Miroir Noir

I just finished watching the Miroir Noir: Neon Bible Archives - a DVD by the Arcade Fire documenting their 2006-2007 tour.
I actually just found out about it yesterday while killing time on the net.
The clip is shown on the site dedicated to the dvd
It is also on youtube:


In addition, there's a new track called Burning Bridges which is entirely instrumental. It's a pretty interesting song - in some parts it reminds me a bit of Black Waves/Bad Vibrations but at the same time it sounds very epic. In anycase, I like it a lot.

As for the DVD, on the whole, I really enjoyed it. It's not really just footage of a concert - it's many concerts, backstage/acoustic recordings, them perusing in the streets and just doing various shenanigans. There are also tape recordings of people giving their testimonies of the Neon Bible. What I also liked was the quality of the film - it's kind of an old, grainy, sepiaish texture. So, generally liked the effect.
For the most part, the songs are not played in their entirety (except for Neighborhood #3 (power out) and Rebellion) which appear at the end of the DVD. It reminds me of when I saw them with Paw at Arena Maurice Richard. Despite having seats, their performance was truly electrifying. They all have so much energy, which can be seen here too. When I showed Paw the clip, she said it looked pretty "Destroy", which I agree.

My favorite parts include:
The "destroy" part of the DVD where Cold Wind is playing. I really do enjoy on stage chaos :P
Neon Bible in the elevator (which was released as a clip previously)
The Intervention singalong
The Ocean of Noise dance

If they came again, I would definitely go. Hopefully they'll play a smaller venue and I'll get spots in the front :D
It might prove to be difficult though, for I remember when they played 5 nights at the Ukrainian Federation - all nights sold out and when there were 50 ticket added for each night, there were overnight line ups to get those tickets - In the middle of Febuary!

In anycase, we shall see. So far there are no concerts I particularly want to see. Seems like this Winter might be a calm concert season.