Bat For Lashes - 2009 - Live at Shepherds Bush Empire

" Bat for Lashes, aka Natasha Khan/// Here she performed almost all of her second album, Two Suns/// Her music is a mix of the traditional and the futuristic, a kind of sci-fi folk. Many of her songs are at their strongest live, a little surprisingly, given what a fantastical latticework of instruments (flutes, synths, strings, pianos) they are; you'd think they could be pulled off only in the calm of the studio. Perhaps to show off their virtuosity (or perhaps just because it's Khan's best song), she and her backing musicians played two versions of her latest single, Daniel: a sparse, ghostly version early on, then a grand, exalting one as the second Also like Björk, and her other obvious heroine Kate Bush, she can be madly twee: she was dressed in what looked like a Pierrot costume, complete with a ruff the size of a tractor wheel, and during The Wizard she skipped about while tinkling a string of tiny silver