David Byrne has added contemporary UK and Eire reveals to his ‘Who Is The Sky?’ world tour – purchase tickets right here.
The previous Speaking Heads frontman will now be heading to Dublin, Halifax, Edinburgh and Cardiff alongside his already introduced headline slot at Latitude Pageant in Suffolk in July. Tickets for the brand new reveals go on basic sale at 10am on Friday (February 6) – discover tickets to these reveals and the beforehand introduced dates right here.
Byrne toured Australia and New Zealand final month and is ready for his first UK and European leg of the yr throughout February and March, earlier than heading to North America within the spring – together with slots at each Coachella weekends.
His European reveals embrace a mixture of headline gigs and pageant slots, with the musician set to seem on the likes of Open’er Pageant in Poland and Bilbao BBK Dwell in Spain.
Byrne is touring his solo album, additionally titled ‘Who Is The Sky?’, which got here out in September in collaboration with the New York Metropolis ensemble Ghost Prepare Orchestra. It’s his first studio album in six and a half years, following 2018’s ‘American Utopia’, and featured Hayley Williams, St. Vincent and The Smile’s Tom Skinner.
David Byrne’s 2026 UK and European tour dates are:
FEBRUARY
12 – Tempodrom, Berlin, DE
15 – AFAS Dwell, Amsterdam, NL
16 – AFAS Dwell, Amsterdam, NL
18 – Forest Nationwide, Brussels, BE
21 – Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan, IT
22 – Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan, IT
24 – Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, DE
26 – Rockhal Important Corridor, Esch-sur-Alzette, LU
27 – The Corridor, Zurich, CH
MARCH
02 – Utilita Enviornment, Cardiff, UK
03 – Eventim Apollo, London, UK
04 – Eventim Apollo, London, UK
06 – SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, UK
07 – SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, UK
09 – O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
10 – O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
11 – O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
13 – 3Arena, Dublin, IE
15 – Eventim Apollo, London, UK
16 – Eventim Apollo, London, UK
18 – La Seine Musicale, Paris, FR
19 – La Seine Musicale, Paris, FR
JUNE
07 – St Anne’s Park, Dublin, IE*
12 – Piknik i Parken, Oslo, NO
17 – O2 Universum, Prague, CZ
18 – Budapest Enviornment, Budapest, HU
21 – Launch Athens x SNF Nostos, Athens, GR
23 – Fiera del Levante, Bari, IT
25 – Lucca Summer time Pageant, Lucca, IT
26 – Marostica Summer time Pageant, Marostica, IT
28 – Enviornment Pula, Pula, HR
JULY
01 – Open’er Pageant, Gdynia, PL
03 – Roskilde Pageant, Roskilde, DK
04 – Down The Rabbit Gap, Beuningen, NL
10 – Cruïlla Pageant, Barcelona, ES
11 – Mad Cool Pageant, Madrid, ES
14 – Ageas Cooljazz Pageant, Cascais, PT
18 – The Piece Corridor, Halifax, UK*
21 – Playhouse, Edinburgh, UK*
24 – Latitude Pageant, Suffolk, UK
26 – Cardiff Fortress, Cardiff, UK*
*Newly introduced dates
Weeks after releasing his album, Byrne shared a brand new single, ‘T-shirt’, co-written by his longtime buddy and collaborator Brian Eno. He gave the observe, written concerning the significance of serving to others amid the present political local weather, its debut whereas on tour in North America, the place it was accompanied by slogans together with ‘Make America Homosexual Once more’ and ‘No Kings’. Byrne has beforehand spoken out about US politics, notably sharing a playlist referred to as ‘The Stunning Shitholes’ in 2018 in response to feedback President Donald Trump was reported to have mentioned relating to “shithole nations” in a gathering.
He kicked off the tour by taking part in the Speaking Heads’ basic ‘Psycho Killer’ for the primary time in 19 years, whereas Williams joined him in New York Metropolis to play Paramore’s ‘Laborious Occasions’ in addition to their collaboration, ‘What Is The Purpose For It?’.
Final month, he coated Olivia Rodrigo’s single ‘Drivers License’ as a part of the observe’s five-year anniversary celebrations. In an Instagram put up, the singer described Byrne as “certainly one of my all-time heroes”, saying: “I truly cried after I heard his model of this music”.
The B-side of that single, which was launched on a particular version translucent ruby 7”, included the reside model of Speaking Heads’ ‘Burning Down The Home’ which Rodrigo and Byrne carried out throughout the former’s headline set at New York’s Governors Ball final summer time.
