Brian Eno, producer, composer and former Roxy Music keyboard player Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister for Greece’s Syriza government The British musician and producer Brian Eno meets Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister for Greece’s Syriza government, at Eno’s recording studio in west London. Both are stylish, shaven-headed men famous for their radical ideas. Eno, 67, started out playing synth and wearing leopardskin shirts in the 1970s with Roxy Music and went on to produce, among others, David Bowie and Talking Heads. Varoufakis, 54, who turns up in his trademark leather jacket, describes himself as a libertarian Marxist and has taught economics in the UK, Australia, the US and his native Greece. He and Eno are friends, and recently attended a U2 concert together. Both are phenomenally well-read men, keen theorists who regard themselves primarily as activists. BRIAN ENO How did you get here? When the going is really tough, art is stifled The future is a choice between Star Trek and The Matrix I don’t remember a single political conversation with Bryan Ferry – maybe because we knew it would be catastrophic I am an optimist. I think that what you believe is what you make happen Continue reading...
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