Music News - David Byrne Announces 'American Utopia' New Zealand Tour November 2018
12 June 2018 - 1 Comment
Frontier Touring is thrilled to
announce that David Byrne– Talking Headsbandleader, solo artist, visual artist and author – will bring his American Utopia World Tour to New
Zealand and Australia in November 2018. Tickets go on sale on Monday 18
June, via frontiertouring.com/davidbyrne.
The NYC-based artist will perform songs from his acclaimed new album American Utopia as
well as classics from his solo career and his days with Talking Heads. A
12-piece band will join Byrne on stage for an Annie-B Parson choreographed
concert that he has called “the
most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed forStop Making Sense.” Annie-B
Parson also choreographed the St. Vincent and David Byrne collaboration tour
around Love This Giant.
For NZ fans, it will be Byrne’s first tour of the country since 2009.
With his sets including a wealth of Talking Heads tracks such as Once In A Lifetime, Burning Down The House, This Must Be The Place, plus
Byrne’s latest stunning new solo work, his collaboration with St Vincent and
more, these shows will be unmissable.
His first solo album in 14 years (following 2004’s Grown Backwards), American
Utopia was released in March 2018 via Todomundo/Nonesuch Records. The first
track from the album, Everybody’s Coming To My House, was
co-written with Brian Eno and contributions from TTY, Happa, Isaiah Barr
(leader of the Onyx Collective), Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never),
Mercury Prize winner Sampha, and others feature throughout the release. Byrne
has just released latest single Every Day Is A Miracle, also written with
Eno.
“I’ve made a record that just has my name on it but is also the result of the contributions of many other people,” says Byrne. “I suspect that like me, it is asking what are we like, what do we want, and what are we looking for?”
American Utopiadebuted at # 1 on the Top Album Chart in the US, the highest chart position of
his career, as well as at #1 on the Canadian album charts, plus Top 20 in the
UK and Ireland. The career chart highs were repeated across Europe, including
in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and
Switzerland, amongst others.
One of pop music’s
true visionaries, Byrne has released six solo albums, collaborated with Eno, St
Vincent, Arcade Fire, Fat Boy Slim, De La Soul and more; won an Oscar; founded
the Luaka Bop label; turned a ferry terminal into a musical instrument,
designed bike racks, and published 2012 book How
Music Works. The Talking Heads leader is currently on the road in
the UK/Europe, having already taken his 80+ date world tour everywhere from
Santiago to Tuscany, Saskatoon to Mexico City. Read more about the tour and
Byrne’s new album in in-depth interviews with The New York Timesand GQ.
Byrne announced the release of American
Utopia during a presentation of Reasons To Be Cheerful– an ongoing series he curates of hopeful writings, photos, music, and
lectures. The presentation was given at New York’s New School to a live
audience and also was streamed via his Facebook page, while fans can sign up to the Reasons To Be Cheerful website
to receive Byrne’s ‘thoughts, images and audio relating to this initiative’ –
head here.
‘A thought provoking
example of the power of live music.’ – Forbes
‘Reports had been coming in from the east coast about how uniquely theatrical
the setup is on his new American
Utopia-supporting tour, and the brain that designed Stop Making Sense didn’t
disappoint.’ – Variety
‘’This Must Be The Place’ was the first Talking Heads hit Byrne broke out
Sunday, and that was immediately followed by ‘Once in a Lifetime’, during which
most of the crowd stood, singing along.’ – Highway 81 Revisited
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Due to popular demand, Frontier Touring can confirm that the upcoming Wellington, New Zealand show by David Byrne – Talking Heads bandleader, solo artist, visual artist and author – is now officially sold out.