Speaking Heads is not going to be reuniting, however that hasn’t stopped promoters from attempting to get the band again collectively.
In line with Billboard, live performance big Reside Nation “informed the Speaking Heads it was prepared to pay the band $80 million to headline six to eight competition gigs and headlining slots.”
That supply got here on the heels of the same try by Goldenvoice president Paul Tollett, who needed to get the legendary group to reunite at Coachella. Billboard claims the band may have earned “as a lot as $10 million” for the two-weekend competition.
Finally, Speaking Heads turned down each the Reside Nation and Coachella affords.
Speaking Heads Appeared Collectively for the First Time in Over 20 Years
Speaking Heads – made up of David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison and Chris Frantz – final carried out collectively when the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2002. You must return even additional, all the way in which to 1984, to search out the final time they performed a full live performance collectively.
Nonetheless, followers had been hopeful that the estranged bandmates might have mended their fences. In 2023, all 4 members appeared collectively publicly for the primary time in 21 years as they celebrated the Fortieth-anniversary of Cease Making Sense with a screening on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant.
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“Now we have a cordial relationship now,” Byrne famous previous to look. “We’re type of in contact, however we don’t hang around collectively.”
The singer additionally admitted he had “regrets” about how Speaking Heads ended – he reportedly simply left the group with out even discussing it with the remainder of the band.
“I don’t suppose I did it in the easiest way,” Byrne confessed, “however I feel it was type of inevitable that might occur anyway.”
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