Richard Reed Parry

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Richard Reed Parry

Born 1977-10-04 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Richard Reed Parry (born October 4, 1977) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, best known as a core member of the Grammy Award-winning indie rock band Arcade Fire, where he plays a wide variety of instruments, often switching between guitar, double bass, drums, celesta, keyboards, and accordion.

Acting credits

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert poster
6.8

Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringing together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of-famers, iconic guests and surprise musical performances.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

2025

Coachella poster
6.5

Filmmaker Drew Thomas brings California's popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to the screen with a different kind of musical documentary that not only showcases performances by some of the hottest acts to take the stage, but offers interviews with such musical icons as Beck, Joshua Homme, Mos Def, and Perry Farrell as well. From English icon Morrissey's performance at the inaugural Coachella Festival back in 1999 to Canadian indie rockers the Arcade Fire's electric 2005 set, the musical acts featured here run the gamut from hip-hop to alternative and virtually everything in between. Other artists featured include the Pixies, the Flaming Lips, Kool Keith, Radiohead, Saul Williams, and Squarepusher.

Coachella

2006

Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project poster
7.0

The making of Spike Jonze's "Her."

Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project

2014

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1.0

Music video for Arcade Fire's "We Exist".

Arcade Fire: We Exist

2014

Here Comes the Night Time poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Here Comes the Night Time

2013

Arcade Fire: UNSTAGED poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Arcade Fire: UNSTAGED

2010

Canadian Hits at the BBC poster
5.0

It’s time to Canuck n’ Roll as we celebrate Canada Day with a trip through the best of the BBC’s music archives, exploring some of that great nation’s finest music stars.

Canadian Hits at the BBC

2021

Scenes from the Suburbs poster
6.8

A resident of a suburban dystopia tries to reassemble his fragmented memories of life as a teen.

Scenes from the Suburbs

2011

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NR

From the ACL Taping Program on September 14, 2007: Hailed as the "band who helped put Canadian music on the world map" by TIME magazine, experimental indie rock septet Arcade Fire has wowed audiences with its anthemic sound and emotionally-charged lyrics. The band's complex, full sound combines diverse instrumentation with often brooding lyrics that "draw grand lessons from everyday life" (The New York Times).

Arcade Fire - Austin City Limits

2007

The National - 'High Violet' Live From Brooklyn Academy of Music poster
NR

Concert documentary of The National's performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2010, interspersed with interview footage of the band.

The National - 'High Violet' Live From Brooklyn Academy of Music

2010

Arcade Fire - The Reflektor Tapes poster
5.3

Arcade Fire’s first feature film is called 'The Reflektor Tapes'. The project is “a unique cinematic experience, meeting at the crossroads of documentary, music, art and personal history.”

Arcade Fire - The Reflektor Tapes

2015

The Arcade Fire: Olympia Paris poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Arcade Fire: Olympia Paris

2007

Arcade Fire - Bilbao BBK Live Festival 2024 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arcade Fire - Bilbao BBK Live Festival 2024

2024

Arcade Fire: AT&T Block Party poster
NR

Arcade Fire headline the 2022 AT&T Block Party

Arcade Fire: AT&T Block Party

2022

Miroir Noir poster
6.4

The Arcade Fire’s enigmatic Miroir Noir opens with its most authentic moment: the band faces each other in the middle of an audience and gingerly eases into “Wake Up”. The fans bunch awkwardly around them as Win Butler intones into a ghetto-taped megaphone. Renowned for their sojourns into the crowd, this particular gimmick is usually configured as a populist transgression of the supposed boundary between performer and audience. But this footage shows indie’s high priests seeming uneasy among the faithful, who appear to share the feeling. No species of direct connection is sought. Even in such close quarters, the act of leveling can only be achieved through the conduit of the music.

Miroir Noir

2008

Arcade Fire – “WE” Live from KOKO (April 29, 2022) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arcade Fire – “WE” Live from KOKO (April 29, 2022)

2022

Arcade Fire 2016-10-31 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, New Orleans poster
NR

Arcade Fire performing at the 2016 Voodoo Festival in New Orleans. Setlist: 1. Ready to Start - 0:30 2. The Suburbs - 5:18 3. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - 11:38 4. Reflektor - 17:24 5. Afterlife - 23:45 6. We Exist - 31:10 7. Normal Person - 36:50 8. Keep the Car Running - 42:05 9. Intervention - 46:30 10. My Body is a Cage - 51:30 11. We Used to Wait - 56:20 12. No Cars Go - 1:01:57 13. Haiti - 1:07:25 14. Snippet of New Song - 1:12:45 15. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - 1:15:10 16. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - 1:20:10 17. Rebellion (Lies) - 1:26:45 18. Here Comes the Night Time - 1:32:40 19. Wake Up - 1:40:45

Arcade Fire 2016-10-31 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, New Orleans

2016