Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour
| Promotional tour by David Byrne | |
Promotional poster for Byrne's tour
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| Location | North America (first leg) Europe, Asia, and Oceania (second leg) Europe (third leg) United States (fourth leg) Europe (fifth leg) |
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| Associated album | Everything That Happens Will Happen Today |
| Start date | September 16, 2008 |
| End date | August 9, 2009 |
| Legs | Five |
| No. of shows | 51 (first leg) 20 (second leg) 36 (third leg) 17 (fourth leg) 24 (fifth leg) 148 (total) |
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| Everything That Happens Will Happen on This Tour – David Byrne on Tour: Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno | |||||
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| EP (live) by David Byrne | |||||
| Released | May 11, 2009 | ||||
| Recorded | December 4, 2008, Strand–Capitol Performing Arts Center, York, Pennsylvania, United States | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock, world | ||||
| Length | 19:28 | ||||
| Language | English | ||||
| Label | Todo Mundo | ||||
| Producer | David Byrne | ||||
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The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour is a 2008–2009 promotional concert tour of music co-written by David Byrne and Brian Eno with performances by Byrne. In addition to being a retrospective of the duo's collaborations, the tour promoted the album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. The musical performers were accompanied by dancers who were choreographed to several songs. Performances were held across the world and later documented on a tour EP and a concert film.
Byrne assembled a band to tour for the album, performing music throughout the latter half of 2008 and early 2009 across North America, Europe, and Australasia. He hired more singers than he had on previous tours to reproduce the complex vocal harmonies of the album and was inspired to bring along dancers after seeing Sufjan Stevens promote the album Illinois as well as the Japanese films Funky Forest and The Taste of Tea. Byrne was initially uninvolved in the choreography, but made more suggestions as the tour went on and after he saw a live performance by Deerhoof that incorporated dancing with instruments. He began booking tour dates before the album was completed and continued writing his book The Bicycle Diaries throughout the tour.
In planning the set lists for the tour, Byrne initially considered only promoting this album, but decided to assemble songs this album as well as their previous collaborations, including the Talking Heads albums More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, and Remain in Light and Byrne's The Catherine Wheel soundtrack. By playing music from all of their collaborations, Byrne hoped to "draw a line linking this new material with what we did 30 years ago" with the goal of clarifying the connection between all of the duo's previous work. In reviewing the music, he found that "[t]here might be more continuity than I imagined, which I hope is going to work in my favor." Although he was invited to participate and early reports indicated that would, Eno chose to not tour, letting Byrne decide how to present this music live.
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