Location: set your location

Talking Heads

Sorted by date / most viewed.

Talking Heads

Talking Heads

A Chip In The Sugar, Bed Among the Lentils and Her Big Chance

1 Sep 2010

Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads must be the best-known example of a form that receives little attention from either the telly-watching or the theatre-going publics: the dramatic monologue. The reasons for their enduring popularity are perhaps twofold…

Mercury Music Prize

2009 Mercury Music Prize shortlist on show

Regardless of who triumphs, contenders' nomination is gain enough

24 Jul 2009

This past year has seen Elbow prove to all just what a Mercury win can do to a band's career. Though toiling for near 15 years in relative indie obscurity, seemingly destined to never play the arenas their songs merited, their 2008 victory for fourth…

David Byrne

David Byrne - Edge Festival Edinburgh

Former Talking Heads leader returns to his groundbreaking roots

13 Jul 2009

As artsy polymaths come, they don’t get much more well-rounded than David Byrne. Over the years, the Dumbarton-born New Yorker has worked on projects involving theatre, dance, photography and opera, and now in his late 50s, he’s showing no signs of…

David Byrne

David Byrne

19 Mar 2009

Talking heads were a seminal band on the outer reaches of the New York punk movement. Officially splitting (acrimoniously) in 1991 (with the odd one-off reunion) Byrne has continued to produce some startling music and here celebrates his collaborations…

Talking Heads

Talking Heads

(4 stars)23 Aug 2007

Alan Bennett’s monologues, legendary for their television appearances in the 80s, also make for compelling viewing as theatre. Presented by Glasgay! and the Tron, there are five monologues in this series, which rotates as a double bill throughout the…

5 articles.

Sorted by date / most viewed.

RSS feed