David Byrne claimed last year that his American Utopia tour would be his most ambitious since the concerts recorded for Stop Making Sense. That seminal 1983 Talking Heads film captured, with near-perfection, the frisson of live performance, with Byrne’s frantic energy amplified by a comically ever-expanding suit. Thirty-five years later, and with Byrne now 66, you’d be forgiven for doubting him, but he was right. With this new show, Byrne and his 11-piece band put on an unforgettably unique, imaginative, and kaleidoscopically entrancing spectacle of music, dance, and theatre.
A plastic human brain sat atop a card table at the centre of a stage surrounded by gold chain curtains. Byrne entered...