Operation Bring Arcade Fire To Singapore

Rumor has it, LAMC will consider bringing the band Arcade Fire down to Singapore (make the band make a pit stop on our sunny little music-hungry island on their way to Down Under) if they can generate interest here…that is, if they can get 2,000 names in a Facebook Group called “Arcade Fire In Singapore”, with everyone saying “hell yeah!”.

So what are you waiting for? I hear the echoes of “hell yeah!”s. If you’re on Facebook, join this group - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5415814980. And then keep on inviting more people you know to join it and ask them to invite more people to join and on and on and on and on like that. Currently the group has 1,067 members, halfway there, baby!

And hopefully, in the not so distant future, I get to announce an Arcade Fire concert in Singapore. HELL YEAH!

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ETA: It's friday night and I checked my email and received an essay-like message from this facebook group whose admins are nudging (hard) against this movement of theirs being called "a rumour".

Let me throw a WISHBoNe (What It Should Have Been) to this post, so I can have a peaceful weekend...

I retract the sentence - "Rumour has it, LAMC will be bringing the band to Singapore if they can generate interest here", I'm replacing it with "Rumor has it that Arcade Fire could actually be coming to Singapore!"

And to clarify any misreadings, I am referring to the actual concert itself. I am not saying that the Facebook group's movement was spun out of mere rumours.

It is to my understanding that as long as there is no confirmation aka solid facts like the venue, date and time for a concert, the concert is still within "rumour" territory, no?

But one thing to get straight is that: the people who set up the group have had direct contact with LAMC (As I know now after their lengthy clarifications).

So let's break it down...

Fact: LAMC did send out a poll on their mailing list to ask concert-goers which bands would they be interested to see here and Arcade Fire was one them. But LAMC needs to see how big an interest such a band can generate first of course, before actually bringing them in. Thus, the Facebook group was formed to gather all ye Arcade Fire fans to hollaback.

Rumor: LAMC will definitely bring the band in if they see 2,000 members join the Facebook group, "Arcade Fire In Singapore".

So the fact that this is being taken seriously by such a concert organizer is not very far from the fact that The Arcade Fire could actually be brought here (although that isn't a fact yet). It also highlights the fact that there IS considerable interest and demand for such indie groups here in Singapore.

So whether we term it "A Rumour" or "A Bratwurst Sausage", one thing's for sure: This is some serious shit, yall. There are some (now, many) people who are SERIOUS about bring The Arcade Fire to Singapore.

And if you are one who would pay to watch them when the band comes, join the group, if you're not, then spread the message to others you know who are actually fans.

But all that aside, so much passion these people have...keep it up! I salute people who actually get up and DO SOMETHING and despise smackmouths who can talk a novel but don't budge a finger.

So let's Bring Arcade Fire to Singapore and make love (safely), not war.

Good weekend!