![]() After touring with, she contributed vocals to their 2002 album You Forgot It in People, which earned rave reviews as well as a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year. With, in 2001 Feist returned home to Toronto and was invited to join the indie rock band and musicians' collective by founder. (She would also contribute vocals to ' 2006 album Impeach My Bush.) After touring the U.K. ![]() As Nisker began shaping her lascivious stage persona, Feist became part of the act, performing with sock puppets on-stage, providing backing vocals, and singing on ' debut album, The Teaches of Peaches. Most copies of the disc were sold at the merch table at shows, and it received little notice at the time.Īfter leaving, Feist shared an apartment with a fellow independent musician, Merrill Nisker. During her time with, Feist began piecing together the songs she'd been writing and released her first album, Monarch (Lay Down Your Jeweled Head). ![]() ![]() In 1998, she became rhythm guitarist with the indie rock outfit, and appeared on their 1999 album Bless This Mess. As she settled in her new hometown, Feist used her downtime from singing to work on her instrumental abilities she taught herself guitar and began writing songs using a four-track recording setup, and also picked up the bass and played for a spell in the band. Feist left Calgary for Toronto, and was advised by a doctor not to sing for six months. ![]() However, Feist was an inexperienced vocalist who had trouble keeping up with the group's powerful stage volume, and in 1996 she left Placebo when she began to experience damage to her vocal cords. In 1993, Placebo won a Battle of the Bands that earned them a spot at a rock festival opening for, and in 1995 the group would release an EP, Don't Drink the Bathwater. When Leslie was 15, her creative ambitions took a sharp turn when she joined a Calgary-based punk band, Placebo (no relation to the later U.K.-based neo-glam outfit) in 1991. ![]()
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