It’s all impossibly slick, no one putting a foot out of line, and yet never feels robotic – the whole thing feels achingly human. It’s a show that blurs the lines between gig and theatre, poetry and dance a full spectrum of culture under one roof. They duck in and out of that aforementioned curtain of gold beads, changing position like American football players enacting a particularly methodical play. ![]() At times stringently choreographed, and at others seemingly scurrying about the stage of their own accord, they all wear a beaming grin-near permanently. It’s a showy start, setting the tone for an evening that deconstructs the very notion of what a concert can offer.ĭavid Byrne at the Oxford New Theatre| Photo: Gettyīyrne is joined tonight by a 12-piece live band, all of whom are barefooted, suited-up free agents, roaming around the stage with their instruments attached to their hips. A frame of gold beads surrounding the stage is slowly hoisted up – a pared-back stage set-up which will come into its own as the night progresses – as he leaps to his feet, plastic human brain in hand, addressing the crowd directly and dissecting the fake organ, all to the pensive storytelling of ‘Here’. ![]() It takes mere minutes for that starched-shirt atmosphere to lift, though, as people leap to their feet for second track ‘Lazy’, the usually prim and proper theatre setting instead coming off like a packed-out disco.īefore that, Byrne takes to the stage alone, the stage curtain dropping and revealing the former Talking Heads man sat at a table. The queues are packed with pasty, balding nerds who look fresh from a library, and the comfortable seats of the New Theatre play host to more than a few dodgy backs. Often pegged as a bookish pop prodigy, David Byrne’s decision to kick off his UK ‘American Utopia’ tour in Oxford seems somewhat apt.
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