In advance of her Irish gig, Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed, Putin and O Superman
Laurie Anderson plays the National Concert Hall in Dublin in April. Picture: Ebru Yildiz
Laurie Anderson’s speaking voice has the soothing quality of a long walk or a contemplative evening by a crackling fire. And so it is disconcerting, to put it mildly, to hear this icon of the performing arts suddenly emit of sputter of surprise.
“Oh my gosh. Oh, dear. I just saw a little alert here on my phone, unfortunately. It says Putin is putting his nuclear systems on high alert,” says Anderson from her loft apartment on Canal Street in Manhattan. “I feel he’s quite nuts. He does have the ability to do that [use nuclear weapons].”
