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Arcade Fire wear red square on SNL

05/20/2012 by backofthebook.ca 4 Comments

Image: Arcade Fire frontman wearing red square performs with Mick JaggerA BoB short:

Quebec’s striking students received some high-profile musical support last night when Montreal’s Arcade Fire appeared on “Saturday Night Live” wearing the symbol of the student movement, a red square.

The Grammy-winners, along with Nick Fraiture of The Strokes, accompanied host Mick Jagger on a version of the Rolling Stones’ 1965 single, “The Last Time.” They aren’t the first Quebec artists to offer the symbolic endorsement while on an international stage: earlier Saturday, filmmaker Xavier Dolan and the stars of his new movie Laurence Anyways wore the carré rouge on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.

While Arcade Fire performed, protestors once again flooded the streets of Montreal, testing Quebec’s new Bill 78, intended to clamp down on the strike. Among other strictures, the law requires that police be given eight hours notice of any gatherings involving more than 50 people. They have reportedly been flooded with calls, including prank notices of children’s birthday parties.

– Zeff Davies

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  1. JT says

    05/22/2012 at 1:37 pm

    To Bob Montreal – Province is spelt with a letter i – otherwise it is a lovely place in the south of France.

    Still witing for a general strike – the office is for suckers!

  2. Bob montreal says

    05/22/2012 at 12:04 am

    86 cents a day increas on the lowest tuition rates in North Amaerica is cause for great unrest?
    what abuot hunger, poverty, violence agaist women and children I could go on but the children have been given thier orders by thier handlers.
    students in Quebec pay 13cents of thier own money for every doller spent on them by us.
    families erning less than $ 65,000.00 are not afected by the increase.
    they have access to the most genourus loans and burseries in the country, paid for by transfer payments from Alberta and other HAVE provences. Why is quebec a have not provence?
    the well known suspects feeding on the public teat have gutted the once vibrent Quebec economy.
    nationalists, seperatists, big uions, marxist, anarchist, our great intelectuals …..
    they finaly found the precourser to the great revolutionary movment that will bring on indipendance and socialist order, in French ofcource…
    odd how english education is not realy affected by the “unrest”

  3. Jean Charest says

    05/21/2012 at 5:52 am

    Thanks for supporting our students, thanks for wearing red square!

  4. Vas says

    05/20/2012 at 10:04 am

    Montreal Spring
    https://vimeo.com/41274541

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