Saturday, August 16, 2008

Feist (Live)

I saw Feist at IU's auditorium theatre this year when I went to visit the school for the second time (I think it was April) during the Little 500 weekend.  Before Feist, this Canadian singer opened.  His name was Hayden (thanks for the correction/reminder h.).  He was quite good; a pleasant surprise.  He sounded a bit like a Canadian Bob Dylan.  He also sounded like he was stoned, but that just made it funny. I knew some of Feist's songs before I saw her, but she blew me away live.  I became a huge fan and now I'm in love with both her albums.  She was funny and kept the crowd involved.  During each song, there was always something going on in the background.  Most of the time it was shadow puppets that went along with the song being played and were produced live.  Other times it was just cool uses of lights or a camera being projected on the back wall.  I believe I said this when I talked about her in another post, but she was once a member of the stellar music collective Broken Social Scene.  She certainly lived up to the musicality the is present in Broken Social Scene.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The guy's name is Hayden. :)

Kevin said...

Ha thanks H. , that it is. Were you there? I'm tempted to ask if you are Hayden, but chances are slim and I don't want to sound daft. However, if you are Hayden, great show. I'd love to see you again.