Bird – DREAM TOUR

In this Dream Tour segment, the alternative pop artist, Bird, shares the acts that she would include on her ultimate tour lineup. You can check out her picks, after the break.

It involves a time machine… But it’s dream tour, so that’s fine right?

Logistically it makes sense to gather them all from various past moments then do the gig in the future…some point where roadies are robots and all stage gear is wireless so no more cables…might be fun.

Venue: Pompeii Amphitheatre, near Naples, Italy.

Headline: The Police (in 1983, the year of Synchronicity release) – I still remember the first time I heard The Police. I was at school and the guy I had a crush on was listening to them on his walkman. Crush instantly transferred from Greenshaw High School’s James Minnet to The Police. I was already learning drums and I remember hearing Stewart Copeland and knowing I wanted to drum like him.  A couple of years later, I headlined the Marquee Club in Charing Cross Road, London just before it closed, a venue The Police had played at, playing drums in an all-girl rock band bizarrely named Mustang Sally. Don’t know that I achieved my aim to play just like Copeland, but at least I’ve drummed on the same stage.

Arthur Russell – I have a friend in Denmark who’s a brilliant DJ.  He knows everything about music and knows me… One day he said, you have to hear Arthur Russell. So I did and now I go about telling other people the same thing…total genius and you don’t have to be a cellist to get it..

Elliot Smith – Figure of 8 is one of my all-time favorite albums. On my dream tour, I’d beg him to let me come on stage to play cello on “Wouldn’t Mama Be Proud”.

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