Will Butler Announces Departure From Arcade Fire: ‘Time for New Things’
variety.comJ. Kim Murphy Will Butler’s time with Arcade Fire has come to a close. The instrumentalist, longtime member and brother to frontman Win Butler made his departure from the band public through Twitter on Saturday afternoon.“Hi friends — I’ve left Arcade Fire,” Butler’s thread begins. “I left at the end of last year, after the new record was complete.
There was no acute reason beyond that I’ve changed — and the band has changed — over the last almost 20 years. Time for new things.”Hi friends—I’ve left Arcade Fire— Will Butler (@butlerwills) March 19, 2022Butler also took space to memorialize Dr.
Paul Farmer, founder of the health care nonprofit Partners in Health. Arcade Fire had been heavily involved in Partners in Health’s efforts over the past few years.
Farmer died of a heart attack on Feb. 21.“I’ll still be working with PLUS1 and Partners in Health — and the many activists and good humans and elected officials I’ve met — to give people material help; to build better systems of health, justice and government; to try to live up in some way to Paul’s example,” Butler continued.
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