Both David Byrne [former Talking Heads] and DJ Fatboy Slim are collaborating to write a musical on the former wife of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Here Lies Love will hit the stage next March and "will examine Mrs Marcos' passion for music and night clubs."
The play will premiere at Australia's Adelaide Festival. "She loved the nightlife in all parts of the world, and in New York at Studio 54, so much so that she installed a disco in her NYC townhouse," an Adelaide Festival spokesman said.
"It was a non-stop party, featuring politicians, arms dealers, financiers, artists, musicians and the international jet set."
Here Lies Love is the brainchild of former Talking Heads' David Byrne with Fatboy Slim offering the music.
― dd_____ (dayvidday), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)
― jz, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)
i will be there to laugh at david bryne when he launches this dud at the festival
ps: i am on the "inside" at the adelaide festival. they tried to get some korean hip-hop as well but sadly we gotta settle for now-passe french hip hop :(
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)
thats right DAVID BYRNE TALKING ABOUT POWERPOINT FOR AN HOUR OR SO JUST SOLD OUT AFTER PEOPLE PURCHASED TICKETS FOR IT
lol
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)
― Sean Robison (yaratnam), Sunday, 10 September 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)
So this is finally out. Anyone here heard it?
― willem, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 07:50 (sixteen years ago)
Jess Harvel has. Like the review. Don't know whether I'm going to like the album but I'm definitely going to waste 90 minutes of my life on it.
― willem, Thursday, 8 April 2010 14:48 (sixteen years ago)
yeah, fatboy slim is not a big draw for me, but I've really enjoyed Byrne's solo career in the past ten years or so. Probably worth checking out!
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 April 2010 14:50 (sixteen years ago)
I'm more inclined to go with Jess' view and not check it out.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 April 2010 16:52 (sixteen years ago)
I haven't heard the Imelda Marcos project, but the song they released under the BPA moniker, "Toe Jam feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal" is quite enjoyable.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 02:53 (fifteen years ago)
I wonder if it helped Imelda's recent election to Philippine Congress.
I really liked it as music, balked at it as history, and haven't really played it since:
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2010/04/05/music/cd/iq_35083624.txt
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 13 August 2010 05:47 (fifteen years ago)
I wonder if Pareles slammed it in the NY Times? Byrne has been aggravated by some of his reviews.
David Byrne
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:28 (fifteen years ago)
so this is happening in London now
― goth colouring book (anagram), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 07:31 (eleven years ago)