This was originally planned as a birthday gift for
Exile #2, but as she’s currently in the UK, that didn’t work out so well. Her loss was
E5N1’s gain as the two of us went to the Merrill Auditorium in Portland to see David Byrne’s new stage show
Who is the Sky?
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| Early as usual. The seats were full by show time |
Similar to his American Utopia show, it had a full band with instruments that could be carried and included new songs and Talking Heads classics. The stage technology has been significantly upgraded however and it was a stunning spectacle as well as a great rock concert.
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| An understated start - a quartet on the moon |
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A constellation of musicians. Their names following their every movement
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| David introduced us to his apartment and talked and sung about living in it alone during the pandemic |
A highlight for me was hearing And She Was live - the song that first got me hooked on Talking Heads in my teenage years. For E5N1 it was probably Psycho Killer for similar reasons. The night came to an end with Burning Down the House which - as you might expect - brought down the house. It was a spectacular evening.
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