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I was wondering why David had gone quiet ie not posting old photos to his tumblr account and then this news of a Kilowatt Hour release on the horizon. I was hoping he was done with that too. It's just not exciting to me. The Wandermude cd was nice enough, but really? Do we need more of that? What's ...

Interesting stuff, Ink.

I feel like we are missing out on something what with all these people suddenly taking an interest in his page. We ARE the party and nobody's here but us.

It looks like David or somebody took down the New Year wishes. I don't see it anymore. That 'Live to the point of ...

His page is very active today. In seven hours he has picked up over 110 new Likes. Surely people who liked his post about refugee abuse were already fans there? I don't think liking a comment adds Likes to a page. Where the heck are all these people coming from? If I was him I'd get some stuff out ...

76 355 fans as of today at 4.30pm. Yeah right. I believe it's a bot adding numbers. If he had this number of flesh and body fans his last tours would have sold out. I would love it to be true though. And so would he.

I believe David does visit his Facebook page. Some woman commented that he was very quiet lately and "David Sylvian" clicked the Like under that which was kind of strange. Somebody asked that the full quote from his New Year card be posted and sure enough he wrote it out in full.

I heard he lives ...

No offense at all dude..but how the heck do you have time to notice that?

No offence taken, Tin Bird. I visit his FB page every day. I happened to write the number of likes down that day. It took about three seconds. I had noticed how his page Likes was increasing quite considerably considering ...

On January 20 there were 74 621 Likes.
On January 21 there were 74 714 Likes.
On January 22 there are 74 817 Likes.

Something here makes me suspicious. Almost 100 new Likes every day with nothing much of anything being released. Can it all be down to the new Sylvian bio and forthcoming Japan book ...

Don't overlook this wonderful record by Arve H. And who knew Erik Honoré could sing like this?

http://youtu.be/jbRlgiTxsaw

Before I die I want to hear that stuff with Eno.
hold your horses! wonderfully intelligent interview as that is, I do think John Sakamoto misheard 'Eno' for 'Ribot' (probably interviewing DS on the phone in those pre-Skype days). there's a clue there when David is talking about the well-known ...

Isn't that the all time best ds interview? Casual and relaxed, go figure. :)

The mid 90's were definitely a crossroads moment for him. And how can you not make sessions w Sakamoto & Eno work? That just blows me away. I wonder what happened to that Eno session...


Before I die I want to hear that ...

Does anybody know which bass guitar Mick used to play this? If the track was recorded prior to recording "Tin Drum" was it possibly his old Travis Bean or had he already bought the first of his Wal basses? He had his first one stolen if I remember rightly. He says he switched to a Wal during the ...

With all due respect Chad you don't know what's in the book other than a few passages on the book website.

What you get out of it depends entirely upon what you expect. Personally I don't want gossip and 'dirt'. How tedious and juvenile if that excites you. I would like a well written appreciation of his work. Funny how exactly the people I imagined turned up to throw cold water on this.

I'll gladly shell out money on a book on Sylvian written by a proper journalist.

To be honest I always found Mick's vitriolic bitterness to be very off-putting. David carried on pretty well after Japan split. The rest is history. A very sad history.