I never met David Sylvian, nor the others, but I saw him and Steve on stage a couple of times.
ob8 wrote:1) On the Italian fan site David was (and hopefully still is) going to respond to questions submitted by the board users. 2) I know he has always felt very comfortable in Italy, maybe more so than here in the UK 3) but to participate in a Q and A session it shows i think an appreciation of the fans and of the people his music really reaches.
2) Italy is a great place to be in as long as you're not staying for more than two weeks. I don't think David ever stayed there such a long time, so I reckon he's been as comfortable in that country as any other tourist that brought a reproduction of a gondola to his living room and can mimick a mandolin player while singing: "Pizza, pasta, ammmore!"
3) It's quite hard to spot any difference between Italian fans, English fans and any other fans from any other country, and in David's behaviour towards them. (If you except his decision to leave the US out of The World Is Everything tour.
As far as I know he was never chucked off the stage by bad-mannered, spitting, garbage-throwing American fans, so that remains a mystery.)
On the davidsylvian.it forum the arguments are quite the same as on here, treated more or less in the same way, and posters can go off-topic as easily as we do.
(But they're not so amusing .) So why should he consent to answer to their Q&A instead of any other forum's? Could it be because (just guessing) it is in the nature of Italians (I know them well, I'm 'half' of them) to insist with a request until either you give in or you cease breathing?
1) In the end Steve Jansen did the Q&A session, and I wouldn't be surprised if we'll never hear about the David Sylvian Q&A ever again.