Patti Smith To Perform NYE Show On Billboards in London and New York
Patti Smith will ring in 2021 in style from high above London’s Piccadilly Circus.
Patti’s New Year’s Eve show, streaming around the world on YouTube’s digital art platform Circa, will be beamed onto billboards in the heart of London.
During the 15-minute showcase, Smith plans to pay tribute to healthcare workers who have lost their lives due to Covid-19 in 2020, and she will also read a new poem dedicated to teenage environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg.
“Some of the work (for the show) I did in my bedroom, some in a recording studio and some at my desk,” Patti tells The Guardian. “I had to teach myself how to use Photo Booth on my computer and film myself reading a poem. I’m sure there are 14 year olds who can do this in five minutes but it took me quite a while. But I got there and I’m so proud of myself.”
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Patti Smith will celebrate her 74th birthday Wednesday with a special livestream performance.
The Godmother of Punk and her band will take the stage at 9 p.m. ET via Veeps.com. Tickets are on sale now for $10; on the day of show, they’re $15.
And on New Year’s Eve, Smith will take over London’s famed Piccadilly Circus. According to the U.K. paper
The Guardian, it’s part of a celebration marking 50 years since her first-ever poetry performance, which took place in 1971 at St. Mark’s Church in New York’s Bowery. After that performance, a top music producer approached Smith with the idea of fronting a rock band, and the rest is history.
‘I feel like I’m part-wolf’ . Patti Smith. Photograph: Circa, Courtesy of the Artist
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Patti Smith talks about her first poetry performance – in 1971 at St Mark’s Church in New York’s Bowery – as if it were yesterday. “I remember everything,” she says over the phone from her home in New York. Smith was in her early 20s, working at a bookshop and living in the Chelsea Hotel with her then lover, the playwright Sam Shepard. She had attended poetry readings before, most of which put her into a deep sleep. “I wanted to do something that wasn’t boring,” she recalls. “Sam said that since I sang to myself all the time, I should try singing a song, or maybe do something with a guitar.” And so she called on the musician
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