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Bat For Lashes touring the UK this Autumn

Whilst many of you may be scorching in un-airconditioned offices or stuffy motor vehicles today, turn your thoughts to Autumn. Specifically October.

As well as Pixies having decided to shuffle around (mostly Northern) Europe, the fairytale spinning Natasha Khan - aka Bat For Lashes - is going to traipse up and down this island playing the finest Bars and Music Halls.

Orrrr mid to large sized venues...

October 1: Opera House, Bournemouth
October 2: Dome, Brighton
October 4: Corn Exchange, Cambridge
October 5: Roundhouse, London
October 6: Roundhouse, London
October 9: Colston Hall, Bristol
October 10: O2 Academy, Liverpool
October 12: Rock City, Nottingham
October 13: O2 Academy, Leeds
October 14: Academy, Manchester
October 16: Great Hall, Cardiff University
October 17: Octagon, Sheffield
October 19: O2 Academy, Glasgow
October 20: HMV Picture House, Edinburgh

Catch her if you can!

On guitar: Charlotte Hatherley.

Tickets on sale from 9AM tomorrow.

Watch Bat For Lashes' network debut, on Letterman. Her version of 'Daniel' is not to be confused with the Elton John song of the same name, which is probably a little bit better.

 

Photo by Gary Wolstenholme

Can someone confirm whether or not she's good live please?

I'm stuck between her and Pet Shop Boys for Latitude, quite like both of them. She looked pretty pants at Glasto, but I imagine Pettos will get an annoying crowd.

She's way better live than on record

Saw her with Joan as Policewoman around the time Fur and Gold came out and was pretty disappointed when i got round to buying the album. I think her old band of loads of girls on percussion was better than the current one, but then I liked the look of the Glasto footage... made me want to listen to the album after not being that fussed before.

she's fantastic live

but then again the pet shop boys will be outrageuous fun

new band is awesome

lots of tribal drums. not that the old one was bad - just the new songs wouldn't have worked so well live without the change

She really nailed

all of the tricky falsetto vocals. And the stage was all laid out with weird miscellania. And the songs are good. Go and see her.

She doesn't half sound like she's got The Cure backing her

part of why Daniel is a cracking track, I think.

Hit and miss live though. Will be interested to see how fast those Roundhouse dates sell after some Glastonbury coverage and plenty of radio.

Natasha

if you're reading this, please add a Dublin date. thanks

hmm

but Roundhouse is not that very big venue, is it?

It holds around 2,000 people for functions according to their website

although supposed max capacity is 3,300 according to the source of all internet gospel, wikipedia. I always thought it seemed closer to the higher figure.

Hardly an intimate venue, and a step up from Scala (1145) though not quite as big as Koko (3909).

Yes, she is.

Very good indeed.

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