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Two days after his triumph at the Grammy Awards, the Montreal band Arcade Fire has won two awards – Best International Album and Best International Group – Tuesday at the Brit Awards.

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The ceremony, held in London, is the British equivalent of the Grammy and ADISQ Quebec.

In the category of best international album, Arcade Fire, The Suburbs with his third album, had the better of Cee-Lo Green (The Lady Killer), Eminem (Recovery) Katy Perry (Teenage Dream) and Kings of Leon (Come Around Sundown).

While in the category of Best International Group, Montrealers have surpassed Black Eyed Peas, Kings of Leon, The Script and Vampire Weekend.

Justin Bieber has also starred in the British capital by winning the Breakthrough act against Bruno Mars, the cast of Glee, The National and The Temper Trap.

Arcade Fire on Sunday won the most prestigious award of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, putting his hand on the title of the album of the year. Bieber, meanwhile, walked away empty-handed.

But like Arcade Fire, it offered a remarkable performance on stage at the Staples Center.

Montreal band Arcade Fire has bitten the dust twice at the gala off the air before the Grammy Awards Sunday in Los Angeles.

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As the best alternative album, where his opus The Suburbs was nominated, was instead awarded to the band The Black Keys, for her album Brothers.

These same Black Keys were then placed his hand on the Grammy awarded for best rock performance by a duo or group with their song “Tighten Up, who beat Ready To Start, Arcade Fire.

All is not lost on members of Arcade Fire, who will later in the evening if they win the title of album of the year. The competition will come from Eminem (Recovery), Lady Antebellum (Need You Now), Lady GaGa (The Fame Monster) and Katy Perry (Teenage Dreams). The septet also occur during the televised ceremony.

In addition, the gala off the air has been good for other Canadian artists. Michael Bublé won the Grammy awarded for traditional pop vocal album of the year, while Neil Young has won one for best rock song with Angry World.

The Arcade Fire return after an absence of disk more than 3 years has been widely acclaimed with the release of The Suburbs, a third album that won the favor of the best album of the year when the annual ranking of fifteen Web sites specializing in music were compiled.

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Recently, the group learned that he had been nominated for 3 categories for the upcoming Grammy Awards, February 13, 2011.

Now, that’s Arcade Fire will also be of great music festival in England, while its members have learned they have been nominated for 2 categories at the BRIT Awards.

For one of the best international album for The Suburbs, their competition will come from Eminem (Recovery), Cee Lo Green (The Lady Killer) Katy Perry (Teenage Dream) and Kings of Leon (Come Around Sundown).

Arcade Fire will fight for the title as the best training international against the Black Eyed Peas, Kings of Leon, Vampire Weekend and Script.

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The Montreal band Arcade Fire will perform on stage at the Staples Center on February 13 as part of the 53rd Grammy Awards, as Lady Gaga, Eminem, Katy Perry, Cee Lo Green and Miranda Lambert.

This will be the first performance Grammy for Win Butler and his band. Arcade Fire has won last December, three nominations for the prestigious gala.

They are nominated for Alternative Album of the year, best rock performance by a duo or group, and for album of the year, as they compete to Lady Gaga, Eminem, Katy Perry, Lady Antebellum.

Rapper Eminem is the artist who has garnered the highest number of nominations for the 53rd annual Grammy Awards. He is eligible to win 10 prizes thanks to the success of his latest album, Recovery.

The singer Bruno Mars ranks second with seven nominations, before Jay-Z, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, who have all been cited six times.

The young Canadian singer Justin Bieber itself could win the title of Newcomer of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for My World 2.0.

Contrary to rumors that were running on the internet earlier this week, Britney Spears, whose new single Hold It Against Me was a huge success, will not present the opening number of the gala.

Although the spokesman for the singer has announced on Wednesday that his client did not intend to participate in the biggest musical gathering of the year, fans of Britney Spears are still hoping that she will make an appearance- surprise.

Grammy organizers should announce in the coming weeks the names of other artists performing at the gala.

A NATO summit in Lisbon force the Montreal band Arcade Fire to cancel a concert, according to the website of British magazine NME.

Security in the Portuguese capital will peak on 19 and 20 November in meetings with representatives of the World Treaty Organization North Atlantic.

Arcade Fire’s concert was scheduled on November 18, but authorities refused to move the group forward.

The Arcade Fire’s manager, Scott Rodger, said the group’s reaction to NME: “We are disappointed to be forced to cancel, but there is nothing we can do more. We will return to Portugal as soon as possible to review our fans. “