Wake UP!

We've reached our destination in Quebec, the Chateau Grande Alle. It's Quebec City Summer Festival up here, and the Grande Allee is closed down. Outside we can hear some band playing "Ring of Fire" and "Folsom Prison Blues". They're singing it in English.

We've scoped out the site of tonight's ARCADE FIRE concert. As we were walking around looking for food, we heard loud music from somewhere out on the Plains of Abraham. A slightly closer listen revealed: SOUND CHECK! So we heard some freebie Arcade Fire, and even heard "Wake Up" from a distance, where we were eating. Never mind that the music playing at the sidewalk bistro was a mix of Jason Mraz, All-American Rejects and Lady Gaga, among others. We got pretty geeked to hear the strains of our favorite song of the past year or so.

Concert starts at 9:30--we'll be headed down soon to stake our claim on prime territory for the show. We're pretty pumped up about this concert.


Post-concert update: One of the top three concerts I've ever attended. Man, they put out a lot of energy! For "Haiti", they brought up the 14 or so members of the opening band RAM, from Port-Au-Prince. Regine's family is from Haiti, and today they launched an organization called KANPE for Haitian relief. They also pledged to match up to $1million of their own money if people text "STAND" to 30333. Each text sends $5 to KANPE.