow hopefully the songs will carry the night through.

Part of me is kind of interested to go see if things kick off. But overall I’m not too keen to spend my evening in a tense or sullen atmosphere

This is it. The big appeal of an Arcade Fire show is how it feels. It's gonna feel weird for people tonight, I have to think, and I really don't think they'll ever get the magic back, for me at least.

I was already wondering how odd it was going to be to see them without Will for the first time, when he's such a huge feature of their live performances. I have to wonder now if the reason he left when he did was over this.

one song in and nobody will care is how I imagine the atmosphere will be

It might well be in the interests of the promoters to NOT have a precedent set in the Small Claims Court, so there's a good chance they'll issue a refund rather than letting a case go to court.

But my heart bleeds for the tough times these super-wealthy performers had to endure, maybe we should send them a 'get well soon' card from all at Boards just in case?

Anybody have the stage times, can't find it anywhere

It is not much of an exaggeration to say Pitchfork and Arcade Fire made each other, and it is absurd to suggest Pitchfork went to print with a story like this, about one of the biggest touring bands in North America, out of some kind of spite, or without working to make sure they were on solid footing.

The law does not decide what I think is right or wrong, it decides what meets the necessarily high standard for state action.

I don't care if it's a crime for a forty year old with a kid to try to solicit sex from a teenager and then invoke the miscarriage his wife suffered in his "apology", or not. I already know I'm not cool with it, and I know the kind of show Arcade Fire stage isn't going to feel the same to me knowing that of the guy leading it. It is not some impossibly high falutin' standard.