Kings of Convenience w/ FEIST @ Bowery Ballroom - pics

photos by Fresh Bread

“You might hear a song and think it’s from the second album, it just sounds like it.” – Erlend Oye @ Bowery Ballroom

Kings of Convenience were really good [at Bowery Ballroom] last night (9/10). they went on about 940ish. First half the show was spent debut new material, which sounds really good. Not much of departure from their previous stuff, but being that KOC has kind of signature sound, I really wasn’t surprised. Then, they started busting out a bunch of tunes from their previous two records, much to the delight of the crowd. All the while, the band was very talkative and incredibly charming and funny. They ended their with a cover of “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to”.

But the real suprise was the encore. The boys walked out in sang with no mics and did an unplugged version of “The Build-Up”. Half way through the song, a voice started singing from the balcony unplugged. They put a spotlight on her and it was non other then Leslie Feist! The place went crazy as she belted this tune out. After a huge ovation, she came to the main stage and did a little dance and back up singing for the boys final song.

All and All, a fantastic ending to a wonderful show! [Anonymous]

Kings of Convenience, not to be confused with Kings of LEON,…

“No shit – I was talking with two girls before the show started who were from Australia, they had walked by and bought tickets at the door. They HONESTLY thought they were there to see Kings Of Leon. You should have seen the look on their faces when I said “you know you are getting ready to see Kings of Convenience, right?”” – Fresh Bread

…have no other upcoming North American dates at the moment. Last night’s show was a one-off. More pictures and the setlist, below…

Kings of Convenience setlist
1st song (name?)
Me In You
24-25
Peacetime Resistance
Rule My World
Second to Numb
Mrs Cold
Boat Behind
Freedom And Its Owner
Homesick
Cayman Islands
Misread
Little Kids
It’s My Party

encore:
Build Up A cappella, w/ feist singing her part un-mic’d from stage right balcony
Know How, w/Feist joining them on stage for dancing and to sing her part