Mile End is a neighbourhood and municipal electoral district in the city of Montreal , Quebec , Canada. It is located in the city’s Plateau-Mont-Royal borough.
98-403: Since the 1980s Mile End has been known for its culture as an artistic neighbourhood, home to artists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers such as Arcade Fire , Bran Van 3000 , Godspeed You! Black Emperor , Ariane Moffatt , Grimes , Plants and Animals , Wolf Parade and Mac Demarco . Many art galleries, designers' workshops, boutiques and cafés are found in the neighbourhood, which have played
196-508: A Canadian operator having Call Sign VE3YV. The video also features many other amateur radio artifacts. Arcade Fire performed at the 53rd Grammy Awards in February 2011. The band was nominated for Grammy Awards in three categories: Album of the Year , Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal , and Best Alternative Music Album (for The Suburbs ). Out of the three nominations, they won
294-610: A Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media categories ( Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends ), respectively. On April 2, 2006, in Halifax, Nova Scotia , Arcade Fire received the Juno Award for Songwriters Of The Year for three songs from Funeral : "Wake Up", "Rebellion (Lies)", and "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)". The band was nominated for three BRIT Awards : Best International Group, Best International Album, and Best International Breakthrough Act. Arcade Fire made an appearance on
392-411: A Rainbow " into " Ruby Tuesday ". The band wore carrés rouges (red squares) to show support for the 2012 Quebec student protests . Arcade Fire recorded a song for The Hunger Games soundtrack ( The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond ), called "Abraham's Daughter". The song is featured in the movie's end credits. The soundtrack was released on March 20, 2012, debuting at number one on
490-610: A cover of Joy Division 's " Love Will Tear Us Apart ". Additionally, The Dan Patrick Show , a daily national sports talk show in the US, plays the song as a lead-out every Friday to signify the end of their show. The song was also heard numerous times during the Super Bowl telecast on February 5, 2010. Funeral and the single " Cold Wind " were nominated for Grammys in the Best Alternative Rock Album and Best Song Written for
588-477: A fire in 2010). In the 1980s there were Checkers and Club Soda on Park Avenue . Many indie labels such as Arbutus Records , Dare to Care Records / Grosse Boîte , Bonsound , Indica Records, Mindique , Constellation Records , The Treatment Room Studios, and the famous hotel2tango recording studio are also located in Mile End, as is the headquarters for Pop Montreal . Independent record label Mile End Records
686-415: A fourth album in late 2013. In December 2012, the band's manager Scott Rodger confirmed that Arcade Fire was in the studio working with regular producer of the band Markus Dravs and James Murphy , frontman of LCD Soundsystem . The official Arcade Fire pre-order website set the release date on October 28, 2013. The band announced on January 18, 2013, that they were selling the church they had been using as
784-523: A half hour special on NBC , Arcade Fire in Here Comes the Night Time , that aired immediately after SNL . The special featured cameo appearances by Ben Stiller , Bono , Bill Hader , Zach Galifianakis , Rainn Wilson , Aziz Ansari , Eric Wareheim , and Michael Cera . The concert footage was filmed at the band's surprise September 9 appearance at Montreal's Club Salsathèque. Arcade Fire performed live at
882-509: A joint press release confirming that the band chose not to have a track included on the album. The Neon Bible tour continued into September 2007 with 25+ dates scheduled in North America and Europe through mid-November. The band toured Australia and New Zealand for the first time in early 2008 as part of the 2008 Big Day Out festival. On October 14, 2007, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne made
980-474: A large role in Mile End being included on numerous lists outlining the world's most cool and unique neighbourhoods. The comic book company Drawn & Quarterly was founded in Mile End in 1989, and in 2007 opened up a flagship store on Bernard that is now regarded as the literary hub of the neighbourhood. In 1993 a former Anglican church (south of St. Viateur on Park Ave.) was transformed into Mile End Library, renamed Mordecai Richler Library in 2015. This opened
1078-414: A mile north along Saint-Laurent from Sherbrooke Street, which in the early 19th century marked the boundary between the urban area and open countryside. (Several decades later, the Mile End train station near Bernard Street was situated coincidentally one more mile north along Saint-Laurent from the original crossroads.) Mile End was also the first important crossroads north of the tollgate set up in 1841 at
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#17330937980981176-734: A music student whom they asked to join them. Deu recalls, "Win and I played guitar. Everyone played guitar. We had no music to show her, but she ended up saying yes to joining us, and I don't know why. Maybe there was a little spark with Win." Halfway through 2001, the band consisted of Butler, Chassagne, Deu, multi-instrumentalist Tim Kile (later of Wild Light ), bassist Myles Broscoe (later of Les Angles Morts, Crystal Clyffs, and AIDS Wolf ), guitarist/drummer Dane Mills (later of Crackpot) and multi-instrumentalist Brendan Reed (later of Les Angles Morts and founding member of Clues ), who lived with Butler and Chassagne in Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood at
1274-502: A nomination for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their original score of Spike Jonze 's 2013 science-fiction romance film Her . Speculation emerged in August that the album would be named Reflektor after images began circulating of street art using the name. These images were collected on an Instagram account and later uploads noted the date of September 9 and time of 9 P.M. Arcade Fire confirmed their connection to
1372-558: A rumour, it's based on a story that someone told me. It's not an actual event, but one that I took to be real. I would say that it's probably something that the kid made up, but at the time I believed him." Funeral was released in September 2004 in Canada and February 2005 in Great Britain. The title of the debut album referred to the deaths of several relatives of band members (prominently
1470-521: A running time of 30 minutes. The film screened at the SXSW Film Festival 2011 and saw its online premiere on MUBI on June 27, 2011. Writing for the Canadian Press, Nick Patch called the film "a sci-fi puzzler that seems to blend the paranoia of Terry Gilliam films with the nostalgia of classic Steven Spielberg flicks." On June 16, the album was named as a longlisted nominee (one of 40) for
1568-545: A shortlist nominee for the Polaris Music Prize : in 2007 for Neon Bible , in 2011 for The Suburbs and in 2014 for Reflektor . The band has been described as indie rock , art rock , dance-rock , and baroque pop . They play guitar , drums, bass guitar, piano , violin , viola , cello, double bass , xylophone , glockenspiel , keyboard , synthesizer , French horn , accordion , harp , mandolin and hurdy-gurdy , and take most of these instruments on tour;
1666-526: A studio due to a collapsed roof. Throughout 2013, the band worked on the album in several different recording studios – including Murphy's DFA Records studio in New York City . On June 22, 2013, Rolling Stone reported that new material from the album would be released on September 9, 2013. On July 12, the band announced via a reply on Twitter that their new album would be released on October 29. Arcade Fire members Will Butler and Owen Pallett received
1764-690: A surprise guest appearance at a Bruce Springsteen show in Ottawa , playing "State Trooper" and " Keep the Car Running ". The band committed to give Partners in Health $ 1.00, £1.00, or €1.00 of every ticket sold on its 2008 European and North American tours. Arcade Fire further helped PIH, when it recorded "Lenin" on Red Hot Organization 's latest album, Dark Was the Night . Sales from DWTN generated over $ 850,000 in money donated to AIDS related charities—$ 300,000 of which
1862-464: A three-week run with "Wake Up". This success followed Rough Trade Records 's last-minute decision to release "Wake Up" only on 7" vinyl. "Wake Up" was played immediately before the Irish rock group U2 started their concerts on their 2005–06 Vertigo Tour ; Arcade Fire subsequently opened three shows for that tour, and at the third in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, appeared on stage during U2's encore to join in
1960-595: A visible Jewish presence in the Mile End and in neighbouring Outremont. After gaining a reputation as a neighbourhood of artists and musicians in the 1980s, the area underwent gentrification in the 1990s. The area north of the railway, rarely referred to as Mile End any more, developed separately since the rail corridor interrupts many north-south streets. Early twentieth century immigrants from Italy settled here creating Montreal's Little Italy . The city's largest remaining public market, Jean Talon Market , opened here in 1933. Parts of Mile End were heavily industrialized in
2058-693: A vocal supporter of Barack Obama since the end of the New Hampshire Primary. Arcade Fire performed two free concerts for Obama in Cleveland and Nelsonville, Ohio on March 2 and 3, 2008, before the state's March 4 primary. The band, with Superchunk , performed another two free concerts for Obama on May 1 in Greensboro, North Carolina , and on May 2 in Carrboro, North Carolina before the state's May 6 primary. On January 21, 2009, Arcade Fire and Jay-Z were
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#17330937980982156-432: A year's work." In July 2010, Arcade Fire announced they would be broadcasting their August 5 concert at Madison Square Garden live via YouTube. They later announced the video would be directed by Terry Gilliam . The Suburbs was released worldwide at the start of August 2010 to extensive critical acclaim comparable to Funeral and Neon Bible . During the 2010 tour, Arcade Fire gave a tribute to Jay Reatard performing
2254-492: Is also named after the neighbourhood as one of the founders once lived there. The area is home to the city's two most famous bagel bakeries, Fairmount Bagel and St. Viateur Bagel . A branch of the popular vegetarian restaurant Lola Rosa is located in the area, as is the first branch of the Montreal supermarket chain PA Supermarché. Various local entrepreneurs immortalized the area with their products. Well-known examples are
2352-609: Is one of the three in the borough of Plateau Mont Royal , along with Jeanne Mance and De Lorimier, and returns one city councillor and one borough councillor. The main streets running through Mile End from north to south are Saint-Laurent Boulevard , Clark Street , Saint Urbain Street , Waverly Street, Esplanade Street, Jeanne-Mance Street, and Park Avenue . Running east to west are Mount Royal Avenue , Villeneuve Street, St Joseph , Laurier , Fairmount, Saint Viateur, Bernard and Van Horne . Nineteenth-century maps and other documents show
2450-562: Is still open on Fairmount at Clark, features memorably in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and the film based on it. The independent comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly maintains its head office and flagship store in Mile End. Imago Theatre , a feminist theatre company and one of the oldest Anglophone theatres in Montreal, is located in the neighbourhood. William Shatner grew up in Mile End until he moved to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce during his high school years. In 2005, Mile End
2548-722: The Billboard 200 chart and the label's biggest selling album to date, surpassing Neutral Milk Hotel 's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea . The band booked small clubs for their 2004 tour, but growing interest forced many venue changes, far beyond the band's expectations, and the tour continued into mid-2005 throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, the SummerSonic Festival in Japan, and
2646-503: The Billboard 200 . It sold more than 175,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the first theatrical film soundtrack to top the chart since Michael Jackson's "This Is It" debuted at No. 1 on the list. It is also only the 16th soundtrack to debut at No. 1 in the history of the Billboard 200 chart (those soundtracks include film, television, and straight-to-video efforts). Arcade Fire also contributed to
2744-764: The Late Show with David Letterman and a concert in Central Park . The Central Park show featured a surprise appearance by Bowie. On September 11, 2005, Arcade Fire appeared on the long-running BBC music series Top of the Pops , performing "Rebellion (Lies)". The band also performed to a TV audience in Paris for Canal+ , and the show was later screened on the British television's Channel 4 . The band scored two number one songs on MTV2 (UK) NME Chart Show, with " Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) " and
2842-589: The 2011 Polaris Music Prize . On July 6, the album was named as a shortlisted (one of 10) nominee for the 2011 award. On September 20, 2011, they were awarded the Polaris Prize. On May 19, 2012, Arcade Fire (minus members Will and Tim) made their third appearance on Saturday Night Live , playing as a backup band for musical guest and host Mick Jagger . The band performed " The Last Time " with Jagger, and participated in Kristen Wiig 's farewell skit, playing " She's
2940-541: The 2014 Juno Awards , Reflektor won Album of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year. The album was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize . In 2015, Arcade Fire was the recipient of the International Achievement Award at the SOCAN Awards held in Montreal. A documentary film about the making of the album, called The Reflektor Tapes , was released on September 24, 2015, and
3038-568: The Best Original Score category at the 86th Academy Awards . In 2017, the band released their fifth studio album Everything Now , which was succeeded by their sixth studio album We in 2022. All the band's studio albums have received nominations for Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammys . Funeral is widely considered by music critics to be one of the greatest albums of the 2000s. The band's work has also been named three times as
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3136-570: The Billboard 200, the album's highest ranking since August 2010. In a nod to the Butlers' maternal grandfather, Alvino Rey , who was an amateur radio operator, the logo used by the band from this time was a variation of that used by the American Radio Relay League . Also, when playing the single " We Used to Wait " live, the background video screen features a radio exchange between Rey and
3234-729: The Canadian Albums Chart and the Irish Album Charts, and number 2 on the US Billboard Top 200 charts and the UK Top 40 Album Chart for the week of March 12, 2007. The album was also number 1 on the Rock and Indie album charts. The first proper single, " Black Mirror ", reached the No. 1 spot on CBC Radio 3 's R3-30 chart for five consecutive weeks, from March 22 to April 19, 2007, and
3332-596: The Irish Albums Chart , the UK Albums Chart , the US Billboard 200 chart, and the Canadian Albums Chart . It won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards , Best International Album at the 2011 BRIT Awards , Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards , and the 2011 Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian album. Two weeks after winning Grammy's Album of the Year , the album jumped from No. 52 to No. 12 on
3430-598: The Peter Gabriel tribute album And I'll Scratch Yours . Upon its release, Reflektor received positive reviews from music critics and had a successful commercial performance. The album was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far, a list published by Pitchfork in August 2014. Arcade Fire were the musical guest on the 39th-season premiere of Saturday Night Live on September 28, 2013. The episode drew six million viewers. They also appeared in
3528-710: The Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway – a project vigorously promoted by Antoine Labelle and Louis Beaubien – came slicing through the area on its way from east-end Montreal to Sainte-Thérèse , Lachute , and Ottawa . This railway was bought in 1882 by the Canadian Pacific , and it was by this route that the first trains departed for the Prairies in 1885 and for Port Moody , British Columbia in June 1886 (extending to Vancouver in 1887). The first Mile End station building
3626-497: The YouTube Music Awards on November 3, 2013. The performance featured an experimental "live video" directed by Her writer and director Spike Jonze , and actress Greta Gerwig . The band was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for Her . They were also nominated for a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music Score . The band headlined the 2014 Glastonbury Festival on June 27. At
3724-412: The 2000s, behind Radiohead 's Kid A . During the downtime between Funeral and the beginning of recording sessions for Neon Bible , the band purchased a defunct church in the small Quebec town of Farnham , approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of Montreal, and spent the early part of 2006 converting it into a recording studio. The first track officially released from Neon Bible
3822-548: The April 4, 2005, cover of Time ' s Canadian edition. On May 1, 2005, the band performed at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. In May 2005, the band signed a short-term publishing contract with EMI for Funeral , and in June the band released a new single, " Cold Wind ", on Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends . The BBC used the track " Wake Up " on an advertisement for their autumn 2005 season, and
3920-572: The BBC show Later with Jools Holland on May 12, 2005, performing "Power Out" and "Rebellion (Lies)". On December 27, 2005, Funeral was ranked No.1 on MTV2 's "50 Greatest Albums of the Year" in the United Kingdom. On October 22, 2007, Funeral was ranked No.8 in Bob Mersereau 's book The Top 100 Canadian Albums . In late 2009, Pitchfork ranked the album No.2 in their list of the top 200 albums of
4018-451: The Butlers' grandfather, composer/arranger Alvino Rey ) during its recording. These events created a somber atmosphere that influenced songs such as "Une année sans lumière" ("A Year Without Light"), "In the Backseat", and "Haïti", Chassagne's elegy to her homeland. It received widespread critical acclaim and topped many year-end and decade-end lists. According to the website Metacritic ,
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4116-567: The Godspeed You! Black Emperor album Yanqui U.X.O. was especially noteworthy, containing an extensive chart which demonstrated the links between four major record labels — AOL Time-Warner , BMG , Sony , Vivendi Universal —and various arms manufacturers . The band later apologized for some extensions of the chart, conceding that some of their research had been inaccurate. On 25 February 2010, Constellation Records founders Ian Ilavsky and Don Wilkie signed, together with 500 artists,
4214-639: The Grammy for Album of the Year, their second time to be nominated for the award. At the 2011 BRIT Awards , The Suburbs won Best International Album, and Arcade Fire won the Award for Best International Group. In March 2011, Arcade Fire was honoured at the Juno Awards of 2011 . They won Group of the Year and Songwriter of the Year for " Ready to Start ", "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)", and "We Used to Wait", all off The Suburbs . The Suburbs also won Album of
4312-834: The Hillside Festival in Guelph . Taking much of the summer of 2005 off, the band made key festival appearances at the Halifax Pop Explosion , Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival , the Sasquatch! Music Festival , Lollapalooza , Vegoose Festival, Reading and Leeds Festival in the UK, Electric Picnic in Ireland and the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. Arcade Fire was featured on
4410-408: The Mile End tavern. The road variously known as Chemin des Tanneries (Tannery Road), Chemin des Carrières (Quarry Road), or Chemin de la Côte-Saint-Louis led to a tannery and to limestone quarries used for the construction of much of Montreal's architecture. The village of Côte Saint-Louis (incorporated 1846) sprung up near the quarries, its houses clustered east of the Mile End district around
4508-579: The Pasture of Stanley Bagg , Mile End Tavern, on or about the end of June last, a Bay HORSE about ten years old, white face, and some white about the feet. Any person who will give information where the Thief or Horse may be found shall receive a reward of TEN DOLLARS and all reasonable charges paid. STANLEY BAGG. Montreal, Mile End, August 4, 1815. A photograph of 1859 shows members of the Montreal Hunt Club at
4606-552: The UK and on August 3 in the US and Canada. The album is produced by Markus Dravs , who had worked with the band on their previous album, 2007's Neon Bible, and was engineered by Marcus Paquin , who has also previously worked with the band. A track-by-track review ahead of The Suburbs release by The Quietus website said, "The progression is similar to the one William Blake takes us through in Songs of Innocence and of Experience that suggests forward momentum and maturity." The album
4704-604: The Year and Alternative Album of the Year. On April 19, 2011, it was announced that Arcade Fire would release a deluxe edition of their album The Suburbs featuring the short film Scenes from the Suburbs , by director Spike Jonze , as well as two new tracks, "Culture War" and "Speaking in Tongues" featuring David Byrne . Scenes from the Suburbs , which debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival 2011 , has
4802-475: The Year. Their third studio album, The Suburbs , was released in 2010 to critical acclaim and commercial success. It received many accolades, including the 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year , the 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Album. In 2013, Arcade Fire released their fourth album, Reflektor , and scored the feature film Her , for which band members Will Butler and Owen Pallett were nominated in
4900-456: The album had the second most appearances on end-of-decade Top 10 lists, only behind Radiohead 's Kid A . In the updated version of Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time , it was ranked at No. 151. The album was critically and commercially acclaimed. It appeared on many top ten album lists for 2004 and 2005 (due to delayed international releases), with Pitchfork , Filter , No Ripcord, and The MTV2 2005 Review crowning it
4998-400: The album of the year. NME named Funeral second in their list of 2005's best albums. NME also named " Rebellion (Lies) " the second best track. By November 2005, Funeral had gone gold in both Canada and the UK, and sold over half a million copies worldwide, a very large number for an independent release with minimal television or radio exposure. The album became Merge Records ' first in
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#17330937980985096-449: The band on drums in the summer of 2003, and they began to play shows together, and record the album that would end up becoming Funeral . The promise shown by the new band in their early live shows allowed them to land a record contract with the independent record label, Merge Records , before the end of their first year together. When asked about the rumour that the band's name refers to a fire in an arcade, Win Butler replied: "It's not
5194-428: The band's studio albums features contributions from composer and violinist Owen Pallett . Founded in 2001 by friends and classmates Butler and Josh Deu , the band came to prominence in 2004 with the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Funeral . Their second studio album, Neon Bible , won them the 2008 Meteor Music Award for Best International Album and the 2008 Juno Award for Alternative Album of
5292-418: The best indie rock recordings of all time". Arcade Fire made their first appearance on Saturday Night Live on February 24, 2007 (Episode 618), performing "Intervention" and "Keep the Car Running". Owen Pallett was not present as he was recording for his solo project. During the performance, one of Win Butler's guitar strings broke, prompting him to rip the strings from his acoustic guitar and smash it on
5390-507: The books, the national anthem of the fascist Capitol. So as a thought experiment, we tried to write what that might sound like. It's like the Capitol's idea of itself, basically." He further added that "it's not a pop song or anything. More of an anthem that could be playing at a big sporting event like the [Hunger] Games. So we did a structure for that, and then James Newton Howard made a movie-score version of it that happens in several places in
5488-410: The borough announced restrictions on new film and TV shoots, in an area described as "heart" of Mile End, between Parc Avenue, Bernard Street, Saint-Urbain Street and Fairmount Street. The boundaries of Mile End are unofficially Mount Royal Avenue to the south, Van Horne Avenue to the north, Hutchison Street to the west, and Saint Denis Street to the east. The municipal electoral district of Mile End
5586-517: The call to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli Apartheid . In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the label announced that the artists on its roster would be receiving 100% of revenue from their webstore and Bandcamp sales. Constellation also announced that it had "set aside an additional contingency fund for label-affiliated artists who might find themselves in particularly precarious or dire straits in
5684-505: The campaign with a billboard put up in New York City on August 26, 2013. A week later, the band released a 15-second music clip on Spotify titled "9pm 9/9" under the album name Reflektor . English rock musician David Bowie contributed to backing vocals on the title song, " Reflektor " after praising the song's quality in fall 2013. In September 2013, Arcade Fire released a version of the 1980 hit single " Games Without Frontiers " for
5782-413: The city limits of 1792. From the crossroads to the city limits the distance was 0.4 miles (0.64 km). The city limits were located 100 chains (1.25 miles or about 2 km) north of the fortification wall, and intersected Saint-Laurent just south of the current Duluth Avenue. As early as 1810, there was a Mile End Hotel and tavern, operated by Stanley Bagg, an American-born entrepreneur and father of
5880-490: The claims, but stated that he and Owen Pallett "may do an instrumental piece or two" for the film. In December 2008, Pitchfork reported the band set up the website miroir-noir.com to foreshadow the release of a concert film with the same title, reporting, "Miroir Noir will feature live footage from the Neon Bible tour." The film was directed by Vincent Morisset. It was made available to pre-order on December 15, 2008, with
5978-505: The community, which was in danger of closing. S.W. Welch closed its doors in July 2023. These factors have subsequently moved much of the artist community and poorer residents of Mile End further away from Downtown Montreal to Park Extension and other adjacent neighbourhoods. The writer Mordecai Richler grew up on Saint Urbain Street in the 1930s and 40s, and wrote about the neighbourhood in several of his novels. Wilensky's Light Lunch , which
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#17330937980986076-516: The course of the twentieth century as the area became home to successive waves of new immigrants. Marianne Ackerman 's series of articles on her 100-year-old house gives a vivid picture of the changing vocation of the neighbourhood. The southwestern portion of Mile End was first a bourgeois suburb, then Montreal's principal Jewish area until the 1950s (later made famous by Mordecai Richler and others) and later home to Greek and Portuguese communities, among others. The Hassidic community has maintained
6174-474: The cover of "Oh, It's Such a Shame". Win Butler confessed to Zane Lowe that the band wanted Jay Reatard to support the band on this tour, but he had died. The Suburbs went on to debut at number one in the US (on the Billboard 200), selling 156,000 units in its first week. It was also number one in the UK and Canada. In August 2010, Arcade Fire and Google released an interactive music video, written and directed by Chris Milk and produced by B-Reel , which allows
6272-499: The digital version available to download immediately, and the DVD shipping March 31, 2009. A re-recorded version of the band's song "Wake Up" from their 2004 debut album, Funeral , was used for the trailer of the Spike Jonze film Where the Wild Things Are , which was released in October 2009. The song "Wake Up" has also become popular on sports radio talk shows in the US In 2009, two nationally syndicated shows— The Dan Patrick Show and The Petros and Money Show —frequently used
6370-399: The door for a community artistic movement that first hosted exhibitions from Images de Femmes in 1994, and later a variety of other exhibits. In 1998 Mile End art gallery and co-op Ame Art were formed with the assistance of the Park YMCA. The computer graphics software house Discreet Logic made a mark on the area by renovating part of an old clothing factory in 1993. In 1997, this space became
6468-413: The early Arcade Fire song "William Pierce Butler") and Tim Kingsbury were brought in to replace Reed and Mills so that the band could continue, and they set out to promote the self-titled EP. The eponymous release (often referred to by fans as the Us Kids Know EP ) was sold at early shows. After the band achieved fame, the EP was subsequently remastered and given a full release. Howard Bilerman joined
6566-439: The famous brewpub Dieu du Ciel! offering an English-style mild ale called "Mild End" and a Belgian-style saison called "Saison St-Louis", named after the former village of Saint Louis du Mile End, and brewpub HELM that named all of its beers after the neighbourhood and its streets. The district has become so popular as a stand-in for New York City on such American productions as Quantico and Brooklyn that in November 2016,
6664-471: The film." Arcade Fire's Panem national anthem has received strong reviews. According to Spin Mobile , "'Horn of Plenty' sounds both exactly like Arcade Fire and exactly like a futuristic anthem." "There's a lot of them, and they're mostly self-produced – like, they don't need a producer in a certain way. I think it's going to be a really great record, actually. I'm eager to see it come out." Arcade Fire and Mercury Records confirmed that they would release
6762-416: The first half of the century because of the proximity of transportation by rail. Much of Mile End served as the heart of Montreal's garment district for many decades. Municipal electoral reform in 1978 replaced the old wards with smaller, more uniformly sized districts and further reform in the 1980s grouped districts into boroughs ( arrondissements ). Within the borough of Plateau Mont Royal/Centre-Sud ,
6860-401: The floor until it shattered. On this guitar, "sak vide pa kanpe" was written in duct tape across the front. A Haitian proverb meaning "An empty sack cannot stand up" in Creole , this may have been a reference to the extreme poverty of Haiti, the country of origin of Régine Chassagne. On July 10, 2007, Neon Bible was named to the shortlist for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize . Patrick Watson
6958-448: The introduction of electric tramway service in 1893; the area can be considered an example of a streetcar suburb . The agricultural and industrial exhibition grounds at the southwest of the village, near Mount Royal , were subdivided in 1899 for housing. The village became a town in 1895 and changed its name to simply Saint-Louis . Apart from a tiny street located just outside the town's northwestern limit, and (for its remaining years)
7056-410: The latter to exit the band following the recording session. Richard Reed Parry , who had been enlisted to help the band record, began to collaborate with them during the sessions and would go on to join the band shortly afterwards. Around the same time, Joshua Deu left the band to resume his studies; he continued to collaborate on the visual aspects of the band. In the winter of 2003, the band celebrated
7154-463: The movie's original score, The Hunger Games: Original Motion Picture Score . The group composed the grand, fascistic-inspired, ominous Panem national anthem, entitled "Horn of Plenty", an important and signature leitmotif appearing throughout the film. "We were interested in making music that would be more integral in the movie, just as a mental exercise," Butler, who co-wrote the song with Chassagne, explained. "And there's an anthem that runs throughout
7252-539: The multi-instrumentalist band members switch duties throughout shows. Win Butler and Josh Deu founded Arcade Fire in Montreal around 2001, having first met at Phillips Exeter Academy as high school students. Butler and Deu's musical ideas began to develop and the first incarnation of the band was born while they were attending McGill University and Concordia University , respectively. The duo began rehearsing their material at McGill where they met Régine Chassagne ,
7350-628: The musical guests at the Obama Campaign Staff Ball at the DC Armory, at Obama's request. Butler thanked President Obama for his stated intent to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay , and repeatedly thanked the Obama staffers for their work during the election. The band was rumoured to be working with producer Markus Dravs on the soundtrack for the Richard Kelly film The Box . Win Butler denied
7448-472: The name Mile End as the crossroads at Saint-Laurent Road (now Boulevard ) and what is now Mont-Royal Avenue. Originally, this road was Côte Sainte-Catherine Road (heading west) and Tanneries Road (heading east). It is probable that the name Mile End was inspired by the East London suburb of the same name . Contrary to popular belief, the place is not precisely a mile away from any official marker. It is, however,
7546-419: The name Mile End was given in 1982 to a district covering essentially the part of the old Laurier Ward lying south of the railway tracks. This is the area that is now generally associated with the name. The electoral district was expanded eastward to Saint Denis Street in 2001 (the borough having been renamed Le Plateau-Mont-Royal ) and as far as Laurier Park in 2005, so that it now includes the historic centre of
7644-761: The new Montreal studios of computer game developer Ubisoft , which has since expanded to take over the remainder of the building. Mile End became noticeably gentrified during the 1980s and 90s, and rents continue to increase while shops become more upscale – notably the Laurier West strip. Many small businesses have been closing because of the rent spikes, notably on Bernard Street, and Saint Viateur avenue. Citizens have been protesting against these rent spikes, such as in an event in March 2021 when hundreds of people showed up at an old bookstore, S.W. Welch, on Saint Viateur Avenue with their favorite books to support this cornerstone of
7742-670: The overall style of the building is based on Byzantine rather than Western architectural traditions. Even more striking, the church has a slender tower that resembles a minaret . The building has been shared since 1964 with the Polish Catholic mission of St. Anthony of Padua, which officially merged with the parish of St. Michael in 1969 to form the current parish of St. Michael's and St. Anthony's; masses are celebrated in Polish and in English. The ethnic composition of Mile End changed constantly over
7840-585: The present-day intersection of Berri Street and Laurier Avenue. It was to serve this village that a chapel of the Infant Jesus was established in 1848 near Saint Lawrence Road, on land donated by Pierre Beaubien . In 1857-8, the chapel was replaced by the church of Saint Enfant Jésus du Mile End . The church, made even more impressive by a new façade in 1901-3, was the first important building in what would become Mile End. The transcontinental railway gave Mile End its first growth spurt and separate identity. In 1876,
7938-573: The railway station, the name Mile End passed out of the official toponymy for close to a century, coming back into use as a municipal electoral district only in 1982. The town of Saint-Louis built in 1905 a magnificent town hall on the northwest corner of Saint-Laurent and what is now Laurier Avenue; the building still serves as a fire hall and firefighters' museum. The town was annexed by the expanding city of Montreal on 29 May 1909, taking effect as of 1 January 1910, and became Laurier Ward ( quartier Laurier ). Population growth had been explosive: in 1891,
8036-455: The release of its EP with a show at Montreal's Casa del Popolo . Before a crowd packed beyond capacity, the band's set ended (in the middle of an encore) with an argument between Butler and Reed, who quit the band on-stage. Mills told gathered friends in the crowd immediately thereafter that he considered the band to have broken up, as such resigning from the band as well. Following the on-stage implosion, Butler's brother Will Butler (subject of
8134-457: The song as "bumper" music. The National Football League featured this recording in commercials throughout the broadcast of the 2010 Super Bowl . The band donated the proceeds from licensing the song to the NFL to the charity Partners In Health . On May 27, 2010, it was announced that a new double-sided 12" single would be released the same day as the full album, called The Suburbs , on August 2 in
8232-509: The time and was a collaborator with them on song-writing and arrangement (2001–2003). During a party in 2001, the band recorded a live Christmas album, A Very Arcade Xmas , which they are rumored to have hand-distributed to their friends as a Christmas gift. The initial Montreal structure of the band began to dissolve in the summer of 2002, when they travelled to Butler's family farm on Mount Desert Island, Maine to record their self-titled EP . Tension between Butler and bassist Myles Broscoe led
8330-562: The tracks "Rebellion (Lies)" and " Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) " on adverts in January 2006. On September 9, 2005, the band appeared on the British/US television special "Fashion Rocks", on which David Bowie joined them for "Wake Up". This recording, as well as recordings of the band's collaboration on Bowie's "Life on Mars" and "Five Years", were made available on the iTunes Music Store in a virtual live EP. The same trip to New York City took them to
8428-433: The viewer to enter the address where they grew up and the video is then "geopersonalised". This video utilizes the band's song "We Used to Wait" from The Suburbs , and showcases capabilities of HTML5 and Google's Chrome browser. On November 13, 2010, Arcade Fire made their second appearance on Saturday Night Live , performing "We Used to Wait" and " Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) ". The album debuted at No. 1 on
8526-522: The village had 3537 residents; in 1911, after annexation, the ward's population was about 37,000. Perhaps the most recognizable architectural symbol of Mile End is the Church of St. Michael the Archangel of 1914-5, on Saint-Viateur Street at the corner of Saint-Urbain. The church, designed by Aristide Beaugrand-Champagne , was built for an Irish Catholic community, as expressed by omnipresent shamrock motifs; yet
8624-504: The village of Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End was incorporated, population 1319. Its territory consisted of the western third of Côte Saint-Louis: bounded on the west by the limit of Outremont (generally along Hutchison Street), on the south by what is now Mont-Royal Avenue, and on the east by a line running mostly just east of the current Henri-Julien Avenue. The northern border was north of present-day De Castelnau Street or just south of Jarry Park. The second growth spurt of Mile End coincided with
8722-661: The village of Côte Saint-Louis. Most of the former northern half of Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End now lies within the Saint-Édouard district of the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie . Arcade Fire This is an accepted version of this page Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal , Quebec, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne , alongside Richard Reed Parry , Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara . The band's touring line-up also includes former core member Sarah Neufeld and multi-instrumentalists Paul Beaubrun and Dan Boeckner . Each of
8820-505: The wealthy landowner Stanley Clark Bagg . The earliest known published references to Mile End are advertisements placed by Stanley Bagg, in both English and French, in The Gazette during the summer of 1815. He announced in July: "Farm for sale at St. Catherine [i.e., Outremont ], near Mile End Tavern, about two miles from town...". On 7 August, he inserted the following: STRAYED or STOLEN from
8918-461: Was " Intervention " in December 2006 on iTunes . Proceeds from this release were dedicated to Partners in Health . An error resulted in a second song, "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations", appearing on iTunes for a short time. The album was leaked to peer-to-peer networks on January 26, 2007, and was officially released March 5, 2007 in the UK and March 6 in North America. Neon Bible premiered at number 1 on
9016-459: Was announced as the winner at a gala ceremony on September 24, 2007. However, due to the band's preference not to participate in compilation albums , they were the only nominee not to have a track on the Polaris promotional compilation 2007 Polaris Music Prize . Some media initially reported that the Polaris committee had snubbed the band by excluding them, leading the band and the committee to issue
9114-591: Was described in several music magazines, notably Spin and Pitchfork Media , as the heart of the city's independent music scene . The neighbourhood continues to be a thriving centre for many artists & musicians. Several venues on Saint Laurent Boulevard and Park Avenue have contributed to the development of the local scene, including popular medium-sized venues Casa del Popolo , La Sala Rossa, and Mile End Cabaret (now Théâtre Fairmount); jazz club Résonance Café (closed due to pandemic-related strains), El Salon (now closed), and The Green Room ( Le Salon Vert , closed after
9212-500: Was erected in 1877 on the east side of Saint-Laurent Road, near what is now the intersection of Bernard Street. (A much larger station was built in 1911; it closed in 1931, when service was moved to the new Park Avenue Station (Jean-Talon) , and was demolished in 1970 to make way for the Rosemont–Van Horne viaduct.) A portion of the Mile End station's metal structure remains today as a performance venue called Entrepôt 77. In 1878,
9310-476: Was given to PIH on Arcade Fire's behalf. In February 2008, Win Butler announced on the band's journal that the Neon Bible tour had come to an end, after one year of touring and a total of 122 shows (including 33 festivals) in 75 cities and 19 countries. Critics met the self-produced Neon Bible with acclaim. Publications like NME and IGN praised the album for its grandiose nature. Win Butler has been
9408-466: Was released with eight different covers. The first show announced was Oxegen 2010 which took place in Ireland in July. The band announced that they would play songs from the new album in their headline performance at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August 2010, with Win Butler noting, "We're really looking forward to playing the new songs live... [it's] like an inventor emerging from his basement after
9506-609: Was shown at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival . The following day, a deluxe edition of the album containing original recordings and five unreleased songs was released. The documentary was directed by Kahlil Joseph, winner of the 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Short Films. Constellation Records (Canada) Constellation Records is a Canadian independent record label based in Montreal , Quebec. It has released albums by many post-rock bands, including Godspeed You! Black Emperor , Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band and Do Make Say Think . The package of
9604-429: Was the first single by any band ever to spend more than two weeks atop the chart. The album gained much critical acclaim (even being mooted as a strong contender for album of the year), and because of its success saw the band proclaimed the most exciting act on the earth by British music magazine Q . Paste voted it one of the five best albums of 2007. Trouser Press writer Jason Reeher ranked Neon Bible "among
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