09/16/2024
Arcade Fire's acclaimed debut album "Funeral" (on Merge Records) just turned 20 over the weekend, if you can believe that. Under the Radar did a feature on the band and that album in Issue 9 of our print magazine and I did a photo shoot with them at the famous West Hollywood music venue The Troubadour. It was around the time of their soundcheck the afternoon of their show at the 500 capacity venue and I seem to remember singer Win Butler having a cold. I did a lot of shoots at the Troubadour in the early days of Under the Radar, including with Interpol, Broadcast, Elbow, The Divine Comedy, and Feist. Very soon Arcade Fire would be playing much bigger venues, including drawing a large crowd at Coachella. Here is one of my photos from that "Funeral" shoot.