FEIST & GRIZZLY BEAR & KEVIN DREW played Town Hall, playing Conan ++ BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE ("Spirit If") playing McCarren Pool (w/ Feist) & touring
First of all, the Feist & Grizzly Bear show at Town Hall last night (June 11, 2007) was so good. I can’t decide if it was the best Grizzly Bear show I ever saw, but it was definitely beyond a doubt the best Feist show I’ve ever been to (I’ve seen them both a bunch of times now). Feist’s new material is so much more fun live – the old stuff still felt like the hits, but the new stuff was where it was at…
Feist @ Town Hall, NYC – June 11, 2007
Grizzly Bear @ Town Hall, NYC – June 11, 2007
…and as if it wasn’t special enough, (Leslie’s boyfriend?) Kevin Drew came out to play Broken Social Scene‘s Lover’s Spit with Feist – he didn’t sing though – just played piano, but it still felt great.
A few more pics @ Flickr. More tomorrow.
Feist also mentioned she’d be playing 1234 on Conan today, and bringing some friends along to sing backup. At least some of those friends will be all four members of Grizzly Bear – her tourmates.
Feist didn’t mention, but the little flyers they were handing out did, that she and Kevin Drew will be back to play a (NOT-free) show at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn on August 29th. Tickets are on sale Friday at noon, and the show is billed on the flyer as “Feist with special guest Broken Social Scene performing Kevin Drew‘s ‘Spirit If…'”…….
The press release that came out Friday….
On September 18th Arts&Crafts will release, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS KEVIN DREW, “SPIRIT IF…”
Kevin Drew‘s “Spirit If…” was recorded over the last two years at Ohad Benchetrits house in between social scene tours and day-to-day life.It was produced by Ohad Benchetrit, Kevin Drew, and Charles Spearin.
This is the first in the BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS series.Brendan Canning and company are currently recording the second in Toronto. It will be released early next year.
Drew and Canning, the two co-founders of Broken Social Scene decided to approach making records as solo projects. In the process the social scene community took part and played key supporting roles, thus giving birth to this series.
Along with the BSS crew, Drew has invited many other guests to perform on “Spirit If…”.
The record unfolds like aemotional comic book. It’s Drew’s song-writing and all his favourite topics are addressed: fucking, fighting, fearing and hope. FFFH.
This fall Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, along with new members will commence the “BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PERFORMS” touring series.They will tour select songs from this album and a others from this series.
Previously
* more Feist posts
* more Broken Social Scene posts
* more Grizzly Bear posts
