Watch St. Vincent sing the National Anthem and demonstrate basketball skills at LA Sparks game

St. Vincent sang the American national anthem at a Los Angeles Sparks game this week, shortly after showing off her own basketball skills.

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The musician – real name Annie Clark – performed the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ before the WNBA game at the Crypto.com Arena on Thursday (August 15).

Before that, she sent out a preview of her performance on social media, seemingly from backstage at the arena, while showing off some solid dribbling skills between her legs – and in high heels. Watch the clip below.

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St Vincent is set to return to the UK and Europe this autumn as part of the ‘All Born Screaming’ tour, named after the musician’s latest album, which was released in April.

She plays a run of five shows in October, including in Manchester’s Albert Hall on October 14, as well as dates in Dublin, Barcelona, Madrid and Milan. See the full details here and find any remaining tickets here.

For those wondering what to expect from the shows, St. Vincent told NME earlier this year: “I’m gonna fuck ‘em up. I’m gonna fuck ‘em up.”

St. Vincent is also touring North America in August and September – find all the dates and details of that here, and the remaining tickets are here.

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NME caught St. Vincent’s show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on June 1. It earned a four-star review: “Throughout the pulverising 90-minute set, Clark wields her guitar like a weapon and attacks the microphone with a restless urgency.

“Big, cathartic breakdowns teeter on the edge of chaos, but Clark and her four-piece band never let things fall apart completely. It’s gorgeous to watch, but it demands participation as well. With music this charged, there’s simply no standing on the sidelines.”

In another four-star review, this time for the ‘All Born Screaming’ album, NME wrote: “The album’s front section is thrashing and lacerating – a dispatch from the abyss – as she revels in morbid imagery that speaks to a period in which she was besieged by loss (true to mercurial form, she’s declined to be drawn on specifics). And then something strange happens. With the melted Bond theme ‘Violent Times’, she ushers the listener through a secret door that leads to a mellower vibe.”

In other news, St. Vincent recently asserted that ‘Daughters’ by John Mayer is the worst song ever written.

“It’s just so hideously sexist but it pretends to be a love song, but it’s really, really retrograde and really sexist,” she said. “And I hate it… It’s so deeply misogynistic, which would be fine if you owned that, but it pretends like it’s sweet.”

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