Karl Hyde, frontman of UK electronic act Underworld, has said that he had a premonition about David Bowie and demanded that Brian Eno travel to New York to see the late star.
Speaking to TEN, Hyde said: “This is gonna sound weird but a number of years ago, I had a dream about Bowie and I just knew I had to see him. I told Brian Eno we had to go to New York NOW to see him and Brian just giggled. I said, `you’ve got to do something! Something is going to happen to him, there isn’t long’ This was two years ago . . . “
Karl Hyde (left) pictured with his Underworld bandmate, Rick Smith
Hyde and Eno never made the trip and when Bowie passed away last January, Hyde says he did not feel sad.
“When he passed, it didn’t upset me. It really made me smile actually,” he said. “I thought Bowie, you really are the real deal. You timed that well. Your death is now a work of art. You’re back on top and you will stay there forever now. No one’s gonna top that and it really made me smile. His greatest work now was his death.”
Underworld have just released their new album, Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future, and they play Forbidden Fruit at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham on Sunday, June 5
Read our full interview with Karl Hyde here.
