Robert Harrison of Future Clouds & Radar played before his largest audience ever last Tuesday, roughly 4.57 million. Filling a role that was originally written for the Kinks’ Ray Davies, the local songsmith performed a stripped-down revision of “Build Havana” as part of a music-themed episode of ABC’s Cupid, a new romantic comedy from Veronica Mars creator and former Austinite Rob Thomas.
“I really like the whole approach of the rental audience,” muses Harrison, who’s currently producing the debut from Miranda Dotson. “There was this beautiful group of attentive, attractive young people. They loved me … and then I came back and played Hole in the Wall, which I like in its own way.”
This article appears in May 15 • 2009.