Lou Reed, David Byrne, Moby and Others Team Up at “Speak Up!” Show
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“We wanted to make some statement from New York City — the center of the universe,” said Lou Reed in a hallway press conference for Speak Up!, an anti-war benefit held last night at intimate Brooklyn theater St. Ann’s Warehouse. While the 65-year-old NYC icon isn’t in any shape to be chaining himself to a recruiting station, he certainly can gather a ...
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Lou Reed, Antony, David Byrne & other photos from the Speak Up! benefit @ St Ann's in Brooklyn
Published 3/19/2008 by brooklynvegan at brooklynvegan
... he certainly can gather a who's who of the lefty art-rocker geekerati: David Byrne, Moby, Blonde Redhead, Scissor Sisters, Damien Rice, Norah Jones and co-organizers Laurie Anderson and Antony, who helped conceive the event in Anderson's living room. It was a night where every song felt like a protest anthem -- even when the Scissor Sisters sang "I ain't got nothing but your seed on my face/You'll put them babies to waste." That could be about sending kids to war, right? [Rolling Stone] ...
