What does Arcade Fire mean?

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Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire is a Grammy nominated indie rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising band members Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara. Howard Bilerman, who played drums on their debut album, Funeral, has since moved on to other projects. On the 'Funeral' shows the touring band included horn player Pietro Amato and violinist Owen Pallett. Neufeld, Parry, and Amato also play in the instrumental band Bell Orchestre. Pallett, though not listed as a band member on the band's official site, both plays with the band live and, according to Butler, helped with the string arrangements for their second album, Neon Bible. Other members of the touring band are Marika Anthony-Shaw, a violist who played on Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light with Bell Orchestre, as well as horn players Colin Stetson and Kelly Pratt, who bring the Neon Bible touring band to ten on-stage members.

The name comes from an urban legend Win Butler was told by fellow students while at school. According to the story, the local arcade had burned down killing the dozens of children trapped inside. Butler later discovered that nobody had been hurt in the fire, but at the time he believed the story as it had been told.

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