Brian Eno is to be a panellist on Question Time next week...

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...along with Peter Hitchens

what question do you think might provoke an interesting response ?

― forgottenlogin, Friday, 20 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Every question I can think of would be needlessly hostile to him.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you prefer Bono or Ono?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i hope the bbc confiscate his strategy cards, otherwise we'll get 'wash the dishes' type answers

(i will quite like it if Dimbledog gets irritated and comes over all 'answer the bloody question will you' at him - irritable farce meets unflappable object)

― stillforgottenlogin, Friday, 20 February 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael, you should ask Eno is "computers have become Africa enough" for him yet.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

they crash alot because they have lots of badly installed argumentative subentities fighting over finite resources QED

― woofwoof, Friday, 20 February 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you a pseudo-intellectual?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

do you remember flipping out on a lady named anna in the east village when she didn't get you and david byrne some afro-pop records sometime in 1979?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

is it also true that yer lung collapsed after you were fucking some groupies for 72 hours straight?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(and i LIKE brian eno ... imagine if it was some musician i couldn't stand, like jonsi or scott stapp!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

What gives you the right to do what you do?

I read in 'Swollen Appendices' that questions of that nature really annoy him.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody asks the panellists on Question Time questions about themselves or their theories. They ask stuff about what's going on in the world this week.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

politics schmolitics

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/images/cig.jpg

― run it off (run it off), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the oblique strategy card:

"Take the part you are most proud of, and get rid of it"

will work as an answer to whatever question arises on Question Time.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

He can't be any worse than Toby Young was a cpl of weeks ago

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't toby young Eno with glasses on? or am I thinking of Howard Devoto?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Toby Young is more William Hague w/ glasses

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Now in the light of Momus's information, it might be interesting to ask him about American foreign policy, especially as it relates to culture. That might well get him going.

And yes, poverty of imagination and body use in computer interfacing would get him going too.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody asks the panellists on Question Time questions about themselves or their theories. They ask stuff about what's going on in the world this week. .

This is a great lost opportunity. Back in the 40's there was a radio programme called the brains trust in which 'noteworthy' people were asked more metaphysical questions, rather than the mundane is the council tax dud type ones. It would be more interesting as politico's would find it more difficult to follow the party line, especially when the line hasn't even been considered.

More to the point Momus, when you are going to be asked to appear on Question Time?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, someone on Question Time once asked Labour MP Ron Davies, "why do you like sucking men's cocks in public?" I've never seen Dimbleby look so flustered.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a pretty good essay by Eno on American foreign policy in the wretched magazine, 'Zembla'. A shorter version of it is here.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Eno speaks sense in that essay. He basically says that power is not just about making people answer the question in the way you want, it's also making people ask the question in the way you want them to ask it. Whether or not they come to the same conclusions as you doesn't really matter, because you have power. It's the framing, the context, that matters. Get people talking about 'WMD' or whatever, make it the hot issue of the day.

As for what actually happened, well, there is water under rock, same as it ever was.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 20 February 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Naomi Klein takes the same point about how the questions about Iraq have been framed much further into specifics. Has she been on the programme? Then again, why are we framing this programme as in any way significant?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 20 February 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Because Moby is going to be on it.

No, sorry, Brian Eno.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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