white space and a river

A Room for London, that riverboat artspace lookout post above the Thames, is streaming some of its musical goings-on on its website. Check out Andrew Bird solo. Laurie Anderson moves in this Sunday, and goes live at 5pm GMT, which I think is 1pm ET at the moment is actually noon ET.

Here's David Byrne's contribution:


David Byrne: Get It Away from Artangel on Vimeo.

In other news

Financial Times reports:

According to audited attendance figures, the Opéra de Lyon has been attracting a seasonal average of 96 per cent, of which 45 per cent are people younger than 45 and 25 per cent younger than 26.

Damn! FT interviews Serge Dorny, chief of the properly subsidized Opéra de Lyon, on the strategies of his success.

Plus

Somebody go to this, wouldja?



I got a seven inch incision and that stairway to heaven at the Harvey just ain't happening for me.