![]() ![]() As he starts to wander the stage, serenading the brain, he's joined by his two backup vocalists/dancers (Chris Giarmo and Tendayi Kuumba) who seem representative of the duality and symbiosis that threads itself through so much of Byrne's music. As the lights slowly rise, the show feels more like minimalist theatre than a pop concert. "The American Utopia tour is one of the most mind-blowingly meticulous and awe-inspiring productions you could ever hope to see," says the Independent's Jeremy Allen.We open with a seated Byrne, alone on the expansive stage with just a prop brain on a table for company. You can also listen to the album on Spotify and Apple Music. To pick up a copy of the album American Utopia, head to your local music store, iTunes, Amazon, and the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout. The tour heads to the Continent next and back to North America in July, returning to the UK for newly announced arena shows in October. "Each part of the show felt like an artistic piece on its own." He notes that it was Byrne's "still phenomenally powerful voice driving every song with incredible energy." "Billed as his most ambitious show since the amazing Stop Making Sense tour in the early 1980s, this set is an 'untethered,' highly choreographed show, full of energy and enthusiasm," writes the Manchester Evening News reviewer Dominic Walsh. There's a five-star review for the Manchester Apollo show too. "Mass exposure to his glorious, life-affirming American Utopia show alone would make the world a better place." Shepherd says it's a "brilliantly conceived and executed celebration of a performance. "David Byrne is one of a number of musicians over the last year who have chosen to respond to a global rise in repression and intolerance by pushing back with positivity," writes reviewer Fiona Shepherd. The Glasgow gig gets a perfect five stars as well, from the Scotsman. "The whole thing makes you think, dance, smile and feel more hopeful," writes reviewer Tim de Lisle. "An unmitigated triumph," exclaims the Mail On Sunday in a five-star review of the Oxford concert. " Stop Making Sense is for many the ultimate live concert film-here, at the age of 66, Byrne attempted and pulled off a remarkable coup: just maybe this was even more fully realised as a theatrical and musical event," says The Arts Desk's Peter Culshaw in his five-star review. Doing this while also deconstructing and rearranging what it feels like to watch a gig is ambitious stuff, but Byrne and his band completely pull it off." "Byrne's show provides a space in which to dance and sing together, to recharge ourselves and find worthwhile relief from the atrocities happening in the world outside of the venue, while simultaneously addressing them. I've failed to come up with anything," declares The Quietus reviewer William Doyle of the London concert. "Since the end of David Byrne's show last night I've been trying extremely hard to think of a better gig I've seen. "So different, so memorable, so much fun."ĭorian Lynskey, a writer for the Guardian, Observer, and Q and music critic at British GQ, tweeted: "Even in this golden age of stage design the David Byrne show is something genuinely, astonishingly, inspirationally new. ![]() The Observer's Kitty Empire also gives five stars to this "unprecedented, exquisite live show." The Financial Times' David Cheal, in his five-star review, reports that "from start to finish, it is joyous, life-affirming, pulsating, moving, thrilling, exhilarating." "Daringly ambitious and full of joy," says the Evening Standard's David Smyth in his five-star review of the concert. "It might have taken more than 30 years, but Byrne has somehow made Stop Making Sense look ordinary. "The American Utopia tour is one of the most mind-blowingly meticulous and awe-inspiring productions you could ever hope to see," says the Independent's Jeremy Allen. "Even for an icon like Byrne, this was something special." "Byrne and his 11-piece band put on an unforgettably unique, imaginative, and kaleidoscopically entrancing spectacle of music, dance, and theatre," exclaims Daily Telegraph reviewer Sarah Carson in a perfect five-star review of the American Utopia show at Eventim Apollo in London on Tuesday. The concerts have been met with rave reviews across the board, from start to finish, not least from the NME, reviewing the tour-opening show in Oxford and declaring: "The American Utopia tour may just be the best live show of all time." David Byrne's American Utopia tour made its way to the UK for a week of sold-out shows, starting at the New Theatre in Oxford and including concerts at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, and Manchester Apollo, culminating in two nights at Eventim Apollo in London.
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