I'll make friends with a socially adept person and they'll be the one that brings everyone in.
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However we are, we don't know how to be another way, that's the way we are! You can't say, 'Oh, I'm unhappy I wish I was more like this happy gregarious person.' I just figured I'm not. As other people have said, a little bit isn't the worst thing in the world. Probably the idea of observing and asking like 'Am I supposed to do that? Is that what people do?' that probably goes along with it a little bit maybe a sort of an intense focus on the songwriting or the artwork that I was doing at the time. “ very functional but socially very uncomfortable. So I thought, 'OK, yes, I can see the wear fit on that. There's a part where I felt very uncomfortable socially. “After some friends had told me about the spectrum of Asperger's and autism and I thought, 'Oh yeah I can see that,’ certainly at an earlier point in my life, not so much now. “I think it's very much about things that have happened to me and changes I've gone through but I think it's a common thing that a lot of people go through.”
Gradually it seems like that person finds a community, the band, that allows this person to kind of come out of themselves a bit. “That's something that occurs in a lot of my songs so I thought, ‘That's handy.’ I mean, I have songs that express that. This is a person who is asking all these questions, 'How do I do this? What am I supposed to do? How is a person supposed to be?' I mean, it starts off with me on stage holding a brain, but it's a guy living, obviously living, inside his head and he's holding it in his hand. It's an arc, a journey of the person, I guess it would be me. “It's not a narrative like a conventional play, let's say. He says this onstage adventure would take both the audience - and Byrne himself - on a journey of self discovery and community-building. “American Utopia” began as an album, then metamorphosed into a Broadway production.ĭuring a world tour, Byrne visited WBUR’s CitySpace in Boston, and told Here & Now’s Robin Young the show is about "coming out of yourself a bit.” No instruments, no mic stands, no water bottles - nope, no water bottles."
“From there, I realized there doesn't have to be anything on the stage. “I knew almost immediately that my dream was to have all the performers be untethered and be able to move about the stage, kind of what a marching band would do or a second line group in New Orleans or something like that,” he says.
He says he envisioned the stage as desert, somewhere the musicians can move about freely. Byrne even occasionally breaks the fourth wall by addressing the audiences. They march and float on, off and all around the stage, wearing drums, guitars or keyboards hanging from harnesses around their necks. David Byrne talks to host Robin Young at WBUR's CitySpace. The unusual show, which features new songs as well as Talking Heads favorites, includes a merry band of barefoot dancing musicians, all looking sharp in grey suits. The beloved Talking Heads frontman debuts his show " American Utopia" at the Hudson Theatre in New York City this month after garnering rave reviews around the world. Find that audio here.Īmerican rock musician David Byrne - also a singer, songwriter, producer and filmmaker - has taken on a new role: Broadway star. Facebook Email David Byrne in "American Utopia." (Courtesy Matthew Murphy)Įditor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept.
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