The Music Video Production Association has just released its nominations for the 2008 awards ceremony. Patrick Daughters, director of several Feist videos, is in the lead with five nominations. Two of his recent Feist videos (I Feel it All and 1234) are mentioned under several categories (you can review the full list here). One of Patrick's prospective awards is for Director of the Year, a nomination specific to the two just-mentioned Feist videos, and also for the Liars' Plaster Casts of Everything.



Other Daughters/Feist collaborations include My Moon My Man and the second version of Mushaboom. I just checked the YouTube video for 1234 and it has now been viewed more than 9 million times.

Feist co-conspirator-collaborator-producer Gonzales is playing tonight at the Jane Mallet Theatre in Toronto. This is a rare performance by the criminal mastermind O.G. (Original Gonzales)—a man known as much for his slight of hand—as (soon) his album Soft Power. This record, at long last, makes Feist and Gonzales label-mates on Arts and Crafts.



Gonzo co-produced Feist's last two-albums and sprinkles his dust around a great gang of other musical minds. You will find this out when you read this article.



This video for his first single, Working Together, is brilliant. When you're done, search and rescue his last album Solo Piano from the past, that time before you listened to it over and over.



And then, and then, if you're in Toronto tonight (and some how if you're not), come see Gonzales, at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts {27 Front Street East}. Doors are at 7:00; Tickets available at the door.



Here is an excerpt from the article linked to above, to tease you:



"Audiences in France have grown accustomed to Gonzales’s prankish humour: in concert, he is apt to cover Phil Collins and Philip Bailey’s Easy Lover or perform in white gloves with his hands projected on a screen above the stage. But even there, fans aren’t sure how to take his provocations."

Feist will be tick-talking with George Stroumboulopoulos on the Canadian programme The Hour on Monday, May 12 at 11:00 pm (CBC-TV, Canada). This story is developing...

Let's make this year a little crazier. We shall, shall we?



Feist is joining Billy Joel, James Taylor, Sting, Brian Wilson and many other men (and women too) on stage at Carnegie Hall tonight.



The event is not pretend, it is a real evening, and T-minus-a-few-hours marks the 15th year for Trudie Styler and Sting's Rainforest Foundation Fund concert.



The cause is a good one. An excerpt from their site:



"The Rainforest Foundation was one of the first organizations to focus on the vital link between preserving rainforests and supporting the rights of indigenous and traditional peoples who call the rainforests home...Our staff works with partner organizations in the rainforest to help indigenous communities to gain fundamental human rights, map their territories and file claims for land title, lobby for enforcement of laws and policy reforms, develop local sustainable development initiatives and monitor and manage natural resources."



The plan is to plant some footage here tomorrow. Come back, will you? We will.

Hayden tours with Feist across Canada; The Weakerthans punctuate this exclamation mark in Vancouver.



Check out the tour dates here.



The Hayden dates include: the East Coast, Montreal, Toronto, London, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton and Calgary. The Weakerthans join the show in Vancouver only. The Weakerthans always have beautiful album art, often teaming up with Winnipeg artists like Marcel Dzama (wiki). Visit Hayden's site here.