There David Byrne was, in all his 73-year-old glory on Tuesday night in Toronto, burning — or should we say Byrning? — down the house at Massey Hall.
The Talking Heads frontman, who just released his latest solo album, Who is The Sky?, was joined by a delightfully talented marching band of a dozen musicians, dancers and singers all dressed in the same blue jackets, pants and shoes as him as if to make the ensemble and not the man the star of the joyful, wonderfully inventive show.
Certainly, they were a sight to behold as they all performed choregraphed dance moves in front of an ever-changing, dazzling wall of video panels all night long.
With their instruments attached to them, there was constant movement over the course of the magnificent two-hour show, the first of three at Toronto’