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Arcade Fire bring their Worldwide Reflektor tour to the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury this Friday, but RIFFED discovered 10 facts you probably didn't know about ths years Glasto headliners.

1 Arcade Fire named themselves after a story that lead singer Win Butler heard from a childhood friend about an arcade catching on fire.

2 When the band appeared on the Conan O'Brien show, they were almost a member down. As Will Butler had to ask his teacher at Univeristy for permission to miss class, but luckily he made it.

3 Win Butler’s full name is Edwin Farnham Butler.

4 The band has started a trend of "ripping" things during their Saturday Night Live Performances. On their debut appearance Win ripped the strings off his guitar and repeatedly beat it on the ground until it was in pieces. Their most recent performance incorporated Win coming very close to the camera to rip off his shirt.

5 'The Suburbs' was released with eight different cover designs worldwide.

6 Barack Obama is an Arcade Fire fan. On January 1, 2009 Arcade Fire and Jay-Z were the musical guests at the Obama Campaign Staff Ball by request of the U.S president.

7 During the downtime between the recording of 'Funeral' and 'Neon Bible', Arcade Fire purchased a church. The band later converted it into a studio.

8 The first song Win and Regine ever wrote together was called "Headlights Look Like Diamonds."

9 Arcade Fire play a maximum total of 16 instruments. 

10 Arcade Fire teamed up with Google to create the first HTML5 - powered music video for their single "We Use to Wait." The video is created using images of their hometown via Google Maps and Street View.

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