The film starts with David Byrne, alone on a bare stage, with a boombox and his big white suit, performing “Psycho Killer.” Then, with each new song, he’s joined by different bandmates and an assemblage of gear and lights, all showing, step-...
InterviewDavid Byrne On Uniforms and Non-Uniforms By Ganda Suthivarakom Keywords: Big Suit, David Byrne, Disappearing into Musculature, On Material Memories, SanteriaThe Big Suit & The Medium Grey’, Cori Wells Braun, 1984. MOST PEOPLE KNOW THE Big Suit, but there were a lot of others. On...
David Byrne: De Blasio’s presidential run is on road to nowhere Byrne, wearing a salmon-colored suit and black Chuck Taylors, was attending a rally on the steps of City Hall to oppose de Blasio’s plan to cut $6 million from public cultural institutions. May 21 2019 19 of the best...
While the Q&A was primarily a lovefest between the quartet, who shared frequently told anecdotes about the film’s complex production, shooting schedule and Byrne’s big suit that were common knowledge to most superfans who attended the sold-out event. Yet one moment while discussing the film’...
Wednesday night David Byrne joined composer Jherek Bischoff at New York’s St. Ann’s Warehouse to perform his Brian Eno collaboration “Strange Overtones,” a collaboration with Bischoff called “The Fat Man’s Comin’,” and a the Talking Heads song “And She Was.” ...
co-written and directed by Andrew Ahn and starring Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang; “The Thing with Feathers,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays a father dealing with grief and having to take care of his young sons; and “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” starring Rose Byrne as a...
Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons, Jason Ritter RogerEbert.com (4-stars) NY Times Variety Film Trailer The Meddler is a based-on-a-true-story heartfelt dramedy about a mother, her screenwriter daughter and their relationship. Set two years after the husband/father died, neither wo...
I was asked to come and address a bunch of people who were left-wing types - moreso than I - and one of the people there fed me a question which was designed to elicit a reply that would suit them. They wanted to know about [speaks slowly, in caricatured "dopey guy" voice] "Wha...
Journalist Philip Byrne recalled aphone callwith The Beat's Ranking Roger about Bowie. The Beat had come to one of Bowie's shows in the late '80s, and as they waited to go on stage, some of the musicians became impatient as they waited for more beer to be brought to them. ...
we finally got onstage and we were five songs into the show when David Byrne ran off and refused to come back on. He said, 'I'm not going to play for a bunch of people dancing in the mud.' Go figure. David had a lot of temper tantrums when he got to be a big star. He cou...