Bowie a long-standing fan of Arcade Fire joined them on stage at the Fashion Rocks event in New York in September 2005 and then again later that month at the city's CMJ Music Marathon � one of his most recent live performances.

Arcade Fire's Win Butler has told the BBC that Reflektor will "surprise people." He says, "I think in Connecticut we were playing maybe 50 or 60 songs, like we literally played 60 songs while we were there and then kind of slowly refined it.