David Byrne has revealed that he’ll be embarking on his “most ambitious” tour since his Stop Making Sense shows. The tour will begin in March 2018.
Byrne said, “Some months ago I went to Clair Bothers in Manheim, PA to test out tech for some new live shows. I had an idea that everyone in the band might be mobile… so there would be no risers, drum platform or any of that stuff. I’d experienced a taste of this on the tour I did with St. Vincent, where all the brass players were mobile.”
“With everyone mobile, I realized the stage could be completely clear. If we could have the monitors in our ears, the amps off-stage and the lights up high, then we had the possibility of a completely empty space,” he added.
Byrne went on to clarify that the technology will be implemented “in front of a live audience during a small number of shows” in March, during which he’ll debut new songs. Currently, Byrne is working on a solo album, which will feature Brian Eno and Oneohtrix Point Never.
In a Reddit AMA earlier this year, he said, “Brian helped me a LOT on a record I’m finishing up now”. He also revealed that he “wrote words and a melody over a track that Daniel Lopatin sent”.
View Byrne’s Twitter announcement and his new tour dates below.
A small # of east coast shows! We’ll be doing some new songs, & many others that will, I assume, be familiar. I’m excited. This is the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense, so fingers crossed. Info @ https://t.co/B8YgcnekRv pic.twitter.com/ehQ41X1MyD
— DavidByrne.com (@DBtodomundo) December 12, 2017
Tour dates
3 March – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Theatre
4 March – Wilkes-Barre, PA – F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Art
6 March – Buffalo, NY – Center for the Arts
7 March – Hershey, PA – Hershey Theatre
9 March – Waterbury, CT – Palace TheaterMarch
10 March – Kingston, NY – Ulster Performing Arts Center