Musical genius David Byrne comes to Dublin in April of next year as part of a tour entitled "The songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno". So we can assume that he will be playing some songs that he wrote with Brian Eno. More precisely they will probably come from the new album the pair recently released entitled "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today". This is the second time they have collaborated, and the first time they have co-written what Byrne refers to as "proper songs", after the 1981 experimental offering My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Along with these direct compositional collaborations, Eno has also produced three Talking Heads albums, the band which underlay Byrne's skyrocketing to stardom, and from which his voice should be familiar to all but the deaf. Beyond their work together, the "avant-funk"* sound they helped pioneer, their fusion of musical styles, along with the fronting style of Byrne, are still wielding a heavy influence in music the world over, from the likes of LCD Soundsystem, to Arcade Fire, to Vampire Weekend. And probably any other band I could have randomly thrown in there.
Byrne plays a sit-down gig in the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort Terrace on a seemigly distant April 6th 2009, which is nearly as far away as the next Electric Picnic, but I suppose tickets are out for that too.
This is essential viewing for anybody who appreciates the artistic influence these two men have had on modern music
Here is the video for the first single off the album, Strange Overtones
*per Rolling Stone
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