Of all the David Byrnes in the world, ex-Talking Heads David Byrne is the David Byrniest. The man’s done a lot of splish-splash and ching-ching with all his bang-twangs and his bloop-bleeps and his co co rico-co co ricos. Heck, Davie’s even done did a lot of that which was done with Brit buddy Brian Eno, a collaborator who is similarly surely the most superlative Brian Eno of all known eons of Enos. For ample examples, please simply see/remember The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno tour, a tour that saw Byrnie traveling around the countryside touting the tout tunes of Davie+Eno (Davieno?) in the years 2008-09 A.D., respectively.
Now, in 2011 A.D., as The Wire ably wires, a fordone-but-not-forgone documentary of the lone travails of our hero DB on behalf of both halves (DB+BE), which was filmed on film in real time the whole time by full-time filmmaker (‘filmfilmer,’ in actuality, as he doubtless didn’t manufacture the film… if he even filmed on film, which I don’t know) David Hillman Curtis, is being made presently available on May 31, 2011 A.D. Entitled Ride, Rise, Roar, the alliterative artifact’ll be released on DVD and Blu-ray, thus making you bystander to performances of 14 tracks from the breadth of Byrneno’s longstanding and broadminded bender as the aforementioned Byrneno. Plenty of behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage and whatnot also help make the thing what it is and not what it isn’t. Hitch your long eyes to the short trailer here, and that’s the height and width of it.
• Ride Rise Roar: http://www.rideriseroar.com
• David Byrne: http://www.davidbyrne.com
• Brian Eno: http://brian-eno.net
&bull: David Hillman Curtis: http://www.hillmancurtis.com