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Arcade Fire: King's College, London

Frances Morgan, Plan B, April 2005

WE WERE LATE, and lost. We took the lift and arrived at the wrong floor. I asked a white-shirted boy where the band were. Which band? he said. This is a student union bar, we don't have bands here. Yes you do, I cried, in disbelief. Arcade Fire! They are playing here! It's their first gig in England ever! He said, Who? We thanked him; took the stairs.

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