![]() ![]() ![]() It also appeals to my habit when watching any stage show, where I seek out the most attractive ensemble member and keep an eye out for them with the filmed version, the camera can move in closely around the stage so that each of the unfairly attractive band members get their close-up, Mr. Byrne has an explanation for this: humans love to look at other people, so why not remove everything from the stage, leaving just the most important things? Because, as Byrne says to the audience, “Looking at people? Yeah, that’s the best.” It’s a salient message that is even more relevant now than it was during the show’s late 2019 to early 2020 run (which was shut down early due to COVID-19). Instead, each percussionist and the keyboard player, who are usually restricted to one spot, wear their instruments mounted onto their bodies. The 11 band members, which Byrne all introduces individually in a segment part way through the show between songs, move freely around the stage, untethered by instrument stands or microphones. Comprising Byrne and his 11-piece band on a bare stage, the show is both a retrospective of Byrne’s career, including songs from his band Talking Heads, as well as tracks from his solo career and a few collaborations, all culminating in an exploration that tries to make sense of the world. However, as the song leads into Talking Heads’ 1977 hit ‘Don’t Worry About the Government’ (a song about people who have become too comfortable in their convenient lives that they ignore the way humans are destroying the world), it’s also the beginning of a journey, through apathy, joy, despair, and hope.ĭirected for the screen by the one and only Spike Lee, American Utopia is a wonderful viewing experience. The song, ‘I Know Sometimes a Man Is Wrong’ from his 1989 album Rei Momo, is a bit of a yearning lament over the distance between two people (“they’ll be wrong, until you’re next to me”). Thus sings David Byrne during the second opening number of his Broadway show David Byrne’s American Utopia. Tickets are available here.“I know sometimes the world is wrong. This week, Muse played an epic charity show at London’s Royal Albert Hall – in which they debuted new material as well as treating fans to “ 15 minutes of metal“. Recently things that stood out would be David Byrne’s show that he did and also Sia who I think is very good with making the stage look very minimal, stripped down.” But also U2 in terms of their ability to make large spaces intimate and emotional for the people in the back. Last month, Bellamy revealed that he’d been inspired by the highly-choreographed ‘American Utopia’ tour by David Byrne – which NME said “might be the most ambitious and impressive live show of all time“.Īsked by Forbes about which live shows he most aspires to, Bellamy replied: “It used to be Rage Against The Machine in terms of energy at certain points in our show. We’ve done a lot with technology – the screens and drones and so on – but I think it is time for us to do something that involves people and get a cast together that brings our songs to life with people performing.” “It won’t be dance routines – but choreographed theatrics of some kind. “I think I am interested now in making the show involve a lot of additional people,” Bellamy told the BBC. However, this time frontman Matt Bellamy says he wants them to be a more “human” affair. The band, renowned for their highly theatrical and technical live shows, will be taking their acclaimed 2018 album ‘Simulation Theory’ on the road next year for a run of stadium gigs. Muse have revealed that their 2019 world stadium tour will be largely “choreographed”, rather than leaning on technology. ![]()
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