Arcade Fire — La Blogothèque Take Away Show, Paris, 2007

A Take Away Show that became legendary: in 2007, La Blogothèque filmed Arcade Fire backstage at a Paris venue for one of the most striking episodes in the series. The Canadian band performs “Neon Bible” crammed into a freight elevator, then launches into “Wake Up” in the middle of the crowd, led by Win Butler on a megaphone and Régine Chassagne. This live filmed off-stage, with no artifice or amplification, captures the essence of Arcade Fire at the height of the “Neon Bible” period: bare voices, collective fervour and that way of abolishing the distance between musicians and audience. Two songs are enough to make this capture a cult document, cited as one of the band’s great live moments. For anyone discovering the group or the format invented by La Blogothèque, this 2007 Paris live concert remains an ideal gateway to 2000s indie rock, where emotion outweighs production. The clip has since circulated widely as a defining example of the Take Away Show format.