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Call It Intuition

By David Topping

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Leslie Feist is back. She’s playing shows in London on October 31 and here in Toronto on November 1 (at Massey Hall) and 3 (at the ACC). Yesterday, she was host of a surprise “songwriters circle featuring members of her touring band (Afie Jurvanen, Jay Baird, Vancouver songwriter-cum-guitar tech Bob Kemmis), her opening act (Hayden, along with his touring guitarist Wayne Petti of Cuff the Duke) and old friends (Doug Paisley)” at the Rivoli, according to Eye. We’re pretty sure that we took the southbound Dufferin bus with her to Queen West late Monday night. And we’re also pretty sure that Feist fans might want to be on high alert for a secret show that just might be happening this evening.
Eye teased at the conclusion of their article about last night’s impromptu Rivoli show that “murmurs abounded that this wouldn’t be Feist’s only surprise club gig this week—let’s just say that, if you’re hanging out on Queen West this afternoon a block west of Spadina, keep an eye on the chalkboards.” We’ve heard similar rumblings about a performance on Queen West tonight, and we’ve also heard that Tyler Clark Burke, who writes Feist’s site, will be updating that site with a riddle that’ll settle the whole thing at 3 p.m. this afternoon. Stay tuned…
UPDATE (3:00 p.m.): The riddle (and the jig) is up:

In Toronto, out came a sign
Of wood, nails, it wasn’t fine
Last night, it said there’s been a heist
A stage was taken, stolen by Feist
A crowd arrived, a line up made
It might be time for another raid
A Queen still true, the King a spouse
In Came Ron, a real full House
A lady watches, ten times an ant
If after eight: late, late, pant, pant

To restate the obvious: Cameron House (408 Queen West), 8 p.m.
Photo by Kevin Steele from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

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  • meresie

    The Riddler Writes…
    Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    In Toronto, out came a sign
    Of wood, nails, it wasn’t fine
    Last night, it said there’s been a heist
    A stage was took, stolen by Feist
    A crowd arrived, a line up made
    It might be time for another raid
    A Queen still true, the King a spouse
    In Came Ron, a real full House
    A lady watches, ten times an ant
    If after eight: late, late, pant, pant

  • David Topping

    Yeah, I updated the post a few minutes ago! Go early.

  • meresie

    Don’t know why I helped advertise…Cameron House holds about 50 people.

  • Jonathan Goldsbie

    I think we may have misread the riddle and that the show might actually be at 10:00.
    There was virtually no one there (waiting or lining up for the show), save for Topping and his friends, when I went by twenty minutes ago. Plus, the website lists tonight’s “TBA” show at 10:00. As does the chalkboard out front, on which someone had scrawled “Feist,” before, we’re told, she herself rubbed it off.

  • David Topping

    The show may not start until 10, but the bit about being late if you’re there after 8 was definitely right…anyone who’s not already inside the back room of the Cameron House doesn’t stand much of a chance of getting in—it’s totally swamped, with a lineup extending almost outside. I got there super-early, but it was empty at 6 so I left and came back at 7:45 to a overflowing house.

  • craz11

    I was there since 6, sitting at a table drinking beer with some friends. The “lineup” formed almost instantly at about 7:15 from “stragglers”, as soon as it started, everyone just jumped in giving advantage to those who got there late and weren’t sitting. Pretty much EVERYONE who was there since 6 and before, ended up stuck at the back of the line and didn’t get in, so David despite leaving you didn’t miss anything. My group was 7 or 8 people behind the cut-off point at the start of the show.
    1-2-3-4 hours of my life I will never get back.
    Thanks Feist!

  • craz11

    I was there since 6, sitting at a table drinking beer with some friends. The “lineup” formed almost instantly at about 7:15 from “stragglers”, as soon as it started, everyone just jumped in giving advantage to those who got there late and weren’t sitting. Pretty much EVERYONE who was there since 6 and before, ended up stuck at the back of the line and didn’t get in, so David despite leaving you didn’t miss anything. My group was 7 or 8 people behind the cut-off point at the start of the show.
    1-2-3-4 hours of my life I will never get back.
    Thanks Feist!

  • ioppoi29

    As for the line politics, that was a completely different situation all together…. I feel sorry for the people who were at the Cameron House early and didn’t get in because of those latecomers who decided to create the front of the line. I guess to each their own in line politics. I was on top of it from the moment I stepped into the CH. The backroom only holds 45+ people (along with the film crew they had)… and I wanted to be one of them.
    The show was interesting. Listening to Feist live is always a treat. She is an amazing singer. Watching her perform is even better. That’s where this show lacked. Listening to her live, 10 feet away while not being able to see her.. that’s kind of weird. Feist performed %95 of her show behind a white paper sheet while bright lights created interesting silhouetes. Artists (who I believe did the projection work for her Sony Centre performance in May) painted and drew all over the white sheet finally ripping it down on Feist’s last song. Two uplifting moments of the show were when a hole was cut in the paper and small lanterns were held through the whole while audience members went up and distributed them throughout the whole audience lighting up the room. And second, every so often Feist would poke at the white sheet teasing the audience in that she IS there… we just can’t see her. She performed a couple older songs, but played a lot of new material and though they all sounded amazing, it was evident from the binder she had in front of her when the white sheet came down that this evening was more about trying out new songs than the performance Feist usually gives. She’s saving that for a larger audience, and that’s why last nights performance was kind of like an appetizer for her upcoming shows. She always rocks out Massey Hall, and I can’t wait for Saturday night!
    A little pic:
    http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq324/ioppoi29/FeistatC.jpg

  • kazza

    Hey, crankypants.
    If you’ve got a problem with the line sitch, take it up with the management at the Cameron House. The way the venue handles ticket sales and lineups is their purview, not the artist’s.

  • ioppoi29

    Actually, no. CH had no control over this show. It was in the hands of whomever organized the gig. I think they SHOULD have given control to the CH and the bartender who could have sold tix as people arrived… as some people were there at 6! That way the show would have sold out, and you wouldn’t have had 100+ people waiting in the CH front room for a gig that would only hold 45. Though I don’t blame the artist, I do blame their management… if they put %.05 of the organization that went into staging the show, on organizing an audience, it would have been a lot more comfortable for even those who didn’t get in.