David Byrne | Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno
Outstanding. Highly recommended.
My 4 day holiday weekend kick-started with a magical evening of slick, creative, quality performances in glowing cricketish whites over a glass of wine in the circle of the Oxford New Theatre.
Choreography variously included synchronised office-chair twirling and dancers leap-frogging David while he played. A packed audience of silver-haired and teenage people bounced in the good natured holdiay-ready atmosphere.
David’s vocal control and pitch has matured beautifully adding more depth to classic tracks, those played included: Air, I Zimbra, Once in a lifetime, Take me to the river.
David was his usual unassuming, audience focused, personable-self. When he noticed venue staff asked audience members to sit-down he stopped the band mid song and gave people explicit permission to stand-up and dance, then picked-up the song again where they had left-off.
A David-designed alien themed t-set was a featured part of the mechandising.
April 11th, 2009
sounds good, and the tea set’s a hoot!
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April 11th, 2009
Wish he would come to my neck of the woods…I love that he told the audience they could ignore venue personnel! Great t-set, it’s mugs like me that would buy that
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