echoing dubulous' sentiments... Arcade Fire put on a show for the ages. Setlist was pretty similar:
Arcade Fire - Olympic Island
August 14, 2010
1) Ready to Start
2) Month of May
3) Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)
4) No Cars Go
5) Haiti
6) Modern Man
7) Rococo
8) The Suburbs
9) The Suburbs (Cont.)
10) Intervention
11) Crown of Love
12) Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
13) Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
14) We Used to Wait
15) Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
16) Rebellion (Lies)
Encore:
17) Keep the Car Running
18) Wake Up
If this had Suburban War > Month of May it would have literally been perfect. Anyways, so many magical moments at this show it was just surreal.
First, Power out had a nice little 2 minute extension added on to the end and it transitioned rather emphatically into Rebellion (Lies) and the crowd was going nuts. The lights at this point were wonderful.
Then, at the end of Rebellion, the entire island of people was humming the last violin line in the song after the song was over until the band got back to the stage. It was pitch black outside and it was like a cult... literally 90% of the people were humming that violin line incredibly audibly and it was just surreal. This lasted about 3-4 minutes until they retook the stage, and it was a moment of unity between the human race that I will never forget.
And then as Dubs mentioned... the finale of Wake Up was just an experience to remember. Everyone basically screamed every line at the top of their lungs along with Win, and he was clearly touched by it. The energy, the passion, it was like nothing I had ever seen.
At the end of the show, they threw 2 tambourines and 3 mics into the crowd and thanked Toronto for being the first ever city to line up to see the band back when they were not very well known, to which the audience exploded with cheers.
In the lineup to ride the ferry boat back to the mainland, we had to wait literally 2 hours in a small queue enclosed by a caged fence at like 1am... eventually some random guy just shouted "THIS LINEUP'S IN A CAGE THAT KEEPS US FROM GETTING ON THE FERRY BOAT!" and it was probably the hardest I have laughed in weeks.
All in all great show with a great band and easily the best crowd I have ever experienced. This is the concert I am telling my kids about.