Speaking Heads will reunite for a stay Q&A in honor of the fortieth anniversary of their live performance movie Cease Making Sense. That is the primary time all 4 members —David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison — have appeared collectively in greater than twenty years.
The dialog, moderated by filmmaker Spike Lee, will happen on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant on Sept. 11, following a screening of the film. (A consultant confirmed to UCR that there shall be “no efficiency.”) It is going to be broadcast stay in choose IMAX theaters all over the world. “To me, Cease Making Sense has remained related as a result of the staging and lighting strategies might have been created in a a lot earlier time interval,” Harrison mentioned in an earlier assertion.
“The absence of interviews, mixed with the elegant and timeless lighting, created a movie that may be watched again and again.”
Cease Making Sense will even return to theaters this 12 months on Sept. 22, newly remastered in 4K. An expanded version of the film’s soundtrack shall be launched on Aug. 18, that includes the complete set record plus two beforehand unreleased songs.
The final time Speaking Heads performed collectively was in 2002 at their Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction. Since then, all 4 members, who’ve every launched into solo careers, have expressed that one other reunion is unlikely. “It might be good if it might occur as a result of in contrast to a lot of our contemporaries, we’re all nonetheless alive,” Frantz instructed Rolling Stone in 2020.
“I spotted after some time that I used to be very blissful doing the form of huge number of issues that I used to be doing and the completely different sorts of music that I used to be doing,” Byrne defined in 2023. “And I believed, ‘Why ought to I commerce in my happiness for some money?’”
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