In The Future

David Byrne: In The Future... from DERTV on Vimeo.

Enjoy a 1988 performance of In The Future, by David Byrne — accompanied with with Les Miserables brass band. The performance of the Knee Plays (Music from the Civil Wars) was part of the concert for the ICA, shown on BBC2 in August 1988.

 

In the future everyone will have the same haircut and the same clothes.
In the future everyone will be very fat from the starchy diet.
In the future everyone will be very thin from not having enough to eat...