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New York Post
26-06-2025
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How much are the cheapest David Byrne 2025 concert tickets?
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Things are starting to make sense for David Byrne fans. After a brief hiatus, the former Talking Heads frontman has seemingly been everywhere. A new single, Gov Ball appearance and 'Psycho Killer' music video put the off-kilter Rock Hall of Famer back in the limelight. And, for the icing on the cake, the 73-year-old announced he'll be taking his new album 'Who Is The Sky?' to theaters, auditoriums, centers for the arts and music halls all over the U.S. and Canada from September through December. Advertisement That includes seven huge New York gigs. To get things underway, he'll take 'Who Is The Sky?' — his ninth solo studio album — to Schenectady's Proctors Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 21. After that, the avant-garde '80s icon hits Syracuse's Landmark Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 23 and Buffalo's Shea's Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Sept. 25. Finally, the Grammy winner closes his NY run with four shows at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 30, Wednesday, Oct. 1, Friday, Oct. 10 and Saturday, Oct. 11. Each concert will feature a 13-member backing band made up of musicians, singers and dancers, some of whom were part of his 'American Utopia' ensemble. Advertisement 'The tour concept is unlike anything I've done before,' Byrne shared via Instagram. 'We'll keep the mobility that was a key element of the American Utopia tour and Broadway show— but instead of the chain… we will have locations. You'll just have to come and experience what that involves.' If you're curious just what that entails, tickets are available for all 50 David Byrne 'Who Is The Sky Tour' tickets as of today. At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on tickets for any one show was $75 including fees on Vivid Seats. Other North American shows start anywhere from $76 to $236 including fees. Advertisement For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about David Byrne's 2025 tour below. All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation. David Byrne tour schedule 2025 A complete calendar including all North American dates (and a few European ones), venues and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found here: David Byrne tour dates Ticket prices start at Sept. 14 at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence, RI $214 (including fees) Sept. 16 at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, PA $197 (including fees) Sept. 17 at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH $138 (including fees) Sept. 19 at the Akron Civic Theatre in Akron, OH $149 (including fees) Sept. 21 at the Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, NY $199 (including fees) Sept. 23 at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, NY $116 (including fees) Sept. 25 at Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, NY $183 (including fees) Sept. 27 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. $169 (including fees) Sept. 28 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. $156 (including fees) Sept. 30 at Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY $124 (including fees) Oct. 1 at Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY $110 (including fees) Oct. 2 at the Wang Theatre in Boston, MA $124 (including fees) Oct. 3 at the Wang Theatre in Boston, MA $127 (including fees) Oct. 4 at the Wang Theatre in Boston, MA $122 (including fees) Oct. 7 at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, CT $114 (including fees) Oct. 8 at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, ME $236 (including fees) Oct. 10 at Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY $121 (including fees) Oct. 11 at Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY $124 (including fees) Oct. 14 at the Altria Theater in Richmond, VA $138 (including fees) Oct. 16 at The Met in Philadelphia, PA $123 (including fees) Oct. 17 at The Met in Philadelphia, PA $131 (including fees) Oct. 21 at Massey Hall in Toronto, ON, CA $96 (including fees) Oct. 22 at Massey Hall in Toronto, ON, CA $96 (including fees) Oct. 23 at Massey Hall in Toronto, ON, CA $97 (including fees) Oct. 25 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, MI $114 (including fees) Oct. 28 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, IL $76 (including fees) Oct. 29 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, IL $75 (including fees) Oct. 31 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, IL $87 (including fees) Nov. 3 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN $171 (including fees) Nov. 4 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN $182 (including fees) Nov. 6 at the Bellco Theatre in Denver, CO $155 (including fees) Nov. 7 at the Bellco Theatre in Denver, CO $150 (including fees) Nov. 11 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA $161 (including fees) Nov. 12 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA $149 (including fees) Nov. 13 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA $150 (including fees) Nov. 16 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA $146 (including fees) Nov. 17 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA $115 (including fees) Nov. 20 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA $160 (including fees) Nov. 21 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA $171 (including fees) Nov. 25 at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, TX $140 (including fees) Nov. 26 at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, TX $138 (including fees) Nov. 28 at the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas, TX $124 (including fees) Nov. 29 at the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas, TX $118 (including fees) Dec. 2 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA $168 (including fees) Dec. 3 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA $163 (including fees) Dec. 5 at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach, FL $136 (including fees) Dec. 6 at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach, FL $143 (including fees) Feb. 12, 2026 at Tempodrom in Berlin, DE $616 (including fees) Feb. 24, 2026 at Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt, DE $616 (including fees) March 3, 2026 at the Eventim Apollo in London, GB $242 (including fees) Advertisement (Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and, if it isn't noted, will include additional fees at checkout.) Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. They offer a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and your tickets will be delivered prior to the event. Still curious about Vivid Seats? You can find an article from their team about why the company is legit here. David Byrne set list While the wily vocalist will likely lean into his new album on this run of shows, we wanted to give you an idea of what Byrne took to the stage on his 2018 'American Utopia Tour.' According to Set List FM, here's what he played at a gig in Australia (ahead of the long-standing Broadway stint that ran on and off from 2019-22 depending on pandemic protocol): 01.) 'Here' 02.) 'Lazy' (X‐Press 2 cover) 03.) 'I Zimbra' (Talking Heads song) 04.) 'Slippery People' (Talking Heads song) 05.) 'I Should Watch TV' (David Byrne & St. Vincent song) 06.) 'Dog's Mind' 07.) 'Everybody's Coming to My House' 08.) 'This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)' (Talking Heads song) 09.) 'Once in a Lifetime' (Talking Heads song) 10.) 'Doing the Right Thing' 11.) 'Toe Jam' (Brighton Port Authority cover) 12.) 'Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)' (Talking Heads song) 13.) 'I Dance Like This' 14.) 'Bullet' 15.) 'Every Day Is a Miracle' 16.) 'Like Humans Do' 17.) 'Blind' (Talking Heads song) 18.) 'Burning Down the House' (Talking Heads song) Encore 19.) 'Road to Nowhere' (Talking Heads song) 20.) 'The Great Curve' (Talking Heads song) Encore II 21.) 'Hell You Talmbout' (Janelle Monáe cover) David Byrne new music Advertisement On Sept. 5, Byrne' ninth solo album 'Who Is The Sky?' officially becomes part of his legendary canon. Ahead of the record's release, he unveiled the lead single 'Everybody Laughs.' Clocking in at almost four minutes, the track is a joyous, almost tropical tune. Complete with Byrne's trademark staccato vocals and Ghost Train Orchestra's jaunty strings that are a bit reminiscent of George Michael's 'Freedom,' the song fits squarely in Byrne's unimpeachable back catalog. To hear for yourself, you can find 'Everybody Laughs' here. For an even closer look, here's the official track list for 'Who Is The Sky.' Advertisement 01.) 'Everybody Laughs' 02.) 'When We Are Singing' 03.) 'My Apartment Is My Friend' 04.) 'A Door Called No' 05.) 'What Is the Reason for It?' (feat. Hayley Williams) 06.) 'I Met the Buddha at a Downtown Party' 07.) 'Don't Be Like That' 08.) 'The Avant Garde' 09.) 'Moisturizing Thing' 10.) 'I'm an Outsider' 11.) 'She Explains Things to Me' 12.) 'The Truth' Recent David Byrne projects Missed Byrne's Gov Ball drop in with O-Rod? Click here to see their lively duet complete with…creative 'Stop Making Sense'-esque dance moves. And, of course, we have to recommend checking out the new, cinematic, unsettling 'Psycho Killer' music video featuring Saorise Ronan and directed by 'Beginners' helmer Mike Mills. Huge artists on tour in 2025 While Byrne is about as singular an artist as there is, there are many fellow gifted superstars from yesteryear with similiar sensibilities who have tours mapped out this year. Advertisement Here are just five of our favorites that you won't want to miss live. • Sting • Elvis Costello • Sparks Advertisement • Yusuf/Cat Stevens • Morrissey Who else is out and about these next few months? Take a look at our list of all the biggest classic rockers on tour in 2025 to find the show for you. This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
Scoop
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
David Byrne Announces New Album Who Is The Sky? Due September 5th
is proud to announce Who Is the Sky?, his first new album since 2018's acclaimed and award-winning American Utopia, which will be released September 5th by Matador Records. The album was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), while its 12 songs were arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. Musical friends old and new, including St. Vincent, Paramore's Hayley Williams, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner and American Utopia percussionist Mauro Refosco, also make appearances on Who Is the Sky?, which is led by the infectious single ' Everybody Laughs. ' Along with the song, Byrne has released its official video, directed by multimedia artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo. 'Someone I know said, 'David, you use the word 'everybody' a lot.' I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it,' says Byrne. 'Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody's wearing everybody else's shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that – hold opposites simultaneously. I realised that when singing with Robyn earlier this year. Her songs are often sad, but the music is joyous.' 'It took me a second to realize, oh yeah, these songs are personal, but with David's unique perspective on life in general,' adds Kid Harpoon (aka Tom Hull). 'Walking around New York listening to the demo of 'Everybody Laughs' was so joyous, because it made me feel like we're all the same – we all laugh, cry and sing. The thing about David that resonates with a lot of people is that he's in on the joke. He gets the absurdity of it all, and all of these personal observations are his perspective on it.' Byrne will also return to the road with a brand-new live show in support of Who Is the Sky?. The touring band will be comprised of 13 musicians, singers and dancers, including members of the American Utopia band, and all of whom will be mobile throughout the set. The show will arrive in Auckland on 14th January, marking Byrne's first performance in Aotearoa since 2018. See full ticketing information below. In 2023, as his triumphant American Utopia era came to a close after morphing from an album and tour into an acclaimed Broadway show and then a Spike Lee- directed HBO film, Byrne began jotting down the occasional groove, chord or melody. It had been a minute. During the tumultuous three prior years, 'I did a LOT of cooking (Mexican and Indian mostly) and a LOT of drawing,' says Byrne, who also started compiling lyric ideas and phrases for possible songs. 'I've found that when the time comes, it's easier to start if there's a little stockpile – and before too long there was. Very rudimentary songs began to emerge, with just me on acoustic guitar singing over a programmed loop or beat.' And with the world, and the in-progress American Utopia Broadway run, on pause, he, like much of humanity, took the opportunity to ask, 'Do I like what I'm doing? Why am I writing songs, or working this job, or whatever? Does any of it matter?' Byrne's attempts to answer those weighty questions can be found on Who Is The Sky?, which builds upon the optimistic themes laid out by American Utopia and its supporting tour, and more specifically spelled out by the Grammy-winning Broadway show and subsequent movie. With this offering, Byrne continues his lifelong exploration of human connection and the potential for societal unity against the chaotic backdrop of the world. Who Is the Sky? is particularly cinematic, humorous and joyful, but often with a lesson baked in – that love is unexplainable, that enlightenment means very different things to different people and that it's always a good idea to moisturize, whether you wake up the next morning with skin like a baby or not. Most importantly, the songs evince Byrne's gift for riding the razor's edge of avant-garde and accessible pop. Byrne was inspired to enlist Ghost Train Orchestra for the album after hearing their 2023 tribute album to the blind New York composer and street poet Moondog, and later that year jumped on stage with the group during a Brooklyn performance. Enticed by the 15-member Ghost Train's varied instrumental lineup – which includes drums, percussion, guitar and bass along with strings, winds and brass – he thought to himself, 'what if that's what these new songs of mine sounded like?' Byrne asked if they'd want to serve as his band for the Who Is The Sky? sessions, and they quickly agreed. 'David sent me some demos and asked us to put together some orchestral ideas,' says Ghost Train Orchestra leader Brian Carpenter. 'Curtis Hasselbring and I quickly wrote a couple rough draft arrangements of his songs for Ghost Train, including ' My Apartment Is My Friend,' which was the first song we rehearsed at our tiny rehearsal space in Chinatown. To hear him singing with us for the first time on that song was just incredible.' Via an introduction at a party by a friend, Kid Harpoon came into the picture next. 'Sometimes things do happen at parties,' Byrne notes. 'I knew this could all get complicated and I also wanted to be sure the recordings sounded as good as possible. An outside set of ears can be super helpful. A few artists I knew had worked with Kid Harpoon, and I thought those records sounded really good.' Byrne sent Harpoon some demos, and after a discussion at the former's Santa Monica hotel, he jumped aboard too. There are 'more story songs than usual' on Who Is the Sky?, according to Byrne. These 'mini-narratives based on personal experience' include ' She Explains Things to Me ' (sample lyric: 'how come it's all so obvious to her?'), ' A Door Called No ' (which magically opens after Byrne receives a kiss), ' My Apartment Is My Friend ' ('you've seen me at my very worst / but we always get along,' he sings) and ' I Met the Buddha at a Downtown Party ' (at which the onetime spiritual guru is more interested in the unhealthy deserts than deification). Marked by the inviting vocal interplay between Byrne and Paramore's Williams, the jaunty ' What Is the Reason for It? ' aims to codify love in a way logic can rarely accomplish ('does it do something useful? / nobody understands it'), while ' The Avant Garde ' wrestles with the merits of art for art's sake ('it's ahead of the curve / it's deceptively weighty, profound, absurd / it's whatever fits' – a meta observation if ever there was one from one of the most iconoclastic artists to emerge from the New York rock underground. 'I suspected that intimate orchestral arrangements would bring out the emotion I sense is there in these songs,' says Byrne, who is planning to tour Who Is The Sky? later this year. 'It's something that folks don't always hear in my work, but this time for sure I thought it was there. At the same time, I also see myself as someone who aspires to be accessible. I imagined that Kid Harpoon would help with that, as well as being a set of trusted ears, since there was a lot going on. People think of producers as people who mainly make a record sound good, and Kid Harpoon did that, but he was also aware of how important the storytelling is.' An admitted 'stickler when it comes to grooves,' Byrne welcomed late-in-the-game contributions from Skinner and Refosco, with whom he's recorded and toured for more than 30 years. Mixed by Mark 'Spike' Stent and mastered by Emily Lazar, the finished product is about both hiding and revealing, or as Byrne puts it, 'a chance to be the mythical creature we all harbor inside. A chance to step into another reality. A chance to transcend and escape from the prison of our 'selves.'' These concepts are heavily incorporated in the Who Is The Sky? album package, which was designed by Shira Inbar and finds Byrne nearly obscured by radiating, colored patterns and psychedelic, spiky outfits designed by Belgian artist Tom Van Der Borght. 'At my age, at least for me, there's a 'don't give a shit about what people think' attitude that kicks in,' Byrne says. 'I can step outside my comfort zone with the knowledge that I kind of know who I am by now and sort of know what I'm doing. That said, every new set of songs, every song even, is a new adventure. There's always a bit of, 'how do I work this?' I've found that not every collaboration works, but often when they do, it's because I'm able to clearly impart what it is I'm trying to do. They hopefully get that, and as a result, we're now joined together heading to the same unknown place.' David Byrne – Who Is the Sky? track list: Everybody Laughs When We Are Singing My Apartment Is My Friend A Door Called No What Is the Reason for It? I Met the Buddha at a Downtown Party Don't Be Like That The Avant Garde Moisturizing Thing I'm an Outsider She Explains Things to Me The Truth TOUR DATES Select packages include premium tickets, a tour of the stage and an on-stage photo opportunity, a signed copy of David Byrne's photo book, and early entry into the venue. For more information, visit
Scoop
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
David Byrne Announces New Album Who Is The Sky? Due September 5th
David Byrne is proud to announce Who Is the Sky?, his first new album since 2018's acclaimed and award-winning American Utopia, which will be released September 5th by Matador Records. The album was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), while its 12 songs were arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. Musical friends old and new, including St. Vincent, Paramore's Hayley Williams, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner and American Utopia percussionist Mauro Refosco, also make appearances on Who Is the Sky?, which is led by the infectious single ' Everybody Laughs. ' Along with the song, Byrne has released its official video, directed by multimedia artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo. 'Someone I know said, 'David, you use the word 'everybody' a lot.' I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it,' says Byrne. 'Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody's wearing everybody else's shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that – hold opposites simultaneously. I realised that when singing with Robyn earlier this year. Her songs are often sad, but the music is joyous.' 'It took me a second to realize, oh yeah, these songs are personal, but with David's unique perspective on life in general,' adds Kid Harpoon (aka Tom Hull). 'Walking around New York listening to the demo of 'Everybody Laughs' was so joyous, because it made me feel like we're all the same – we all laugh, cry and sing. The thing about David that resonates with a lot of people is that he's in on the joke. He gets the absurdity of it all, and all of these personal observations are his perspective on it.' Byrne will also return to the road with a brand-new live show in support of Who Is the Sky?. The touring band will be comprised of 13 musicians, singers and dancers, including members of the American Utopia band, and all of whom will be mobile throughout the set. The show will arrive in Auckland on 14th January, marking Byrne's first performance in Aotearoa since 2018. See full ticketing information below. In 2023, as his triumphant American Utopia era came to a close after morphing from an album and tour into an acclaimed Broadway show and then a Spike Lee- directed HBO film, Byrne began jotting down the occasional groove, chord or melody. It had been a minute. During the tumultuous three prior years, 'I did a LOT of cooking (Mexican and Indian mostly) and a LOT of drawing,' says Byrne, who also started compiling lyric ideas and phrases for possible songs. 'I've found that when the time comes, it's easier to start if there's a little stockpile – and before too long there was. Very rudimentary songs began to emerge, with just me on acoustic guitar singing over a programmed loop or beat.' And with the world, and the in-progress American Utopia Broadway run, on pause, he, like much of humanity, took the opportunity to ask, 'Do I like what I'm doing? Why am I writing songs, or working this job, or whatever? Does any of it matter?" Byrne's attempts to answer those weighty questions can be found on Who Is The Sky?, which builds upon the optimistic themes laid out by American Utopia and its supporting tour, and more specifically spelled out by the Grammy-winning Broadway show and subsequent movie. With this offering, Byrne continues his lifelong exploration of human connection and the potential for societal unity against the chaotic backdrop of the world. Who Is the Sky? is particularly cinematic, humorous and joyful, but often with a lesson baked in – that love is unexplainable, that enlightenment means very different things to different people and that it's always a good idea to moisturize, whether you wake up the next morning with skin like a baby or not. Most importantly, the songs evince Byrne's gift for riding the razor's edge of avant-garde and accessible pop. Byrne was inspired to enlist Ghost Train Orchestra for the album after hearing their 2023 tribute album to the blind New York composer and street poet Moondog, and later that year jumped on stage with the group during a Brooklyn performance. Enticed by the 15-member Ghost Train's varied instrumental lineup – which includes drums, percussion, guitar and bass along with strings, winds and brass – he thought to himself, 'what if that's what these new songs of mine sounded like?' Byrne asked if they'd want to serve as his band for the Who Is The Sky? sessions, and they quickly agreed. 'David sent me some demos and asked us to put together some orchestral ideas,' says Ghost Train Orchestra leader Brian Carpenter. 'Curtis Hasselbring and I quickly wrote a couple rough draft arrangements of his songs for Ghost Train, including ' My Apartment Is My Friend,' which was the first song we rehearsed at our tiny rehearsal space in Chinatown. To hear him singing with us for the first time on that song was just incredible.' Via an introduction at a party by a friend, Kid Harpoon came into the picture next. 'Sometimes things do happen at parties,' Byrne notes. 'I knew this could all get complicated and I also wanted to be sure the recordings sounded as good as possible. An outside set of ears can be super helpful. A few artists I knew had worked with Kid Harpoon, and I thought those records sounded really good.' Byrne sent Harpoon some demos, and after a discussion at the former's Santa Monica hotel, he jumped aboard too. There are 'more story songs than usual' on Who Is the Sky?, according to Byrne. These 'mini-narratives based on personal experience' include ' She Explains Things to Me ' (sample lyric: 'how come it's all so obvious to her?'), ' A Door Called No ' (which magically opens after Byrne receives a kiss), ' My Apartment Is My Friend ' ('you've seen me at my very worst / but we always get along,' he sings) and ' I Met the Buddha at a Downtown Party ' (at which the onetime spiritual guru is more interested in the unhealthy deserts than deification). Marked by the inviting vocal interplay between Byrne and Paramore's Williams, the jaunty ' What Is the Reason for It? ' aims to codify love in a way logic can rarely accomplish ('does it do something useful? / nobody understands it'), while ' The Avant Garde ' wrestles with the merits of art for art's sake ('it's ahead of the curve / it's deceptively weighty, profound, absurd / it's whatever fits' – a meta observation if ever there was one from one of the most iconoclastic artists to emerge from the New York rock underground. 'I suspected that intimate orchestral arrangements would bring out the emotion I sense is there in these songs,' says Byrne, who is planning to tour Who Is The Sky? later this year. 'It's something that folks don't always hear in my work, but this time for sure I thought it was there. At the same time, I also see myself as someone who aspires to be accessible. I imagined that Kid Harpoon would help with that, as well as being a set of trusted ears, since there was a lot going on. People think of producers as people who mainly make a record sound good, and Kid Harpoon did that, but he was also aware of how important the storytelling is.' An admitted 'stickler when it comes to grooves,' Byrne welcomed late-in-the-game contributions from Skinner and Refosco, with whom he's recorded and toured for more than 30 years. Mixed by Mark 'Spike' Stent and mastered by Emily Lazar, the finished product is about both hiding and revealing, or as Byrne puts it, 'a chance to be the mythical creature we all harbor inside. A chance to step into another reality. A chance to transcend and escape from the prison of our 'selves.'' These concepts are heavily incorporated in the Who Is The Sky? album package, which was designed by Shira Inbar and finds Byrne nearly obscured by radiating, colored patterns and psychedelic, spiky outfits designed by Belgian artist Tom Van Der Borght. 'At my age, at least for me, there's a 'don't give a shit about what people think' attitude that kicks in,' Byrne says. 'I can step outside my comfort zone with the knowledge that I kind of know who I am by now and sort of know what I'm doing. That said, every new set of songs, every song even, is a new adventure. There's always a bit of, 'how do I work this?' I've found that not every collaboration works, but often when they do, it's because I'm able to clearly impart what it is I'm trying to do. They hopefully get that, and as a result, we're now joined together heading to the same unknown place.' David Byrne - Who Is the Sky? track list: Everybody Laughs When We Are Singing My Apartment Is My Friend A Door Called No What Is the Reason for It? I Met the Buddha at a Downtown Party Don't Be Like That The Avant Garde Moisturizing Thing I'm an Outsider She Explains Things to Me The Truth TOUR DATES Select packages include premium tickets, a tour of the stage and an on-stage photo opportunity, a signed copy of David Byrne's photo book, and early entry into the venue. For more information, visit
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Iconic '70s Rocker Releases First Album In Nearly a Decade
Iconic '70s Rocker Releases First Album In Nearly a Decade originally appeared on Parade. David Byrne may have famously sang about being on a road to nowhere -- but he's certainly headed for the spotlight once again with his long-awaited 2025 album, Who Is the Sky? The eleventh solo album from the legendary frontman for the Talking Heads, Who Is the Sky? features several characteristically ambitious collaborations between Byrne and prominent contemporary musicians, including the likes of Hayley Williams, St. Vincent and many other stars. The album -- Byrne's first in seven years, following 2018's American Utopia -- promises to be a return to form for the decorated '70s rock musician. As further proof of this fact, the 73-year-old Byrne is currently hard at work planning out an expansive tour promoting the album, which is planned to run from 2025 into 2026, featuring stops everywhere from New York and Los Angeles to Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom. Who Is the Sky? will officially arrive on September 5, featuring a total of 12 songs arranged by the Ghost Train Orchestra. The album is set to open with Byrne's single, "Everybody Laughs," which the artist has discussed in past interviews regarding the upcoming project. 'Someone I know said, 'David, you use the word 'everybody' a lot,'" Byrne said in a press release, as reported by Pitchfork. "I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it.' 'Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling," the accomplished Talking Heads rocker continued. "Everybody's wearing everybody else's shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done." "I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together," the artist concluded. "Music can do that—hold opposites simultaneously.' Iconic '70s Rocker Releases First Album In Nearly a Decade first appeared on Parade on Jun 11, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 11, 2025, where it first appeared.
The Herald Scotland
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
David Byrne announces Glasgow shows on new world tour
The touring band will comprise 13 musicians, singers and dancers, including members of the American Utopia band, all of whom will be mobile throughout the set. The North American tour begins in September, with Australia and New Zealand dates kicking off in January 2026 and European and United Kingdom dates starting the following month. READ MORE: The tour includes two Glasgow dates at the SEC Armadillo on March 6 and March 7. Who Is the Sky? was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), while its 12 songs were arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. St. Vincent, Paramore's Hayley Williams, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner and American Utopia percussionist Mauro Refosco, also make appearances on Who Is the Sky?, which is led by the single "Everybody Laughs.' Tickets for the Glasgow shows are avaialbel via from Friday, June 13 at 10am.
