He surprises me when he says he’s not long back from a holiday. I spend ten months not at home, so if I had a girlfriend or a wife, yes she could travel with me, but can you imagine having kids unable to go to normal school? I’m not saying that I’m thinking of doing this for the next 30, 40 years, but it’s also the way this job works: you cannot sustain success on that kind of level if you say, “No, I’m only going to play 30 shows a year.”’ He has a home base so he could take his family with him. I did meet him once, at the GQ awards in Berlin. ‘He’s a good-looking guy so I take that as a compliment. He’s always being compared to David Beckham. I don’t spend much time in the bathroom at all.’ĭavid’s father Georg and mother Dove at a music awards ceremony in 2009 I travel a lot so it makes sense to maintain myself, but there is a difference between maintaining a healthy situation and being vain. ‘I try not to eat junk food, I make sure my system works: I have to make sure I’m physically good because I play a lot of shows. I started dyeing it during my college years because it’s such a dull brown and I was like, “Meh! Blond could be more fun.”’
DAVID GARRETT ONE MOMENT IN TIME MOVIE
I had it quite dark for the movie I did about two years ago. ‘Right now it’s just got a lot of sun so it’s not really that bleached, but I go back and forth depending on the season. He has very black brows and stubble, and impossibly long and curly black lashes. When did he start dyeing his hair? I’d noticed, in the endless YouTube footage of him – in 1991, performing with the Hamburg Philharmonic in 1993, performing at the Verbier festival – he was definitely dark. If I’m only semi in love I’m probably not the best boyfriend I wear it on stage because it gives me the confidence to only concentrate on music.’ Going on stage is hard enough – a lot of people, a lot of expectations, mostly your own – so you need to find who you are, and since I never wear a tuxedo in my private life I feel like this is my clothes, something I feel sexy in. You know how women are when they date – “Try this on, try that on.” I wear something I feel comfortable in. Does he have a stylist? ‘If anybody bought me clothes it was in relationships in New York when I was in college. While David was resplendent in a black suit last night, today he’s in his trademark look: distressed jeans, Union Jack T-shirt, asymmetric Y Project jacket, chunky skull necklaces and rings, hair in a ponytail, strong arms covered in a tattoo that says ‘Rock and roll’. I’ve never bought a car in my life I’d rather collect property.’ ‘I have flats in New York and Berlin, I sometimes miss being at home because I know where things are there. There are no personal mementos, no groupies. His room – bar the empty cigarette packets (in his dressing room the night before, he had smoked out of the window, waving at fans down below) – is very tidy: he’s a typical Virgo. It was finally mine, and I broke it.’ (Repairs took seven months and cost £60,000.) I was just about to pay the last instalment on the loan. In 2007 at London’s Barbican, he slipped and fell on the case carrying his beloved £1 million 1772 Guadagnini violin, cracking it in six places. Does he feel it has a gender? ‘Not really. ‘That’s not something I usually like to hear,’ says David, blue eyes twinkling, placing a little cloth over its bottom, and nestling it under his chin. ‘Oh, it’s so small!’ I say, surprised, as its melancholic sound had filled the auditorium. In his room, David carefully takes the violin from its case. We were told it was not possible, but I bought him flowers, and made sure they were delivered to him.’ ‘I wanted to meet him after the show as my 11-year-old friend wanted her violin signed. He feels the music, he reinterprets it so that he is actually shaping it in a new and unexpected way.’Īnd he’s a hunk, too, I add. The way he performs every song, classical or not, is unique. What is it about him that inspires such adoration? Says Stefania, ‘He always recognises the work of the orchestra and the other people playing beside him. I met one fan beforehand: Stefania, a 26-year-old Italian who works in IT, who had flown from Cork to be here, along with her mother, an English teacher, and 15 of her 13-year-old pupils.Īnother fan tells me she has been to every concert David has given in the past three years. David had swaggered onstage, glamorous in a black suit, one hand in his pocket, violin aloft in a wave, and you’d be forgiven for thinking his surname was Cassidy: the audience of mainly women – aged from 11 to over 80 – were screaming. We meet the morning after his concert at the Rai Auditorium. I don’t care about people who don’t take me seriously because of my appearance
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