The Blinders with Live4ever @ SXSW 2019 (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)
“I want to be a superhuman.” It’s one of David Bowie’s most famous quotes, one from an artist who adopted more alter-egos than most. Be it Bowie, Hank Williams or Marshall Mathers, taking on a new persona is no rare thing in music.
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The Blinders might feel a need to be superhuman to confront the challenges of this fast moving modern world. How to take on constant creativity? How to take on relevance? How to take on authenticity? How to make enough? Thomas Haywood draws strength from the greats. He strides onstage facing them head on; but not as Thomas Haywood, instead as the defiant Johnny Dream.
The pressure to be the voice of the people. It’s real, but so is the transformation. Watch it happen.