I have nothing against the name in itself, although it has been carried by few men of note, and by fewer of those who bring the fun and feist that brighten life.
The treatment for the video required Feist – then also known as Bitch Lap Lap – to lick a bicycle in a way that can only be described as lascivious.
Its success, he suggests, was driven by two crowd-pleasers, Limit to Your Love, a cover of a Feist song that got him a lot of play on Radio 1, and The Wilhelm Scream, an intriguing, stop-start track he worked up from a song written by his father, James Litherland.
If the game provocateur of old is not immediately apparent, her current choice of ringtone – "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin – suggests Feist has yet to succumb to carpet slippers and Ovaltine.
"Bon Iver were on too," recalls the singer, "but they took you into this cosy dreamscape and Mastodon beat us around the head with a club!" While Feist laughs easily and often, the retina-scorching media glare sparked by the success of The Reminder and its attendant, almost endless world tour took its toll on her.
His new single, a cover of Feist and Chilly Gonzales's "Limit To Your Love", was recorded and produced from his London flat.
Also known for featuring in Toronto-based music collective Broken Social Scene, Feist released her fourth studio album Metals in September last year.
Leslie Feist I'm a long-time fan of the Constantines.
If the game provocateur of old is not immediately apparent, her current choice of ringtone – "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin – suggests Feist has yet to succumb to slippers and Ovaltine.
"Bon Iver were on too," she recalls, "but they took you into this cosy dreamscape and Mastodon beat us around the head with a club!" While Feist laughs easily and often, the media glare sparked by the success of The Reminder and its attendant, almost endless world tour took its toll on her.
By the time she was 15, Feist was fronting Calgary punk band Placebo (no relation to Brian Molko's lot).
