Basia Balut, the Canadian singer-songwriter and long time favorite of Anyone's Guess', performed the opening act for St. Vincent at the Middle East this past weekend. Taking stage with a solo A Capella number, she initiated the electricity for which the crowd (who was of strikingly more advanced age than to which the venue is accustomed) seemed to beg. Soft and natural in her approach, Basia Balut owned the stage for a solid hour before she handed it off to Foreign Born, who more or less served as a filler until Annie Clark of St. Vincent assumed her position. Judging from her Youtube clips and short blips of songs I had come across, I was expecting a rather melodramatic and poetic performance. To the contrary, Annie sent the audience into a fervor of head bopping, body convulsing frenzy. She was charasmatic, taking the time in between songs to relay anecdotes and short stories that were not-so-relevant to the show but nonetheless entertaining and lively, playing her electric guitar like Coco Crisp fields nearly-out-of-the-park hits. You can find AG and other's commentaries on Basia here and check out Annie Clark on her MySpace locale. Hopefully, we'll have an inside piece on the show from Chris White to follow shortly. In the meantime, check out Basia's trippy video and St. Vincent's unfiltered in-home recording and have a listen for yourself.
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