Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Celebrate Brooklyn

Art-rock guru David Byrne played a free show to open the 31st annual Celebrate Brooklyn concert series in the Prospect Park bandshell last night. Not even the post-finals exodus of beer-toting Park Slope teens could fill the place the way this guy did - everyone from my high school math teacher to a Croc-footed baby to a dreadlocked, blazer-wearing Axl Rose wannabe was rocking out to Byrne's back-to-the-futuristic tunes. He played lots of new stuff, and this old fave:

3 comments:

Saya said...

dmitri was there! possibly in nike-head

juliette said...

wahhh so sad i missed the white tutu!

Anonymous said...

so annoyed i missed him at bonnaroo!