Arcade Fire singer lectures at Uni

Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler will return to his university to give a keynote address.

The multi-instrumentalist and singer graduated from Northwestern University in Illinois in 2005.

He now returns to the school on November 5 to give a keynote address at the Center for Civic Engagement-sponsored Civically Engaged Young Alumni Week.

He'll be speaking about 'blending his music career with social activism'.

While Northwestern student fellow Asha Toulmin described him as 'a really unique and interesting individual because he's taken a field like music that a lot of people don't necessarily associate with social activism', the website still has his name as Will Butler.

But the Win Butler that music fans know is a well-educated rock star indeed.

In addition to his degree in poetry and creative writing from Northwestern, he studied creative writing and photography at New York's Sarah Lawrence University for a year, and attended Montreal's McGill University, where he met his wife and bandmate Régine Chassagne.