I just started watching this movie and I already love it.
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This Must Be The Place - Live on Jools Holland, 2004 (by bitemyballz)
David Byrne: “That’s a love song made up almost completely of non sequiturs, phrases that may have a strong emotional resonance but don’t have any narrative qualities. It’s a real honest kind of love song. I don’t think I’ve ever done a real love song before. Mine always had a sort of reservation, or a twist. I tried to write one that wasn’t corny, that didn’t sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded; I was pretty happy with that.”
Multitracks from "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts"
David Byrne & Brian Eno have made the original multitracks from ‘Help Me Somebody’ and ‘A Secret Life’ available to download and manipulate for free.
This month, for his latest improbable feat, music-icon-turned-artist David Byrne is squeezing the entire world beneath the High Line. Called “Tight Spot,” his installation is composed of an inflatable globe wedged into empty alley on 508 West 25th Street that Pace Gallery recently bought up to make into a gallery. The result is monumental and comic — or tragicomic? — and accompanied by a curious soundtrack: Byrne’s own voice, altered beyond recognition into a series of inhuman, basso moans.
The renowned Talking Heads frontman (and cycling advocate) is also part of Pace’s “Social Media” show at the 510 West 25th Street gallery, where he’s displaying fake iPhone apps alongside works by Miranda July, Robert Heineken, and others. (Pace is also opening an Agnes Martin show at their 534 West 25th Street space, rounding out a triple threat intended to create a sort of “block party,” according to the gallery.) ARTINFO spoke with Byrne about the value of creative constraints and the importance of smell-to-smell interactions.
