Guardian.co.uk – Alex Needham – The Guardian
Seated in a semi-swanky London hotel bar, the man opposite is a benign and playful presence, joshing that he’d like a gin and tonic (despite it being 11.30am), spying Cameron Diaz on the front of InStyle magazine and crying, “Look, they’ve put me on the cover!” and trying to convince the Guide that he’s planning a special outdoor show hung from balloons.
However, there are more serious issues on his mind. Antony’s new album The Crying Light, the follow-up to 2004’s Mercury Prize-winning, half-a-million-selling I Am A Bird Now, sees his gaze turn outwards from issues of gender confusion to meditations on his relationship with nature…