Bat For Lashes
By: Thomas Hannan
Touring this week:
The Ritz Manchester 07/04/2009
Northumbria University Newcastle 09/04/2009
Leeds Metropolitan University 11/04/2009
Town Hall Birmingham 12/04/2009
Tour then continues:
The Junction Cambridge 13/04/2009
The Regal Oxford 13/04/2009
Anson Rooms Bristol 15/04/2009
Corn Exchange Brighton 16/04/2009
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire London 17/04/2009
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire London 19/04/2009
Tickets: From £12.50 face value, available HERE.
Why is this worthy of my time and money?: What a thrill it is to follow an artist from promising early beginnings to a stage where she's beginning to deliver on all of those lofty promises. Anyone who heard, or was lucky enough to see, Natasha Khan in her initial days masquerading (sometimes quite literally) as Bat For Lashes will have been struck by a palpable sense of star quality possessed by the young girl. Then, it all went a bit mental - Mercury Music Prize nominations, getting called the next Kate Bush, all kinds of pressures someone of such a tender age should not have to deal with. Yet rather than collapse under the weight of it all, Bat For Lashes' second album Two Suns is the sound of someone who's cleverly blocked out all extraneous voices and delved even further in to her own magical world, searching for even more fantastical trinkets and potions, returning to the surface with an album that is an even finer collection of them than her first. These shows represent a chance to hear a bit of the best of the old, and the most thrilling of the new - they should be arrived at with an open mind, and departed from with beaming smiles.
Artists in this article: Bat For Lashes