The release of David Byrne’s Who Is the Sky?, his first full-length since 2018’s American Utopia, landed on Matador like a satellite breaking through cloud cover—wired with a gleaming, off-kilter pulse shaped by producer Kid Harpoon and the needlepoint arrangements of Ghost Train Orchestra. Across the record, Byrne draws in a small, sharp cast to bend the light around him: Hayley Williams, St. Vincent, Tom Skinner, and a few more figures who surface briefly, adding tonal shifts and flashes of color before dissolving back into the album’s gravitational pull.
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The tour behind it finds Byrne cracking open the old vaudeville trunk again, dragging theatre, dance, visual art, and choreography back into the frame. What began as a tidy global loop has now swollen into a full continental sprawl barreling well into 2026: Vancouver, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Kansas City, Portland, plus a sharp new drive through Eastern Europe and Italy for good measure.
The next chapter kicks off with twin shows in Knoxville on March 26 and 27. From there, Byrne ricochets across the map: Las Vegas glowing in the rearview, Houston simmering on the horizon, Phoenix pulling him into the desert heat, Nashville and Baltimore waiting with open arms—before the whole machine lifts toward Europe. That leg opens June 12 in Oslo, stretches across the continent, and lands in Suffolk on July 24 with a thump.
The reviews from the previous North American run—which opened on September 14 in Providence and closed on December 6 at the Fillmore Miami Beach—read like dispatches from a touring fever dream. In Minneapolis, critics hailed Byrne’s stop as one of the season’s best; NPR wandered into the Chicago shows and left buzzing. And throughout the run, audiences latched onto T-Shirt—a standalone single Byrne recorded with Brian Eno, separate from the Who Is the Sky? Album—slipped into the set like a quiet pact between artist and crowd. Its clear-edged stillness cut straight through the spectacle.
Byrne may ask Who Is the Sky?, but on this tour, he seems bent on sketching the answer city by city, each night offering its own improbable jolt of communion.
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Tour Dates
January
Jan 14 — Auckland, New Zealand — Spark Arena
Jan 17 — Brisbane, Australia — Brisbane Entertainment Center
Jan 21 — Sydney, Australia — ICC Sydney Theatre
Jan 22 — Melbourne, Australia — Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Jan 24 — Adelaide, Australia — Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena
Jan 27 — Perth, Australia — RAC Arena
February
Feb 12 — Berlin, Germany — Tempodrom
Feb 15 — Amsterdam, Netherlands — AFAS Live
Feb 16 — Amsterdam, Netherlands — AFAS Live
Feb 18 — Brussels, Belgium — Forest National
Feb 21 — Milan, Italy — Teatro degli Arcimboldi
Feb 22 — Milan, Italy — Teatro degli Arcimboldi
Feb 24 — Frankfurt, Germany — Jahrhunderthalle
Feb 26 — Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg — Rockhal Main Hall
Feb 27 — Zurich, Switzerland — The Hall
March
Mar 02 — Cardiff, Wales — Utilita Arena
Mar 03 — London, England — Eventim Apollo
Mar 04 — London, England — Eventim Apollo
Mar 06 — Glasgow, Scotland — SEC Armadillo
Mar 07 — Glasgow, Scotland — SEC Armadillo
Mar 09 — Manchester, England — O2 Apollo
Mar 10 — Manchester, England — O2 Apollo
Mar 11 — Manchester, England — O2 Apollo
Mar 13 — Dublin, Ireland — 3Arena
Mar 15 — London, England — Eventim Apollo
Mar 16 — London, England — Eventim Apollo
Mar 18 — Paris, France — La Seine Musicale
Mar 19 — Paris, France — La Seine Musicale
Mar 26 — Knoxville, TN — Big Ears Festival
Mar 27 — Knoxville, TN — Big Ears Festival
April
Apr 04 — Vancouver, BC — Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Apr 05 — Vancouver, BC — Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Apr 07 — Portland, OR — Keller Auditorium
Apr 08 — Portland, OR — Keller Auditorium
Apr 11 — Indio, CA — Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Apr 14 — Santa Barbara, CA — Santa Barbara Bowl
Apr 16 — Stanford, CA — Frost Amphitheater
Apr 18 — Indio, CA — Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Apr 20 — Las Vegas, NV — The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
Apr 21 — Phoenix, AZ — Arizona Financial Theatre
Apr 24 — Houston, TX — Smart Financial Centre
Apr 28 — St. Louis, MO — Stifel Theatre
Apr 29 — St. Louis, MO — Stifel Theatre
May
May 01 — Indianapolis, IN — Murat Theatre
May 02 — Indianapolis, IN — Murat Theatre
May 03 — Milwaukee, WI — Miller High Life Theatre
May 05 — Kansas City, MO — Starlight Theatre
May 07 — Cleveland, OH — Playhouse Square (KeyBank State Theatre)
May 09 — Nashville, TN — Ascend Amphitheater
May 11 — Durham, NC — Durham Performing Arts Center
May 12 — Durham, NC — Durham Performing Arts Center
May 13 — Virginia Beach, VA — The Dome
May 15 — Bridgeport, CT — Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
May 16 — Baltimore, MD — Hippodrome Theatre
May 17 — Baltimore, MD — Hippodrome Theatre
June
Jun 12 — Oslo, Norway — Piknik i Parken
Jun 17 — Prague, Czechia — O2 Universum
Jun 18 — Budapest, Hungary — Budapest Arena
Jun 21 — Athens, Greece — Release Athens x SNF Nostos
Jun 23 — Bari, Italy — Fiera del Levante
Jun 25 — Lucca, Italy — Lucca Summer Festival
Jun 26 — Marostica, Italy — Marostica Summer Festival
Jun 28 — Pula, Croatia — Arena Pula
July
Jul 01 — Gdynia, Poland — Open’er Festival
Jul 03 — Roskilde, Denmark — Roskilde Festival
Jul 04 — Beuningen, Netherlands — Down the Rabbit Hole
Jul 10 — Barcelona, Spain — Cruïlla Festival
Jul 11 — Madrid, Spain — Mad Cool Festival
Jul 14 — Cascais, Portugal — Ageas Cooljazz Festival
Jul 24 — Suffolk, England — Latitude Festival
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