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David Byrne’s bike racks
Posted by Simon Lewin

Had the pleasure of seeing David Byrne live at The Barbican on Monday. Was very slightly concerned when I saw our fellow audience - if someone had dropped a bomb on the venue, Waitrose's share price (were they listed) would have plummetted.

Anyway, dislike the term as much as I do, I'm inclined to say that he is potentially the 'coolest' man in pop today. Marvellous stuff.

I was going to post a video clip of Byrne or Talking Heads playing live but thought the following might be of interest.

A keen cyclist, Byrne was asked by the New York Department of Transportation to judge a competition for the city's new bike rack designs - and was so inspired that he designed a series of his own...

Posted by Simon Lewin on August 7th, 2009