Re: Secret Identities

[Philip Conway <Philip.Conway@bristol.ac.uk>]

I quite like it when an act's stage presence or persona is irreducible to 
individual personalities - like Gorillaz, for instance.  (A geeky aside: in 
ancient Latin the word 'persona' meant 'mask' - every persona is a mask, 
some just choose to mask that fact by trying to appear 'authentic'!) 
However, it irks me a bit when bands refuse to interact with their audience 
when on stage.  I mean, you don't necessarily have to do the whole 
'showmanship' thing and have a chat with the people who've come to see you 
but it smacks of pretension to just walk on and play as if they're not 
there.


Philip.

--On 29 February 2012 19:21 -0800 kay'lon rushing <k3zz21@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've always been fascinated by artists who refuse to show their identity.
> Whether it be by a mask or by simply never presenting themselves in
> physical form. Such as Burial, daft punk, banksy, and whoever else. Would
> you be one of these kinds of artists if u could?