They're a funny bunch, Arcade Fire. Last year saw the Montreal-based band graduate from indie darlings to arena stars touring North America and sharing a stage with Bruce Springsteen and U2. Their second album, "Neon Bible," entered the Billboard chart at No. 2 last March and has since sold upward of a million copies worldwide.

Time to start cracking open the champagne, then? Apparently not.

"We met some people at the Reading and Leeds music festivals in England after we finished the show and they wanted to get wasted," says Jeremy Gara, the band's drummer, by phone on tour from Australia. "And we were like, 'Er . . . no, we're gonna go back to the hotel and drink some tea, and go to bed.' And they were like, 'Wow, you guys are a bunch of snobby dicks.' "