Nicolas Roeg is most widely known for the superlative run of films he made during the 1970s – including Performance, Don’t Look Now, The Man Who Fell To Earth and Bad Timing – but as his memoir, The World Is Ever Changing reveals, his interests are many and wide-ranging.
Arcade Fire's Win Butler has described the band's new album Reflektor as a "mash up of Studio 54 and Haitian voodoo."
The frontman shed further light on the band's forthcoming album, due for release in October, during an interview with Zane Lowe on Radio 1 that aired last night (September 11). In the interview, Butler discussed the sound of the double album and also revealed some new touring members of the band who will join Arcade Fire on the road when they come to tour Reflektor.
Members of Sigur Róswill appear in the new series of Game Of Thrones.
Jonsi Birigisson, Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason are currently in Croatia shooting scenes for the HBO show's forthcoming fourth series. Entertainment Weekly reports that the bandmates will play musicians in the programme and that their cameo came about as showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss are big fans of the Icelandic band and listened to their music while shooting previous series in Iceland.
For me, the strangest moment during last night’s flurry of Arcade Fire activity – Bowie! two videos! world tour! – was the footage of the band stepping out of a limousine in Montreal wearing giant papier mâché heads.
Arcade Fire have revealed that their forthcoming new album will be a double LP.
Pre-orders for the Reflektor album have opened up for the double album at Arcadefire.com, with the website stating that early orders will come with first access to ticket sales for special shows as well as the band's forthcoming world tour. The album artwork - which features a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, from the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice - has also been confirmed.
Arcade Fire have finally released "Reflektor", after weeks of anticipation.
Earlier this evening, David Bowieconfirmed he'd contributed "brief backing vocals" to the track.
Arcade Fire are to unveil their new single, "Reflektor", tonight [September 9].
The single appeared to leak over the weekend, with Tumblr site Onmimusic posting on Saturday [September 7] what was claimed to be "Reflektor". Since then, all working links to the leak have been taken down.
The video for "Reflektor" has been directed by Anton Corbijn.
The track is taken from the band's fourth album, which has been produced by James Murphy.
Stephen Stills has confirmed that CSNY will perform at this year's Bridge School Benefit concerts.
In an interview in the Boston Globe, Stills says, "We’re doing the Bridge School Benefit with Neil at the end of October so I will see everybody then. But we were on the road for 18 months, me and David and Graham, so we’re having a little vacation."
