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Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire


Background information
Origin Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genre(s) Indie Rock
Baroque Pop
Art Rock
Years active 2003—present
Label(s) Merge Records
Associated acts Wild Light
Bell Orchestre
Owen Pallett
Website Website
Members
Win Butler
Régine Chassagne
Richard Reed Parry
William Butler
Jeremy Gara
Sarah Neufeld
Tim Kingsbury
Former members
Howard Bilerman
Josh Deu
Brendan Reed
Tim Kyle
Dane Mills
Myles Broscoe



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Tricky: 'Hip-Hop Must Take Responsibility For British Gun Culture'

May 27, 2008
Tricky: 'Hip-Hop Must Take Responsibility For British Gun Culture'Singer Tricky has said that hip-hop music should take some responsibility for Britain’s gun culture.

Speaking to Uncut magazine, Tricky described the United Kingdom as “super-violent”, adding that he felt areas of America were now safer than the UK.

“You can walk around the Bronx for days on end and nobody bothers you. In England, you can say the wrong thing in a pub and, before you know it, you’ve got a bottle over your head or a bullet in your brain. English people have got quicker tempers,” he said.

Tricky, whose real name is Adrian Thaws, also blamed wardrobes of today for the problem.

"What have they got to get them through hard times? We had punk rock and ska and bands that made you feel you could do anything. We were into clothes in a big way. Anything to take our minds off the stress,” he said.

“They don’t have to think about getting dressed. They get the baseball cap and trainers on, that’s all it is. But they’ve got nothing to take the pressure off.

“That’s maybe why they’re more violent than we were. That and the fact they have access to serious artillery. We used to throw stones at each other. Now they shoot bullets at each other. Hip hop has got a lot to do with that."

The singer’s comments come after another weekend of violence across the UK, which saw the death of Rob Knox, an actor in the forthcoming Harry Potter film.

He was fatally stabbed and five others wounded in an altercation outside the Metro pub in Sidcup.

(by Jason Gregory)



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