Feist

Here is some footage from Feist's performance on the Juno Awards last night in Calgary. If you find yourself thinking of watching a video today, I'd say, why don't you go on and MouseOver this one. It's one of the best live Feist videos in the memory bank of the Internet.


Here it is.

Feist just won the first Juno award of the night.

More soon (we hope).

Oh yes, it was Single of the Year for one, two, three, four.

We're back. Feist just won another Juno.

Pop Album of the Year.

This is amazing. The other nominees have all been great. More soon. Go Calgary.

Wow, she just got up a third time. A third Juno, except that really it is her fifth this year. She won two more last night in an untelevised ceremony (Songwriter of the Year and Artist of the Year).

So, in case it's confusing, Feist just won these awards at the Junos, which is the Canadian equivalent of The Grammy Awards. This could be a record.



Single of the Year

Pop Album of the Year

Album of the Year

Songwriter of the Year

Artist of the Year



The show is live from Calgary, Feist's hometown.

I hope she gets a key.

Here is an article from a newspaper in Calgary, Feist's original stomping grounds, detailing the details of her new video. It is kind of rodeo styles out there in Calgary, so "stomping" really makes more sense than it might in someone else's sentence, though there are plenty of non-rodeo peoples in Calgary too. Tonnes even. Anyway, there are no rodeo or non-rodeo peoples in this video, just puppets.

"At 18, Leslie Feist fell in love with the art form of puppetry when she saw the Green Fools Theatre perform a puppet operetta called The Death of Benvenuto Cellini in Calgary in 1996."

Read more here.

It with absolument happiness we report that Feist has won another award for the folie à (un), deux, (trois), (quatre)--yes, 1234--an award for the video by Patrick Daughters, an award imagined by the French. France has been another home, another chez Feist. Some might even say it all began in Paris.

The video was chosen during the annual Les Victoires de la Musique.

Let’s pretend that traveling from Canada to Australia (and back again) could cause a pause in time, like updates on websites could somehow get lost like luggage, only to suddenly spit out of the conveyor mouth, un-rumpled.

Feist and the gang just returned from playing St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. And by gang I don’t just mean cool and the band, I mean a crew of other Canadians also happened to be there (like Stars and Broken Social Scene). This was a pack of ex-pat thieves, erstwhile cyclists stealing good times, silhouettes make-believe cycling into the sky, past the Australian moon.

Feist played to sold-out crowds, 6 shows and 2 headline dates. The drop cap image at the beginning of this entry is a picture of Feist’s shadow taking a photo of the Brothers Baird backing-up Broken Social Scene in Adelaide. Feist has three brothers in her band: Jay, Bryden and Jesse. They are not twins, I mean triplets. The Brothers Baird are not triplets.

Kanye just posted a photo of his pre-Grammy hang with Feist. There are some interesting things happening in this photo, like Feist’s tour manager Robbie in a noble 3/4 portrait pose and the tiny-little CBC pin that could.

Kanye also posted links to his set with Daft Punk (Feist’s brother just unearthed this link to the crazy Daft Punk computers); his tribute to his mother Donda; Amy Winehouse’s satellite performance; and Feist’s stripped-down version of 1,2,3,4. You can find Kanye’s school of Feist here:

Kanye’s blog

Feist just returned from the big top of music, the Grammy Awards, and while she may not have won the four awards attached to her nominations, she had a good time. I mean, what the hell? I can still hear the incredible Tina Turner belting out “You better be good to me” in that hot silver get-up, get down.

If you didn’t see Feist's set, check it out here. As always, she sprinkled some quiet charm on a night rife with fog guns and harnessed red dancing ladies. She also got tonnes of big ups on the carpet. Apparently Jay-Z was trying to find her? Imagine 1,2,3,4 counting all the way up to 99 Problems? Math rock.

Rumour also has it that some video footage is circulating of Feist and Kermit on the red carpet. Miss Piggy is so jealous.

Feist has just been announced as the winner of the Seventh Annual Shortlist Music Prize for The Reminder. She was chosen—from a an initial Long List of 54 nominations—by a panel of five Listmakers from the recording, journalism, and media industries. Listmaker Gary Lightbody called The Reminder “the album of the year for 2007 or any year I can think of: it’s modern and classic all at once. There are so many kinds of beauty in this record”

Radiohead, Cat Power, Mary J. Blige, Dionne Warwick and Feist each performed a gang of songs on the 200th episode of Later, With Jools Holland. The show had an interesting format, one which slowly becomes apparent during Feist's set when you realize Mary J. and Thom Yorke are part of the modern day barn-raising hootenanny. Feist performed three songs, including her revisionist Sea Lion, a "folk" song first recorded by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress (featuring the 14-year old Shipp Sisters). Watch the video here.

Feist actually spent a lot of time at the BBC recently, racking up on-air miles on The Culture Show (an interview with Lauren Laverne that aired on February 2nd) and on Dermot O'Leary's Radio 2.

Finally, tickets for Feist's UK shows in May are selling fast:

You can arrange to seeFeist at www.seetickets.com