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Arcade Fire under fire

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Feb 3, 2011 Updated Feb 4, 2011

Arcade Fire are “not good people” and have “a very mainstream way of thinking”...according to former collaborator Vincent Moon.

Moon shot the band’s 2008 film Miroir Noir and fell out with band frontman Win Butler during the edit process. It seems to be this experience that's clouded his views.

Moon let fly in a candid interview with Toronto website Eye Weekly, saying "The way they deal with their business is really disgusting for me. The way they deal with things is awful. Their management are awful, awful people, and I know what I’m talking about.”

Arcade Fire's manager Scott Rodger hit back with his own spray on the website Consequence of Sound, accusing Moon of drug-taking and camera stealing, and claiming that the band had been warned not to work with him.

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Arcade Fire is an indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists of the husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Will Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara, and Sarah Neufeld. Win Butler attended McGill and Régine Chassagne attended Concordia University, where he pursued religious studies and she studied jazz. Arcade Fire came to...

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