are resale tickets going for as much as $1,000+ if they're close to the stage. Hate the scalpers gouging fans. At least one of the venues on the tour had the highest priced tickets at $250 originally.
I hope there'll be a video, too, the professional film it deserves, though I haven't seen an article about that yet.
The venue whose initial prices I just checked says this: "No audio or video recording of any kind is allowed during the performance. No cameras."
Another review, of the show in Buffalo on the 25th:
https://thebuffalohive.com/concert-review-david-byrne-love-is-the-new-punk-rock/
The 13 musicians performed as mobile units, untethered by cords, their instruments strapped to their bodies, wireless headset mics transmitting their startlingly and heartrendingly full, choir-like vocal harmonies. And they danced, from start to finish, as did their bandleader, forming spontaneous circles, weaving between each other in sometimes purposefully stiff, sometimes smooth and languid motions, all the while performing this giddily idiosyncratic and highly challenging music in a flawless manner.
Beneath them, and towering behind and above them in a half-circle, images were projected in startling depth and clarity, changing from song to song, and accentuating the simultaneously abstract and visceral narratives of Byrne’s songs. Then effect transformed the ornate interiors of Shea’s into a smaller scale version of Las Vegas high-tech venue The Sphere.
Hogget’s choreography is remarkable, and stands apart from most contemporary pop dance spectacles, which are almost exclusively hyper-sexualized variations of bump & grind. As interpreted by Byrne and his band, Who is the Sky’s choreography is sensual, sometimes intricate, often casual and organic, and at turns purposefully mechanical in nature. There was something deeply humanistic about the presentation, taken in sum. There was a narrative here, one that suggested an attitude of kindness, cooperation, celebration of differences, and positivity.
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Of course, there were plenty of Talking Heads songs featured, including the first appearance of “Psycho Killer” in nearly 20 years, and an elegiac show-opening take on the gorgeous “Heaven,” which brought me to tears. A thrillingly sinister romp through the deliciously twisted funk of “Houses in Motion” was also a high point.
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