Live review · Montreal · L’Olympia

Interpol Bring This Mirror Weighs a Ton to L’Olympia, and a Song Nobody Had Heard Live

Five weeks after the new album came out, Interpol opened with its title track, debuted “Wounded Soldier” in Montreal and closed a nineteen-song night with “Leif Erikson”, “Take You on a Cruise” and “PDA”.

By Axel CalderonOctober 3, 2026Photos and video: Axel Calderon / TNR

Starting with the new

The night after Ottawa, back home, and a completely different kind of intensity. Interpol came to L’Olympia five weeks after releasing This Mirror Weighs a Ton, and they opened with its title track: a band confident enough to start with the new.

Then the classics, one after another: “C’mere”, “No I in Threesome”, “My Desire”, “All the Rage Back Home”. Paul Banks barely moves and does not need to; that cold New York tension does the work.

Shot on my phone

From the floor

A live debut, in Montreal

“Rest My Chemistry”, “See Out Loud”, “Wings on Fire”, “NYC” and “Evil” led to the moment I will keep: “Wounded Soldier”, played live for the first time anywhere that night. Then “Pioneer to the Falls”, “Obstacle 1”, “Iron City”, “The New” and “Slow Hands”, a run that reads like a greatest hits list and sounded like one.

“Interpol remain one of the most elegant live bands in rock.”

The encore

“Leif Erikson”, “Take You on a Cruise” and “PDA”. L’Olympia, with its old theatre balconies, was the right room for a band that has always sounded like it belongs to the night.

Sources: setlist.fm, Live Nation.