{"id":21242,"date":"2025-04-15T06:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21242\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T06:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:15:08","slug":"arcade-fire-reveal-cities-for-north-american-pink-elephant-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21242\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcade Fire reveal cities for North American &#8216;Pink Elephant&#8217; tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/arcade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arcade Fire<\/a> have revealed the cities and dates for their upcoming North American tour \u2013 see all the details below.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/arcade-fire-funeral-fifteen-2547284-2547284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arcade Fire\u2019s \u2018Funeral\u2019 at 15: the album that killed indie rock as we knew it<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last week (April 8), the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/arcade-fire-single-year-of-the-snake-announce-new-pink-elephant-album-3852890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared details about their forthcoming album \u2018Pink Elephant\u2019<\/a>, and dropped the new lead single \u2018Year Of The Snake\u2019 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/arcade-fire.lnk.to\/PinkElephant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit here to pre-order \u2018Pink Elephant\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, they also teased a short run of performances in small venues across North America, where they\u2019ll perform the upcoming record in full ahead of its release on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>Arcade Fire have now revealed the cities and dates that will receive live previews of \u2018Pink Elephant\u2019, kicking off with two shows in Mexico City, followed by stops in New Orleans, Montreal, Brooklyn and more \u2013 see the full list of dates below and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcadefire.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>APRIL 2025<\/strong><br \/><strong>22 \u2013 Mexico City, MX \u2013 Metropolitan Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>23 \u2013 Mexico City, MX \u2013 Metropolitan Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>25 \u2013 New Orleans, LA \u2013 Saenger Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>27 \u2013 Charleston, S.C. \u2013 High Water Festival<\/strong><br \/><strong>29 \u2013 Montreal, CA \u2013 Olympia<\/strong><br \/><strong>30 \u2013 Montreal, CA \u2013 Olympia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MAY 2025<\/strong><br \/><strong>01 \u2013 Toronto, CA \u2013 Allied Music Centre at Massey Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>04 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY \u2013 Brooklyn Paramount<\/strong><br \/><strong>05 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA \u2013 The Met<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DIbfZYIxlv0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The album has been previewed by euphoric single \u2018Year of the Snake\u2019, which sees R\u00e9gine Chassagne deliver soothing vocals and make her debut on the bass, while frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/win-butler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Win Butler<\/a> sits behind the drum kit for the first time with the band \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/arcade-fire-single-year-of-the-snake-announce-new-pink-elephant-album-3852890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen to the song here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the album as a whole, \u2018Pink Elephant\u2019 marks the seventh studio album from Arcade Fire and is set to explore a \u201ccinematic mystical punk\u201d approach. It spans 42minutes and comprises 10 new songs, all of which were recorded at Win and R\u00e9gine\u2019s own Good News Recording Studio in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Pink Elephant\u2019 will be the band\u2019s first new album since\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/arcade-fires-win-butler-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-shares-statement-3299057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations of sexual misconduct arose against Butler<\/a>. Four people came forward to accuse the singer of inappropriate behaviour, and the accusations also\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/feist-leaves-arcade-fire-tour-following-allegations-against-win-butler-says-i-cant-continue-3302801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">led to Feist leaving her tour early<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Butler replied to the allegations in a lengthy statement of his own, claiming he was \u201cvery sorry to anyone who I have hurt with my behaviour\u201d but maintaining that \u201cthese relationships were all consensual\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In other news,\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/arcade-fire-announce-only-funeral-20th-anniversary-show-for-north-america-at-red-rocks-amphitheatre-3754176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arcade Fire have announced their only \u2018Funeral\u2019 20th anniversary show for North America at Red Rocks Amphitheatre<\/a>. Visit\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/2862475\/264167\/4272?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Farcade-fire-tickets%2Fartist%2F946978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0for tickets.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arcade Fire have revealed the cities and dates for their upcoming North American tour \u2013 see all the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,481,3982,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-21242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-indie","10":"tag-live-music-news","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114340516773008056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}