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[caddyman]

By Gad, but David Byrne is on form - I have Later with Jools Holland on as I type, and it's fab. Whole clutches of music I wouldn't normally listen to - of course I don't like it all, but live music - well, performed live to a camera - unbeatable.

I think I might have to poke around in Steve's Sounds just off Charing Cross Road (on the edge of China Town for those who know it not) and see if he has a copy of Mr. Byrne's latest offering. I remember back in '77/'78 being the first person in Wolves Poly with a Talking Heads album - Talking Heads 77 in fact, and I cleared the dance floor when I played Psycho Killer in the Union Bar. The kids just weren't ready for it, delightfully post Punk yet pre New Wave as it already was at that time. It was several more years before Talking Heads made it big in the UK, and by that time they'd already recorded their best stuff and moved on. Road to Nowhere - astonishing aural stereo effects not withstanding (this was the end of the age of quad) was but a poor shadow of anything on More Songs About Buildings And Food or even Fear of Music, and by Stop Making Sense it was all over. Mind you they weren't bad even then. And I might well be misremembering the order...

I think I might dust off a copy of Sand in the Vaseline and give it a listen sometime this weekend. It must be ten years since I played it; maybe longer...

Edit: Scissor Sisters - gotta love a band with a singer called Ana Matronic.

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[irdm.livejournal.com]

Just caught then end of him.
I think he needed more "running room" ?
Just able to jig back and forth a few steps - bit like a very wired Ian Brown!

[binidj.livejournal.com]

I was reminded, watching this, how very much I like Mr. Byrne's music. I was particularly taken by his non-ironic rendition of 'I want to Dance with Somebody', I can't think of many people who could pull that one off.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I thibnk you're probably right. :-)