Feist and Mastodon are set to pair up for a one off Record Store Day single release.
Some things in life are just meant to go together. Cheese ‘n’ Onion, Salt ‘n’ Vinegar… Feist and Mastodon? Apparently so.
Canadian singer Feist dropped by Later… With Jools Holland earlier this year, and caught a performance by metal giants Mastodon. Suitably impressed, the pair began talking backstage about a possible collaboration.
Swapping numbers, Feist and Mastodon have now confirmed that they are set to record a one off single together. The split seven inch will be released to coincide with Record Store Day, with each artist taking charge of one side.
Feist spoke to HitFix recently and recalled the moment she was introduced to Mastodon. “(Mastodon singer) Brent (Hinds) and I were nodding at each other, and he’s like, ‘Nice riff,’ and I’m like ‘Nice tone,'” she said.
“So backstage I’m thinking about letting these two worlds collide, how they should collide, so I’m like, ‘How about Metals meeting metal?’ Brent was like: ‘Well, I do like that Bad in Each Other song, I could see that.’ Maybe now I will look into learning to cover Oblivion, or anything off (‘The Hunter’). That album’s amazing.”
MTV Canada tracked down Mastodon to discuss the single. The metal giants explained the collaboration will take the form of a song swap: “The idea is for Mastodon to cover a Feist song and throw some hair and dirt on it. (Then Feist will) take a Mastodon song and pretty it up a little bit.”
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Elsewhere, Feist has confirmed plans to play a short burst of UK shows in the Spring. The full European tour opens in March with an Oslo date, before reaching British shores. Feist is set to play the Royal Albert Hall on March 25th, one of the singer’s largest headline shows in the UK to date.
Performing in the Manchester Apollo on March 26th, the short series of UK shows ends with a visit to Glasgow. Due to play the city’s Royal Concert Hall, the show on March 27th will be the final British show on the European leg of Feist’s tour.
Feist has confirmed the following UK shows:
March
26 London Royal Albert Hall
27 Manchester Apollo
28 Glasgow Royal Albert Hall
