Arcade Fire: Too Little Or Too Much -by Alyson Camus

Without taking any side (I don’t know any of these people after all) saying people are awful without explaining what they did, is pretty vague and open to criticism, saying things like ‘the way they deal with things is awful’ and “I have some terrible stories with them’ is not enough! What things? What stories?

Mr. Vincent Moon, you said too much or too little!

Furthermore, accusing them to be mainstream did not have its place in this rant, it’s not a crime! At worst they are hypocrite to pass for an Indie band, but I don’t really get this point.

While the story was migrating around the blogosphere, Scott Rodger, Arcade Fire’s manager left a response on consequenceofsound.net:

‘Dear Vincent,
I’m one of the so called “not good people”. Can we get the camera equipment you stole from the band returned yet? Perhaps if your drug habit could be contained you may actually be able to complete a film. We should have taken advice from our other friends who worked with you who advised us not to. But we thought it would be great. Unfortunately we were wrong. Your move to “art films”, that wouldn’t by any chance be circumstantial as no one is prepared to hire or commission you any more?
Telling the truth. It’s not that hard Vincent.
Now can we get our equipment back?

thanks

Scott’

I see, everyone has some skeletons in his closet,…but I would like to know more about all these stories.

I haven’t found any dirt about Arcade Fire coming from Moon previously to the eyeweekly interview, the worst thing he said was in a 2007 Blogotheque article written about his filming of Arcade Fire in an elevator in Paris, and he was saying that Win ‘manages everything, knows everything, watches everything, and hears everything.’

Moon did also write on his website that his film about the Canadian band was ‘edited by way too many people’, so it seems more to be a quarrel between a control freak, his management and a Parisian film maker.