Sons of the silent age meaning bowier7/27/2023 It’s a big group-it’s nine people-and it’s kind of unique to get that many people together who all feel the same connection. What maybe separates what we’re doing from all that is that while of course we’re doing this concert in honor of him and he just passed, our intent is really to continue doing what we do for the foreseeable future. I’ve seen concerts planned all over the world in the upcoming months, and that’s really nice to see. I think it’s great that mainstream media has celebrated him the way that they are. I think I’m not alone in feeling that.Īs a big Bowie fan myself, I’ve found it fun in the aftermath to connect with other fans and celebrate with them. But when it’s an artist like that, in some way you do feel like you know him, because your whole life you’ve spent years and years and years listening to his art and investing yourself in his perspective and his aesthetic. I have met him, but I’d never say that I knew him. It’s just so interesting because it’s obviously someone who you don’t know. I think when anyone passes, personally, I have trouble accepting the reality of it. I woke to a text that said, “David Bowie died.” Honestly, it didn’t even seem real. My friends all know what a big Bowie fan I am, so whoever heard it first-I was getting texts at 5:30 in the morning. What was it like when you heard the news? At that point we changed our plan and made it just the Station to Station record for the first set, then a second set which will be more a retrospective of everything he’s done. We thought it might seem like we were taking advantage of it, but we soon knew that the thing was to celebrate his legacy and go forward with it. The next morning we all talked, and for a moment we thought we shouldn’t play the show. We already had this show booked and we were rehearsing for this show, and on the day we were rehearsing, Bowie passed away. Originally the idea was to play the same set that he played in Chicago on that tour, and we brought the idea up to Joe at the Metro and had the show booked-this was back in December. Also, the date that we are playing is 40 years and one day since he came to Chicago on the Isolar tour playing that album. For whatever reason we as a group were drawn to that era of Bowie already, so it just kind of made sense to focus on it. Additionally, there are only six songs on that record, and we had previously played five. That record is Chris Connelly’s favorite record. So then why the decision to play Station to Station for this upcoming show? This upcoming show is our fifth or sixth show, and there are still 30 songs left that I would love to play. We have nine people in the band, and everyone wants to play their favorite, so everyone’s arm wrestling for which song they fantasize about playing. That first show, we played 15 songs-how do you even choose what Bowie songs to play? They’re all so great. So it seemed like a natural fit that you would honor Bowie’s death with that same kind of concert.Įxactly. We put the first show together and made it a benefit concert for the Pablove Foundation. We had no intention of starting a tribute band we just wanted to see what it would feel like to play the songs. And we just started talking about how fun it would be to put a show together and play Bowie songs. We were both big fans of Bowie, and we were kind of geeking out about this and that. Chris Connelly and I were working on some music together. How did Sons of the Silent Age first come together? I caught up with Walker to talk about the first Sons of the Silent Age performance, the time he met Bowie, and what it was like singing “Young Americans” with Cherry herself. On March 4 the nine-person band will take the stage with Bowie’s former girlfriend and collaborator Ava Cherry to play Station to Station in its entirety plus a set of songs spanning Bowie’s career. Once the Thin White Duke died from cancer, says the Sons’ drummer, Matt Walker (previously of Garbage and the Smashing Pumpkins), it became even more clear that playing a benefit show was the right thing to do. Just a month before David Bowie’s death, local Bowie cover band Sons of the Silent Age made plans for their next show, a concert benefitting cancer research at the University of Chicago Medical Center-the same place that Metro owner Joe Shanahan went for his own cancer treatments. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Line-Up Announced > Close
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