Cat Power
“Time takes its toll”, she purrs like Vesper Lynd draping over a baby grand. Chan Marshall certainly laps up a challenge like it’s a silky saucer of Motown-milk. The fact she can transform a 1967 soul classic, performed by the likes of...
Cat Power: Shepherds Bush Empire, London....
The legendarily fragile Cat Power, she of the onstage freak-outs and intoxicated, incoherent mid-song ramblings, is no longer with us. The clouds have cleared both over Shepherds Bush and onstage tonight, as a sober Ms Chan amazes all by shimmying...
Cat Power
‘The Greatest’ anointed Cat Power with the reverence she’s been building during a 10-year career of unrivalled proliferation. However, long before this, she released her first covers record in 2000. Called (yeah!) ‘The Covers Record’, it...
Cat Power
She may have been recognised by the notorious point-missers on the Brits panel, but don’t let that put you off, Cat Power’s a freakin’ genius. Twice as drunk as Winehouse, twice as beautiful as God and, frankly, a better songwriter than...
Cat Power/Her Space Holiday : San Francisco...
Welcome to the Night Of The Undecipherable Lyric. To be fair to Cat Power's Chan Marshall, she's not feeling well - a spot of "pneumonic infection", she tells us. It renders her trademark whoops, sighs and other wacky vocal inflections into...
London E1 Spitz Club
This isn't so much a gig as holy Mass. The worshippers are crouched at Chan Marshall 's feet, scrutinising her every movement with silent, breathless awe. No-one dares order a drink, applaud, or even twitch, for fear that the slightest...
Dublin Whelans
After about five songs, Chan Marshall (aka Catpower ) breaks the silence, giggles, and asks "Guess how many chords I know? I know five chords." The audience, somewhat exasperated by Chan 's curious behaviour, duly, nervously join in the...
New York Knitting Factory
It's one minute before Chan Marshall , aka Catpower , takes the stage at New York 's intimate Knitting Factory , and noise is everywhere. People shout conversations at their friends, peals of laughter rise up out of nowhere, cell phones...
London WC1 Drill Hall
You never see her face, but then, you don't need to. Chan Marshall might have drawn a veil of hair over tonight's proceedings, but this charisma won't be muffled by a fringe. Despite the reputation that precedes her at funereal pace...
The Covers Record
Chan Marshall , aka Cat Power , hails from the same parched singer/ songwriting terrain as Smog . Rather than engage in another bout of potentially self-indulgent miserablism, she's decided on her fifth album to apply her minimalist approach to...
