A few minutes before David Byrne’s show at the Wang Theatre Friday night , his pre-recorded voice came over the sound system assuring the crowd that the venue permitted dancing during the show, but that the fire department would like people to keep the aisles clear, because in the case of a fire, “Dancers in the aisle have an unfair advantage.”

It was such a David Byrne-ian thing to say: Funny, unexpected, and just slightly macabre. And once the flesh-and-blood Byrne took the the stage, he more than lived up to his reputation of being wonderfully weird and almost sneakily moving, delivering a show that served simultaneously as a commentary on the state of the world, a post-pandemic balm, and a buoyant reminder to take joy where you can find it.

Byrne has kept the mobile band format he

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