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| David Byrne & St. Vincent, The Roundhouse 27/08/2013 Source and copyright: Rachel Lipsitz for Clash |
One
recurring artist throughout the history of my Audio Journal blog has
been former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, who I even went so
far as to say I had something of an 'artistic crush' on, a comment
that I'm still reluctant to retract.
Byrne
was in London earlier this week for a one-off show at the Roundhouse
with St. Vincent (Annie Clark), with whom he recorded the
brass-soaked Love This Giant released by 4AD last year. Despite a
couple of previous attempts on my part to catch Byrne in concert, for
one reason or another it's never happened. The closest I've come to
seeing him in the flesh was last year at the Curzon cinema in Chelsea
where he and Matthew Herbert engaged in an earnest debate about the
health of what we used to call the music industry; prior to that it
was a live video-link chat with Paul Morley from Brixton to accompany
a screening of his Ride, Rise, Roar tour documentary, which I watched
in a tiny room at Leicester Square's Odeon. Finally getting to see
him singing this week was therefore something that I was starting to
believe was never going to happen.
I
was fortunate enough to review the Roundhouse show for Clash. My
review, accompanied by some rather excellent photos from Rachel
Lipsitz, can be found here. Byrne and Clark have released a free EP
to accompany their tour, featuring some live tracks (including the
Talking Heads classic 'Road To Nowhere'), remixes and an unreleased
song from the Love This Giant sessions. The Brass Tactics EP can be
downloaded below in exchange for your email address.
A
few posts back I mentioned that listening to Byrne's conversation
with Matthew Herbert had inspired me to start a project called
MuteResponse in tribute to the influence of my favourite record label
(Mute) and to celebrate ten years of writing my Documentary Evidence
website.
MuteResponse
will take the form of a twenty-two track double download compilation
and will be released in the Autumn. Earlier this week I premiered the
first track from the album, which will feature a number of artists
similarly inspired by Mute's legacy. 'Clues In The Rain' by Rupert
Lally and Espen J. Jörgensen - the first track that I received for
inclusion on the project after a campaign for contributions - can be
heard below, or head here if you're reading this on email. The full
tracklist for MuteResponse will be announced soon.
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