Wooooo

Read this interview with David Byrne in the new issue of 'Woooo', a zine we just recieved from NYC. David Byrne liked it so much he put it on his website. You can read the rest of it there.



"David Byrne is a Grammy Award, Academy Award and Golden Globe winning musician best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of the New Wave band Talking Heads. Wow! That’s a pretty amazing first paragraph I just pulled from Wikipedia! Thanks Wikipedia! Academy Award winner? Wow! What the hell is doing in Wooooo right? It’s not like he needs the press! Truth of the matter is this—I saw David Byrne riding his bike down Houston St. here in New York, and I chased him on foot with tape-recorder in hand, and I ran along side him and I interviewed him. That’s journalism man. That’s how it’s meant to be done. You don’t play footsy with agents and the like, you just get in there and you get the story. To be honest it wasn’t as hard as all that, he rides like Estelle Getty, I just leisurely strolled up to him and said—“How come your arms is so hairy then?” He just went “uh-oh” and we took it from there."

Has a girl ever been put off by your hairy arms?
If so they’ve been quiet about it.

Is it true Lou Reed advised you not to wear short sleeves on stage?
Yes.

Bit rude. Do you think if push came to shove you could beat Lou Reed in a fight?
No comment.

Who do you think would win in a fight between say, David Bowie and Lou Reed?
I dunno—both those guys trained with boxers, I believe—so...

Do you like that your hair went white? It looks pretty cool doesn't it? I like it.
I’m used to it and yes I think it looks better, much better, than when I was dying it.

And the mag's site here.