A sense of intimacy has long been crucial to her recorded output - particularly on key albums Let It Die and The Reminder - and replicating that in yawning theatres is likelier easier said than done. Leslie Feist isn’t really known in Britain for her prodigious touring schedules, so it tends to be the bigger rooms she’s playing when she does make it over that, in itself, provides the Canadian with a unique problem. Top quality performance from all of her band. This is one of the best gigs ive been to this year. She came on for an encore which ended with 1234 she left the band onstage and disappeared out the door. She seems to be able to sing in all styles and this really comes across live far more than on record. Her vocal performance was one of beauty especially when it was tracked and you had a bank of vocals ringing around the old Empire walls. This was no nonsense Folk/Rock/Pop/Indie call it what you will there for me was never a dull moment.
She is a great performer( even though she sometimes looks awkward when moving around the stage) and there was plenty of interaction with the crowd. Florescent opening fans and a rotating globe of hanging percussion bits and pieces and a bank of Florescent tubes behind to light up the skys.
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Plus 3 others a 2 hour set filled with love, anger, and some beautiful vocal moments and to top that an appearance by the man himself Jarvis Cocker on the track Century. We get more songs from the album i wont list them all a couple from Metals, 3 from Reminder and 1 from Let it Die. Plenty of material from the new album Pleasure.įrom the opening guitar riff on set opener Pleasure its evident that the songs have a much heavier feel than the album and highlights what a great guitarist she is. Dancing in the stalls in the unusually seated Shepherds Bush Empire.Īn absolutely fabulous show from the wonderfully talented Canadian Feist. During an interview with NPR in 2007 Feist revealed her music is inspired by Toni Morrison’s writing and the color indigo blue. Her song "Mushaboom" was on the soundtrack of feature film "500 Days of Summer."Ĭritics have compared Feist to singers like Norah Jones and Ella Fitzgerald. The song was featured as the song in an iPod nano commercial in 2007. The single “1234” was inspired by her participation as a performer in the opening ceremony of the Calgary Winter Olympics at age twelve. The album won Feist a nomination in Canada as “Best New Artist” at the Canadian Grammy awards.įeist reached international fame with the album “The Reminder” released in 2007. She sung and recorded her second album “Let it Die” in 2002 and supported her work by touring the next few years. Gonzales inspired Feist to move to Europe and, whilst in Paris, Feist appeared as a guest vocalist on Norwegian music group Kings of Convenience’s album. Before the release of her first album she was featured on several Peaches songs and also collaborated with Gonzales. She played bass for alternative rock band hHead and then rhythm guitar for the band By Divine Right. Having damaged her voice from singing so loudly and forcefully with punk rock music, Feist moved to Toronto the following year to rest her vocal instrument. She was the lead singer of punk band Placebo as a teen living in Calgary, Canada. Though she made her solo career debut in 1999 with album “Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down)” Feist had previous experience as a singer and guitarist for various bands.
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