Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 not only cemented the socio-economic foundations of just about everything that is wrong with the West, it also coincided with a short-lived epoch of unfettered creativity in New York City. […]
Tag: Talking Heads
Still making Sense of it all: The restless art of David Byrne
After the release of the 1984 Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, David Byrne would never be able to play another regular rock show. Jonathan Demme’s document of Talking Heads’ Speaking In Tongues tour […]
Same as he ever was: When David Byrne played the Galway Arts Festival (2004)
Any anoraks out Byrne-watching on July 26 might have bumped into a stranger in a strange land. According to his online tour journal, the singer took his fold-out bike for a ride on Salthill Prom […]
The Masseduction of Annie Clark
A countless number of bands can be filed under ‘art-rock’ no matter how much they deserve it, but St Vincent has made a case for her whole career as a work of performance art. Texan Annie […]
Gigs of the week: August 5-11
THUNDERCAT, The Sugar Club, Dublin, Monday, €22.50 Bass virtuoso Thundercat’s slapping and high fretwork is one of the aces up Flying Lotus’s sleeve on the psychedelic jazz odyssey You’re Dead!, and he got a mighty cheer […]
Annie are you OK? St Vincent hits Dublin
OUT of all the hyperbole and PR spin about transcendent gigs and should’ve-been-there moments, St Vincent’s show at Electric Picnic 2013 with David Byrne is always recalled — a real sickener as I missed it. […]
Gigs of the week: February 20-26
JAPE, Roisin Dubh, Galway, tonight (tickets); Dolan’s, Limerick, tomorrow (tickets) and Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Sunday (tickets) We know it’s early days yet, but Richie Egan didn’t hang about this year before dropping an album that’s sure to […]
Johnny Marr interview: ‘There’s a trick to getting things sounding so simple’
You can buy a T-shirt online with the simple all-capitals slogan ‘JOHNNY FUCKIN MARR’. It’s a shortcut to a collective music memory, all wrapped up in a name. This directness also rubs off on Marr’s approach to songwriting. Chatting over the phone about his […]
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