More photos from the show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kezontour/sets/72157600908458036/My music fast ended today. It nearly didn't. I had an hour long bus journey to get into Manchester, time I used to listen to Feist's latest album. Some parts good, some parts bad, some parts twee... overall, slightly... meh.My hopes for the live show weren't exactly high. Met up with friends as planned at Kro, the Danish bar opposite the venue, for red wine and the bar's special - frikadella and chips in spicy gravy (a STEAL at £3.95) - and was reluctant to leave.I'm glad I did though. I didn't expect Ms Leslie Feist to be so... well... feisty! Or funny! With her backing musicians playing everything including the electric glockenspiel, Feist played through tracks from her latest album. In between tracks, she was chatty and funny, and seemed on top form. She gave exaggerated looks of despair when her attempts to turn the 300 capacity crowd into a choir failed, and when the crowd didn't scream back at her. Even the most dreary introspective tracks on her album seemed energised, with Ms Feist rocking out and screaming at points inthe show. Her voice was as spot on and lovely as always, the playing lively, the crowd were no where near as bored as I thought they might be.... and I wasn't either.Typically, my camera had a senile moment, and took inspiration form Warhol...
Incidentally, Gym Class Heroes played downstairs and they sounded terrible. And it looked like there was no one over the age of 15 in that show...
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