Marques Toliver - heavenly autoharp-accompanied song @ De La Warr Pavilion 19 Feb 2010

Following my upload of 'CanAan / Butterflies Are Not Free', I'm afraid this is my only other recording from Marques Toliver's 4-song set as Bat For Lashes' support act at this gig.

Again, if some kind soul (perhaps even the great Mr Toliver himself, given his previous perfectly legitimate interest in when I was going to post these vids) could please oblige me by pointing out the actual title of this song, Id be delighted to update this vid's title accordingly.

This great performance was potentially even good enough to cause the reigning queen of the autoharp, Natasha Khan aka BFL, to look to her own laurels, if only for a while! Just before I started recording this, Marques asked some off-stage assistant to produce his autoharp chord sequence notation sheet for this song, which they did. That's what he's consulting at the start of this vid (hence why I can be heard muttering something about his chords; and no I wasn't referring to corduroy!)

BTW You might want to check out Natasha's warm tribute to Marques at the start of my vid of her brilliant 'Horse And I' later that evening. She'd taken him as her guest to the Brit Awards earlier that week (where she was up for the Best British Female award again, only to be robbed IMHO by Lily Allen). Perhaps I should caution the easily shockable about a naughty reference to Lady Ga Ga there, but that should not detract from one's appreciation of Marques's unquestionable artistic gifts as a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist etc. in any respect. Like I previously wrote: I suggest you compare the depiction of Mozart in 'Amadeus' over this point if you need convincing.

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[shannansing19]

Real Music ... Wonderfully Performed ... I'm in love.

[karp821]

So cool to see him in action, doing what Mr. Toliver does best. From facebook/bat for lashes posted was an introduction video of Marques. I think it was offically on the bfl web site. Anyway, the point I'm working towards is that I was very impressed with the announcement video of his gig with bfl i saw. Again, I'm impressed with the sound and picture quality you continue to produce for us. I feel as though I'm a part of the show, so to speak. Marques and Natasha old friends, do you know?