Stop Making Sense<\/a>, but trading the stripped-down band setup and room lamps for a pastel blue backdrop and free-flowing musicians with handheld instruments.\u00a0<\/p>\nWho Is The Sky? takes the formula from American Utopia and supercharges it, adding a 180-degree video board display. For what American Utopia and Stop Making Sense do with so little, whether it be playing with shadows or minimalist stage design, Who Is The Sky? does with a lot, projecting interactive graphics that chart band members\u2019 movements and blast the most topical videos.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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You might notice that we\u2019re referring to Byrne\u2019s studio-recorded albums and his live concert films interchangeably, and that\u2019s because they are. When you think of Byrne, specifically Byrne, not the Talking Heads, the iconography comes just as much to mind as his songs. We recall his oversized suit and the metronomic sway of his legs and hips just as much as we do the chorus to \u201cPsycho Killer,\u201d and it seems like Byrne is well aware of that.<\/p>\n
Now 73, Byrne\u2019s live shows play like a live art gallery, as his 11-piece band moves in sequence with each other like one living musical organism. There are elements of marching band choreography, some mimicking of Byrne\u2019s iconic moves and a whole lot of fluttering hands and gyrating hips.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a multisensory shock to the system, all tightly designed by Byrne. But at times, he\u2019s a casualty of his own creativity, in that he\u2019s so naturally charismatic on stage that it\u2019s difficult to keep your eyes off him instead of on the choreography and visual show.<\/p>\n
David Byrne Performs First of Two Nights at Music Hall at Fair Park<\/p>\n
Stop Making Sense and American Utopia play like gospel, and because of our affection for them, they created a unique phenomenon. We\u2019re so accustomed, desensitized even, to seeing Byrne right up close and with the privilege of replaying those scenes over and over to study his every move. So when he and his band took the stage around 8:15 p.m., there wasn\u2019t the sort of overwhelming \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m really seeing [blank] with my own eyes right now\u201d that you\u2019d expect when seeing a historically significant pop star.<\/p>\n
Byrne and his band entered wearing matching orange jumpsuits and sneakers, opening with a gorgeous stripped-down rendition of Talking Heads\u2019 \u201cHeaven,\u201d before jumping into \u201cEverybody Laughs,\u201d the jovial opening track from Byrne\u2019s new album with Ghost Train Orchestra.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a perfect table setter for the album, which, while flawed and puzzling at times, still wins you over with Byrne\u2019s relentless optimism and curiosity. Five tracks from Who Is The Sky? made it on the setlist, including Hayley Williams duet \u201cWhat Is The Reason For It?\u201d which was later followed by a cover of Paramore\u2019s \u201cHard Times.\u201d Both on the album and in person, Byrne\u2019s voice remains remarkably strong, bellowing out lyrics with such power that some songs, like \u201cLife During Wartime,\u201d take on a bit of a slam poetry feel to them.<\/p>\n
As expected, the Talking Heads songs drew the biggest reactions and bookended the evening. The set included a rare performance of 1977 megahit, \u201cPsycho Killer,\u201d along with a flurry of \u201880s classics like \u201cOnce In A Lifetime,\u201d \u201cSlipper People\u201d and \u201cThis Must Be The Place (Naive Melody).\u201d<\/p>\n
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David Byrne takes a bow.<\/p>\n
After a brief encore, Byrne began to play the breakneck acoustic intro to \u201cBurning Down The House,\u201d which, of course, brought down the house with it. It\u2019s still hard to believe he\u2019s 73 years old because Byrne\u2019s live product hasn\u2019t aged with him, and aside from his combed white hair, he seems just as youthful as ever, too. By any metric, he remains one of the greatest live performers to ever take a stage. Don\u2019t miss a chance to see him again tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Byrne’s Who Is the Sky Tour is doing two nights at Music Hall at Fair Park. Shervin…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,89977,1596,141257,12079,4185,358,132131,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-413794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-concert-reviews","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-history-nostalgia","12":"tag-nightlife","13":"tag-rock-music","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-touring-artists","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115635440358715472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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