Well Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes) has changed my life, she started a chain of events which leads me to where i am today and influences where i go tomorrow. I heard a few tracks last year in low quality and i automatically saved them as MP3's and never went back to them until one day i thought about them again, had a listen then watched her live performance on 'FabChannel' which gripped me and led me to check for gigs, and to my luck or my fate she was playing 2 days later near me! .. here's a note of which i made the morning after the gig which may sum it up a bit: "there's a familiar face as we wait for the train to Scotlands second capital, we realise we've seen him not only once recently, but twice.. different places, different times- a figment? a follower? coincidence? Tonight's the night of the Lunar Eclipse. Travelling on parallel lines the sky begins to show a sign of redness, a sign that something unusal is going to happen tonight. We approach "The Venue" and are taken back by it, an old converted church magically lit that posseses a sense of a warming but haunting ability- the perfect venue for a band of similar haunting ability imaging wizards and wolves, whipsers and thunder. During the cinematic aural experience including howling and notes that move your soul there's a reference to the lunar eclipse for which we'd thought we'd miss, but we're assured "we'll all go out and see it".. we realise the night has been a fortunate chain of events, time and place or merely coincidence that such a band playing such a venue on such a night was possible. Played out by a new song "moon and moon" and speaking to the band we exit and observe the shadowing moon, beginning to redden, as time disappears the last trains seem like it'll be leaving a little lighter than we had hoped. We decide to catch the train in fear of missing the eclipse, the subway no problem, a short but testing run to the station we must have missed the train by one minute or less. Fortunately there's another train heading out soon which wasn't bad as we managed to see the eclipse afterall. We aboard the train & sit down and automatically enter seperate conversations. I start talking to a busker telling me how his night went but we don't know yet as he hasn't spoken to his accountant i.e.he hasn't been to the pub yet. My friend realises he's talking to an old Celtic football player, a legend no doubt. Our stop approached us quicker than ever before, we have to disembark. We think how things couldn't have gone any better, timing wise, fame wise, chain of events compliment each other and make for a great night, which it did. Thing is, my friend had been conned, the legend was nothing more than a leg-end with a story to tell and play on the beliefs of his prey. It's all good, maybe another turn to the night, the unusual night that is the night of Fur and Gold- The night commented on the album cover as "Gloriously Twisted"" After the gig she was wandering around but i never seen her at first, she just had a magical spiritual presence about her but i bought her CD there and then and had a brief awe-struck conversation with her, she is very nice! That night re-sparked my desire to make music, she gave me the inspiration to do so. There was also so many links, her favourite album is Kate Bush's "Hounds for Love" which is one of my favourites, too. Just loads of links i wont bore you with. Her musical connections also led me onto the psych-folk, naturalismo side of things, Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie and most noticably one remarkabley talented and poetic artist.. Joanna Newsom.. Anyway all of this has changed my outlook/direction on life, where i want to go.. it's not even so much the meaning of the music but more the connection with it.. feel as if all of this was meant to happen and it was just a matter of when So, in short, Bat for Lashes are brilliant, what do yous think?
Well, to be honest I've never heard of them. They sound a lot like my kind of music (metal with sexy female singers ) but then I'm into "atmospheric" stuff generally. Got a link to their website, any place i can download some tracks? EDIT: well, I google image'd them and it looks like from their clothes they aren't really metal. Which is OK: metal makes up only a smallish part of my music collection. But with a name like Bat for Lashes, how can you not think it's goth/metal?
who knows where she got the name, just came to her i suppose.. www.batforlashes.co.uk http://myspace.com/batforlashes any Hype Machine will probably have a few tracks: http://hypem.com/
