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Review of Show in Winnipeg, MB by Brad
Feist was amazing in Winnipeg tonight. I had front row in floor seating. She was so close to me it was like a dream! Feist is amazing. So genuine!
Review of Show in Winnipeg, MB by Michaud
O_O amazing!
Review of Show in Winnipeg, MB by nasser perez
hey feist, quisiera hacerte una pregunta, ¿porque los latinoamericanos como yo, ya no pueden ver tus videos en el youtube? ¿no podemos escucharte? ¿es proibido?, quisiera ver el video de i feel it all y 1234 otravez, pero el youtube no me deja porque no se puede ver en mi pais, colombia.
why colombian people like me, can not see your video on youyube?
it is not allowed?
i want to see your two best videos again.
Review of Show in Calgary, AB by Craig
Great show. I had a wonderful time.
Leslie Feist is a fantastic performer and the show was very intimate.
However, the show would have been much better in a smaller venue. In the back ends I think she lost the crowd early on as I could hear them chatting with each other on on cell phones. That was disappointing.
But I really enjoyed her energy and performance and (even though I'm in the minority here) I loved the overhead presentations. It fit the mood of the concert to a T.
Hayden was also great.
Review of Show in Calgary, AB by Corby
Amazing show, so intimate for such a large venue and great energy from the whole band. The use of practical stage effects and lighting suited the music perfectly. As expected, Feist sang her work beutifully. The whole production was a peice of art. Hayden and Cuff the Duke gave a great supporting set, some great talent there as well.
Thank you for an amazing show!
Review of Show in Edmonton, AB by Neil
It's very synchronicitous and quite fitting to see the arena show reinvented by Feist and co. after earlier this summer having Broken Social Scene do the same thing for me with folk festivals, also in Edmonton, and both have been (along with Cat Power, and Annabelle Chvostek) the highlights of my musical year.
Arena shows vs. smaller settings: for me, it really worked in the rink, charmed the hell out of me in fact. Clubs can be noisy, chattery, all kinds of unrelated distraction, and by their nature eliminate young people. This crowd was not your typical stadium audience and for that I am eternally grateful, no beer-swilling lunkheads falling all over me, and walking away from a show buzzed purely from the music alone and not being utterly stoned by osmosis is a rare treat. I've never seen a concert where so many complete families attended, and the ratio of women to men was even larger than at Lilith Fair. Makes for a much better behaved bunch. I predict there will be a lot of young girls demanding ELECTRIC guitars under the tree this year.
Live visuals, love 'em. Arts and crafts indeed. I'm old enough to remember construction paper chains and scissoring snowflakes, adds a sense of wonder to the proceedings, and flashes me back to bygone theatre tech days where imagination trumped budget.
So if it felt a little strange to the musicians, it wasn't to us. My very first concert ever was Johnny Cash, just prior to his Rubin-esque renaissance. He hadn't been on the road for a while, and played most of the show straight to the front, occasionally catching himself and playing a moment to the sides and above the horizon. But there was no need to worry, he owned the house and he rocked it. Same here.
Great choice in an opener. Hayden set the bar high, and somewhere in the cosmos Gram Parsons' charred remains have arranged themselves into a smile.
The music...Ahhh...When something is really good it just sits me down and shuts me up. You are so in the moment you practically don't even think, you just absorb. If there's such a thing as an excited meditative state, this is it, that direct link to the collective unconscious, greater good, what have you.
I was late to the party in terms of the albums, Let It Die got me curious but I was a bit iffy on the production, Open Season really caught my attention (special thanks to the Mocky mix o' Mushaboom) and The Reminder just sealed the deal, one of those rare albums I'll have with me wherever I shall roam.
In live performance it ups the ante even more, brings the lesser-known tracks side-by-side with the hits, where they always belonged. The newer arrangements on the older tunes really open them up, the sequenced vocals are beyond cool, and the slower tunes are put across with as much intensity as the rockers. Great guitars. Sealion's heart beat like a hammer, and the connection to Nina Simone is no accident, the level of passion is that high. The sequence of songs was perfect, and cheers to whoever was doing your sound because I've never heard that barn sound better. I hope someone films a few of these, I'd buy a DVD in a heartbeat.
You get the applause and yells and screams, fans literally beating the boards, glimpse of us here and there, but what you don't get to see is the organically tripped-out happiness of the people post-show, packed smilingly into trains or hoofing it delightedly away into the remains of the day. It's a sweet thing, trust me.
If there is one thing I can hang on the Broken Divine Metric Apostle From The Tombs nexus, it's that it flies in the face of the music industry's tired insistence that people are only one thing and one thing only. If you're multifaceted, by all means reflect away, we need all the light we can get.
I wasn't intending to write an essay, the short of it was it looked great and sounded better.
P.S. I just saw the Sesame Street thing. LOVE the chickens. :)
Review of Show in Edmonton, AB by Marielle TerHart
I LOVED the wolf song too, so much so I just spent well over an hour tracking it down.
Its called Sunset.
ENJOY
Review of Show in Penticton, BC by Samantha Preston
Oh, yeah, and Feist? If I ever see you again, (which I really hope to), I'll be sure to bring a mitten! lol. Can you put "Phantoms" on your next CD? I LOVE IT!!!!!
Review of Show in Edmonton, AB by Hailey
My brother and I were unsure of what to make of Feist performing in an arena... We have seen her over the years in The Starlite Room, MacEwan Hall, and The Winspear Centre and throught, perhaps, the stony cold interior of Rexall place would do her a disservice. How we underestimated our Leslie! She was the best we've ever seen her. Her band was fantastic. The set was simple, yet beautiful and artistic. We left inspired and with so many reasons to love her more and more.
Review of Show in Edmonton, AB by Krystal O
Wow, i never really listened to feist except for on the radio and on tv. But when i one the tickets for her concert through a school funderaser i was quite excited to see her live and perform 1,2,3,4 little did i know that feist has been performing MANY songs that differ. in sound but are all AMAZiNG!!!!!! I am now a huge Feist fan and from know on i am saying that Leslie Feist in my role model and she is the reason i want to become a performer... Thank you Feist, your music is amazing!
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