Arcade Fire Set To Perform At BRIT Awards

At this year's BRIT Awards on February 15 at London's O2 Arena,Arcade Fire has been added to this list of performer.

British actor James Corden will host the event.At this year's BRIT Awards,along with Arcade Fire include Rihanna, Mumford & Sons, Take That, Plan B., Adele and Cee-Lo.

Tinie Tempah will compete against Take That, Plan B, Mumford & Sons, and The xx for the Album of the Year Award.

This year, Arcade Fire is nominated for three Grammys including Album Of The Year and Best Alternative Music Album for The Suburbs, and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for "Ready To Start."

Arcade Fire To Perform At Grammys

At the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards,Arcade Fire have confirmed their presence.The show will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be on air on Sunday, February 13 at 8 p.m. on CBS.

Arcade Fire company had earned three nods so far this year, including Album Of The Year and Best Alternative Music Album for The Suburbs, and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for "Ready To Start."

Beside Arcade Fire the other performances confirmed for this year Grammy Awards include Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Eminem and country star Miranda Lambert.Eminem leads this year's nominees earning 10 nods in album, song and performance categories.

Arcade Fire enter EXIT Festival

Arcade Fire set enter the EXIT Festival this summer in Serbia.

In Europe EXIT Festival is one of the biggest count with several “Best Festival” nominations under its belt.

From the UK Festival Awards winner "Best Overseas Festival" in 2007 and this festival stand-up in 2010.

All of goes enter on 7th July 2011 in the Petrovaradin Fortress of Novi Sad, Serbia. Visit the official website for lineup details as they develop.

Win Butler Says Many Expected Arcade Fire To Fail

Win Butler frontman of Arcade Fire exposed that his band had plenty of detractors in the early days,he is happy with their betterment and their advancement to the top hasn't been over night.

"People expect you to fail, rather than have this slow growth. But it's been great. Everything came up roses, basically. Which was a real relief, because every day people sell less and less records," Butler told BBC News.

He added, "I was a big fan of the Cure in high school, and they had seven records before they were really at the kind of size that we're at now. It's good to keep that in perspective in the band."

Arcade Fire The Hottest Rockers

In a recent interview with Arcade Fire they spotlighted back on their big year and revealed a particular highlight of 2010:Robert Hilburn made a comparison to The Beatles made.

Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler to liken the fervor for the band’s well-received third album The Suburbs to the kind of anticipation a new Beatles album once inspired.

The former Los Angeles Times contributor e-mailed said that Hilburn wrote him an email as the record was coming out, and he was like, ‘Guys, it kind of feels like a Beatles album is coming out,” said Butler. “There’s something electric in the air."

Arcade Fire Stand Up Against The Digital Age

Despite the rise in digital formats Arcade Fire believe that albums can last in the music industry revealed by the band member.

'The Suburbs'was named Gigwise's album of 2010,the band member said that they will continue to bring music in the same pattern.

"I hope that something pure can last. A lot of things like that end up being memos. I keep trying to remember the good things that get lost along the way and trying to apply those lessons to the way the world actually is,'' frontman Win Butler told The Scotsman.

He added: ''I've been moved by albums a lot more than I've been moved by singles and we're an album band. I'm not going to stop making albums because of some fad of digital distribution.''

Meanwhile, Arcade Fire will join The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys at next year's Benicassim festival in Spain.

Arcade Fire give setlist clues ahead of UK and Ireland tour

Fans heading to Arcade Fire's UK and Ireland tour dates from Wednesday (December 1) have been given a hint as to what songs the band will play.

The collective play eight gigs, calling at venues in London, Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Cardiff.

Recent gigs at Lyon's Halle Tony Garnier (November 26) and Munich's Zenith (28) have seen them play a set featuring material from across their career, though with more tracks coming from their latest album 'The Suburbs'. As is traditional, the band have been ending their gigs with 'Wake Up'.

The band's setlist in Munich was:

'Ready To Start'
'Month Of May'
'Neighborhood #2 (Laika)'
'No Cars Go'
'Haïti'
'Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)'
'Modern Man'
'Rococo'
'My Body Is A Cage'
'The Suburbs'
'Intervention'
'Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)'
'Rebellion (Lies)'
'Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)'
'We Used to Wait'
'Keep the Car Running'
'Wake Up'

Arcade Fire kick off their UK and Ireland tour on Wednesday at London's O2 Arena.