Arcade Fire‘s frontman Win Butler was in the modest surroundings of Dalston’s Shacklewell Arms last night (July 2nd) for a special DJ set under the pseudonym Windows ’98.
According to NME, Butler was at the decks for over two hours and combined various pop classics like Michael Jackson‘s ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough‘ and ‘Beat It‘, and David Bowie‘s ‘Fame‘, with more eclectic cuts such as the Afro-beat ‘Zombie‘ by Fela Kuti.
The venue marked a significant change of scenery for Butler following his headline performance with Arcade Fire at Glastonbury last weekend, but tonight he’ll be back on the big stage with the band when they play London’s Hyde Park as part of the British Summer Time festival.
The shows help support last year’s double album ‘Reflektor‘, of which Live4ever’s review remarked: “The rabble rousing, disorientatingly noisy intro to ‘Here Comes The Night Time‘ quickly dissipates into another interesting slice of something resembling reggae, with a wonderful, punctuating deep horn honking and a vibrant shoal of guitar flickerings, rattling Moby-like ‘umphah’ piano and keyboard sounds that closely resemble the electro-background musings on Roxy Music‘s ‘Both Ends Burning‘ which only just hold the whole palm-leaf-wrapped feast back from becoming hypnotic.”