Okay I should be in bed but I am watching cool vids of Imogen Heap performing her songs live on youtube. Its so awesome!!
I actually bought her first album I Megaphone when it first came out….she was doing a promo tour in Australia and she was on one of the silly shows on the ABC on Saturday morning – Recovery maybe???? and she performed Come Here Boy and i was IN LOVE! I bought the album just for that song….in fact I listened to the album once, ripped THAT song to mp3 and ignored the rest. yeah – what a top fan!
Anyway most of the clips below are live performances (2 actual music videos) so maybe if you havent heard the studio versions you might not appreciate how awesome she can be….but I love how she can perform a song with just herself, a mic, computer and her keyboards. Chick is awesome!
Come Here Boy video
More recently, sometime after it was used a bazillion times all over the shop, at the start of 2006 I discovered her song Hide and Seek. At firs the use of the vocoder thing just made me think of the song O Superman by Laurie Anderson but then I just FELL IN LOVE WITH IT TOO!
Hide and Seek (live) – omgawd slap the crowd!
It took until the end of that year for me to hear Goodnight and Go and up until a few months ago it was my fave song by her…but it has been replaced by the song Glittering Cloud.
Goodnight and Go music video
Glittering Cloud (live)
I love how she builds the songs up! So talented! There is also a slideshow video so you can here the studio version here (god i love it!!!)
(somewhere in there was a brief interlude of love for the song Let Go from her band Frou Frou too).
Let Go (live)
I am now leaning towards loving the song Speeding Cars as well…..haha.
Speeding cars (live)
So yeah – apart from being on the ball with Come Here Boy back in the day I have been mega slow at appreciating Imogens stuff but its bloody fantastic.
But really – I am going to bed now….. 😀
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