03 November 2007

Bat for Lashes (Koko, Camden) 29/10/07

Took Anna to see this wonderful band last night. It's a female four piece headed by singer/writer Natasha Khan, and they play a rather odd, but deliciously layered, kind of music. It was a great show, with a decorated set of ghostly trees and support from a string trio and a brass section with French horn, trumpet and trombone.

Intro band was a French group called Spleen, who were fun to watch as they interacted with the audience and seemed to be having a good time.

Setlist:
Trophy
Tahiti
Horse And I
What's A Girl To Do?
Sad Eyes
Missing Time (new song)
I Saw A Light
The Wizard
Bat's Mouth
Lonely (Tom Waits cover)
Sarah

Encore:
Moon And Moon
Prescilla

Natasha also sang a little ditty from 1955 film The Night of the Hunter: "Once upon a time there was a pretty fly, he had a wife this pretty fly but one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night those pretty children flew away into the sky, into the moon."

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